Design Don't Panic

Comic Book Portraits

2013-05-15T11:38:00.002-04:00

Incredible mixed media portraits combined with actual pages from comic books create colorful and lively pieces. By montreal based artist Sandra Chevrier.

- Priscilla

Zoo Portraits

2013-05-14T11:41:00.000-04:00

Zoo Portraits is an creative project by Spanish photographer Yago Partal who started this fun experiment and captured funny pictures of animals with sweater, shirt and other fashionabel items.

- Priscilla

Union Wood Wallet

2013-05-07T10:09:00.002-04:00

Madera is a new brand founded by Chris Hong, with a mission to make everyday objects less disposable, more useful, and exceptionally timeless. Their first product is the Union Wood Wallet, a stylish and minimalist wood wallet that is slim and only carries the essential, cards, cash and other modern necessities.

- Priscilla

Ian Francis

2013-05-06T09:53:00.001-04:00

Beautiful mixed media work by artist Ian Francis. I feel like every time that I look at any of his pieces I discover something new. Every subject he creates it's absolutely stunning.

If any of you happen to be in New York, make sure to check out his "Season 1 Episode 0" exhibit at the Joshua Liner Gallery going on from April 25 to May 25, 2013. I know I will!

- Priscilla

Outfits Made of Foods

2013-04-26T13:40:00.001-04:00

"Wearable Foods" is the name of the series of works that the Korean artist Sung Yeonju made with clothing designs using food. As different component parts using foods such as tomatoes or mushrooms, the artist offers us real visually bluffing art pieces.

- Priscilla

Wood'Insane Design: Coffee Tables

2013-04-25T22:10:00.002-04:00

Designed by hand with pure love and dedication, this coffee table by Wood'Insane Design gets a grand applause from us here at Design Don't Panic. With it's sleek crisscross tripod base, the design gives off the illusion of levitating from the ground! It's beautiful details and combination natural of woods make each table truly unique. Who knew a little bit of the outdoors and great craftsmanship could make for such a cool design.

- Priscilla

Homedia

2013-04-25T11:43:00.000-04:00

The Homedia TV by Robert Bronwasser has a curved fabric back and stands on brightly colored legs.

"Watching TV is a social phenomenon. We love it. But while the number of channels in the past twenty years has quadrupled, the industrial design of the TV exterior did not evolve. The average telly is a technical black shrine constructed of hard plastic. And the worst part is: its uninspiring form is dominating our interior.

The Homedia concept redefines the definition of ‘television’, crossing its technical functions with its future role in the home decor. The machine is dressed in fabric in order to give it a natural position within the larger interior design. Television becomes personal, earning the role of a high quality shape shifter adding intimacy and identity to any room."

- Priscilla

Erik Jones

2013-04-24T22:56:00.004-04:00

Loving the work of Erik Jones. An artist and illustrator focusing on contemporary figure painting and illustration. Jones is based in Brooklyn, New York.

- Priscilla

TV Show Posters

2013-04-24T09:00:00.000-04:00

This awesome project is the creation of illustrator and designer Adam Spizak. This first series includes five of his favorite tv shows (Breaking Bed, The Walking Dead, Mad Men, Californication and Dexter.) and their very well know tv characters. His approach to each piece comes from him as a fan and show's perspective.

"The Essence for me was closely related to music in these shows, a connection become the core of each idea. I encourage listening to tracks below :)" - Adam Spisak

Listen to Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, Mad Men, Californication and Dexter.

As a fan of these shows I can totally relate to each piece and love the attention to detail Adam captures with each character. Also what a badass process!! If you are interested in purchasing the series, the are available via Funkrush.

- Priscilla

Floating Landscapes

2013-04-23T22:06:00.003-04:00

Catherine Nelson is a visual artist from Sydney, Australia who created a series of fascinating floating landscape pictures. Her pieces are composed of beautiful imaginary, nature photography and digital techniques.

