… This is the crystal clear message brought to us by PEACE of Cake.

Designed by the Dutch Paul Hendrikx, the twenty-six year old co-founder of Studio Mango, this silicone cake mold is a nice example of how simple objects that we use everyday can become the conveyors of a strongly ideological, humanitarian and cultural message.

The packaging is made of recycled cardboard so as not to forget the respect for the environment which, especially in these times, we cannot allow ourselves to simply fly over.

Find PEACE of Cake here.

A dash of ingenuity, a slight retouching with some irony and a lookout for the environment… and you’ve got Klypsos!

The “plate chalice-carrier” clip to enjoy an aperitif or a standing dinner with freedom of movement and practicality, effective ingredients for a contemporary conviviality, less formal and more relaxed.

Simple but acute solution by the young and creative Jacek Ryn and Paulina Krauza, the Polish duo from the Razy2 studio.

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I don’t like wearing watches (and am thus often late!), but I really like this one: LED Watch is simple, clear and elegant.

Designed by the Japanese Hiranao Tsuboi and prized at the Tokyo Design Week 2008, this digital gem is perfectly functional and will soon be on the production line, according to the Japanese studio. What do you think?

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Maybe it’s because today is Monday, maybe it’s because it’s cold and/or that Turin is really grey in this season, but today I feel a particular need to be cuddled by color… and obviously some pleasing design!

Here is a cartful of brightly colored objects with the ability to warm and stimulate the psyche, please the eye and wake energies… Dedicated to all the people who feel a bit down in this period.

Gloji the “illuminatingly” packed juice…

The fun Moving  Stool by Gabriele Pezzini, conceived by Max Design.

The Snack & Stack silicone and metal cutlery by Winnif Pang.

RbG Rainbow Glasses by the young  Luis Porem, to (literally) look through color!

The versatile and multiuse NapBook by the Icelandic designer Hafsteinn Juliusson.

Pencil Tree or how to graciously put away color…

… and finally by the young student James Beattie here is Pantime, time that ticks to the rhythm of Pantone!

A new suit for the Rubik’s Cube by the Argentinean designer Ignacio Pilotto … totally Pantone.

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The unmistakable touch of the Belgian Natalia Brilli has made this new collection of everyday objects decidedly more intriguing by embellishing them in leather. The skateboard and the purse with the relief credit cards are simply fantastic!

In case you didn’t know what to get me for Christmas…

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Translated by Silvia — Surfing around the Internet yesterday looking for solutions for sustainable furnishings, we fell upon FLEXIBLE LOVE. We immediately liked the name and, indeed, it sums up in two words the philosophy which hides behind this project. It is, in fact, a fantastic example of social, ecological and philanthropic design that manages to mix concrete utility and love for the environment and for others.

It is born from a very simple but effective concept: a flexible chair that uses fully the structural properties of honeycomb, applied to the working of an accordion. An incredible result of extensibility, resistance and rigidity, considering that the material used is nothing more than… paper!

A myriad of used sheets of paper that are recuperated, recycled and reused in a completely new way by the new Taiwanese designer Chishen Chiu for an extendible chair that can also be compact and multiform to host anywhere from 1 to 16 people! A group of good friends, a soccer team, a school class…

Take a look at the 2 videos and the images you will find below and in the cut.

The birth of FLEXIBLE LOVE chair was greatly influenced by Chishen Chiu’s personal experience from when he stumbled into a cardboard factory in the suburbs on Taipei. Immediately intrigued by the use of the bee’s nest structure in the industrial production of cardboard panes as substitutes for wooden ones, the young Taiwanese student developed in just a few days the concept of a chair, transformable from a seat to a bench, exploiting the huge resistance and rigidity that this material can take on in this specific structure.

Using only eco-friendly materials such as recycled paper, post-industrially rejected wood (plywood panels, chipboard panels, OSB) and ecological glue matched with pre-existing production processes, FLEXIBLE LOVE chair is thought out, from its very existence, to be a chair with a low environmental impact.

