Keep Going Regardless of Failure: Hisakazu Shimizu
Hisakazu Shimizu is a Japanese designer who during an interview with DUDYE explained why he became a designer and how he evolved with time as he obtained a deeper understanding of the profession.
Hisakazu Shimizu is a Japanese designer who during an interview with DUDYE explained why he became a designer and how he evolved with time as he obtained a deeper understanding of the profession.
Here it is Héctor Serrano Studio's latest project (2010) which is being presented this week at Maison & Objet in Paris.
V Lighting by Héctor Serrano Studio
Client: Arturo Alvarez.
V lighting is an UFO-like family of lights that creates a close and warm world.
Read More...
My Treasure by Héctor Serrano Studio
My Treasure: Re-using unwanted books and turning into "secret containers". This is done by Laser cutting the pages of the book with the profile of the secret object so you can hide and store in an unexpected way. A reference to a familiar image normally seen in movies.
Our Daily Bread: Héctor Serrano Studio
Client: UCH-CEU.
Problems waiting to be solved, can be find anywhere and in any shape, even when it comes to bread. UCH-CEU's design graduates had a project called “Our Daily Bread”, which was focused on bread as a social element and the task was to discover the more social aspects of this very familiar food type.
Read More...
Showroom by Héctor Serrano Studio for the leading Bathroom brand Roca
The space shows the results of the International Design Contest, Jump the Gap 2009 at 100% Design London.
Touch the water and the content starts: making the "water" vibrate with the help of an visual illusion.
Read More...
The digital and portable, Photobooth is developed by two constant travelling photographers, Lachlan Moore and Marija Ivkovic.

Read More...
Tomoko Murata was born 1973, in Osaka, Japan. She was impressed by history and the possibilities that are involved in architectural space. Therefore, early in life, she began to study architecure by visiting old and contemporary buildings. In her school days, she liked to explore the old temples of Kyoto. Today, she leads architecture studio, UZU, together with Tetsuya Matsui.
Lighthouse Tower by Mikou Design Studio, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The Lighthouse Tower in Rio de Janeiro, is the an embodiment of its natural and urban surroundings. It summarizes the tropical experience associated with lush South American vegetation, the deep skies of Brazil and the urban landscape.
"We have thought up a truly Brazilian tower which symbolizes the imagination, beliefs, myths and memories of Brazilians. One made of sensitive perceptions of light, sound, atmosphere and sensual experiences related to its geographical and urban location."
Florence Square, Fez by Mikou Design Studio
Florence Square is situated in a strategic area in the new town of Fez. The square is structured by a main urban axis, a broad boulevard with a central island generating an important pedestrian flow. The remodeling of Florence Square in Fez aims to create a space for encounters and meetings at a pedestrian scale and the scale of the neighborhood, but also a place clearly identifiable as a representative part of the modern Fez.
Architects: Héctor Serrano Studio
Collaboration: Miñarro García and Javier Esteban.
Welcome back represents the evolution of the iconic Routemaster. An innovative vehicle combining the best of the past with the best of now.This London Bus is a sustainable vehicle using a Hybrid Diesel-electric Drive System. Its smaller size also means less weight so less fuel compsumption is required and less exhaust emissions are produced.
Borealis was launch at Festival 8, Indo, California, collaboration with Javier Esteban and Héctor Serrano Studio.
Borealis enhance the experience of a concert visualizing and interacting to sound. More than 1000 helium balloons and leds that are used as a pixel, creating a volumetric screen with infinite patterns and possibilities.
Client: Roca
Architects: Héctor Serrano Studio
Waterdrop, a tribute to water. A spectacular and engaging experience capturing the beauty of water presented at 100% Design London. Making of waterdrop. A large team of specialist were involved in the development and construction during the six months from brief to final installation.
Waterdrop invites us to enjoy and explore water without even using a drop, thereby representing Roca’s fundamental belief that innovation and sustainability can go hand in hand.
Prague Library by Z-A Studio
Reexamining the evolution of the Library typology stood at the basis of the design process. The accelerated growth of information merged with the iconic role of the central library, generated the design scheme. In this scheme the mass of books regains its spatial presence through the reconfiguring of its organization and by embedding constant growth and mutation capabilities into the design.