Everything is for the growth of our family members and community by supplying them with the resources and inspiration to accomplish their individual goals.

Words from Alex Post on Values: Essentially, I value value. Currency, measurable amounts of wealth and gold. Value is tangible. Value allows me to purchase cars and gain respect from peers and even distinguished individuals above me on the food chain. I will never underestimate the power of value and it’s ability to buy small countries and even portable underarm hygenic products.

Influenced by some of the world's most renowned architecture and design-driven publications, Elemente provides a unique regional platform that focuses on current architectural highlights, key players, products, designs and emerging trends. Singular in personality and voice, Elemente's mandate is to deliver contextually relevant content exclusive to the region that is functional and purposeful, entertaining yet challenging, enlightening and informative, humourous yet inspirational.

Responding to growing unease over our culture’s rates of consumption and the notion of peak oil and its implications, THAW 2007 challenges designers of all fields to consider a world without oil and the consequences it would have for our design solutions and how these adaptations would in turn directly impact our lifestyles and immediate communities.

The exhibit will serve as a catalyst for dialogue and proactive change, empowering the designer and inherently the general public, revealing a consciousness of production, consumption and the awareness that sustainable solutions are currently available.

Designers of all fields are asked to submit designs and concepts for their respective homes and immediate communities, taking into consideration the implications of the “end of oil” on our culture, industries, and lifestyles.

Pop Cling reproduces art. All kinds of art. For the moment, that mostly means adhesive-backed art that you can peel off and stick to any smooth surface. Some people stick our prints on concrete floors, or on sliding glass doors leading to balconies, or right on the walls behind couches. You don’t need a frame, you just need a blank space. Voila, you have fresh pop art on your wall from new, favorite, and cutting edge artists.

Is it possible to let a first sketch become an object, to design directly onto space?

The four FRONT members have developed a method to materialise free hand sketches. They make it possible by using a unique method where two advanced techniques are combined.

Pen strokes made in the air are recorded with Motion Capture and become 3D digital files; these are then materialised through Rapid Prototyping into real pieces of furniture.

We are inspired by simple forms and honest materials. We use them as the springboard for everything we create. From the simple 2x4 and construction I-Beam, to the useful miter box. We delight in the simplicity of everyday objects.

What is BazaarAdriatic?

Bazaar Adriatic is the place for "no-hype" fashion. The teams of buyers that have chosen each piece on here are actually seasoned professionals in the fashion or music industry. This site has been created to offer the best of up and coming fashion and music styles that take shape from the streets, clubs, dive bars, and inspiring garage artists that have an ever lasting effect on society.

Here we believe that fashion, music, and art are part of an unending parallel that takes shape in each of us everyday. As this site takes shape in our lives, we hope that it will do the same for you.

The objective of this year's exhibit is to focus on the skateboard/ longboard design culture. From its early history to visions of the future,*FROST will explore the many aspects of the board from graphics to accessories and its relationship with the end user.

Designers are asked to create a graphic of their choice for a blank skate deck and/or longboard deck. All submissions will be juried by IDEA and 30 skate decks and 30 longboard decks will be chosen for production.

Olive Skateboardsª will be printing the winning graphics onto their respective decks that will be displayed and sold by silent auction at *FROST2006.

We operate outside of corporate trends, we will never compromise style for money. Everything from cereal bowl concaves, 8 wheelers, longboards, single kick pigs, rockers, new street shapes, custom constructions, custom mold making, silk screening and custom artwork. Dedication to true skateboarders.

David's creations are wonderful. If I had a reason to hire him, I would!

It is a network of dozens of artists who‘ve had studios at the Space, past and present. It is dozens of artists who‘ve had shows at the Space over the last 7 years. It is dozens of artists who come to our events, and participate in our community. Space 1026 is a community - a creative community - not an institution.

The focal point of our company is our Artists. How they interpret a particular idea, and how that idea looks on a shirt, determines whether a customer is going to buy, plain and simple. Our job is to stay behind the curtain and seamlessly deliver the Artist's vision to our customers.

This project takes fun to the extreme with everyday objects, combining function with amusement. Manolos products are inspired by toys and the action of playing games. Manolo is Gonna Have Fun introduces the idea of the enjoyable with the mundane.

Directions: Before use plug in. Simply use like a normal lamp football. For best results always follow Ronaldo’s corner taking skills. Use only as directed. Intentional misuse can be excellent, even more fun.

Vest Collective is a loosely knit group of designers and craft practitioners based in Toronto. Work produced under the Vest moniker adheres to the principle that objects can affect positive change on the people and other objects with which they come in contact.

Equal emphasis is put on the quality/longevity of the work produced, and its relevance to contemporary culture. With an appreciation for different disciplines, Vest produces work demonstrating that design is full of the potential to communicate a wide range of ideas.

element living is a design house that strives to heighten our experiences and enjoyment of our surroundings by providing products of beauty, simplicity and utility.

