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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Eindhoven

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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)

Eindhoven

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they are maybe famous or known for their furniture or their products… but not for making punk music. joost van bleiswijk, stephan siepermann and jos kranen are a band. 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

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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