Malena Lamp — Not everything is as it seems

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From Modoloco design workshop, the ‘malena’ was designed in 2006

“”Ironic interpretation of the abat-jour lamp”.
A single colored aluminum sheet, with ends cut in the shape of a lamp, is bent and lit from the inside. A lampshade that becomes a lamp, and a different lamp at that, depending on your perspective. One of many lamps from Milan-based Modoloco (great name!). Other lamps include Sandwich, another riff on lampshades, and the Foglio wall sconce, as well as a magnetic modular pouf called Cactus. We also got a 3D drawing for a tray, called Aperitivo, that “allows you to carry all you need for a good aperitif”.”

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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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