June 2009 Archives
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Dynamic Design
It's safe to say the 360° chair is a love it or hate it product, one of those objects that are impossible to ignore. -
Interview: Jean Marie Massaud
Jean Marie Massaud works in a wide range of projects, from furniture, to architecture to futuristic airships; whatever he designs has a strong imprint of lightness, technology research and innovation. -
Leather Net
The Loom series designed by Franco Poli and manufactured by MatteoGrassi is definitely a refreshing approach to the use of leather in furniture. -
Flexible Wood
A simple yet intelligent design solution donates the material with a new unexpected ability. -
Fantastic Plastic
The very first object the Bouroullec brothers designed for plastic manufacturer Kartell was Panier, a rather simple (and at the same time complex) container with a great personality that shows at best the French designers ability to propose new objects that have a formal and functional link to the past. -
Scale Matters
We take design pretty seriously here at spotd.it, design is for us much more than beauty and expression, is about bringing real solutions for real problems, the more those solutions are innovative, intelligent, unique, feasible, simple and based in true ideas, the more we appreciate them. -
Books: KGID
At spotd.it we are avid consumers of books, any kind of books. We thought it would be nice to share our thoughts on some of the books we read, so here's the first of our new series, the Book Reviews. -
Plastic Jewel
Patrick Jouin and plastic masters Kartell get together to bring out the best out of polycarbonate. -
Naked Chair
OutofStock is a cross-continental design collective born in Stockholm and spread out around the globe (Buenos Aires, Singapore, Barcelona); this heterogeneous creative group has conceived the refreshingly clever Naked chair. -
Wood and Plastic Mix
Trattoria is the name of the typical Italian restaurants, and Jasper Morrison's new chair for Magis was inspired precisely in the archetypical chairs you would normally find in any Italian eatery.














