berlin

belgian designer damien gernay was exhibiting within the brussels spacioline design studio during the dmy, international design festival in berlin. his ‘textured sideboard’ was presented at the dmy allstars location.

london

this is gio ponti’s ‘wall light’ from 1959. his work is one of the most important influences in design.

last year I went to the preview of philips de pury ’s auctions during london design festival and saw this brass and painted metal beauty which was manufactured by arredoluce.

80 x 20 x 12,7

berlin

fidel peugeot is a designer, he possibly drives his surname and loves the colour red. he and his collegue carl emilio pircher have founded the walking chair studio which is based in vienna.

I had an encounter with fidel during the dmy, the international design festival in berlin. he was standing next to one of his ‘you may’ seatings. he describes them as a new furniture for the public space, for indoors and outdoors. the seatings are developed in coorporation with lynfabrikken for aarhus.

hence they were not only the winners of the dmy award 2009. they also created a great place to socialise at the event. was this the secret to their success?

dmy allstars inner courtyard

‘you may’ seating

dmy awards

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berlin

german designer sebastian schönheit has created a oversize knitting that aims to make people think it is from a fairy tale.

the work with the title ‘300′ was exhibited at the dmy allstars during the international design festival in berlin.

1,80 x 1,40 m

milan

spanish designer martí guixé has created this chair in 1999. this year he presented his concept of the chair at the prophets & penitents exhibition from the damn magazine. basically it is just a newspaper. also a chair.

milan

niels kerkkamp and sven lamme are studio niels en sven. they are based in hilversum, the town that is often called ‘media city’ since it is the principal centre for radio and television broadcasting in the netherlands. the guys both graduated at the school of arts in utrecht in 3d-design.

I met the two designers at the design week in milan earlier this year. they were exhibiting their newest work within tuttobene, a dutch platform for design.

I like their studio slogan, it’s : excessive urban design in farmer style. check out their website and see yourself..

niels kerkkamp and sven lamme

‘aluminium kruk’ - cardboard turned into aluminium
the model for this stool is the standard cardboard box

‘kan’ - cardboard turned into porcelain

sven lamme

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niels kerkkamp

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the reason why the drawings are smeared: read here

london

the design museum’s current exhibition called ’super contemporary’ shows key moments in the development of design in london. It explores what attracts creatives to live, study and work in the capital.

london-based designer thomas heatherwick presents his ‘lamp post chandelier’ - his vision of lanterns for the english capital.

berlin

designdrive, a creative platform for latvian and european designers in latvia, was exhibiting at the dmy, design festival in berlin.

gundega zake cimza, one of the participating designers, presented a new kind of prayer bench which is easy to use in different positions. ‘goodspeed’ can be also used as a bench at home, school, clubs, sport hall etc.

goodspeed by gundega zake cimza

berlin

beta tank the design practice which is based in berlin and london has presented their new product called ‘memory stücks – stone’ during the dmy in berlin. basically it is ‘a limited edition of memory pieces which bond the tangible physical with the ephemeral digital’.

memory stücks – stone
beta tank, 2009

berlin

I met german designer tina roeder in june during the dmy, design festival. tina did her ba at central saint martins in london and her ma at the design academy eindhoven. she also worked for highly acclaimed studio job. now she is based in berlin. tina was presenting her naked couch at the appel design gallery. she was not just showing her pieces, she was also curating the show with the title ‘conceptual substance’. germany needs more conceptual design. I am with you, tina!

I really like what is written about her on her website:

‘RE-OCCURING TOPICS ARE PERCEPTION AND ANAESTHESIA, REALITY AND SIMULATION, STRUCTURE AND FACADE, NORM AND DEVIATIONS: COUPLED WITH A FASCINATION FOR COMPLEXITY AND LIGHTNESS.’

naked couch, 2004

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here it is again: ‘the archetype chair’

london

london-based designer philippe malouin and his architect friend sacha leong have designed the new interior of the b store showroom.

the creatives work together under the name ‘post office’ - interiors and architecture studio. my favourite in the b store is the noticeable lamp that consists from white long lightbulbs. simple and good. guys, when are you coming to my place to install my lamp?

hasselt

the furniture is an 2 year old project of london-based designer martino gamper. a series of design classics by Italian designer gio ponti were destroyed and reassembled into new pieces in front of a live audience at the design miami/basel. the whole happening is called: If only gio knew…’. the pieces were exhibited at the superstories triennale at the z33 in hasselt, belgium.

london

I visited the new designers show last month. design students andrew duffy, craig tyler and edward harrison from the university of rochester presented a minature rotational moulding machine.

the DIY (do It yourself) rotation moulding machine is built to replicate the industrial process to help further understand its possibilities. it was built at no cost from scrap materials and simply powered by a cordless drill. one of them told me that they just invested 5 pounds for the machine. what a bargain.

london

I meet carl clerkin at the new designers show press preview. rose etherington from dezeen introduced us.

when I saw him the first time I had the feeling that I know him from somewhere but I wasn’t sure. I was even thinking that I might be wrong and that I am just fascinated by his ‘today’s special’ tshirt and his matching pink socks in the adidas flip-flops. I mean, this designer is surely the right one to meet in the pub and thrash out ideas over a few pints. and he is the only one who like his adidas flip-flops even more than I do mine.

brooooom by carl clerkin at aram gallery

carl’s shoe style

carl’s bike

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