eindhoven

experimenting with materials, finding out new techniques and loving porcelain. that is djim berger.

djim just graduated at the design academy, where he had his ‘textile made fragile’ shelves on show. furthermore the designhuis, eindhoven-based design museum, is exhibiting his ‘lightweight porelain’ stool and the shelves in the ‘talent 2009′ exhibition, a show of graduates of 30 european design institutes and universities.

djim is also one of the founders of the atelierdorp, a 20th century church in eindhoven that a group of designers took over as a workspace. atelierdorp is where his porcelain pieces evolve.

‘textile made fragile’

‘textile made fragile’

‘lightweight porcelain’

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conceptualism denies any universal objects. bas van raay likes creating these conceptual objects. the eindhoven-based designer launched his new work, 3 Industrially sculptured objects, which evoke questions: just because it isn’t what it seems to be.

‘I am furniture’ was last week on show during the dutch design week. bas was exhibiting with his colleagues from the atelierdorp, a collective of designers, at the strijp x.

his aim is to affect other people. ‘when they see my objects, spaces or concepts they will think twice about what they just experienced’.

‘I am furniture’

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this is ‘heimat’ by dominic plüer. the swiss-born graduate of the design academy created an affectionate container for a liquer that reminds him of switzerland. It really makes me want to hug it.

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It was the opening of skitsch, a new Italian design brand that was launched during milan design week. somebody introduced me to maarten baptist. I knew his name and I remember him in context with watdesign, a design studio which he founded with a colleague after graduating at the design academy. but In 2008 maarten founded joine, an office for design. watdesign was disbanded. obviously it wasn’t easy to work together when one of the founders was based in new york.

now, just one year later, maarten was exhibiting his range of products in his own studio during dutch design week, which finished yesterday.

lisa klappe, an antwerp-based photographer did the press images of all products. they used the office as a photo studio and left the setting for the visitors of the design week. The setting consisted of joine products on 4 different colour backgrounds in every site of the square room.

maarten on his ’single sofa’

‘louise’, tripod glass

’simple table’

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‘blok 7′ is the new product of the maastricht-based designer laurens hamacher. the young designer works preferably with wood. his interest in the material is influenced by his childhood. he grew up in the belgian forests. laurens is exhibiting his new work in the strip-s, part of the dutch design week, which continues today.

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I have seen jo meesters work on several design-related websites. his pulp collection draw attention to me but I have never seen his pieces in real life.

during the dutch design week (till October 25th) he opened his workspace for the public. my chance to have a closer look on his work. the studio is located in an old school in the center of eindhoven. the space has high ceilings and is blessed with big windows which leave a lot light in. jo presents his work in a sensible way by creating a peaceful surrounding. why should I add words now If you can have a look at the pictures below.

jo meester’s showroom + studio

pulp vase, waste paper pulp + epoxy and polyurethane

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this work is a chest of drawers and a bookshelf in one piece. guy keulemans, who did his masters in humanitarian design at the design academy, wanted to ‘presents an inversion of aesthetic function’ in his research project. his project is also on exhibition at the graduation galleries 2009 till October 25th.

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formafantasma, sounds like a promising name. the 2 italian designers who just graduated at the design academy, IM masters, are the brainchilds of it.

sicily-born andrea trimarchi and simone farresin are now exhibiting at the graduation galleries of the design academy, as a part of the dutch design week.

‘moulding tradition’ is the latest project of the 2 designers. the idea is to demonstrate how any folk tradition can be reinvented amd how new objects can become part of a new tradition. both designers work together since 2006 and have a number of projects that deserve serious attention. well done, guys.

andrea trimarchi + simone farresin

flask, part of ‘moulding tradition’, 2009
510 x 300 mm
IM master graduation

moor vase, part of ‘moulding tradition’, 2009
510 x 300 mm
IM master graduation

andrea trimarchi:

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simone farresin:

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just got back from the dutch design week. on saturday I joined the press tour and went to the graduation galleries of the design academy. here is something from the man and well-being department:

yoeri treffers’ inflatable void, a blow-up space made of tyvek, comes in first. the ‘void’ is inflated within 20 seconds by a fan hanging from the ceiling. the fabric adapts to the surrounded objects and can be used in various rooms. basically it allows you to create your own private space, in any space.

outside

inside

yoeri treffers helps the man to get out

eindhoven

this weekend is all about dutch design. I am going to eindhoven to spend some time with rose etherington from dezeen and robert andriessen from designguide.tv. a quote from robert: ‘we go for the freebies’. yes, we like the free nibbles and refreshments.

london design festival

henny van nistelrooy is dutch. the dutch guy choose to stay in london after graduating in design products at the royal college of art. all this just happend 2 years ago. now he and his colleague oscar diaz founded parallel projects, where they bring themselves into the position of curating design events.

that’s where I met henny in person, at one of their exhibitions in the brompton design district, south london. ‘three yet one’ (see previous entry) was one of the two shows they were responsible for during the london design festival. I didn’t had much time to talk to henny (it’s busy during design festival), but he was an excellent guide through the show and a perfect model for the portrait. I am sure that now, after becoming facebook friends, we gonna keep in touch and maybe do a bike tour. like authentic dutch people do.

henny van nistelrooy and oscar diaz, founder parallel projects
in front of the entry of the ‘three yet one’ exhibition

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‘three yet one’ is an exhibition by london-based parallel projects. the idea was to show how the media affects our understanding of design. a writer and a photographer were invited to demonstrate the work from their personal point of view. the text and the image were displayed during the london design festival as an addition to the product.

this is a clever idea which dezeen shows in detail. I just present my usual suspects without showing the picture + text of the invited writer and a photographer.

table/bench/plinth by jonathan legge

cappello della luce by henny van nistelrooy

fast track light by oscar diaz

paper-pulp by debbie wijskamp

london

london-based gallery fumi placed a competition this year with two design schools, rca london and ecal lausanne/haute école d’art et de design.

the intention was to design a mirror, defined in the brief as ‘an object which enables reflection’. one of the winners was anurag etchepareborda, ma product design student at ecal.

london design festival

design platform detnk asked me to interview some designers during the london design festival. I made my first experience in the DETNK.TV STUDIO at tent london.

watch the one with english-based designer terence woodgate, who I already met in the beginn of the year in cologne where I interviewed him for designguide.tv. see here

london design festival

london-based creativ consultancy studio toogood has designed an installation called ‘geology rocks’ in the entrance of the dock, an exhibition of creative talent curated by tom dixon. the studio was inspired by rock formations. the final outcome is a sculptural ceiling in stretched gold PVC by barrisol.

berlin

me and robert andriessen from designguide.tv had a nice encounter with paris-based designer arik levy during the international design festival, called dmy in berlin. arik, who describes himself as a industrial artist with a non-controlled muscle, made me laugh. now I am a fan!

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london design festival

british designer lee broom has launched his new furniture collection called ‘heritage boy’. It is lee’s 3rd year showing at the london design festival. he was inspired by british manufacturing techniques which he cleverly applied in his 8 new pieces. here are 3 of them.

carpetry sideboard

parquetry coffee table

happy lee

tile lamp