9th November 2006
Arash and Kelly are happy to announce the arrival of the baby in the Genius range.
Little Genius is an art and design storage station for all young budding Geniuses out there. Used either standing up – helping those young legs get strong or if it gets tiring the lid put on the ground is a great floor based hub for them to keep going sitting down.
Best of all, the beautiful birch plywood box provides ample storage for all those pens, colour pencils, crayons, paints and of course the Genius Pad itself when it's time to clear up and go to bed.
Of course it still comes with 2 x 150 sheet Giant sticky note Genius Pads for hours of doodling fun to keep your little one occupied.
order your Little Genius here, they are £125
Little Genius is expected to be available from March 2007.
Pre-order your Little Genius here.
11th November 2006
Make sure you check out the new section on the site called The Visual World.
This section is dedicated to all the great things we see around us everyday.
We will be adding slides regularly for you to enjoy, so make sure you keep checking the page for new pictures.
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21st May 2008
We have 500 Limited Edition Arrow Hooks Beautifully crafted locally in Brighton, U.K.
Make this hang-all Arrow hook point to your things in the house. Make it point to light switches or with multiples create an amazing arrow wall shown here.
They are £20 each. Get them while they last.
13th May 2008
We are proud to announce that we are working with Dr Alexander Bismarck and Dr Jonny Blaker and are presenting:
Waribashi - Polymer/composite material made of 80% AIR, with excellent impact and thermal properties at Design London on the 17th June 6pm onwards. Please come and check out our booth to see Wari-PH1 in action!
Oh and Wari-PH1 can be made biodegradable not using corn or starch...the revolution is coming!
3rd April 2008
Something different: Waribashi Revolution
We worked with the researcher's from the PaCE group headed by Dr Alexander Bismarck at Imperial college today. They were amazing and we had a great session where each group described their projects using Balloons. The presentations were brilliant with an amazing display by Dr Ryo Murakami (shown here) who presented his project using a Balloon in a Balloon analogy. Everyone was amazed!
The day was very interactive and many ideas were discussed informally.
The aims for the day were:
- Collaboration and the
benefits from working together
- Sharing knowledge and ideas, exploring the materials’ properties and their hidden potential
- Creating new research
perspectives
- To explore ideas relating to production systems, product cycles, manufacturing, raw materials & by-products
Then we applied all this energy to coming up with a new way to make the humble chopstick!
3rd April 2008
We are showing our Genius range - the Genius Pad, Little Genius and the Genius Table at Kids Modern via Thorsten van elten with 10% of the profit from the sales of Genius Pads going to the charity Kids Company.
Kids Modern takes place on sunday
24th February from 10am until 4pm at Dulwich College in London.
Dulwich college is adjacent to the South Circular Road, Nearest train station
is West Dulwich (5 minutes' walk) on the main line from Victoria
station to Beckenham Junction, Bromley and Orpington.
Kids modern is a fun, funky and fabulous new public show championing the coolest furniture, fashion and toys for children, presented by the organisers of Midcentury.Modern.
The event will witness outdoor kid-friendly bbq, free puppet show and Dulwich College's monthly farmer's market.
Also the Dulwich Picture Gallery and Dulwich Park are in walking distance.
Entrance is free for kids, £5 for adults.
Look forward to seeing you there, if you can't make it to Dulwich but would like to make a donation to the charity Kids Company, then click here.
13th November 2007
The Centre for Universal Learning and Thought for the 21st Century (C.U.L.T.)
We are proud to announce our vision for setting up an integrated, science, art and design, business and spiritually conscious school.
Have a look!
Picture is called Aleph by superstar photographer Zoobs.
5th October 2007
2 for 1 Genius Pad Offer!
It's time to turn Xmas on its head! We are doing a 2 for 1 offer on our 80 sheet Genius Pads.
Offer is valid until the 1st November and is for the U.K. only.
14th June 2007
Mandogroup.com | Mixed Media
From Mandogroup's Blog, Martin Chapman Fromm wrote:
Having just invested in a Genius Pad, I've been desperate to use it in a client meeting. The opportunity came yesterday when reviewing a wireframe on our rather large projector.
Everything was going fine until we needed to add a note to the top of the screen, which is probably about 10ft high! Fearing ladders, a useful ally came to our rescue... Apple Mac OS X stickies!
Whether OS X stickies will replace the Genius Pad, time will tell, but at present it's a lovely marriage of light, wall, paper, and physical & digital interaction!
Cheers Martin, you are a Genius!
AnKx
31st May 2007
We thought you would be interested to see that our mail-order packaging is re-cycled in a very clever way .
We found a company in Manchester who collect all the left-over cardboard packaging from major retailers like Argos and make new packaging designs and products with the cardboard.
The cardboard packaging has literally been given a second life!
That's why you'll notice graphics on the cardboard packaging that has nothing to do with the Arash and Kelly products you ordered!
You'll see description for toasters, wine racks etc.
Each cardboard package is unique and different, how great is that!
To see how they are made click here!
Jason Iftakhar is the person with this great idea.
4th April 2007
We are very thankful to Elena for sending us this great picture of the Big Clips hanging in her shop called Pourquoi Pas? If you are buying from the EU then check their website out where you can find all sorts of great things...;-)
3rd April 2007
Thanks to this article in the Guardian and the BoingBoing effect we have had an incredible response and demand for our Genius Table.
