35 New Home Products From The Diesel Creative Team For Moroso and Foscarini

Fashion brand Diesel's Creative Team, headed by Creative Director Wilbert Das, has collaborated with lighting brand Foscarini and furniture brand Moroso to create the Diesel Home Collection of furniture and lighting, called Successful Living. The two collections designed for Moroso are called the ROCK and CAMP collections. The lighting collections for Foscarini include the Glas collection, The Graf, Fork and Cage collections.

In addition to these furnishings, they introduced four new textiles as well. These products were introduced at the Salone del Mobile and at Euroluce this year, 2009. Below are images of all the products.

THE ROCK COLLECTION FOR MOROSO:

The Rock collection is in a different mood, one where the Diesel inspiration is linked to the world of music, concerts and the visual idiom. The rectangular occasional table Xraydio 2 Disc is therefore made by printing the X-ray of a dj console on glass and using the colours of the night with shades from electric blue to black. By retaining the transparency of the glass the effect is truly strong, evocative and highly iconographic.


Moroso Xraydio 2 - Disc
Design: Diesel Creative Team, Moroso Design Center
Presented: Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2009, Milan

The same process was applied to production of the small Xraydio 1 Razza table, although here the chosen image is that of a ray fish swimming against a blue background.


Moroso Xraydio 1 - Razza
Design: Diesel Creative Team, Moroso Design Center
Presented: Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2009, Milan

Finally the 3-panel screen Xraydio 3 Natura Morta has a printed photographic image which plays with the archetype of a seventeenth-century still life.


Moroso Xraydio 2 - Natura Morta
Design: Diesel Creative Team, Moroso Design Center
Presented: Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2009, Milan

Moroso Bar Stud stools (tall and short)
Design: Diesel Creative Team, Moroso Design Center
Presented: Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2009, Milan

Moroso Ego Stud Hanging Wall Mirror
Design: Diesel Creative Team, Moroso Design Center
Presented: Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2009, Milan


Foscarini Stud lights (big and small)
Design: Diesel Creative Team, Foscarini Team
Presented: Euroluce 2009, Milan

LIGHTS FOR FOSCARINI:


Foscarini Rock Pendant Light
Design: Diesel Creative Team, Foscarini Team
Presented: Euroluce 2009, Milan

Foscarini Glas table and suspension lamps (big and small)
Design: Diesel Creative Team, Foscarini Team
Presented: Euroluce 2009, Milan

Foscarini Fork floor lamp and table lamps
Design: Diesel Creative Team, Foscarini Team

Foscarini Cage Lamps (suspension,big,small,floor and mic)
Design: Diesel Creative Team, Foscarini Team
Presented: Euroluce 2009, Milan

Foscarini Tri-p
Design: Diesel Creative Team, Foscarini Team
Presented: Euroluce 2009, Milan

THE GRAF COLLECTION FOR FOSCARINI:

Playing with the language of pop, the lamps in the Graf collection feature graphic prints on subjects that refer directly to the Diesel Home Collection: and on nature experienced with a personal style and a DJ's consol, which recalls the nightlife of rock and pop culture.

The images are printed on the diffuser in black and white and favour dark tones. The fabric is an extremely opaque weave that gives the lamp the fun impression of "fresh paint"". The graphic print adapts to the different scales of the lamp, without losing its original proportions.



Foscarini Graf floor and table lamps; tecno and natural
Design: Diesel Creative Team, Foscarini Team
Presented: Euroluce 2009, Milan

Foscarini Graf suspension lamps; tecno and natural
Design: Diesel Creative Team, Foscarini Team
Presented: Euroluce 2009, Milan

THE CAMP COLLECTION FOR MOROSO:

The Camp collection also includes a series of other products in hand-painted wood: the Overdyed Lounge Chair, Overdyed Side Chair and two small tables, the rectangular Overdyed Table and round Overdyed Side Table.

The paint detail (shown above) in these products is particularly important as the technique used (ragging) means that the natural streaks of the wood are revealed and which, colored and then wiped away, create a special vintage effect. The support structures are instead in black-painted steel.

