Work / Product Design

Doorbell Workshops

Words by Alex Bec, Friday 25 February 2011

Yuri Suzuki always manages to make me smile with his intuitive and engaging projects. We’ve all seen his fantastic work with the medium of vinyl, and his passion for sound is something that’s echoed in a new project he’s just uploaded to his blog. Although not much detail yet, Yuri is continuing on his exploration of “Re-designing the domestic sound-scape”, this time tackling doorbells. The results are far from your classic ‘Ding-Dong’, if you will.

Work / Graphic Design Introducing the eclectic projects of multidisciplinary designer Jannis Zell

Jannis Zell is a restless creative. His work flits between disciplines and his portfolio includes graphic design projects, ceramics, product design and more. “I like searching for the fun and the unusual. I could not stick with one medium,” Jannis explains. A graduate of the University of Arts and Design in Karlsruhe, Germany, Jannis found his education offered the freedom to explore what interests him. “The school is pretty hippy and open in it’s nature,” says Jannis. “The students can pick their seminars theirselves. You have to learn to look out for what interests you. You start doing your own projects and collaborate a lot with students from different faculties.”

Owen Pritchard — 31 March 2017
Work / Product Design The cut glass assemblages of graphic-turned-3D designer Juli Bolaños-Durman

Originally from Costa Rica and formerly a graphic designer, Juli Bolaños-Durman may have changed both location and career but she’s cleverly held on to her visual references. Now an Edinburgh-based glass artist, her creations stand out a mile from a litany of twee, old-fashioned ornaments with their unusually collaged shapes and colours, bringing a contemporary edge to the medium.

Jenny Brewer — 17 January 2017
Work / Product Design The delicately ornate, but very cheeky sculptures of Liv and Dom

The sculptural work of twin sisters Liv and Dom Cave-Sutherland is sweet and sharp. A combination of both their process and outcome the sisters create clay and fabric products with an innate cheeky expression.

Lucy Bourton — 16 January 2017
Work / Product Design Special Projects on why, sometimes, design is best kept simple

Husband and wife team Adrian and Clara Westaway run a boutique design and invention studio based in London called Special Projects. Its work focuses on projects where something completely new has to be discovered, invented, understood and designed. “We spend half our time working with large companies like Samsung, Logitech, and Nokia, and the other half working with smaller start-ups to help make their inventions special as they bring them to market,” Special Projects say. “Literally any company can approach us and ask us to invent something new, from theme parks and future technologies to post boxes and snowboarding accessories.” As Special Projects prepare to become part of the Design Museum’s “New Old: Designing for our Future Selves”, the duo tell It’s Nice That why sometimes, design is best kept simple.

Special Projects — 09 January 2017
Work / Product Design Plant pots with boobs, tan lines and tight speedos: it's the joyful ceramics of Group Partner

Brooklyn-based ceramics studio Group Partner has gained internet stardom for its comical ceramic pots with boobs, tan lines and speedos, and too right – we want them all. Founded in 2012 by Isaac Nichols and Steph Smith, the studio now comprises a small team hand-making and selling joyful ceramic works for happy customers worldwide.

Jenny Brewer — 09 December 2016
Sponsored / Product Design The New Tradition Collection: a new take on the Christmas bauble by Richard Clarkson studio

Five design studios have been invited to rethink Christmas for The New Tradition Collection by Bombay Sapphire. The project invites each collaborator to recreate a Christmas product in an unconventional way. It’s Nice That will be previewing the creations in the weeks leading up to Christmas that will culminate in a special New Years Eve showpiece designed by Bompas and Parr.

Sponsored Content — 01 December 2016