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Digital vase wins wood award

Posted by Stephen Holmes - November 23, 2015

The award winning digitally carved Ves-el vases British furniture makers, craftsmen, and all-round wizards with wood, Benchmark, has won an…

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Weaving new textures for visualisation

Posted by Stephen Holmes - October 7, 2015

In order to render complex woven textures such as rattan, CIC had to be creative with existing visualisation tools Having…

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NOMA Tokyo to include designs that combine flavours of home and history

Posted by Stephen Holmes - January 15, 2015

Wahl&Ross’s shelving design blends Viking rope bracings with Japanese timber lashing Copenhagen’s NOMA, universally known as one of the best…

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Neri Oxman designs a chair. It probably won’t go with your current decor and DFS won’t stock it.

Posted by Stephen Holmes - March 27, 2014

Neri puts her feet up after designing the Gemini Alpha chair Having recently moved home, from one grim hovel to…

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London Design Festival: Brilliant Brits, fantastic furniture and a global showcase

Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 20, 2013

The London Design Festival (LDF) has been in full swing for the last few days, but to cover all of…

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Office chair designs – from Herman Miller, Alegreindustrial and Bene

Posted by DEVELOP3D - June 20, 2013

Stephen Holmes rests his best feature whilst testing out the latest in office chairs

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Custom furniture design made simple through automation

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 30, 2013

Tabluka is a new concept that allows consumers to customise and personalise their furniture, using online tools. Each table is…

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Eames chairs go back to fibreglass, with mixed results for the environment

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 21, 2013

The Eames Molded Plastic Chair, created by Charles and Ray Eames for Herman Miller, is being reintroduced in fibreglass, but…

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Are the UK’s creative industries valued, and is industrial design a part of this?

Posted by Stephen Holmes - April 5, 2013

Are you a designer, engineer or somewhere in-between? Last week saw the launch of Create Britain, an initiative to support…

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New Designers 2011 – Our best finds – part two

Posted by Stephen Holmes - July 14, 2011

After a brief pause for some caffeine intake, we continue with the rest of our gems from the four-day New…

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