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Design Count featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Mesh

Mesh is a lampshade that let’s the end-user giving it the final shape. This will give the lampshade a personal touch for the end-user, making every lampshade unique. As for shipment of Mesh it comes only 0,5mm thick and 300mm in diameter, which makes a perfect flat package. It can then expand from 0,5mm toa round 15cm in height. The end-user can also attach two Mesh together to form a top and bottom part, a system to fasten the parts together is already integrated in the product and no further tools or products is needed.

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Wanda hotel cluster in Sipsongpanna

With a land area of 700 mu, this hotel group, one of the best mountain rain forest resort hotel in the world, is composed of three high-end holiday hotels. Combined with Dai nationality culture, lighting design creates the night in warm, sweet, delicate and artistic atmosphere, which comprehensively expressed the unique Dai nationality culture to the world.

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lichtzeitraum, biennale vennice

Our entire world is structured by light and shade, time and rhythm, emotion and perception. In lichtzeitraum by Ueberholz it is precisely this spatial perception that is made tangible through light, music and rhythm. Different lighting phases create wide spaces making the vastness tangible or other narrow, close spaces that enclose and restrict you. A window arrangement along the back of the room, which matches the changing spatial suggestion perfectly, serves as a striking design element. The aim of projects by Ueberholz is to give the architecture a feeling of permanence and stability.

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Mini Hatter (RA-501R)

Mini Hatter (RA-501R) is a built-in lamp which can be used both as a downlight and as a spotlight. Its operation is intuitive: when pulled out of the recess, it can swing 90 degrees upside down and rotate 355 degrees as a spotlight; when stay parallel, it's a downlight. The lamp is available with various beam angles and suitable for a focused illumination in retail, museums and household spaces. The LED achieves a particularly good color rendering and supports a pleasant visual comfort.

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Mib

Often, the simple expression is the most difficult to achieve. The MIB series is a demonstration in the ability to strip away excess and yet obtain a distinct design with a strong graphic attitude and lots of functionality. The shade / lamp head is both tilt / swivel and turnable leaving the user plenty of options to tune the light exactly to where it is needed.

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Dee

The DEE pendants are two pendants sharing the same metal top, dimensioning and form factor. The DEE glass version is the more modern version of the two with the dusted part of the glass only being in the bottom part. It mimes a kind of flowfeeling, when the pendant is hung in a room, looking almost like mist caught in a bowl. The DEE Metal is the more contemporary version of the two. A classic metal shade is distributing the light down and the opalized diffuser is making sure the light is soft and comfortably glowing, which makes the metal version useful and pleasant hanging over any table.

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Design interview of the day

Read the latest interviews and conversations on design, creativity and innovation between design journalist and world-famous designers, artists and architects. See latest design projects and award-winning designs by famous designers, artists, architects and innovators. Discover new insights on creativity, innovation, arts, design and architecture. Learn about design processes of great designers.

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