I’ve still got some material from the Amsterdam and Cologne Events I want to show you.
The average buisness card is credit card sized and from white paperboard with black font ( best fonts are Helvetica, Rotis or Arial ).
This is Stephan Siepermann’s idea of a buisness card:
‘Business candle’
| mocoloco.com |
- Stephan Sieprmann’s latest lightning work at imm cologne
Couple days ago, while surfing the www, I found an article over the Lilium Tower project in Warsaw on dezeen design magazine. Zaha Hadids architecture is like the most specific design a ‘love it-or hate’ it thing. And I am not the biggest fan of Zaha. But I want you to show what made me laugh…
my 3 favourite comments on the article:
That’s the common blog we know: (Wikipedia abstract)
A blog (a portmanteau of web log) is a website where entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. “Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs.
That’s Stephanie Rudolph’s idea of it:
The place (or www)
Her friends (or subscribers)
The experiences she makes (or her posts)
The possibilty to meet people (or to network)
Each visitor gets an entry card (to count her traffic) - I was nr. 51
| sinakatherina |
- stephanie is building her own ‘blog’ - pics of the process
food and tv in my sleepingroom. thank god there is a mc donald’s everywhere.
miriam, me, ingo
Maastricht. Netherlands. Academy of Fine Arts.
academy of fine arts | architect - wiel arets
student companies
| weer | graphic design
| jemoder! |
yvonne, suus, mirjam & emel
| wedovoodoo | visuals
daniel & leo
product department
| magdalena reiter - shelter |
fashion department
art
nicole michniewski
this world needs us
(slogan of the Academy of Fine Arts Maastricht)
jonas, miriam, hansen, valentin, me & leo
When I was in Amsterdam 3 days ago, I get off the train and saw the Bijenkorf ( netherlands famous department store ) shop window…
…that’s what I saw
window decoration | bijenkorf | ? | 2008 - approx. $100
…that’s what I was thinking about
rag chair | droog design | tejo remy | 1991 - approx. $4,200.00
so what about cutting-edge design?
| david report blog | Interview with tejo remy
Amsterdam. Netherlands. The Fashion Week is going on. On the ouderzijds achterburgwal (street name) in the city centre you can buy the latest couture party dress in the red light district of Amsterdam. Some of the former prostitution establishments are temporarily available for sixteen fashion designers. It’s a cultural clash of fashion and prostitution, they say.
In one shop front window a ‘women’ (rather a girl) in garish lingerie is advertising her body to passers-by and in the next front window you find one of the hippest designers the dutch fashion avantgarde has thesedays - a brave performance somehow, I must admit.
But possibly it was me who was the bravest on that day. 5 to 10 prostitutes yelled at me and some more showed me their middlefingers (no photos of that) . I guess they don’t like it when people take pictures of them… just for you guys, just for you.
window girl
| sjaak hullekes | - arnheim fashion
| mada van gaans | suddenly men are interested in fashion
| jan taminiau |
wanna go for a walk?
| redlight fashion |
That will get a little bit messy. I’ve still got some cool stories to tell from both Cologne and Amsterdam. Here’s one from the IMM Cologne. The [d³] contest attracts 450 product submissions every year. Entrants must be students or recent graduates who completed their studies no longer than three years ago. This year there were 35 prototypes on display. Here are three of them.
raphael van allmen
This year, first place went to raphael von allmen from switzerland for his chair with flexible backrest. Raphael studied at ECAL University of art and design Lausanne. I like his chair and the fact that he speaks polish (learned it because of his girlfriend).
jordi canudas
Jordi Canudas is born in Barcelona but works and lives in London. His sofa is a piece of interactive Architecture. A wall and a place to sit or to lounge. Movement, sound and touch hint at what might be happening on the other side.
aylin kayser & christian metzner
The two Germans developed a wax lamp which melts when it is used… good design and marketing.
they call him Nacho. he must have heard the joke about his name not just once. he heard it from me another time. when he introduced himself I got hungry. how could that be?!…
If he wouldn’t work on his pumped up chairs he would travel and see the world. luckily he is on a roll with his work. And his success makes him doing what he does, he says.
nacho carbonell
as you lounge, the animals with the hairy legs inflate and when you get off the chair they shrink … as they would be lonely now that you left
Draw yourself
Describe yourself in one word
Draw your favourite product
| nacho carbonell | check out: works - dream of sand
The Superstore04 was, in my opinion, the highlight of the modefabriek event this past sunday and monday. The Superstore04 wants to be a manifesto for the inspiring power of nature in design. So, how does that look like these days ? Let me show you some of the fashion, products and nature coalesced on one event.
press conference superstore04
nicole from uniquole - curator | pr - superstore04
lab assistant | superstore04 team
| frederik moleshot | susanne happle - solid poetry
when the concrete block gets wet, the graphics appear. I don’t like the theme but imagine a whole house with that process - great!
| laszlo rozsnoki | hidden values
| femke agema | hide out collection
the mushroom jacket
tobias rockenfeld | he makes objects from old electronic toys
| floral sulpture clinic | simone van bakel & matthias keller
cosmetical jewellery - bio-ceramics under the skin
Amsterdam. Netherlands. Yesterday was the last day of the Modefabriek, which calls itself the only real fashion trade fair in The Netherlands. You can find here everything what will be in sale for summer season 2008. Especially the commercial stuff. A lot to see - more to forget. Here’s my selection of things and people you should have seen.
| gio-goi | Exhibit one, the great facial expression of gio-gio.
