ICOCI Magazine

ICOCI Magazine

ICOCI Magazine featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Ersie

This project transforms a historic Qajar era villa into a modern cafe restaurant while preserving its architectural authenticity. Restored features include Orsi windows, intricate plaster moldings, and wooden doors. Structural reinforcement with masonry and sustainable materials ensures stability. Advanced HVAC systems and adaptive lighting enhance functionality. Accessibility features like an elevator and Braille menus promote inclusivity. This design seamlessly blends heritage with contemporary needs, creating a unique and inviting space.

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The New Fashion of Chinese Elements

This project extracts traditional Chinese clothing, silk and ceramic patterns, transforms and deconstructs them in a modern way, and gives new vitality to traditional crafts. Through innovative design techniques, it retains the traditional auspicious meaning while incorporating contemporary aesthetics to show a unique visual effect and modern sense. The design not only inherits the cultural essence, but also gives it contemporary charm, promoting the reproduction and innovation of traditional crafts in modern life.

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Food Into Opportunities

This project introduces a practical recipe book specifically designed for women aged 30 to 60. It features a hybrid format, combining a physical book with digital content across social media platforms. The first edition focuses on fruits and vegetables, offering guidance on their use at different stages of ripeness. It includes storage tips and recipes to maximize their potential, encouraging sustainable habits in everyday life.

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Biovessel

Biovessel is an indoor ecosystem composter, inspired by nature and designed to deal with food waste, it brings nature into your urban home and redefines food waste by turning it into nutrients that feed new life. With the help of earthworms, soil and its microorganisms, and water the ecosystem within Biovessel redefines waste, which is otherwise disposed of in bins. The process of breaking down the organic waste is purely powered by nature and creates a self-sustainable ecosystem that achieves odorless, high-efficiency decomposition.

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POTAMYA

Rooted in ancient Mesopotamian culture, the birthplace of agriculture, Potamya deeply connects to history while embracing modern sustainability. As a natural, organic brand, it offers 100% gluten-free, vegan legume pastas with sustainable, user-friendly innovation. A new peel-off measuring system reduces waste by transforming the top lid into a built-in, reusable measuring cup. Potamya seamlessly merges heritage with a contemporary approach, ensuring practical, reusable, and waste-reducing packaging.

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Zilli

Zilli is a blend of traditional weaving with postmodern lines. The rug is hand-woven using Turkey's geographical indication weaving technique. The motifs were embroidered during weaving with the Cicim technique. It is not post processing. This is the most special detail that distinguishes weaving from others. The motifs also have geographical indications. We used five of these motifs in producing the Zilli rug. The names and journeys of these motifs are; horseshoe (union of lovers), dog paw (happiness, abundance), scorpion (protection from evil), clover (luck), cocklebur (abundance).

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