- Priscilla

Shwood Stone Sunglasses

2013-04-23T09:47:00.000-04:00

Shwood Sunglasses are known for their cool and sleek wooden sunglasses, now the brand is exploring with another natural material, stone! The new Shwood Stone Collection consists of two models, the Wayfarer-like Canby and the vintage Belmont, both made of real slate stone(light or dark) mixed with birch wood. The exclusive glasses are limited to 200 pairs and are available from $295 dollars.

- Priscilla

Saint Laurent “Music Project” x Daft Punk

2013-04-22T10:53:00.002-04:00

Daft Punk photographed in Los Angeles by Hedi Slimane for the latest music project campaign. The French duo are wearing stage wear designed specially for them by Hedi Slimane for Saint Laurent. Via Fucking young!

- Priscilla

Couchella

2013-04-22T10:36:00.001-04:00

Are you ready for Couchella? An online music festival featuring original curated music, coming at you live April 23. A small, tasty slice of what the internet music scene has to offer, from the humblest of stages: the couch.

Check out the countdown at couchellafestival.com

- Priscilla

Cinemagraphs: GIFs from NY

2013-04-22T10:25:00.005-04:00

Cinemagraphs is a project my visual artist Kevin Burg and photographer Jamie Beck, both from NY. Kevin started experimenting with GIF format in 2009, and thanks to a partnership with Jamie the project Cinemagraph has started.

Nowadays there are different series, dedicated to NYC, to New York Fashion Week, to food etc. Here the ones from the NY set.

- Priscilla

Gerald!

2013-04-21T22:32:00.003-04:00

Gerald! is a very cool dog made out of paper. Designed to be drawn on, he’s part of a two year art project started by british design studio Lazerian in 2008. Today, Gerlad! already passed between the hands of more than 100 artists including Inkie, Tatiana Arocha, Joel Millerchip and others.

On May 17th, a release party in New York will be the perfect moment to discover the book combining all of the creations and the whole story behind Gerlad! More information on gerald.lazerian.co.uk

- Priscilla

Floral Porcelain Skulls

2013-04-20T09:00:00.000-04:00

French artist NooN has teamed up with K.Olin tribu to create a pair of pretty cool porcelain skulls imprinted with flowers. The black series, Fleurs Noires, have already sold out but the red series, Fleurs Rouges, is still available. Both series are limited to 50 pieces and each skull comes packaged in a fancy wooden crate.

- Priscilla

Star Wars Nesting Dolls

2013-04-19T15:52:00.002-04:00

San Francisco-based illustrator Andy Stattmiller created these amazing hand-painted sets of Star Wars nesting dolls, inspired by the traditional Russian matryoshka dolls. Via Andy Stattmiller’s website.

- Priscilla

Blueberries: 3D Printed Jewelry

2013-04-19T15:44:00.000-04:00

Blueberries is a new brand of 3D-printed jewelry and accessories created by Prague-based designers Markéta Richterová and Zbyněk Krulich.

“The artists’ inspiration comes in particular from natural structures, both organic and inorganic. In their work, they play with light, matter, composition, scale, and geometry. The current collection is made of Nylon, the jewels being light and flexible with velvet matting.” Photos by Adéla Havelková.

Via KNSTRCT.

- Priscilla

The “Books Shelf”

2013-04-19T15:34:00.001-04:00

Fantastic wood type project created by Melbourne-based designer Matt Innes in collaboration with Saori Kajiwara.

“A personal typographic bookshelf sized to fit just those books you go back to time and again.” Via Australian Infront.

- Priscilla

R.I.P. Storm Thorgerson

2013-04-19T12:20:00.000-04:00

A sad day for the design and music world :( Storm Thorgerson, the British graphic designer who created the iconic album sleeve for Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, has died aged 69.

