New Pens and Business Card Case Releases from Acme Studio

New Pens and Business Card Case Releases from Acme Studio

Acme Studio just announced their new Fall Collection additions. Unicahome will have these available for shipment next week!

Viva La Psicodelia Collection by Maurico Valdes

The Viva La Psicodelia Collection from Mauricio Valdes is a colorful modern update of trippy styling. I expect this collection to be expanded into cufflinks and compacts before too long!

Available here.

MAURICIO VALDES, born in Mexico City, is an industrial and graphic designer. He is a 2008 RED DOT AWARD winner for his Nova fruit bowl. He studied in Nottingham and in London. Currently he is living in Mexico City and has his own design firm developing furniture, textiles, jewelry, lighting, graphics, and products. He had his own showrooms in San Diego and La Jolla. His first big appearance was at the Milan International Fair in 1996 and at the same time he was opening his own shop KADYRA in Polanco. He has won many awards in Latin America, Mexico, Europe, and has exhibited his work also at Saint-Etienne, France at La Biennale Internationale. Valdes has also won the QUORUM DESIGN AWARD, in the category of commercial spaces, which is the highest award a Mexican can receive. He has also shown his work at the LATIN AMERICAN DESIGN FOUNDATION. In Holland and New York he has worked with objects with MOD. His piece “the el trio chair” was the winner of “Icons of Design” by the Architectural Digest magazine. His furniture designs have also won the Silver award for the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) for furniture design. He has also designed restaurants, bars and residences in Mexico City. His latest interview was with Alessandro Mendini and has been published in articles by Designboom. His latest invitation was DWELL ON DESIGN ‘09 at the KITCHEN-ECOLOGY recipe for good design, curated by Designboom. His work has been exhibited in the German Design Centre, and at the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporaneo (MUAC), Mexico City. For Mauricio Valdes design is like love, it is universal, everyone can see it, and feel it, but can anyone develop it? Valdes has created the “zero creativity philosophy.”

China Market Collection by Daniel Pelavin

Daniel Pelavin’s China Market Collection introduces rich colors and Asian influences.

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DANIEL PELAVIN is in his 4th decade of transforming and melding the images and cultural ephemera of our times into cogent and compelling messages for publishing, advertising and communication design. Working his way up through the ranks in the legendary art studios of Detroit, in the halcyon days of the early 1970’s. Pelavin apprenticed and worked with artists from the entire gamut of graphic arts professionals, including, decorative, fashion, product and technical illustrators as well as letterers, typographers and designers. Following the completion of a master of fine arts degree, he spent time teaching college courses in design, lettering and illustration before moving to NYC in hopes of pursuing his career in art. More than 30 years later, he has honed and polished his craft to become a celebrated illustrator and typographic designer with national and international clients, A lifelong interest and fascination with dimensional forms and tactile experience has taken him beyond the realm of the graphic page into the world of 3D modeling and rendering with aspirations to create, not merely images but, objects, products and devices whose usefulness is enhanced and extended by the eloquence of their design and construction.

Site Plan Collection by Hariri and Hariri

My favorite of the new releases is the Site Plan Collection by famed architects (and sisters) Hariri and Hariri.

Available here.

Established in 1986 by Iranian-born Cornell-educated sisters GISUE HARIRI and MOJGAN HARIRI, this New York based firm is one of the most progressive American firms of their generation. For nearly 25 years, they have imbued conceptual, residential, commercial and institutional projects with their own unique brand of sensual modernism. In 2010 the firm was included in the prestigious Architectural Digest ‘AD100,’ and selected for inclusion in the Guggenheim’s ‘Contemplating the Void’ exhibition, a celebration of Frank Lloyd Wright’s landmark museum’s 50th Anniversary. Their new Monograph ‘Hariri & Hariri – Architecture: Buildings & Projects’ (Images Publishing) documents the highly creative and evocative twenty-five year career of the internationally acclaimed sister team. This superbly designed book presents the firm’s visionary achievements in the areas of urban, residential, commercial, cultural, hospitality and product design as well as art and design objects. It also includes their much publicized projects such as The Sagaponac House and Studio, the first completed in the now era-defining ‘Houses at Sagaponac’ in Long Island, New York, as well as their Wilton Pool House winner of an Interior Design Magazine “Best of Year Award,” and HGTV’s ‘Top Ten’ #1 landmark pool house.

Eames Dots Etched Rollerball Pen

A new addition to the popular Charles and Ray Eames series, the dots rollerball pen joins a matching business card case already in the collection.

Available here.

CHARLES and RAY EAMES are ranked among the finest American designers of the twentieth century. They are best known for their ground-breaking contributions to architecture, furniture design (the Eames Chair), industrial design and manufacturing, and the photographic arts. The legacy of this husband and wife team includes more than 100 films that reflect the breadth and depth of their interests and the integrity of their vision. Theirs was a design collaboration in the deepest sense, and all their work, whether graphics, film or furniture was a product of their collective design process and philosophy. These products are approved and certified by the Eames Office, which is dedicated to communicating, preserving, and extending the work of Charles and Ray Eames.

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