Design News Mag

Design News Mag

Design News Mag featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Blooming Blossom

The designer integrates five culturally significant flowers, which are lotus, peony, chrysanthemum, calla lily and magnolia, into one whole piece. Flowering period of the five different flowers alternates throughout the year, implying happiness all year round. This is a piece of transformable jewelry developed from traditional jade carving and metalworking. Hand carved natural nephrite jade and set in 18K gold with diamonds inlaid,corundum set in the centre. The flower bangle disassemble to 5 different petal pendants, a cocktail ring and a simple bangle for multiwear needs.

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Florasis Gold Love Lock

The design is inspired by the Love Lock in traditional Chinese culture. The Love Lock is an artifact wielded by the legendary Matchmaking God in China. This product is designed by the inspiration of the Love Lock in Chinese traditional culture, used as a lipstick and jewelry. It carries countless people’s longing for love, meaning that love is as heavy as gold and two hearts are locked together forever. As a lipstick, Press the button and the lipstick pops out, simple and practical. As jewelry, the removable pure gold feather on the lid is not only a brooch but also a pendant with a chain.

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The Dome

The design takes its inspirations from the unique blend of Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman architectures. The Dome ring, as unique in its design that it is a modern interpretation of famous Domes of Hagia Sophia. The design is an outcome of the Phd research that Fatma Altinbas had held in Grand Bazaar for 2 years, about the history of jewellery manufacturing in the area. The Dome ring is crafted from 18-carat rose gold and adorned with a total of 0.22 carats of G color, VS1 clarity diamonds, both on the inside and outside.

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Miracle of Birth

In the natural world, the spiral shape is a special existence that feels the mystery of life. Many spiral shapes can be found in galaxies, typhoons, whirlpools, plants, shells, works of art, etc. In addition, human DNA is also composed of a double helix shape, and 99.9 percent of its structure is common. It is said that he was born in this world with a completely different personality and appearance with only the remaining 0.1 percent difference. In connection with the modeling beauty of the birth of such life, the tone of emotions was expressed in Choker.

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Florasis Gold Peacock

The design is the Florasis brand's impression of the Dai minority culture and inheritance in China. The peacock is a symbol of auspiciousness, beauty, and happiness in the eyes of the Dai people. A gold peacock is embedded on this face powder compact’s dark green window with a decorative frame. The lid of this product adopts gold filigree, an ancient traditional Chinese handcraft. Pure gold is made into about 0.2mm filaments. The gold peacock on the lid can be removable and as a brooch to wear. This work functions as both a face powder compact and a piece of jewelry.

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XS Horizon

The XS Horizon watch employs a different approach to show time and was created to introduce a smaller unisex version to the collection. To visualize the present moment and distinguish the past from the future, the watch uses a line moving through time space. The past is depicted with a color shade that gradually fades away as it deviates from the present, while the future is represented by darkness. The aim of the project was to create a range of compact wrist watches suitable for all genders.

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