A multi-functional home office on wheels, in its handy size and elegant shape, adapting to the flexible working habits of the individual at home or in the office. Through a 180-degree turn of its top, it unfolds into a small workstation for laptop users. The smooth contours of the desk cube in fact reveal the delicately inbuilt wooden drawers that open to the front and sides. CI desk provides mobility and a practical working space for any busy individual. [50cm x 40cm x 70cm //plywood – leather – stainless steel]

Designer: CREATIVEINDUSTRIALOBJECTS Made in Austria

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The friendly society artrmx e.V. is starting the open tender for the art festival ARTRMX COLOGNE VOL. 01 in December 2007. Photographers, street artists, graphic artists, painters and video artists worldwide are invited to apply and be part of our exhibitions in Cologne at August 2008.

Their works should be sent in between 1st December 2007 and 15th April 2008 under the given subject “WHERE IS MY MIND?“. In collaboration with artistic advisors, the artrmx e. V. will assemble and distribute the work among different exhibition spaces. The curators are as follows: Dr. Barbara J. Scheuermann (curator „Tate Modern London“), Claudia Stein (chief editor „photography now“), Gérard Goodrow (director „Art Cologne“), Rik Reinking (curator | collector), Zevs (street artist | Paris), Boris Hoppek (street artist and graphic designer | Barcelona), Prof. Julia Scher (artist | professor „KHM“), Georg Elben (head of „Videonale“ 10 und 11 in Bonn | curator)

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A metalic lace table Coco&Co, an association of 3 product designers and Steve Roy Creations TM, a company specialised in editing lamps as well as metalic funitures are launching a coffee talbe composed of 3 trundle elements. The Cubical Table recaptures the strong and original graphic pattern Cubical adding a participative dimension for the user.Composed of 3 different trundfle elements, the user is free to place and move them and therefore each configuration can have its appearence modified hence a different story to tell. The Cubical Table makes good use of the slenderness and precision of the laser technology in its cut in order to bring out the poetry and lightness to the rigidity of the base material : steel Just like a monolithic block would desintegrate itself little by little, the cubical table has a perfect rigidity and can be easily handled.

Designer: L.Brunet, F.Fraysse & S.Terral Made in France

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is a bed module, which can be combined to form a dormitory of any size. Decide on total width, link the bed feets and fix the bed laths. Material Bed-Laths: multipex beech Bed-Feet: laminated plywood Connecting bolts Size Length: 200 cm Higth: 25 cm Width can be expanded in steps of 100 cm

Designer: Eigenwert Made in Switzerland

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coverage by the australien magazine POL OXYGEN Thank you Kelly

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Transform the earth's surface into design items New York dazzles in your living room, Paris blazes in the bedroom and in the kitchen apples are rolling through San Francisco: You can have the world at your fingers with these elegant FLUID EARTH designer items. Simply select your favourite place, order online and your self-made lamp or bowl is ready to enliven your living room.

Design at home – for the home FLUID EARTH is an innovative, easy to use Online-Design-Tool, with which you can design unique objects for the home, at home. Simply select your desired region and see it represented as a lamp or a bowl. Naturally, the selection can also be enlarged, decreased and shifted. At the same time the finished product is displayed as a 3D-Model. This unique item can be easily ordered from the online-shop and will grace your home within two weeks.

World Wide Wood Whether as a fruit bowl, a safe haven for your keys or as artwork, the personally designed FLUID EARTH Bowl brings life to every living room. The unique wooden bowl is CNC-Milled to perfection, through which the contour line structure emerges. To cap it all off the surface is hand sanded, oiled and polished. Felt feet and hooks are attached to the bottom to enable vertical and horizontal display.

Your home in the spotlight The FLUID EARTH light impressively combines design and modern technology: The lampshades are 3D-printed according to each order. The fine steps associated with this innovative process give FLUID EARTH its trademark appearance. The light is mounted on a brushed aluminium frame and is equipped with an energy saving ring bulb. It can light up your home either as a wall or table lamp.

And this is how it works With the Online-Design-Tool it’s a piece-of-cake to create original one-of-a-kind items. This is possible through the combination of Google-Maps, a NASA Satellite-Database and software specially developed by the Austrian Design-Label FLUIDFORMS.

Designer: FLUIDFORMS Made in Austria

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Jonathan Baskett was born in Canberra, Australia in 1969.

Interested in design he studied glass at the Canberra School of Art, graduating with honours in 1996. Immediately afterwards Baskett moved to Europe to work in the glass industry working throughout, Sweden, Denmark, Germany and England. In 1998, he was studio designer, maker and manager at Ebeltoft Glass Museum, Denmark.

In 1998 Baskett returned to Australia and founded Jonathan Baskett creative a studio focussed on the design and manufacture of hand blown glassware and freelance design of glassware for industry.

Baskett has participated in numerous Group and solo exhibitions in Australia, USA, Germany, Denmark and Japan. He is included in various collections including the Glasmuseum Ebeltoft Denmark, Ishikawa design collection Kanazawa Japan, and the Kunst und Gewerbe Museum, Dresden.

He is included in various publications including Australian Glass Today, Smartworks –Design and the handmade and Freestyle design for living.

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PASSAGEN 2008 – 14 to 20 January 2008 The time is approaching: From 14 to 20 January 2008 Germany’s biggest design event will take place in Cologne. The PASSAGEN festival opens the international design season and provides a platform for current trends in design, lifestyle and home living. For an entire week, Cologne becomes a temporary design metropolis – a Mecca for design-hungry and design tourists and a meeting place for design professionals and the international design scene.

The programme with over 150 shows by international designers and manufacturers, densely arranged along a trail encompassing the entire city of Cologne – a veritable “Who’s Who” of the design scene. There will be thrilling moments, brand-new concepts, designers “up close and personal”, inspiration and ideas for home and office, top-flight trends and stylistic tendencies – it’s all about design, one hundred percent. The focus is on evocative exhibits, presented both by premium high-end manufacturers and by young designers and networks, using experimental concepts in that electrifying place where design and architecture meet.

Just around the corner our designspotter offices, on Bismarckstrasse, the internationally renowned magazine Architektur & Wohnen will present the 12th annual A&W Designer of the Year with a special exhibit. The 2008 Designer of the Year is Tom Dixon, born in 1959 in Tunisia and currently living and working in London, who was selected in honour of his creative efforts to make design, style and aesthetics more accessible to a broad audience.

The PASSAGEN festival was founded in 1990 by Sabine Voggenreiter and is taking place for the 19th time in 2008.

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