Leipzig

milan 2009/
max lipsey lives in eindhoven. the american designer was exhibiting his coathooks at spazio rosana orlandi last month during design week.

djim berger is student at the design academy who will graduate this year. he is obsessed with ceramics. I had the chance to have a look on what he is doing (the first samples) for his final project but I’m curious what we will see at the graduation show.

dik scheepers is a product design student at the academy maastricht, netherlands. before he decided to become a designer he worked as chemical laboratory worker in amsterdam and as a fine mechanics toolmaker in leiden. both was not enough for him.
this is his mud lamp. a lamp made of sand, mud and recycled paper. the idea was to make a product that uses as little as possible energy in production and transport. and to make a product that fits into the current hype of ecodesign.


I’ve met dan ziglam and elliot brook at the imm cologne, international furniture fair, this week. the uk-based directors of deadgood, a furniture company of young design, started their business after meeting in university. they run their ‘baby’ with a lot of passion and love. ;-)

lutz caesar is a photographer. he is the one who took the picture of me above. lutz parents were on a trip in south america in 1981. they bought this sweater with the lama theme. and now, 28 years ago, lutz felt that its his time to wear it. (I want one with horses or with armadillos)

rest area – highway 40 between bochum and essen, germany
tom astrella is a london-based designer. despite still dabbling in product design, tom’s dedication over the last 3 years has been designing footwear for puma‘s high end fashion ranges. he is not just a shoe creator, but also a shoe collector. with about 60 pairs of sneakers in his arsenal, he is still constantly looking for more treasures to squeeze his dainty size 46′s into!

vera berg and petra kather are a fashion label. they launched berg & kather during their studies. vera graduated this year. petra in 2006. both at the academy maastricht. last weekend they were presenting their clothing at the shopstop shop in the old wyckerpoort shops in maastricht, netherlands.

vera berg and petra kather in their temporarily (just for that weekend) showroom in maastricht

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
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