another media conglomerate is launching an award. sony presents a photo award for professionals and amateurs which will be presented from the 21st - 25th april in cannes, france. the good part is that they also have an university shoot out. in this competition you will see two students from each of the 10 participating countries from europe. the assignment was to sum up your country in one image. here is one picture which was choosen to be presented in cannes.

germany - ’sum up your country in one image’ - black - red - yellow!!

sebastian müller and jan-philip welchering are students at the university of applied science and arts in dortmund, germany. sebastian is studying photography and jan-philip graphic design. the funny story is that jan-philip actually wanted to sign on photography but he made a mistake in the application form and end up in the graphic design department. not sure if it’s destiny, maybe, but it was just a stupid slip. what doesn’t bar him from taking good pictures.

jan-philip welchering + sebstian müller

the ‘mustard’ collection is hanging in the kitchen

that’s how the massacre started

that’s how it get out of hand

imagine yourself sitting 3,5 hours at a techno party cash desk. in the first 2 hours nobody is coming because people use to join late nightlife. you feel bored and unchallenged. there is just an ‘A’ stamp and a pen. the latter isn’t interesting to you. (a pen is an everday object) so why not draw with the stamp. I did it.

on all drawings (or should I say ’stampings’) you can see me and my flatmate, miriam hartwig, who was sitting next to me.

last year I attended at the k2007, world’s largest plastics trade fair, where basf presented the new kontstantin grcic chair. we just have seen some miniatures and the process of designing the chair. on this year’s designweek (salone internazionale del mobile 16.-21.4.2008) in milan konstantin grcic will launch myto at the triennale design museum.

my minitaure of the myto (sadly, I got it in orange)

and as we know chairs let a designer heart beat. they are the icons of design. ludwig mies van der rohe, one of the most outstanding architects, designed one of the first cantilevered chairs in 1927. once he said that it is easier to build a house than to design a good chair.

mies van der rohe - cantilever chair

marcel breuer - cantilever chair ‘cesca’

check the post from last year:
http://matandme.net/myto-chair-debut-at-the-k-2007/

| plank | - client

how would you react if you recieve an email of one of the established advertisers in germany? that actually happend to me. I’ve been cool. we’ve got together in cologne. right now he is enyoing his holidays at his parents who live close-by cologne - what makes him likeable. (how many people do you know love to spend their leisure time with the ones who gave birth to them)

oliver voss is board (one of several) at jung von matt . they work on international clients like mini cooper, ebay and tui. they created the current campagine ‘du bist deutschland‘. (try to convince the germans to become more children. so melancholic that you could cry) the founders of the agency have been once described by news magazine der spiegel as the “pop stars of german advertising”.

oliver started his career as a law school student, but he quit his studies to become copywriter. he worked in new york and in amsterdam for different agencies and attested that he is the creative character who the inscrutable and maniac world of advertising needs. he is one of the archetypes who reached their goals without a study. and after this long way he and his collegue niklas frings-rupp found the miami ad school hamburg in 2003. an advertising school where you learn everything you need within 2 years, professional tutors included. oliver is an average creative. he likes to talk, to explore, to watch people and is curious. he even used a beer mat to note an idea he had. and he even thinks that he is slow, what you would never assume after you had an insight in his work.

that’s oliver

oliver and me in a brewery in cologne (we had no kölsch)

he was just trying to be in a ‘cool’ position - hehe

in the city of cologne, after buying a book

draw yourself

he draws himself smiling like he did the hole time

describe yourself in one word

eclectic

draw your favourite product
carol christian poell shoes

today some fine art students and me participate in a workshop from the jan van eyck academy, post-academic institute for research and production fine art, design, theory.

we were invited by reserachers from different disciplines. theo cowley, donatella bernadi, jean-baptiste maitre and société réaliste were our tutors for one day. we had to bring some of our work and install a group exhibition in one big room. the challange was to put the work in a different context, outside of our academy, in a white cube. would it have the same impact like in the own studio? can I present my work everwhere? how can I present it to make the intention clear. after evaluating all this questions (and more) we observed that working with people from diffrent disciplines broaden one’s mind. learn from and with others.

the exhibition space

jean-baptiste maitre + leonid babiichouk

jean-baptiste naudy (société réaliste) + students

marie-claire krell talking about her ideas for her graduation

mitja devaud showing a short film via his camera

matandme is everywhere

after I played four in a row with christoph seyferth I become obsessed again. for everybody who has nobody around for a battle (for example a flatmate who not even commiserate with you) send the pattern below to some friends and just play!

here it’s called connect 4. but for me it’s still four in a row. I guess there are many exressions for the game.

