Ricardo Casas - MOON

Ricardo Casas is an industrial designer who graduated from University of Iberoamericana, specialising in Interior Design. He worked at Esrawe Studio since 2003 and alongside Héctor Esrawe ran the design office BY:FOR, where he developed projects such as the interiors for the Mexican pavilion at the Zaragoza World Fair and the award winning interiors for Grupo Lar corporate headquarters.



Casas is co-founder of NEL Colectivo, exhibiting in places such as the Salone Satellite in Milan, the Mexican Gallery of Design in Mexico City, or the exhibition Handled with Care in London, organized by Designboom. 

In 2007 he received an award for his “Bibendum” concept motorbike in the Michelin Creative Movement competition. He currently directs his own design office: Ricardo Casas Design.

One example of Casas outstanding work is MOON, is a cabinet based on the topographic surface of the moon using a layering to give depth and dimension. Mixing colour and surface quality Casas has created a cabinet that stand-alone as a fine piece of craftsmanship. Its surface quality resembles something of organic beauty or manmade destruction. 

Kengo Kuma - Shizuoka International Garden

Designed by Kengo Kuma for the 2004 Shizuoka International Garden and Horticulture Exhibition in Hamamatsu, the pavilion features a regular grid of suspended bamboo sticks blending visually together into a veil that provides the temporary structure with a subtle yet very superficial physical presence.

Like many buildings in Kengo Kuma’s vast portfolio, this design displaying’s the best of Japanese simplicity and effortless chic, with its blend of natural materials against industrial form. The arrangement of bamboo sticks echoes similarities to the Starbucks designed by Kuma (Seen in previous review).

Léo Caillard - Hipster in Stone

Léo Caillard is a photographer whose digital manipulations call into question the perception of reality. Caillarrd gives viewers a chance to reflect on the contemporary world by contrasting with the surreal or ancient. A graduate of the École des Gobelins in 2008, Caillard started hid career assistanting to some of the biggest photographers in France and abroad.

The series Hipster in Stone portrays classical statues from Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome and dons in a hipster wardrobe. Simple changes and additions of clothing transform each figure’s timeless grace into cool aloofness.  

In this series Caillard and Alex Persani (whom he collaborated with for this project) seem to draw similarities between the ancient figures depicted and modern perceptions of beauty in the twenty first century.  

SÖHKA Lamp - Malet Thibaut

The SÖHKA Lamp is the latest creation from French designer Malet Thibaut (previously). The light is composed of five wooden pieces and 60 rubber bands that can be assembled in practically unlimited configurations to create different lighting patterns for maximum geometric shadow fun.  

‘Every time I start a new project, I try to work with one or two materials, first, to highlight the object in his natural aspect and also to think about the recycling options in the future. This is why I avoid the use of industrials screws and nails during the construction, replacing them with wood solutions. This process helps the designs to fit my ecological expectations.’

Similar to Thibaut’s previous work, the lamp consists of untreated natural woods, and an avoidance of inductrail fixings. With no screws or any other holding element, the rigidity is retains with the pressure of elastics. Each element is completely dissociated, to optimize its recycling and is presented in  recycled cardboard packaging.

The SÖHKA Lamp will be available for purchase via his website in the near future. 

To explore Malet Thibaut’s other work visit his website.