Balloon Bowls
Maarten De Ceulaer pours plaster mixed with food colorants into balloons to create beautiful and unique bowls.
Watch the process in this great video made by Victor Hunt
Maarten De Ceulaer will create Balloon Bowls on site during an exhibition at Salone Del Mobile 2011 in Milan on the 12th of April.
Tablemag
The TableMag is a coffee table that allows you to keep your favorite magazines available and safe in a very stylish way. This 100% belgian product is designed by all round art director Antoinette Ribas.
Mitose Ceramics
By Amba Molly
« Can products fertilise each other – just like people – and do develop into something new?
I made a moulding system which is based on the human cell division. Starting with four products from two worlds, industrial and old-fashioned I used a plastic bottle, an old earthenware oil pitcher, a plastic Tupperware can and a hand-twisted earthenware can. By dividing the moulds systematically, 60 stones appeared. At four stages of division the products mix themselves increasingly further and gradually a new family with new DNA appears. »
32 Flowers in a Newspaper
Fresh Flowers is a collection of flowers, it’s a different newspaper, it’s a way of having flowers on your table everyday.
1. Choose a flower.
2. Place it as the cover.
3. Make a roll with all pages together.
4. Put it in a vase.
5. And of course, don’t water it!
From spanish designer Sandra Bautista – Itunube Studio
via Yatzer
Funnel Vase
By Roger Arquer
« Funnel Vase (2010) is a ceramic flower vessel with a side opening in a funnel shape. The funnel helps to change the water without having to remove the flowers. The old water can be easily poured out through the funnel and replaced with fresh water, without a mess. »
Funnel Vase is currently on show at an exhibition called Translations during the London Design Festival