Throughout the timeline of human evolution, humans have built tools,sculptures, and inscribed Art on rock walls attempting to understand our existence. Hoodoo Series is a postmodern approach that continues that search for truth, revealing natural design elements from the prairie landscape. While producing a genuine prairie style, Cesar and Ball dig through visual layers of historic sediment, exposing traces of an evolutionary world past millions of years.

Conceptual research project in rural areas of England such as Wiltshire and Gloucestershire. In partnership with local planning authorities and property developers we aim to develop a modular tree house concept. This could, with a flexible planning arrangement, encourage a more organic approach to country living. Architecturally, the design direction evolves from the underside, to the interior and then outwards concentrating on views and aspects above the tree horizon. The ‘belly’ of the tree house accommodates undulating kinetic baffles that utilise wind power to generate electricity. The plan form also meanders to the extent that modular sections can be prefabricated so that the overall size can vary from a single bedroom house up to a five bedroom model. The prefabricated design can be installed on site within two weeks, is extremely lightweight, uses many recycled products, is part self-sustainable and low on maintenance.

With the name MARTa fronting the triad of design (M standing for Möbel/furniture), art (ART) and architecture/ambience (a), the museum aims to provide fresh inspiration for art, design, architecture and business both in the local region and far beyond. An extraordinary complex of buildings designed by Frank Gehry houses a novel combination of a museum, centre of excellence and event forum. It is here that exhibition curator and museum director Jan Hoet displays contemporary aspects of art and design. The main idea behind MARTa Herford is to highlight and redefine the contradictory links between art and business.

As a collective, Loyal Loot strives to create designs with a natural quality by staying true to materials. The inherent value of these designs is meant to last a lifetime ensuring that they retain a non-disposable presence and remain precious to their owner, becoming more and more meaningful as they age. Loyal loot exhibits their work together and aims to create community in design, within the collective as well as with fellow designers. Members of loyal loot are involved in several creative facets, specializing in furniture, products and clothing.

The RIAI travels to numerous venues throughout Ireland as well as London to recognize and showcase the wide range of projects completed throught the year. From high end residential to conference centres, it's a great display of work to look through.

Link: RIAI - Irish Architecture Awards 2005

Fuse represents a new mode in contemporary British design. The Fuse designers form the nucleus of a shared network of specialist knowledge and experience. The Collective is not a business, company or a "non-profit making organization", it is a group set up by its member designers to help each other to create better design, for themselves and their clients.

looking back at the dream, to what, to how we would have wanted the duoMo hotel to become, we were sure that we wanted something that embraced the past but looked towards the future, something different, something international that reflected our need for dynamism, design, and creativity on one hand while on the other could also be a place to unwind, meet people and conduct business.

Over the last decade Jiricna´s contribution to architecture and design has been recognised with personal awards, including being made a Royal Designer for Industry, a Commander of the British Empire for Services to Interior Design, election as a Royal Academician by the Royal Academy of Arts, and induction in the American Hall of Fame. She holds honorary doctorates and professorships at several universities (e.g., Southampton Institute, Technical University in Brno, University of Sheffield, Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague). In 2003 she was elected a President of Architectural Association of London. She participates on international juries and lectures widely on her work.

The inaugural Singapore Design Festival, scheduled for 9 to 23 November 2005, is a multifaceted experience focusing on the design process and the conceptualisation of ideas. In essence the Festival aims to build upon the design culture in Singapore and around the world, making it an interactive and “live” experience of the design process and its end products. From designers to design policy makers, agencies, schools, media, related industries, businesses and the general public - all are welcome to participate, enjoy and learn.

This event has great potential in only it's first year. I really like the fact that they chose to display so many diciplines of design and help create a 'community' atmosphere. Definitely one to keep an eye on every year.

Link: SDF

Slovenian company, Asobi, did just that at this years 100% Design festival in London with the gigantic Isle Lounge Sofa. Boasting dimensions of 17' x 9' x 5', it will no doubt demand a reaction from dinner guests as well as passengers from the red eye flight from London to Ljubljana.

The outer shell is made from carbon epoxy and upholstered in special 3d textile from Hybrids+Fusion. Isle's total weight is less than 200kg and stands on just four thin legs, but can easlily hold your next team function.....literally.

As a person of Slovenian decent, i've always wanted to do a write-up on the design scene there and have obviously made a rather big step in doing just that.

............OK, this is why i'm not writing for a sit-com.

Link: asobi

With Bin Bin, designer John Brauer has definitely created a wastebasket that easily stands apart from it's contemporaries. Made of high density polyethylene, Bin Bin was designed to look exactly like the crushed paper it was meant to contain. It's a case of re-thinking an everyday object that normally gets taken for granted, and breathe some new life into it.

Link: essey

Instead of choosing a mid career, established designer for our creative director, we decided to choose someone up and coming who has not yet reached the peak of his career; that way our company can grow and develop along side our creative director’s career. We are getting in on the ground floor, so to speak. Omer Arbel was the perfect fit.