maastricht
my life as a product design student has almost an end. I am graduating this week! end of june I participated at the pecha kucha event in maastricht. here is the video of my presentation:
‘damn, I am fucking nervous’
maastricht
croatia born designer patrizia dona graduated at the willem de koning academy rotterdam in 2006. the former fashion design student was exhibiting her ‘objects to wear’ during fashionclash, the first fashion event in maastricht, nl. the exhibition will be shown till 5th july.
necklace constructed out of typing mechanism
bag and necklce
bag wth typewriter keyboard
maastricht
I can proudly say that I am a part of a great project. this project is about fashion. it is called fashionclash and its the first big fashion event in maastricht.
For this event we invented a project called CLASH:
CLASH is a project for non-fashion designers.
We selected 10 creatives for this project.
Each of them was responsible for one outfit.
They were allowed to do anything they want.
here is a preview of what you can expect:
liv langeslag, artist
joost howard, director/actor
I also participated…
tom astrella + matylda krzykowski, product designers
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timmerfabriek, boschstraat 3, 6211 maastricht
26 june - 5 july 2009
photography: mueller3000
model: daria bukvic
milan 2009/
there is no need to advertise english furniture brand established & sons, but I like them so much that I will anyway. here are some snapshots from the press preview during milan design week.
5 years!
alasdhair willis, founder of established & sons,
in a quilt seat designed by ronan and erwan bouroullec
alasdhair willis and maarten baas
surface chair by terrence woodgate and john barnard
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see more establshed & sons stories:
surface table by terence woodgate and john barnard
milan 2009/
I was cleaning my desk today and found this drawing made by new-york based designer stephen burks. he was responsible for the m’afrique exhibition from moroso at milan design week.
It was obviously fun to talk to stephen but unfortunately too may people wanted to talk to mr. readymadeprojects that evening. nevertheless he quickly draw me, instead of doing the drawn interview. I was sitting in one of his chairs - a re-upholstered moroso’s signature piece in fabrics that he and patrizia moroso, art director of Italian upholstery manufacturer moroso, found on their trips to senegal.
portrait drawn by stephen burks -
me in a ’stephen burks armchair ‘ for moroso
the reason why the drawing is smeared: read here
berlin/dmy
young swedish designer ramus malbert has designed a shelf that becomes a playful element when its filled with books.
berlin/dmy
berlin-based designer joerg hundertpfund presented ‘transitive’, a shelf that ‘hides’ itself in the corner but seems to be very present in the space.
his work was presented at the gallery appel design during the international design festival in berlin.
berlin/dmy
katharina mischer and thomas traxler are mischertraxler, two austria-based designers who graduated at the design academy eindhoven in 2008.
I came across their work in eindhoven, in milan and lately in berlin during the dmy, international design festival. I had the luck to meet the dmy award winners in person and to compliment them on their little solar-powered furniture factory.
‘the idea of a tree’ is a process which uses solar energy to translate the luminosity of the sun into one object a day. It is a machine that works out by drawing a thread through a tank with dye in it then followed by a tank with resin and wrap it around a mold that is rotated using a solar-powered machine. the benches, containers and lamps it makes vary according to the amount of sunlight. Items made during cloudy season are darker and thinner. the little furniture factory automatically starts at sunrise and stops when the sun sets.
mischertraxler prove that we should use our infinite sunlight to our benefit.
‘tioat’ bench
lampshade
‘the idea of a tree’ machine
katharina mischer
draw yourself
describe yourself in one word
draw your favourite object
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thomas traxler
draw yourself
describe yourself in one word
draw your favourite object
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previous stories about mischertraxler’s work:
‘limited moths’ milan 2009
‘limited fungi’ design academy graduation show, eindhoven
berlin/dmy
eva marguerre studied at the university of arts and design karlsruhe. she created a collection of 6 stools and tables with a delicate structure. nido is an extremly light chair made of fibre glass strands.
berlin/dmy
german designer hannes grebin presented ‘ohrensessel’ (wing chair) which is an idea of a redesign of a typical german living room. hannes graduated in product design at the bauhaus university in weimar.
berlin/dmy
wouldn’t every boy like to have a lamborghini? this boy has one, but can’t do a cruise with it…
martin meier is a munich-based designer who studied industrial design at the university of applied sciences in aarau, switzerland. ‘In loving memory - the lamborghini countach’ is an exhibition about martin’s work which is rethinking the aesthetic relations between industrial products and design classics. the show is on till the 27th june at the appel design gallery, berlin.
lamborghini countach paired with a zig zag chair
draw yourself
describe yourself in one word - french for ‘he’s into everything’
draw your favourite object - lens of a ricoh camera
berlin/dmy
bless is split between berlin and paris. bless is the name for german fashion designers Ines kaag and desiree heiss.
bless 07.- chairwear b, 1999, is available for $ 210.00. it is a living concept. it is a chair. the chair was exhibited at the appel design gallery.
previous story about bless here
berlin/dmy
oskar zieta is from poland. first he studied architecture at the university of technology in szczecin, poland and than he came to the faculty of computer-aided architectural design (caad) at the eth zuerich, switzerland where he invented a striking production process.
the young designer calls his invention ‘fidu (freie Innen druck umformung/free inner pressure deformation) technology’. 2 sheets of watertight metal are welded together following the outline of the product (stool, chair, bench…), which is then filled water respectively air pressure, applied from the inside.
so, oskar works as a research associate and teaching assistant at the eth zurich since then. In his younger years he made the jump from architect to designer. this break through came with his idea of mass production. he should give himself a pat on the back.
at the dmy youngsters
fidu rotor - vertical axis wind turbine
fidu bench
plopp chair
draw yourself
describe yourself in one word - ‘inflated’
draw your favourite object - standard chair by jean prouvé
milan 2009/
eindhoven-based designer julien carretero presented his new ‘drag vase’ and ‘drag lamp’ at the jewels and joules exhibition during milan design week. julien was inspired by the traditional plaster dragging technique in which the plaster is constrained in shape by a profile while hardening.
see the drawn interview of julien carretero here
milan 2009/
yael mer and shay alkalay form london-based design collective raw edges. they met at the bezalel art and design academy in jerusalem. afterwards they moved to london to study at the royal college of art, where they graduated in 2006. both were always involved in each other projects. even if a designers live isn’t easy after leaving school they believe that success comes through hard work.
during milan design week the 2 israeli designers present ‘pleated pleat’, a series of paper furniture at ‘craft punk’, design miami’s performance.
yael mer
draw yourself
describe yourself in one word
draw your favourite object
shay alkalay
draw yourself
describe yourself in one word
draw your favourite object
the reason why the drawings are smeared: read here
belgium/
belgian designer casimir designed a wooden box that is used as a piece of furniture and a wooden building-construction-I-profile which is used as seating object. casimir launched his new collection in the end of last month.
milan 2009/
katharina mischer from austrian-based studio mischer’traxler designed a lamp made of copper moths. the waterjet-cutted and handrivetted insects form a swarm around the light bulb.
previous post about katharina mischer here
