I was already familiar with bart and lucy. I guess that mireille de koning, a friend I met in maastricht, told me about them. but I saw their work again at the mu eindhoven during the dutch design week. I am quoting the text about their work. why should I try to explain their work when they describe it best?

The following is from lucyandbert: lucy and bart is a collaboration between lucy mcrae and bart hess described as an instinctual stalking of fashion, architecture, performance and the body. they share a fascination with genetic manipulation and beauty expression. unconsciously their work touches upon these themes, however it is not their intention to communicate this. they work in a primitive and timeless way creating future human shape, blindly discovering low-tech prosthetic ways for human enhancement.

the 3 pictures above are from shape + clour

another event at the dutch design week. the designhuis (eindhoven’s design museum - some people would even say that it is another playground for lidewij edelkoort, ex-chairwoman design academy) presents a detailed exhibition of works of 180 students from over 30 european design colleges and universities. the good thing: it covers all disciplines that contribute to the creative industry. here is a little selection..lalala - some work, like jon stam’s curiosity cabinet and joni neelen’s preparing dreams bed were also exhibited here (and at the design academy graduation show).

karakters by leon de lange (design academy, eindhoven) - its a series of furniture meant to lean against, sit on or lie on. they weight only 7 kilo’s and are made for different arrangements.

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he is a ‘fun-loving designer’ - at least you can read this in articles about him… to be honest, it’s true! jeroen wesselink is a little boy (I don’t want to measure that with his real height) with curly hair and a contagious smile. he graduated at the design academy in 2006 and opened a studio with stephan siepermann afterwards. I was visiting him and the other designers from the laboratory bazaar during the dutch design week at their stand in the strijp-s, eindhoven.

I guess jeroen is mostly known for his my deer chair, a chair in a shape of a deer which you can also hang up like a deer head. or for his floco stool, a seating object with a rubber ball as its seat.

jeroen is a designer who needs to create or design all the time. its more about doing something than about thinking. the process is the way. and when you watch him casting his ‘mini willie magnets’ you noticed that he is doing it with an incredible easiness. even when he is talking to the visitors at the stand it looks like he can give everybody a good feeling about what he does.

jeroen wesselink

the real wesselink and his ‘my deer’ stool

one of his new products

jeroen was making mini willies …

… magnets during the dutch design week at the stand in the strijp-s

the stand at strijp-s of the laboratory bazaar, a collective of designers
stephan siepermann, jeroen wesselink, beerd van stokkum

draw yourself

describe yourself in one word

draw your favourite product

floco + chick

some fashion in between - itske van deursen graduated this year at the willem de kooning academie hogeschool rotterdam. her collection was exhibited at modebelofte in the krabbedans, eindhoven. I saw this outfit and I fell in love. itske, you made a matylda outfit.

see my previous entry about the modebelofte 2007, during dutch design week (early beginning of my blogging)

I met jon stam and his curiosity cabinet at the design academy graduation show during the dutch design week. I passed the cabinet without noticing it. at first glance it looks like an ordinary cupboard. but I went back because some people were standing there, starring at it. I found out that there are 2 hidden values in this piece of furniture.

1: 16 drawers store objects and pictures.
2: the other 16 drawers have a RFID reader. if you put one of them on a dock station your computer automatically shows the content which was saved on it. It also connects via an USB port for those who don’t have the RFID reader … the cabinet itself becomes his portfolio of his time at design academy.

jon recieved the rene smeets award 2008 for the cabinet - an award for the best graduated project, handed out by the academy. he told me that he would love to do his master at the royal college in london and that he lives in antwerp right now. he is also doing freelance work for the z33 (art and design centre) in hasselt, a place I use to visit sometime because maastricht isn’t far away. I guess we will hear more from jon stam, the canadian guy who brings together physical objects and digital data in one furniture.

jon stam

take a drawer

put it on the docking station

recognize!

draw yourself

describe yourself in one word

draw your favourite product

they are maybe famous or know for their furniture, their products and many other reasons: but not for making punk music. joost van bleiswijk, stephan siepermann and jos kranen are a band. but not a regular one. they never do auditions. they think that they call themself ‘4 mouthed barbarelas’ (but they are not sure yet). they perform just once a year, during the dutch design week.

jos kranen

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here is my selection of work from the graduation show at design academy, which is located in the witte dame, eindhoven.

perfect for me and my travels!
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this poster is hanging close to the witte dame, the ‘heart‘ of eindhoven. just a quick post. you will find more tomorrow.

