The Design Gazette

The Design Gazette

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

 

Vshape Mattina

Vshape tiles are a combination of the strong points provided by wood with a practical nature of stoneware. The appearance and structure of wood are precisely mirrored by their design. It is very difficult to tell the difference between them and real wood, while the classic floor-board format only makes them more credible. These tiles are a great alternative to natural wood, which, despite being graceful, is less practical and sturdy than stoneware. Moreover, the ambience and nature of the designed space can be easily and effortlessly changed depending on the tile color chosen by the client.

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Bcompact Hybrids

The humble staircase gets a simple and innovative upgrade with the Bcompact Hybrids, sideways folding stair with compacting handrail and integrated safety gate, or Hybrid Ladder with fixed short stand-off handrail. These lightweight and sturdy, space-saving, patented designs fold neatly sideways to close flush with, or into the wall when not in use and are made from sustainably sourced laminated Bamboo; color stained to match your décor, and tailored to your exact specifications; making assembly and installation a breeze. After Time; Space, in the modern metropolis is our most precious commodity.

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Ario

Airo is a small space intelligent air conditioner. It uses hollow modeling to integrate the three functions of air conditioning fan, purifier and humidifier; different placement methods awaken different functions. In terms of 5g intelligent interactive experience, Airo has become more closely connected with users, and recommends comfortable modes for different types of users through intelligent technology. The function can continuously upgrade itself on the Internet, meet a variety of use scenarios such as home, travel and office, and bring a new home appliance function mode in 5g era.

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NAVE

Nave is a terracotta tile system combined with water flow, used to cool indoor spaces in desertic environments. The cooling method is based on a local traditional cooling solution, and answers a local need. In the project, the tile transforms form a generic product, back into a local, tailored to place product. The system operates on minimal energy and water consumption and is used for green building. The system has three variations: wall tiles, partition and a totem vertical cooling body.

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Marble Hexagon Tile

Marble hexagon tiles are traditionally cut with waterjets; however, it is an extremely slow and expensive process. After a long research period, R&D department of Ionic Stone has been able to develop a new technique that now enables them to cut rectangle tiles into hexagon and chevron formats with utmost precision in dimensions with a much lower cost. Currently, the company is producing marble hexagon tiles at affordable prices. Thanks to this new technique they have become the world's first mass-producer of innovative formats, such as hexagons, trapezoids and chevrons.

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Karst

Karst, a modular staircase designed for Governors Island in New York, is like a solutional cave for people to see and hear the flowing water, with a water filtering system that brings the sensation of nature into the house, connecting the community of humans and water. Each module has a pocket for placing a bag of crushed oyster shells. The shells composed of calcium carbonate can react with acid rain to help neutralize acidified ocean by absorbing carbon dioxide. In the end, it is a filter system that can blur the boundary between humans and nature on Governors Island.

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World's greatest design teams.

Sometimes you need a very big team of talented designers to come up with truly great designs. Everyday, we feature a distinct award-winning innovative and creative design team. Explore and discover original and creative architecture, good design, fashion, graphics design and design strategy projects from design teams worldwide. Get inspired by the original works by grand master designers.

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