Design Rumour

Design Rumour

Design Rumour featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

The Forum

The Forum will be a stage, a screen, an instrument, and a backdrop, creating space that can be transformed through its use as a venue for convening, public programming, and the arts, fostering a sense of community and encouraging social interaction and engagement. Forum is a prototype for a new way of using new digital sheet metal forming technologies to create large scale, lightweight structures that are easy to produce and quick to assemble.

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Pastoral Substation

Pastoral Substation converts a 220kV substation into an open urban space. It features solar panels, kinetic devices, and green paths, blending clean energy with eco design. Drawing from the site's industrial past and natural surroundings, it provides event venues and field zones. The project reimagines infrastructure as a shared civic asset, turning the substation from an isolated facility into a community resource.

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No Screw

This lock improves on traditional forms with efficient assembly and easy maintenance. It has two split parts: a lock body and an anti reverse base shell for a no screw design. This ensures rapid, secure assembly, enhancing production automation and efficiency. Disassembly is also simple without professional help, making maintenance hassle free. Over 80 percent of the lock is made from lightweight, durable ABS to reduce travel burden while resisting impact and wear for a longer lifespan. This material is also recyclable for environmental protection and circular economy.

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Hydro

Hydro-Bridge is a versatile transportation hub spanning the Nakkhu River in Chyasikot, Nepal. It adapts to seasonal shifts, functioning as a pedestrian and light vehicle bridge in dry months and converting into a water storage system and secure campsite during the monsoon. Blending infrastructure with public space, the design prioritizes environmental resilience, sustainability, and community needs while harmonizing with the natural landscape.

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Serpentinata Benjamin

Depending on the material, plastic can turn yellow under the influence of ultraviolet rays. This phenomenon, known as yellowing, was originally frowned upon and regarded as a bad thing for industrial products. This 3D printed ballpoint pen Serpentinata Benjamin, is designed to reinterpret this negative characteristic into a positive one.

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Terra

The debut of a studio dedicated to the visual illustration of architectural projects in the creation of a cinematic experience. More than a postmodern audacity or a proposal for a realistic simulacrum reveals the oldest inscriptions in these territories: architecture that projects the space that cinema presents in moving images projected in time. In Terra, a nuclear red background, elements enter a kind of cosmic dance governed by the laws of physics before a close-up of the Moon's desolate surface reveals pyramids and monoliths that remind us of Kubrick's Space Odyssey.

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