About Design Magazine

About Design Magazine

About Design Magazine featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Plastic Recurrence

Plastic Recurrence is a series of benches designed for a district town hall in Hong Kong, by using recycled household plastic waste from the same district. HIR studio recycled the plastic bottles in the riverside town, processed, and remolded them into new public benches, before bringing them back into the local town hall for everyone to enjoy. The series were made of only two typical modules assembled in varied lengths and rotations. Tactile textures and imperfect color of recycled plastic render each bench unique. What is taken from the community is used back in the community.

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Silicone Training Utensils

Designed to be visually appealing and highly functional, these Silicone Training Utensils were created as a solution for infants beginning to self feed. Specifically designed with tiny hands in mind, the shape allows for multiple grasping options which encourages use. An integrated choke guard adds additional safety to the design and the silicone material is hypoallergenic and highly durable. The silicone also provides flexibility and resilience, providing a soft, rubber-like texture that is pleasant to touch and gentle on gums. The design is safety tested as it is intended for use by infants.

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CNC Machining Center

The CNC machining center has comprehensive functions and can perform milling, boring, drilling and thread cutting operations. The built-in tool magazine can be freely selected and replaced during the machining process, ensuring product quality and work efficiency. The overall shape is magnificent, and the unique shape has a sense of corporate identity.

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Diagonal

The table Diagonal is a piece of furniture embodied with diversify possibility in its sleek form. The clean inter-cross stand structure is positioned in diagonal guideline. With the intended twisted angle, the Void/Solid dialogue would be initiated when people move around the table. The Diagonal tension could also be seen from above with tabletop veneer pattern, which also follow table’s invisible diagonal guideline beneath.

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Poetry-Electricity

Poetry-Electricity combines wireless charger with tabletop atmosphere lamp. In order to relieve people's working pressure, the desktop charger is designed with a sense of context, which not only meets the basic functional needs, but also can be used as an ornament to create a relaxed working atmosphere. When working overtime at night, tree-shaped spherical atmosphere lights adorn the office environment, which break the indoor depression, cold and create a warm and relaxed office environment.

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Pastoco

This pie chart plate enables fresh couples to grasp how well balanced their foods are roughly, without weighing foods or counting the nutritional value. The team targeted fresh couples for this plate. They tend to eat unhealthily in their new married life. Because the new life with partner enhances appetite. At the same time, they don’t want to trouble each other to care about their foods too much. To solve the problems, the team aimed to balance controlling their diet easily with enjoying to eat. And they achieved it getting inspiration from pie chart, the symbol of balance visualization.

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