Moroso Flightcase
Design: Diesel Creative Team, Moroso Design Center
Presented: Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2009, Milan


Moroso Overdyed Side Chairs and Lounge chair
Design: Moroso Design Center, Diesel Creative Team
Presented: Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2009, Milan


Moroso Overdyed long table and round side tables
Design: Moroso Design Center, Diesel Creative Team
Presented: Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2009, Milan

The very first piece from the collaboration between the Diesel Creative Team and Moroso was this sofa - the Nebula Nine Sofa - which is soft like a large cloud, has generous shapes and where you can sit or lie on large, soft cushions with stonewashed linen covers which define the sofa, making it the ideal space for relaxing and socialising. The frame is in wood throughout, very strong and compact. They since created the accompanying Cumulus Chair as well.

Moroso Nebula Sofa
Design: Diesel Creative Team, Moroso Design Center
Presented: Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2009, Milan

Moroso Cumulus chair
Design: Diesel Creative Team, Moroso Design Center
Presented: Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2009, Milan

TEXTILES:
And lastly is a special collection of Textiles: Forest Haze, Utopia, Sound System and Blotch:

above: Sound System wallpaper behind the flightcase for Moroso.

Blotch:

Forest Haze:

Sound System:

Utopia:


Links:
Moroso
Foscarini
Diesel

And You Thought Sharpies Were For Writing Your Name In Your Undies.

The world's best known permanent laundry maker, the Sharpie, isn't just for labeling your underwear. Hand drawn cars, basement walls, decorated ceramic busts and more like those shown here may make you rethink the way you use that stinky pen.

The Sharpie Lamborghini Gallardo:











The car was actually done in sharpie markers on the paint and then finished with a clear coat for protection. It took about 2 weeks total. Prestige (Lamborghini Miami) definitely shocked a lot of people when this car was first seen in California during the Concorso Italiano/Pebble Beach week. It attracted attention good, and apparently bad as well, everywhere it went.
(images courtesy of VOD Cars and JT Photos on flickr)

Charlie Kratzer's Basement Decorated With A Sharpie:

It's no surprise that Charlie Kratzer's hand drawn basement walls have graced many a design blog, but if you haven't yet seen it, I think it's a must. I have taken the images from the video and reduced the yellow tint and tried to make the drawings clearer for you than on many blogs. I'm only sorry I wasn't able to get higher resolution images for you. Nevertheless, take a look at these.



There's Georges Seurat's Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. There is Blenheim Palace, the birthplace of Winston Churchill, and the Cornell Law School, of which Kratzer is an alumnus. There is Kratzer's dad. There is the harlequin pattern — alluded to in culinary culture today by the Panera bread bag — and a fake fireplace facing a real one.

How did this Sharpie world start? With a single swipe of the marker. Kratzer started mid-wall, with the Salon by Picasso. Then he thought, well, taking a design out to the edge of the wall wouldn't be overwhelming. Then the rest of the basement flared off that first wall.



Kratzer might be a lawyer by day, but in his off hours he is a man who has taken the artistic influences and heroes of his life and imagined them onto his walls, that he might keep company with them while he uses the pool table.


From the main floor leading down to the basement, there is a color mural inspired by Picasso's The Dream.

article excerpts and images from Kentucky Lexington Herald Leader

Also:
Artist Justine Ashbee, at www.justineashbee.com, features a gallery of intricate Sharpie art.

above: Justine Ashbee with her paint pen art

Artist and illustrator Brian Morris uses a Sharpie to decorated ceramic busts and vinyl toys:




And Svetlana Muller uses Sharpies on canvas, paper and notebooks to create artful images:

Check out Svetlana Muller's Sharpie art here.


Sharpie Uncapped is a section of the Sharpie site where several artists' Sharpie work is shown.

Also be sure to check out the Sharpie Blog here.

By the way, in case you didn't know, Sharpie has recently introduced their new stainless steel Sharpie, very slick looking:


Official Sharpie site.

Don't miss the amazing Rodarte Runway show with Sharpie body art tattoos!