It certainly says something about Sweden’s support for student designers that first-year design students were given the latitude to festoon chandeliers from the 1860s with mops. I’ve been raving about the student designers in Stockholm at the Furniture Fair all week (Part 1 and Part 2 here!), but this was the highlight of my time in…
Image above: Linda Vännström Yesterday I began my look back at the Stockholm Design Fair with a nosedive into the student/indie work in the Greenhouse section of the fair. One of my favorite sections, in this, my favorite part of the fair, was by the students from HDK — School of Design and Crafts at…
From BabyBjörns to Acne jeans, Ikea and H&M, Sweden is pretty much the modern design Mecca (and I’m saying that without an ounce of hyperbole). So when we were invited by the Swedish Institute to check out the scene at the Stockholm Design Fair, I pretty much ran to the passport renewal office (and at…
It’s always amazing to see what student designers are up to these days. This fantastic coffee table was designed by product design student David Pickett at the The Cleveland Institute of Art. Inspired by the idea of “a bookshelf crash-landing into a coffee table and creating a ’4th leg’”, David created a table that integrates…
The week has finally come to a close, and I feel like I’m making some progress on my resolutions/life list so far. Today I’m heading out early to find a used mandolin that I can use for my new lessons! Learning to play a new instrument was one of my favorite resolutions, so I decided…
Today I am thrilled to announce the 2010 D*S Scholarship is live! Since I started Design*Sponge back in 2004, it has always been my first priority to celebrate beautiful design from artists and designers of all ages. I’ll never forget the first Pratt student show I attended and being struck by the overwhelming amount of…
this morning i’m reporting from chilly brimfield, massachusetts, where amy and i are getting ready to hit the fair and see what sort of fun antiques and vintage finds we can rummage up to use for d*s projects. i’ll be posting pictures from our trip soon, but before i get ahead of myself i wanted…
before this week i hadn’t heard of dundee university, but over the past two days i’ve found myself really enjoying a number of pieces emailed in by dundee’s graduating class of product designers. this clever product design comes from graduating student natalie montgomery, who thought to accessorize an area of the home that’s probably always…
it may be hot outside, but i’m still drawn to things that feel like they should belong to a hunky lumberjack- like this beautiful wooden alarm clock from natalie duckett. a graduating student from the university of dundee, natalie recently designed an alarm clock from an elm log with gorgeous contrasting brass components. the alarm…
i love this time of year because art and design students are finishing up their final projects and i get to see some really beautiful- and innovative- ideas pop up around town and in my inbox. i was really taken with this project from amyel oliveros, a graduating senior at pratt in brooklyn. amyel designed…
on cold mornings like this one, it takes everything i have to get up and going. but a nice hot cup of coffee or tea often helps the process. and if that cup of coffee was dressed up with a bow-tie sweater? even better. i know it’s unabashedly girly, but sometimes i need a little…
[this post is the seventh in a series of guest posts we'll be sharing from our summer correspondent in copenhagen, brittany watson] Hi folks, After 6 weeks of often little sleep, constant travels, and definitely lots of printing we showed our digital textile prints at the final exhibition of the Danish Institute of Study Abroad…
when i was a junior in college i studied abroad in london for a summer. i had the brilliant idea to take a series of art classes that were focused on drawing outdoors when clearly a british summer doesn’t allow for much of that. looking back on my rain-filled summer (spent indoors sketching whatever cans,…
[finalist #9: paige smith] -paige is a senior studying fibers at the savannah college of art and design (those are her pattern designs above) -click here for more of paige’s work -click here to vote for paige smith (voting opens at 1pm) _______________________________________________ [finalist #10: zena pesta] -zena is an undergraduate studying ceramics at the…
[finalist #7: meg boling] -meg is a senior at the university of georgia -click here for more of meg’s work -click here to vote for meg boling (voting will open at 1pm) _______________________________________________________ [finalist #8: jamie karoses] -jamie is a senior studying graphic design and print making at the university of wisconsin stevens point -click…
[finalist #5: julia bonnell] -julia is a sophomore studying furniture design at the sheridan institute -click here to view more of julia’s work -click here to vote for julia bonnell (voting will open at 1pm) _______________________________________________________ [finalist #6: katie jung] -katie is a senior at concordia university (the images above are her weavings) -click here…
[finalist #3: chris wronski] -chris is a freshman studying industrial design at the savannah college of art and design -click here to view more of chris’s work -click here to vote for chris wronski (voting will open at 1pm) ———————————————————————– [finalist #4: talia bromstad] -talia is a junior studying printmaking and book arts at the…
sifting through nearly 2,000 applicants for this year’s scholarship was a herculean task. i was completely bowled over by the talent and thoughtfulness of each applicant. to narrow this group down to a top eleven twelve would only have been possible with the help and input of our judging panel: the d*s staff (contributing writers…
i’m a little sleepy from this west coast jet lag but i wanted to say good morning and thank everyone who came out to last night’s LA biz ladies meetup, which was incredible! i can’t get over how many of you came out- thank you to everyone, to design within reach (thanks, susie and co!)…
my visit to the savannah college of art and design was one of the most inspiring trips i’ve taken in years. the students in the fibers department quite simply blew me away with their dedication to craft and tradition. one of the students who stood out most to me was haylie waring. it’s hard to…
