graduation show time is also fashion showtime. here are the 16 standing girls from maastricht.
kirstin luhmer - how can you ever find something in these bags?
lana lin turina (right) and her sister sandra
lana lin turina’s papperlapap collection. fashion meets paper. my favourite at the show
vera berg (2nd from right) at the finale
jonas löllmann has spent 3 months in new york. the camera is his tool to capture the moment. that’s what he did for his graduation project.
today at 7pm in the lumiere, maastricht and soon on youtube.
I play the role of a polish cook who is obsessed with chocolate sauce. (any similarity to living persons is purely coincidental - haha)
about the movie: ‘Theo knows that everything is possible in this world, if you just keep on believing in your own ideas and dreams. Because of that he also succeds to disabuse Kay of the golden cat, which pursuits him since a few nights through the turkish forrests. He makes him join his half dozen of dream mates which combine their powers of imagination to fight behind the scenes of the plagiarism industry’.
daniel van hauten says thank you to everybody who helped him to let this nightmare become his dream!
by pure chance I bumped on sunday into alexander pelikan at the exhibition in the designhuis. he invited me to a meeting of design 22+2. it is a dutch initiative consisting of 22 designers and 2 supervisors, ann maes and richard hutten. they are showing cross-over activities, surpassing the idle concept thinking that dutch design is known for, and conceiving functional and most original products, meant to have a longer life cycle.
alexander pelikan and christian kocx were presenting what they experienced in indonesia. both had the chance to spend 4 months in southeast asia to work and find out what possibilities for the manufacture of products and designs are given. dutch design in development is the organisation which enabled this experience for the 2 designers from eindhoven. the indonesian are craftspeople. handcrafting has been performed for centuries. designing and innovation is what they are missing because they never learned it. peli and christian have showed us some great pictures about how good these people are with their hands and that there are opportunities of manufacturing and producing - a designer’s land of plenty.
ann maes and angelique spaninks (director mu eindhoven)
presentation about indonesian manufacturer pekerti
christian kocx and ingrid van der wacht (project manager brainport)
bastian leijh, maurice mentjes, arnoud visser, ann maes, annelies hermsen, alexander pelikan, christian kocx
yesterday was the official opening of the exhibition ‘fiets’ in the designhuis eindhoven.
li edelkoort, art director designhuis and chairwoman design academy, making the opening speech
single part installation
rico souren - chair: it was a bike before
goof van beek - bycicle tire chair
thijs bouman - bike caravan
jeroen bruls and krijn christiaansen - fence air
bike seats
fabian von spreckelsen - woodtrapper
professionals
a postcard, an advertising campaign for the new nescafe latte caramel. I am not a coffee drinker but an enthusiast about things with a funny extra.
international design competition by muji. entry period 1st july - 31th july. the 3rd muji award. a lot of japanese winners in edition 1 and 2. but what about the europeans? can we strike a goal? muji present an innocent idea which happen to be an innovation. the sock dilemma. discovery of czech grandmothers.
‘By expanding our viewpoints, we currently offer “Found MUJI” products, which were developed by discovering the good points about merchandise that has been used over long periods of time, were created by humans, and were born out of daily needs.
Take Comfortable 90 degree socks (Ashinari Chokkaku Kutsushita) as an example.We “found” that socks hand-knitted by Czech grandmothers were characterized by a 90-degree shape, which perfectly fits your feet. We tried them on and felt that they fit comfortably on our heels. We then discovered that the shape of the machine-produced socks we usually wear doesn’t fit our feet owing to manufacturing reasons. So then we realized that we could provide many people with comfortable 90 degree socks produced by machine. In this way, a factor found in Czech tradition, culture, and wisdom was converted to a new MUJI product befitting our modern age’.
last years winner:
downsize the towel with “further options” from a bath towel to a bath mat, and then to a floor cloth and dust cloth (my mum use to make a wiping cloth from everthing)
4 days in berlin.
where is this creativity gone to?
max (something went wrong with his hair), raymond (best man at the panorama bar) and mireille (the painter with the whiskey voice)
bell - interdisciplinary art magazine + an exhibition in a box
kreuzberg ‘plattenbau’ view
lass uns freunde bleiben (let’s stay friends) bar - choriner straße 12 (prenzlauer berg) you can even buy a cigarette for 20 cent, served in a glass
the ‘photoautomat‘ city (unfortunatly I am not allowed to show the pictures we took inside)
don’t read it, just look at the cover
making the band
berlin youth
clementine treu, brooch
coming to terms with the past
mara hellmann is graphic design student at the udk berlin. she loves kit, the knight rider car.
