Refined, handcrafted laptop bag

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Renowned as one who loves all things pretty, my search for a new laptop bag has been quite an ardous task. Not only must the bag be fresh, unique and totally unlike anyone elses (not to mention a far cry from the ‘default’ grey one which came with the aforementioned laptop), but it must also be completely practical. Sounds impossible, yes? Wrong – I stumbled across, and fell completely in love with, this baby last night –

Say hello to the 2UNFOLD Multi-use Leather Laptop Bag from HardGraft:

The 2UNFOLD Laptop bag is described as “something of a sartorial transformer” and it’s no guessing as to why. It’s one bag, yet can be used/worn in eight different ways.

Handmade of leather in Italy, the bag is incredibly versatile, easily changes from style to style and has that air of timelessness we all know and love. I know my laptop would feel right at home in this toasty little number, which costs more than half of what I paid for my actually computer – my impractical side still lives! But goodness, it is awesome.

You can purchase this incredibly innovative and desirable bag from here, ships worldwide!

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art to furniture, and back again- BBB pick Chair From studio Dror

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“pick_chair, noun”

1. Picture: art object hung from the wall
2. chair: pick it from the wall to sit

Studio Dror have come up with “the first foldable cantilever chair” that goes from modern art work to functional furniture.

Perhaps one day “we’ll pull up a chair” by simply grabbing it off the wall?

THe chairs really are ingenious, beautifully fashioned and exhibited, perhaps to nice to sit on?

“Studio Dror is an extension of Dror Benshetrit’s work. Being a multidisciplinary design company, founded in 2002, Studio Dror specializes in product design, architecture and art direction. Dror’s client list includes Puma, Rosenthal (Germany), Boffi (Italy), Levi’s, Bombay Sapphire, Surface Magazine, and Kiehl’s.”

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Yoann Henry Yvon – Industrial and Product Designer

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You know someone who subscribes to the belief that “design is a language and the designer the translator” is something special. Yoann Henry Yvon, a freelance product and interior designer based in Milan, possesses an earnest desire to “create iconic designs using pictures of symbols that[…]develop a special relationship between products and people”, bringing something new to design.

Though born in 1983 in Nice, France, Yvon lived in Spain for twelve years. There  he studied at the University of Economy in Valencia before graduating with honors in interior design from the Istituto Europeo di Design in Italy in 2008. Now, instead of study, his days are filled by working on freelance projects and constant communication with a few different designers . A typical day includes scouring the net for new and exciting design blogs to keep himself up to date which what’s going on in the design world, administrative work, sketching and creating 3D models aiming to “make a rendering as realistic as possible”.

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Space Invaders Design Group

From Milano, Italy comes the talented talent of the Space Invaders Design Group.

Fresh from University, these talented young designers have now completed their degrees but are still meeting to enter design competitions.

The team have kindly given Design Tavern a taste of their work –  A few past University projects.

"Monolite was our final university effort.. "

Tell us a little about yourselves, where are you from and where are you living now?

Four people make up Space Invaders and we are each from a different part of Italy. We met in Milano at university and discovered that working together could have been some potential so we gave it a go and we created the group.

The Space Invaders group is composed by Giovanni Mendini, Stefano Pertegato, Francesco Schiraldi and Eloisa tolu.

The project was for a lighting system which can become something more than a simple lamp, and is actually an “interactive architetural element” to fit in with the SOHO housings (office houses in which dwellers live their entire day).

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