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there are also many online games. so I don’t need to bother my flatmate anymore. hehe

| donutgames |

wanna play?
matylda@matandme.net

the seyferth bulding was one of the first things I liked about maastricht. I would describe it as a block-shaped wooden box that looks like a fort. since 2,5 years I was wondering who could have build this piece of uncommon architecture and who would live there. now I found out. I visited christoph seyferth at his house. and after I had some cake from his mum, we played four in a row. the ice was broken. we talked about him being an instructor at the tu eindhoven, about various ambassadors of design, abou malls and in general about possibilities of life.

seyferth bulding maastricht (photo:www.seyferth.nl)

the ‘four in a row’ battle (I have to commit that he was better than me)

domestic landscapes (a project from 2001)

some work and exhibition material

christoph and me at the roof of the seyferth building maastricht (sbm)

draw yourself

describe yourself in one word

draw your favourite product

easter is over. today is the last day. after couple days in exorbitance with food (I come from a hungry polish family) I tried to blow-dry a chocolate bunny.

the bunny takes a bow. it’s like that he wanna show that this years easter was a pleasure to him.

some other possibilities to kill a chocolate bunny:

| youtube - ironing, infrared lamp, blow-drying |
| youtube - cooking |

if you need a shredder why not buy a nice one?

| tom ballhatchet |
| MA industrial design website 2005-2007 |

bruno and marco are both architects who are working for conix architects in bruxelles. once they discovered that they love to fool around with miss piggy in a bathtube.

of course, maurice mentjes is a designer. but when I visited him in his office I encouter a person who is full of energy. I was surprised about myself that I became so quite and chary. that’s when you meet somebody who shape up as someone who is as hyperactive as you. he even talked more than me. that doesn’t happen very often.

actually maurice studied product and jewellery design. he made one year at the design academy but wasn’t happy about the studies and quit them. then he went back to maastricht and studied visual arts. the final step was a summersession at the domus academy in milan. he made some products and furniture. but after all he figured out that his real passion is interior. he was nominated for a lot of his works and got the dutch design prize for interiordesign for the stash bag shop, the witloof restaurant and dsm headquarters.

that’s maurice (it was difficult to take a picture - to keep still was a foreign manner for him)

he has some design classics in his office, like the frank o. gehry ‘vitra wiggle side chair‘

maurice preparing some tea

sitting at his selfmade table which existis just 2 times (the other one is standing at ipanema in maastricht) in the background you can see a rack he made by himself and a lamp from ettore sottsass

draw yourself

describe yourself in one word

passion

draw your favourite product

this is some work of eduard xandri. obviously he is obsessed with hairy men. I enjoy everbody who gives something banal (like hairy men - they just exist) a niche.

imagine the boy is you and the hairy thing is your dad

stars & stripes.. hm.. hair in stripes

I like it!! - my black & white obsession again. above all handmade!

this is a pic from eduard’s flickr page

I now the work of the paris design duo atypyk, ivan duval and jean sebastien ides, for a long time. but today I send the link of the website to a friend who is looking for an internship.
I took a look on the website again and the pez candy of christo and micky mouse made me laugh. I downloaded the pictures and viewed them 3 times today.

I just can say: let’s pez!

christo

micky mouse

all pez shown are hand transformed by atypyk - unique piece

first I wanted to show 3 pictures of maastricht street-art. simply because I can’t find the ‘dutch miniature flags sticked into doogy poo’ picture (some people in maastricht should know these) I decided to post some stupid stuff I found.

bacon-dryer (I wish I would have one)

ex-director of the academy of fine arts maastricht - found in the academy

jupiler’s shop window advertising

it is quite evident that some university laddie lost his pink polo shirt

by the way: defect

today was the last day. tomorrow it’s all about bringing back our furniture. I am missing the couch. here some impressions about what was going on in our appartment.

miriam hartwig - karsten födinger - matylda krzykowski
the artist and his curators

we did it. horse power.

it’s almost 4 am. I am tired but thrilled. we just have 15h left to the opening of our exhibition and I still need some sleep.

I will represent the artist and his work now:

it´s the act which characterises the appearance of karsten födinger´s work. the traces and energies of simple actions are embedded in the artifact. working with simple building material, it is not his intention to create a beautiful artwork, or to confront the viewer with conceptual truths. but there is an elegancy in the elementariness of his works, that maybe wasn´t intended by the artist, but by the act, the material and the moment.

I am excited. I will have the first exhibition in my apartment. my flatmate, miriam hartwig and me - ‘luxe paarden in actie’ , invited an artist to work at our domicile. karsten födinger is from karlsruhe, germany where he is studying fine arts. he is living, eating and working with us. we present his first single exhibition on thursday at 7 pm. so more to come… watch out!

karsten födinger - when he started to pull down our wall paper

our livingroom - yesterday

my office - protected from the dust of the plaster

one of the works (almost done) in the kitchen

the invitation

dan perjovschi is another example for my obsession of black and white drawings. I saw his work in the van abbemuseum last week. and I fall in love again. he is the one who is allowed to make mistakes in the spelling (I hope people let me do mine too) and who is presenting skeptical commentary on global incidents.

when you are a kid they don’t let you to mess with the wall. it’s wrong. but everbody wants dan to draw on the wall. he says that he doesn’t have strikt plans when he starts. it’s risksy and exciting. and often he feels under pressure. his results are at once hilarious and subversive.

one of his books

van abbe museum eindhoven

| dan perjovschi | - great example of his work - chalk on concrete wall