We wanted to say thank you to all the people who have ordered the Genius Table and also to those people who are still waiting for delivery.
Thank you for being so patient we are doing our best to get re-stocked asap!
21st July 2008
Lord of the Flies is our first product design for C.U.L.T adding to the amazingly beautiful images created by Zoobs for C.U.L.T.
The flyswot is our first 3D contribution to for pieces and projects being put together for an exhibition showcasing C.U.L.T Spirit on the 9th September 2009.
Profit from the sale of the flyswots will be invested in a project to help boost the income of women's co-operatives in morocco.
We are making 100 of the Flyswots available to you specially as a collector's piece.
These co-operatives are a life line for women seeking refuge for whatever reason, having been abandoned by family and with nowhere else to go.
26th September 2008
We have updated The Visual World... section of the site and will be uploading all our pictures and video from our travels for your viewing pleasure :-)
Check out the video opposite of a stall in Tehran making crepes for passing trade.
These crepes are a traditional sweet from Gilan provence (North West of Iran / Caspian region) . Its is Reshte-Khoskar.
Usually plenty of stalls in the city of Rasht.
25th January 2007
Make sure you check out the new workshop Kelly ran at the University of Bolzano.
It's called New Model Army and involved using the PePaKuRa software from Tama software Ltd to create lovely 3D robots out of paper patterns.
Well worth a look it's the 3rd project in the workshops section.
29th January 2007
We are very excited to announce that we are launching a Limited Edition of our products. They will be produced as a run of 100 pieces only.
The first of the bunch is the Day-Glo PINK Big Clips and they will be available by mid February. We'll organise a pre-order page like Little Genius and you'll be able to guarantee your order!
There will be atleast 6 limited edition items 3 of which are BRAND NEW AandK products!
5th February 2007
We have got back from Paris and received this lovely picture of the Genius Pads shown at the Salon de Meuble.
The Genius Pads were showcased on the stand entitled "basic Items / Nordic Pop" in Hall 3.
With 45,000 visitors to the show, we've had some really great feedback so thank you everyone who emailed and thank you all the people at Expovia - you know who you are!
9th February 2007
We are very excited to announce Arash and Kelly's first contest in collaboration with Jules of Ikea Hacker fame.
You have the chance to win Genius Pads by submitting your brilliant Ikea Hack ideas.
To find out more on how to enter the competition visit the Ikea Hacker Blog.
Good Luck everyone!
13th February 2007
Soles Exposed has been accepted and archived at the great Virtual Shoe Museum.
Check out Kelly's great painting of lots of Lovely shoes as worn by Liz de Havilland wearing Terry de Havz and of course Georgina Goodman wearing her favourite shoes.
12th November 2008
Bend the rules xmas stocking special!
We are running a wicked Buy one Get one free offer perfect for xmas stockings this year for you to take advantage of.
+++ OFFER HAS NOW FINISHED +++
15th February 2009
Thanks for everyone who came to visit our stand at KidsModern.
We had a great time and thanks to Jenny, Alice and David for helping us with all the drawing and stickering!
We were there to launch our new Black chalk board Little Genius which come equipped with chalk and quality vinyl repositionable stickers.
Check them out here.
27th February 2009
Make sure you don't miss the Friday Late at the Victoria and Albert museum called Home Sweet Home, where we will be running a lampshade making workshop called:
The Illuminati Workshop
You choose from a choice of three different designs and customise your own lampshade.
If you’re in a rush on the night, we are giving away this poster on the right showing how to make the lights quietly in the comfort of your own home, how cool is that!
25th March 2009
A month ago, Teimory Industries, Iran’s most renowned furniture producer, joined forces with us to work on a new system of contemporary contract furniture.
This collaboration is a monumental opportunity for us to work in new markets, and for Teimory Industries to collaborate on a wholly contemporary approach.
We are proud to be able to introduce our Muscle Man seating system concept.
29th April 2009
Being full of ideas to make things and with the current downturn being so turbulent, we are offering three of our lampshade designs for you to spend time making, hacking, modifying and improving free of charge!
You download the plans and make the lightshades using an A1 sheet, scissors, stapler and ruler.... Trace the designs and make them in your own time, with your own hands for free for yourself, loved ones and friends.
21st October 2009
Time Flies!
It's 10 YEARS since the launch of our Big Clip magazine rack/coat hanger.
To mark the occasion we created these special edition Matt Black Big Clips.
Enjoy!
17th November 2009
We are proud to announce that a 10% share of the profits from the sale of our Genius Pads will be helping Bremley Lyngdoh at Worldview Impact to buy rubber trees to grow in their amazing nursery in the remote South Eastern District of Moneragela in Sri Lanka.
Rubber trees are fast growing and after 5 years will be ready for replanting in forest regions ravaged by man made deforestation.
To buy your very own tree go here.
14th March 2007
Wow!!! They are HERE!
100 FLUORESCENT PINK Big Clips!
This is how it's going to work:
We have 70 for grabs, Paul from Panik has 20 and Thorsten van Elten has 10.
The order page is Here .