hm.. I should have photoshoped my face into the poster. haha

after 2 months in london I am back (not really back but just here again.. for a while, I guess ). with a little stopover at my parents in germany, I am on my to the dutch design week in eindhoven. Its the seventh edition of the largest design event in the netherlands. around 1500 designers from home and abroad will show their work in more than 50 locations all over the city. I will attend maarten baas party at the smalle haven tomorrow evening. so, see you there.. or give me a call and meet me somewhere else. lalala, matylda

london-based mr. bingo is an illustrator and animator. and when I arrived in london 2 months ago, marius claudy, a guy I know from germany highly recommended him for a “meet & greet”. what really made me laugh is the wikipedia entry of mr. bingo. it says for example:”he describes himself as having a “slightly smaller than average” head and “girl’s arms,” plus “the same haircut as his mum”. how many people do you know with such a great self-mockery?

so I popped into his office… he was listening to tv on the radio, made me a tea (surprisingly british) and gave me a little insight in his work. he showed me how he creates his illustration - by drawing them by hand, scanning them and coloring them in photoshop. he worked for different companies like nike, bbc, mtv, the guardian and more. I asked him about his favorite work and he just could not name it. he said that illustrating is the only thing he ever wanted to do and that his hole work is a favorite. it is even his hobby. he could not even think about something else he would do instead.

there is one mysterious thing about mr. bingo - nobody knows his real name. even chris, the guy who is sitting with him in the office was unsure about his name given at birth. mr bingo came into existence through a bingo game years ago, before he became a professional illustrator. It’s his trademark.

yeah

that’s him

one of his favourite pieces, bought in new york

some work in the icon magazine

the boosh t-shirt

mr bingo work: hair portrait’s (in the loo)

his new office

thanks for the pic, mr bingo. the theme is: give me a stupid look

draw yourself

describe yourself in one word

draw your favourite product

dyson - airblade

rose etherington is the assistant, co-editor and right hand woman of marcus fairs and rupinder boghal, founder of dezeen, online design and architecture magazine. together we have soup for lunch, chocolate for breakfast and champagne in the evening (at all the receiptions). If you google her name you find loads of design but no picture of herself.. till now! besides, I am the dezeen blonde no. 2.

hello ros(i)e

last night lacoste unveiled zaha hadid’s ne footwear collection. It is some very special footwear capsule collection which were designed in collaboration with the zaha hadid architects - a preview during london’s frieze art fair. (continue…)

today I got a hint - “matylda, you do not show much about your private life on your blog… but you should!”

I am still busy with a menu for a restaurant

tongue down means tired

on saturday I poped into the carpenters workshop gallery to check out the work of american furniture artist wendell castle. (continue…)

wedding by li qing, 2006

yeah, thesedays it’s very trendy to do a pop-up shop (temporay shops, showrooms - at that time people use to call it guerilla store but now it’s the pop-up shop) or to build a pavilion (like frank o.gehry did for the serpentine gallery). this is another in south bank in london. (continue…)

yesterday evening I attended “an evening spent understanding how to add value to your innovation and design process” at the soho gallery, west london.
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I came back from dublin on sunday. I’ve felt a bit sick but I needed a little walk and went to the hyde park in london. next to the serpentine gallery, in the park, frank o. gehry has build his first ‘object’ in uk. I call it an object on purpose because I think this is the poorest thing from gehry I’ve ever seen. think about the walt disney hall in los angeles, guggenheim museum in bilbao, the dancing house in prague and his beloved chairs and compare this.

so here are 6 pictures and the reasons why I don’t like the pavilion at all. but before I wanna quote this: ‘the architect has likened the complex glazed roof structure to a network of stylized wings’.

serpentine gallery pavilion - let’s play mikado

oh, I see - nice wings. innovative.

oh, they realized that it’s not leak proof

it’s always good to have a snack stall next-door.
luckily some wood was left

hey, when I am planning to a unique piece of design I always use do-it-yourself store balustrades

and because I am at the do-it-yourself store I can buy some other nice widgets to make my work perfect

just see what olafur eliasson did last year and you will get what I am taking about.

I was browsing through the pictures I took during the london design festival and found some more designs. this was exhibited at designersblock on covent garden. chooi-leng is a industrial design MA student at central saint martins, london.

pouring light by chooi-leng tan

josh meyers checked in the jacobs inn dublin just after we did it. he is travelling trough europe for 3 months and this is his beloved pimp watch that supportes him on his trip.

josh meyers from Idaho, usa

tokyoflash watch