Designing for Creative Living Environments

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The Kaleidoscope archives and showcases the best of image works throughout the world according to certain topics. The series will be covering illustration, vector graphic, photography, digital arts, architecture and almost every kind of visually designed arts we find noteworthy. If you have any suggestions, please leave a comment or email at writer[a]marisaduma.net.

To simplify, amplify, exemplify–golden rules of today’s deco.

Like a canvas, start with neutral colors, swirl it with vibrant colors to spring the atmosphere into life. Add a sprinkle of playfulness. Carve it with shadows and silhouettes. And perhaps few drips of illuminating glow.

Products listed below aren’t just a catalogue to flip over, but as a source of inspiration to bring out your creative muse and to visualize them into reality. Aside from industrially produced items, most are made from easy-to-find raw materials in local stores in Jakarta suburbs, such as various kinds of wood, teak or bamboo, PVC, steel, aluminium, leather, acrylic and vast variety of fabric materials to experiment with.

Not only that it balances both function and aesthetics but also accentuates personalized identification, for instance adding elements from a certain ethnic pattern, family heirlooms, photographs of loved ones or a favorite music taste.

In addition to aesthetics, the technical design mainly facilitates space management, by optimizing structural efficiency in small spaces, also green refurbishment, by optimizing the use of recyclable and eco-friendly furniture.

The aim is to build an ideal home with a cutting-edge style, but also as a sustainable, nature-friendly living environment. Whether your home is an apartment or one-room flat, a house of four, dorm room, or your work space, create it as a manifestation of sounds, sights, and senses, the experience of loving and living altogether.

Jonas Samson

… to use a two-dimensional flat surface as light source instead of a 3D object. As long as the wallpaper is turned ‘off’, it is indistinguishable as a source of light. Instead, it is just what it appears to be: wallpaper.

Lago

… For us, design is not a cliché. It expresses our personality, our passion, and makes us unique. We create practical, solid, stylish products that give everyone a chance to become their own designer.

Fred & Friends

… have travelled the few corners of the globe in search of truth, justice, and the ultimate in style. Stuff that works, puts a smile, and doesn’t cost a fortune.

Inmod

… now a team of seven, all of which naturally possess rare talents and traits needed for the friendly, knowledgeable and non-elitist brand of customer service we’ve become known for.

… to stay on the cutting edge of modern design by offering custom solutions in what we like to call the “design-your-own” era.

Kundalini

TableArt

… emerging out of a vision to assemble a compelling, edited collection that focuses on the concept of entertaining and dining at home. In only four years, TableArt has become a premier destination for discerning shoppers not only in Los Angeles, but across the US and throughout the world.

pid.se

… introducing products that were stylish, elegant and desirable in a revolutionary way. It was adieu to the conventional stuff and an introduction of how innovation combines with utility and ergonomics to create items of everyday use that are a statement of style.

mimou

Umbra

… to create exciting, everyday products that alter the overall aesthetic of a home, beginning with a printed window shade unlike anything then in the market (”umbra” means shade in Latin).

Plushpod

… contemporary seating, modern lighting, and designer storage ideas exude a flair for clever, organic, and sensual appeal that only the touch of the most talented designers can bring.

Fitzsu Society

… all about elevating your everyday experience by offering accessories that are destined to evoke wonder and spirit.

… to share the special quality of life that you create. As a new adventure, we seek to be transformed by our friends.

For more references, brands and interior design products:

Sidenote.
Special credit to Ari and Dhita, dynamic product design duo that have incorporated Fitzsu’s Mint Hug Salt & Pepper set into their wedding souvenirs line. If any of you read this, I’ll post images and more (promotional) info in this blog asap. Hope I myself can use these stuffs as an inspiration for my little abandoned crib in eerie Parung Panjang. Many thanks.

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