Yii, traditional craft meets new design
Yii, started by the Taiwan Craft Research Institute to stimulate a more creative conversation between Taiwanese designers and traditional craftsmen.
It’s quite interesting to see Asia is picking up on conceptual design and generating their own designers and it will be a good place to keep an eye out for the future design stars. Through the magic of skype, Gijs Bakker was able to closely involved in the process with his role as creative director. They chose to stick to Taiwanese designers instead of bringing in Westerners.
The collection revolves around 3 main themes, Inspired by Nature, Cultivation and Sustainability. It’s the result of 15 designers working together with 20 master craftsmen and went on show at the salone di mobile at the Triennale of Milan.
‘Applied Physics’ kitchen gadgets designed keeping the laws of physics in mind
Acquacalda, an Italian group of designers, working on experimental and vanguardist design have created a new range of kitchen gadgets called Applied Physics which have been designed keeping the laws of physics in mind.

Richard Shilling


Richard Shilling is a sculptor, photographer and film maker working in the field of Land Art. More on Designaside.
40 Awesome Pencil Sculptures
Pencils are part of every designer’s tools. You are using pencils to take notes or draw some scatches. I think most of you didn’t know, but sometimes pencils can be part of artwork. Some of designers create fantastic sculptures from pencils. In each pencil sculpture are used hundreds of pencils. Most famous designer how create sculptures from pencils is Jennifer Maestre. Her sculptures are colorful and simply amazing. In this post you can admire cool and interesting pencils sculptures.
Cute animal from pencils

Beast – Pencil Sculpture

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