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  • Hope floats
    A floating wire sculpture in Prague is an ode to Ukrainian mothers >
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    Top 10 Creative Crowdfunding Projects | December 2017
    We've scoured the web for compelling creative campaigns around the globe that you might want to support in their quest for funding. Have a look! >
  • Bomma - Eurolux
    Bomma: Form, philosophy and phenomena
    Bomma creates exquisite light installations from handblown glass. >
  • PET plastic bottle art
    The plastic bottle artworks of Veronika Richterová
    This Czech artist demonstrates the potential to find beauty in garbage. >
  • Iris Cristal honours the legacy of timeless crystal in modern creations
    Iris Cristal honours the legacy of timeless crystal in modern creations
    Crystal chandeliers by Iris Cristal express an ancient tradition in exciting new ways. >
  • Designed by Svetlana Koženová, the Lilia Collection is a dinnerware set inspired by the slicing planes and crystalline shapes of Czech cubism.
    A dinnerware set inspired by the Czech Cubism
    Designed by Svetlana Koženová, the Lilia Collection is a dinnerware set inspired by the slicing planes and crystalline shapes of Czech cubism. >
  • Shake your air is a beautiful, interactive form of air purification.
    Three innovative ways to combat toxic air
    Three student designers have proposed interactive, health conscious ways to deal with air pollution. >
  • Catching poachers on a rhino-cam
    Catching poachers on a rhino-cam
    With only four northern white rhinos left, this design-oriented solution may be the answer to the catastrophic decline of rhinos due to poaching. >
  • Sheets table by Lucie Koldova for Křehký.
    The Sheets desk by Lucie Koldová
    Czech designer Lucie Koldova designs an elegant desk for Křehký set to be unveiled at Salone del Mobile 2015. >
  • Pilszen glassware collection by Ineke Hans for Křehký.
    Mushroom mania
    Ineke Hans gets playful with her latest glassware collection for Czech brand Křehký. >
  • Jar RGB by Arik Levy for Lasvit.
    Sculptural light
    Arik Levy created two innovative and sculptural glass lights for Lasvit at this year's Designblok in Prague. >
  • Press Lamp by Nendo.
    Lighting up
    Nendo's Pressed Lamps represent a new and unusual technique in hand-blown glass. >
  • Still & Sparkling
    Nendo’s new glass collections supported by Lasvit were shown at the exhibition Still & Sparkling during the Milano Salone. >
  • Green as glass
    Glasshouse is the ideal urban greenhouse, and it doubles up as a functional pendant lamp. >
  • Mobile sauna
    Keen for a steamy session? Enjoy one on the move with the Bicycle Sauna by H3T Architects. >
  • Maxim Velčovský
    Product Designer
    A graduate of the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, Maxim Velčovský focuses on the design of products and their context. >
  • Craft debate: Maxim Velčovský
    Product designer, DI2008 speaker and Design Indaba 10x10 Industrial project participant, Maxim Velčovský weighs in on the craft debate. >
  • And now for the black blob
    The design for a new concert and congress centre in Budvar, Czech Republic, has been unveiled by Future Systems, led by Jan Kaplicky. >
  • Cape Town librarians vote Kaplicky
    Jan Kaplicky's design for Prague's new national library won the state competition in October last year, causing a political maelstrom. >
  • By Maxim Velcovsky
    Maximum velocity
    When “The Soviet Union Forever” was replaced with “Always Coca-Cola”, Czech designer Maxim Velcovsky turned to design as social critique. >
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