The new book which is illustrating the philosophy of Hangar Design Group will be available in September. A narrative in images of the creative process of the group of designers which has turned the metaphor of flight into its own veritable icon.

The book from Hangar Design Group opens a window onto the creative inspiration which has consistently inspired the studio’s thirty-year project. A bird’s eye view of passion for design and for the freedom of the formal research that guides it. A r

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The Music Project by Todd Bracher is a visual interpretation of the universal language of music, a harmony of sound, design and science. Signifying a shift in the design process toward collective creativity, The Music Project engaged a web of disciplines: Brooklyn-based industrial designer Todd Bracher, a team of software engineers, the sounds of musicians, and the Shaw Contract Group Design Studio. The collection uses graphical interpretations of musical genres to create visual patterns. Design is sound.

Whatever I design, my goal from the outset is to capture meaning and make it universal.  That’s why I turned to music for my inspiration. It

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A selection of textile and furniture designs of Josef Frank is displayed in an exhibition at the San Francisco Airport Museum that goes on to October 2011. The exhibition will later tour the U.S. and will in December 2011 open at the Nordic Heritage Museum in Seattle. In March 2012, it will move to the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis and next fall it will appear at the Swedish Embassy in Washington. The exhibition is supported by Svenskt Tenn, that has lent all objects on display.

Designer and architect Josef Frank (born 1885) was a leading pioneer in modern Swedish design.

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Two plays on assemblage, Bonsai Equilibrium by Beatrix Li-Chin Loos and Peculiar Attachments produced by D. Lab, are proposed by Galerie Gosserez with simple, efficient and elegant colours and shapes. On show from Friday 17th June at 3 rue Debelleyme Paris.

Colour as raw material with alphabetical form, Peculiar Attachment produced by D. Lab, Chung Sui Fai asserts an approach to the assemblage game which positions it in directly in the footsteps of visual designers from Memphis to Pierre Charpin, Eric Jourdan or today’s Dito. Deceptively simple, terribly “eye-catching” as our Anglo Saxon friends would say. Very

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