It can take on different shapes: linear, S-shaped, etc. for an almost total interactivity and adaptability with the user. Produced in 5 versions (other than the 16-person model, there’s also the one for 12 people, for 8, Couple for 2 and Mini, a 25:1 scale rendition of the Flexible Love 16) its first editions were immediately snatched out of stores.

It deserves another few words for its dimensions: 64cm tall and 56cm wide, its extendibility goes from 22.5cm in the compact version to 720cm open to the max. It weighs only 25kg, but can take a load of up to 1920kg!

An interesting piece of social and democratic design: you just need to coordinate yourself with your seating companions so as to avoid unfortunate capsizings.

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An interesting presentation (in Chinese) by the designer Chishen Chiu.

Translated by Silvia – The objective that designer Oskar Daniel fixed for himself was to create a “wall of sound” to enjoy the soundtrack of a good movie and his favourite music: he got exceptional results.

The young Swedish talent (class of 1983) conceived HIVE, a compact and modular sound system made up of hexagonal panels for acoustic diffusion, decidedly geometric and inspired by bee’s nests.

More images and details in the link below.

This modular system of speakers is a winning alternative in terms of space and aesthetics: compared to normal surround sound systems, usually cumbersome and hardly attractive to the eye, HIVE is ornamental and technologically effective. It can guarantee an entirely customizable propagation of sound.

Each cell is actually extensible and adjustable, complete with a switch on the back to regulate the sound (left, right, center). The connection cables between the various modules are then incorporated to the attachment structure on the wall and reduced to just one cable (audio + electrical).

Still in concept phase, this project already smells like success.

Translated by Silvia — ATYPYK will be present at Milan’s Design Week and will leave, as usual, an ironically rule-breaking and originally desecrating sign of its passage.

From this provocative studio based in Paris, we have already been able to appreciate Wooferang, Moon Carpet, the Bon Apetit! Tie, and now also the Clean Fast Race gloves, gloves made of (pink!) rubber for the new generations always in a hurry to complete domestic tasks. There are also the Kamasutra Condoms, with glow-in-the-dark packaging and the 64 erotic positions from which to take inspiration; Python tape, the sticky tape decorated in python print, to seal with style and the Break Up Handkerchief, the handkerchief to be used in case of love tragedies….

Images and information in the link below.

Wooferang pet toy

From the 17^th to the 21^st of April at the DESIGNERS BLOCK exhibition (Argelati pool, Via Segantini Giovanni, 6, Milano), we will be able to admire in the flesh the latest ATYPYK novelties born from the irreverent minds of Ivan Duval and Jean Sebastien Ides.

See you tonight at the Opening Party of the event from 6 to 11pm. If this first day at the Furniture Salon will not have totally consumed you (probable as it is!), then do not lose yourself the next DESIGNERS BLOCK Party of Saturday 19^th from 8 to 12pm.

In this unmissable event of this year’s FuoriSalone you will also find Alice Rosignoli, Ninette Van Jamp, whom we’ve spoken about in older posts.
In the meantime, you will find here some very ATYPYK creations!

DESIGNERS BLOCK at the Argelati pool
From 11am to 8pm
Via Segantini Giovanni, 6
Piazza Arcole / Via Fillippo Argelati
20143
Milan

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Talk Bubble Conversational Paperclips

Condom Kamasutra

Break Up Letter Handkerchief

MAGIC Hat – Tissue dispenser

ICON sticky notes

Python tape

Gun Handled Umbrella

Translated by Silvia — Modern and essential design were put into use for this wrist-watch on which the lines of time run through chromatic and technological paths, giving a determined style to the more researched feminine look.

ORB Bracelet Watch is born from the creativity of the very your Serbian designer: Djordje Zivanovic (Djo:Djo DSGN). He is an industrial design student in Turin’s IAAD, and his watch is available in 2 versions: clear black or white plastic, while the 3 linear displays give the time with the maximum precision made available by digital technology with the hour, minutes and seconds, and can take on different colors according to the software. On the side, an important button to adjust the time easily during our journeys from one time-zone to another.

To be worn, admired, consulted… Nice!

The project is on contest at the moment at the 2008 Signity Watch Design Competition. Other pictures in the cut below.