Salt & pepper

New addition to our webshop Wannekes.com is Dolly salt & pepper by Ross McBride and 58 degree salt & pepper by Ulik design duo both for Normann copenhagen. Great Christmas gift and unique tableware for your Christmas table.

Robyn Cumming

I love this photograph by Robyn Cumming. Via Krystuccia.

Pangolin | Fair trade urban design backpack

We just added this handmade Pangolin backpack to our Wannekes.com collection. Striking Fair trade backpack made of recycled inner tubes of trucks. The urban design of this backpack is very inventive and striking by using overlapping sliding parts, it seems like a Pangolin. The parts are alternately covered with recycled inner tubes of trucks attached to each other with a striking wing nut. The interior has canvas storage pockets in different sizes, some close with Velcro. Equipped with a convenient to transit the earplugs of your mp3 player, I-Pod or phone. Closes with 3 magnetic closures. The back is anatomically shaped so that the back pack fits on your back very pleasantly. This backpack is made by people from Colombia with a social disadvantage, such as single mothers, refugees and Indians of the Camentsa tribe. They can count good working conditions and pay above the minimum wage.

Jonathan Sabine, Array

Array is a combination candle holder and dish designed by Jonathan Sabine. Via Designboom.

Highligts Dutch design week 2009

• Graduation, A drop of water, Bas van der Veer
• Graduation, Hot-water bottle, Wendy Legro
• Graduation, Droom schrift, Pablo Lucker
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• Eating in the changing-room in the basement in the old Philips buildings at Strijp-S.

Wall to wall

Established & sons limited are currently presenting 'wall to wall', an installation created for the company by Shay Alkalay and Yael Mer of Raw edges design studio.

REMY & VEENHUIZEN

Bench by Remy & Veenhuizen.

Mijoto shoe

Mijoto shoe by Julian Hakes.

Simon Hasan

London designer Simon Hasan has created a collection of furniture and vases inspired by traditional British crafts. Via Dezeen.

A212 blog

I just found out the great A212 blog. Above my personal highlight of this fabulous blog.

• Benz F-Cell Roadster
• French photography, Mr Grégoire Alexandre
• wooden carpet by Elisa Strozyk
• Derek Lam shop New York
• Beach chair by Hector Galvan of the Mexico based studio Omelette
• Lounge chair by Aqua creations
• Softly Lamps by Laurens van Wieringen

Paolo Navone

Taste porcelain collection by Paolo Navone for Reichenbach.

Growing food in the living room

Philips Design in Eindhoven have designed a series of conceptual products for food, including Biosphere home farm inside your house. Home Farming, as the name suggests, explores growing at least part of your daily food inside your house. “People are increasingly concerned about how their food has been manipulated and processed, genetic modification, global shortages, environmental degradation through monoculture, the distance food travels before reaching their plates and many other related issues,” says van Heerden. Via Dezeen.

The Moulding tradition of Formafantasma

Tradition can be a heavy weight and at the same time it can be the strongest source of inspiration. It’s the same with history, politics or love. Formafantasma have combined all the aforementioned in a fascinating way and have managed to leave us openmouthed with their Moulding tradition series. Via Yatzer.

The redesigning of Le Printemps by Yabu Pushelberg

The Printemps Haussmann, one of the most prestigious luxury stores in Paris (built in 1865) has redesigned the interior of the “boutiques” into 18 different spaces united in a uniform architecture. The project, conceived and directed by architectural firm, Yabu Pushelberg. Via Yatzer.

Designer Juan Pablo Quintero

Barcelona designer Juan Pablo Quintero of Mediodesign has created a bar stool for Xemei, a restaurant in Barcelona, Spain. Via Dezeen.