I like the brand’s slogan:’ Those without vision will perish’ - the womens’ collection seems to be very much in style with amy winehouse, even too much so
| vasuma |
Two, the glasses by vasuma. Originally a Swedish rock band, now a company for design and sales. Damn, I want one of this glasses. But in purchase price, please … How can we still buy in a shop when we know how much good things could (should) cost, I wonder.
Pieter de Caluwé | his “Hanging Lamp” is Number 3.
you can hang your clothes on the lamp shade
Four, you should have meet toby paul | dj | amsterdam
Five, iris satijn | stylist and one sweetheart from the oopsadaisies (band from amsterdam)
Six, | charlotte wooning | - and her lovely and delicate jewellery!
Seven, an absolute must: james | 3 years old and meeting him was the best part of the day - he knows what to wear (or possibly his mother), too
| individuals | - ,a brand from the Amsterdam Fashion Institute. It gives students the first insight into real fashion buisness - they are the creators of the collection. I wonder how many of “student brand” like this are out there. Do you know any ?
Amsterdam. Netherlands. Progressive fashion, 7 fashion shows and 1 party - that’s off schedule.
A fashionable event - I couldn’t belive that at 8 pm 300 people were waiting in front of the door to get in. In the beginn, not been impressed of the first 4 shows, I was finally suprised of the last 3 ones. Compliments to belle suavage, gyasuda and especially to nikoline liv andersen. My highlight of the evening: Carlo Wijnands who touched my shoulder - yeah!
the babes
location | het sieraad
| gyasuda |
| belle sauvage |
fluor kid
chicks with dicks
sponsored by code magazine
| off schedule |
After the full impact of furniture and products I will make my way to Amsterdam for The Fashion Week.
| off schedule | event - platform for progressive fashion
| modefabriek | fashion trade fair
Mr, Designspotter, Markus Gogolin, studied architecture. He liked it. But he did not like it so much to make a profession out of it. He had the idea to create a platform for designers who want to show their work to the public. If he and his team like what they get sent they will feature your product for free.
so, go for it!
Markus Gogolin
Draw yourself
Describe yourself in one word
Draw your favourite product
| designspotter |
| cubeseven | - shop cologne
Cologne. Germany. Some impressions from the last 3 days. I had a great time. Wanna know more? coming soon.
the 3 good ones from berlin
wetterpanorama, almdudler, glatzel, mozartkugeln -
how to use a warderobe in the austrian way
| m & g interiors |
alberto - the italian way to dress on a fair
qreamteam - venloer design team
| qreamteam |
bernhard - a software engineer on the path of design
chequita nahar on a rowing trip
design hereos
| designmetropole-aachen |
hannes - he does everything besides production at haseform
| hasefrom |
cozy corner
self-marketing
I will be in cologne the coming 3 days. design is going on.
On thursday/friday I will be at the ‘meetingpoint’ stand in hall 2.1. almost the hole day. Feel free to meet me there!
| imm cologne |
| design talents - imm cologne |
| passagen |
| designspotter |
Valentin is student of product design, connoisseur of the art of living and is host of the ‘weplayyoudance’ partys in maastricht which he does with his older brother jonas.san. But his real passion is interior design. Constantly he is remodeling his direct ambiance.
This is his ‘new’ kitchen:
I like the ‘zaha hadid organic touch’ in the mix of the ‘jackson pollock was there and was drunk again style’
At home. Today I got my first issue of ‘polenplus’. It’s a magazine on poland. And on life, art and the economy in particular.
You open it, you start to read and you don’t want to stop. It pokes out of the bulk of existing magazines. Every issue is arranged in one continous colour, on the outer edge you always find an explanation to the themes or people who are mentioned in the articles (like a wikpedia abridgement), you find an ‘easy-to-read’ font size (my mum will be thankful for that) and most important: you don’t feel penetrated by advertising.’polenplus’ is authentic and well-defined.
If I wouldn’t be polish - now I would like to be polish.
| polenplus magazine |
unfortunately the magazines is only available in german
Maastricht. Netherlands. Today I went to the ‘New Year’s Reception’ in the NAI, dutch architecture institution. For drinks and cultural input. A film, made by the research group ‘ traces of autism’ from the design department of the Jan van Eyck Academy, was presented. It deals with the area around the large Sphinx building in maastricht and the urban development which is starting to be developed around there.
I watched it together with a bunch of very important people and during the presentation I was looking around. My conclusion: nobody really got the aim of the film. me also. I felt like they want to brainwash me. but thank god, this were the first research results. so, we are waiting for the following lectures and the solution. To be continued wednesday, 30th january / 2 pm.
hand out . the content of the film
I underlined ‘das unheimliche’ because it makes me grin when foreigners speak german
top view of the area
NAi | Avenue Ceramique 226, Maastricht, NL
| nai maastricht |
| jan van eyck - academy |
Before I came to maastricht to study product design I was busy with 2 dimensional design. My teachers use to say that sometimes I am captured in this world.
So here some help for the prisoners: 2 books which show how graphic design is moving into 3 dimensional objects and products.
| tactile |
| hidden track |