meet the people who are making the baas collection. a bunch of designers, freelancers, interns who gave me the feeling that they are in their own clubhouse. they are not going in for sports but for realising the work of maarten baas. about 12 people are working for him right now. and it’s not just about work, it’s also about creating a personal atmosphere. they eat, play and laugh together (I heard some good jokes while eating). In between I had the feeling that the sign in the kitchen (kleuterschool = kindergarden) has a point. solely because they seemed to be happy like I was in kindergarden and entertained myself with play dough to shape a house for my bunny family. (my mum is still speakig about this creative break through)
bas den herder and ‘peli’
alexander pelikan and the salmon
lunch for the pixies
erik vermeulen
erik and wieland vogel
the supervisor
the kindergarden sign
isn’t it obvious that they have fun?
I did it today and unearthed the truth. just wanted to let you know. (the guy is maciej kuszpa, founder peperoni mobile & Internet software gmbh - I actually wouldn’t mind to be him. his business is good)
a chair is the most important design object ever. and ikea is the world-famous furniture store. I love chairs but I don’t like ikea. I can’t understand that people want to live in the same interior like millions others. a rack called ‘lack’ and his buddy ‘lack’ desk are the only items I posses from the ‘DREAM KITCHENS FOR EVERYONE’ and ‘become your own interior designer with the help of the IKEA planner tools’ organisation. but since today I am in love with this royalblue folding chair. bought at the vintage store it cost me 1 euro. I guess it’s an classic because I can’t find it on the website.
the new occupant
I am little bit into videos right now. at that into this clock. I’ve seen it during the design week (the official relaunch) at rosana orlandi’s spazio in milan. christiaan postma is a dutch designer, based in stockholm. and why describe how it works when a video can exemplify it best.
this notebook contains a simple grid so that the user is able to create individual letters himself by filling in the lines. a hand written text contains a stronger emotion than a printed because its more personal, but a hand written text is not always the most presentable. with this notebook people are able to create personal notes in a presentable way with guidance from the grid.
‘ted’ music video for clark of warp records. made by 1stavemachine. cracking good song. brilliant video.
another trade fair of no importance. no importance to me. I’ve never been at a 100% rotterdam in the van nelle ontwerpfabriek before but now I know that I won’t come back. the fair adresses the target group of ‘people who have money left to pay for a chic interior’. and when I talk about chic I don’t include in the best of taste. I don’t wanna be a meanie, but I would like to see more innovative, experimental stuff. I’d really rather see work of students. I am maybe the biggest sympathiser of the ‘never make 2 products that are exactly the same’ idea. anyway I show you 4 examples of what I am talking about. they are all from my academy, because we were the only academy at this ‘great and worth to be there’ trade fair.
100% design umbrellas - london weather
dik scheepers - the cups travelled and the dents are tagged with the latitudes of the places they were
marco iannicelli - resolve the wear and tear without hiding it
fabian saenger - simple and old refined chair
fien de graf - before & after sweater
functional & inefficient - that makes me grin
give us more of the ‘professor look’
why stand when you can sit, why sit when you can lie down -
big words on a couch ‘thing’ for the garden. finally they solved what I’ve been asking myself the hole life
I’ve been sitting in the car today, wearing my favourite jeans overall (my work outfit). suddenly I had a marker in my hand and a new character was born.
movies from the viscom, multimedia department from the academy of fine arts maastricht, + music from jordi lloveras, azura and m.i.t.c.h.. It’s an event from students but has nothing to do with the academy. so no commercial backgrounds. I am sure about a good night, so be there. (by the way I did the flyer layout)
Ipanema
avenue ceramique 250
maastricht
sundays are the ideal days to do deal with things you missed out during the week. to open and check the post is one of these things. between my mini accumulation was a brand new issue of the polenplus magazine. I opened it and found an article over the polish pavilion on page 10. michael okraj from designerdeutsch, berlin, already send me some visual material about the pavilion in january, but the more I see the pavilion, the more I like it. especially because I found out (the polenplus article revealed it) that the designers graduated quite recently. they are young and fresh and that makes their idea even cooler to me. the 3 architects, natalia paszkowska, wojciech kakowski and marcin mostafa, wanted to use the motif of polish folk-art paper cut-outs in a building and this is their winning result:
the polish pavilion at the expo 2010, shanghai
the paper cut-out idea
at night