Storm Thorgerson worked with many bands over the years including 10cc, Anthrax, Catherine Wheel, Biffy Clyro, The Cranberries, Bruce Dickinson, Dream Theater, Ian Dury and The Blockheads, Europe, Genesis, David Gilmour, Led Zeppelin, Steve Miller Band, Muse, Offspring, Alan Parsons, Pendulum, Pink Floyd, The Mars Volta, Yes and Paul Young. There are several publications based on the work of Storm Thorgerson including 100 Best Album Covers and Taken By Storm, The Album Art of Storm Thorgerson.

To discover more this great artist and his work check out his Wikipedia page and personal site stormthorgerson.com

- Priscilla

Pantone Designer Clocks

2013-04-13T20:59:00.000-04:00

Loving these very unique Pantone Designer Clocks by Etsy seller Hey Fishy. Each wooden clock is handmade and matches a swatch from the Pantone Color Guide book. So if you are looking for a unique one of a kind piece for your living space this clock is right fir you. Not to mention you will be the envy of all your designer friends!

- Priscilla

Skube: A Last.fm & Spotify Radio

2013-04-06T21:24:00.001-04:00

Rethinking home audio and understanding how and where people share music was the jumping point for our tangible user interface project. Through our user research, we realized that as we are moving more towards a digital and online music listening experience, current portable music players are not adapted for this environment. And sharing music in communal spaces is neither convenient or easy.

The result of our exploration is Skube, a music player that allows you to explore and share music to facilitate communal listening in shared spaces. There are two modes, Playlist and Discovery. Playlist plays the tracks on your Skube, while Discovery looks for tracks similar to the ones on your Skube so you can discover new music.

THE FORM
The interface is designed to be intuitive and tangible. Flipping the Skube changes the modes, tapping will play or skip songs and flipping a Skube on its front face will turn it off. The physical shape informs the user the ways they are able to connect the music players together. This allows different Skubes to be in either Discovery mode or Playlist mode when connected to other players. When multiple Skubes are connected together,they act as one music player and they contribute to a global playlist that is played on all them.

HOW IT WORKS
It is a fully working prototype through the combination of using Arduino, Max/MSP and a XBee wireless network. We access two APIs (application programming interface) to enable the Skubes. The Last.fm API is accessed to populate the Skube with tracks and using their algorithms to find similar music when in Discover mode. Spotify’s API is to play the music. We use XBees for the communication between the Skubes and the computer containing custom software. This project was created in collaboration with Andrew Spitz, Ruben van der Vleuten and Martin Malthe Borch.

Via Sound + Design.

- Priscilla

Modern Vases

2013-03-20T14:59:00.000-04:00

FX Balléry considers the dichotomy between thick and fine, stark and gloss, and hard and fragile with this joined trio of individual vases. Inspired by a simple stack of wood, each thick cylinder stands on a fine point. Beech wood cylinders are banded in glossy lacquer. Each "stake" contains a glass tube to hold water.

The Pik Vase is part of the modern craft collection by the trio behind France's Y'a Pas Le Feu Au Lac, a popular phrase that loosely translates as "no need to hurry." Wood turners Grégory and Marie Bodel connected with designer FX Balléry on a love of wood and their ties to the Alps' Jura Mountains. Like life there, the YPLFL Collection calls for taking time to smell the flowers, or in this case, the beech wood. Via A + R.

- Priscilla

OP1 Portable Synthesizer

2013-03-18T10:01:00.000-04:00

OP1 was developed by Teenage Engineering in Stockholm - Sweden, is an all-in-one portable Synthesizer, Sampler and Controller. With additional features like the FM Radio and an assignable G-Force sensor for motion controlled effects. With OP-1's built-in Tape feature you are able to record everything you do on to the 4 tracks, with overdubbing, reverse recording. This multiple effects synthesizer makes for one real unique present for any music lover!

- Priscilla

Duvet Covers by Snurk

2013-03-09T19:04:00.000-05:00

This creative series of duvet covers would make any kids' bet time their favorite time of the day. As duvet and pillow cover design is becoming easily accessible for production and booming in design trends, so is Snurk's Dutch designers' imagination. (Snurk means "to snore" in Dutch).

Check out some of their other unique subtle yet clever designs here.

- Idil