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Tonight I am probably the happiest person in the world. Around 7 pm I had some friends over for dinner. Daniel van Hauten, John Franzen, Steffen Kraska and I were chatting about usual stuff till I mentioned my frustration about the disappearance of matandme.

They came up with some ideas about how you could probably fix the problem and Steffen even said that he will have a look at the page… Now, about 3 hours later the blog is there again! Tomorrow a professional meant to have a look at the problem…

Maastricht-based Steffen Kraska is a 3rd year Fine Arts student. I just told him he shouldn’t become an artist, because the IT world is waiting for him. I mean, if they don’t wait, I do. I want him as my personal emergency technician.

Thank you, Steffen Kraska.

Hm.. I just tried to upload a picture, which isn’t possible., I am receiving this message: Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at/k .. webseiten/wordpress/wp-admin..in … on line 342.. There is still some stuff to improve but at least the blog is back. YEAHHHHH.

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last saturday I went to the global pecha kucha for haiti night in the university of westminster in london. I have been at some pecha kucha nights and have even done a presentation (see below) last year in maastricht, nl.

when you think about london you think about a big city where creativity and design happens. but on saturday I was slightly disappointed about the organisation of the event. It meant to be be one of the pecha kucha network cities taking part to raise support in haiti but maybe 70 people appeared. I am aware of the fact that they just had 2 weeks to prepare the event but I just was hoping for a better result.

some people told me that design journalist max fraser and dezeen-founder marcus fairs brought the first pecha kucha to london in 2005. apparently these nights were sold out, unpredictable and funny. I mean, the idea is to to meet, network, and show work in public, isn’t it?

a good and funny moment was the unexpected skype call from tokyo-based architects and pecha kucha founders mark dytham and astrid klein, who thanked everybody for supporting the architecture for humanity project. I just checked the website. $5,692.60 are raised so far from all cities and presentations. hurray!

mark dytham + astrid klein on skype

‘how blogging improved my life as a student’, june 2009

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herdecke

some people might wonder where herdecke is. it’s a little town, located south of dortmund, germany.

that’s where I am now. with my family. my brother and I had a little photo shoot the other day because my parents wished to get a nice picture of both of us. finally they see us the way they want us to be.

‘mr. and mrs. business’ – picture by mueller3000

its not really a design related post. it is a personal one.

I am very angry today, especially because I meant to collect some good content for my blog at design miami in miami. I had loads of appointments and drawn interviews planned out. I mean, the great and good of the industry gather for this event. me and my friend robert andriessen from designguide.tv wanted to do some video interviews. and now I can’t go. I couldn’t fly to miami today because my passport is not valid the next 6 months. that’s it. it is valid now. enough for most countries. maybe it’s my fault because I didn’t realise that earlier. but why did I recieve a visa aproval from esta? I mean, I have been in america before. never had problems. sure, it’s annoying that they are asking so many questions at the airport but that’s how they are, the americans. they want to know stuff. the consequence is that I officially decided to never watch an episode of american dad anymore. I probably will have a weak moment about that when I can’t fall asleep next time but I will try.

thanks wallpaper magazine for the image. I stole it from your website. I really wanted to take good pictures in miami but what happend today made me a thief. : )

I graduated yesterday. yeah. here is my project:

modus operandi

‘Led by an obsession for clean-cut form, the product design graduate has created a number of archetypal forms that relate with the common conception of a chair.

Matylda distorts and extracts the functionality through her ‘modus operandi’, exerting and gaining dominance over the chairs, transforming them into her conceptual pieces.

She proceeds like a remorseful ‘serial killer’, demonstrating a hedonistic and sometimes crazed approach, before reassessing her ‘victim’, realising her conduct and ceasing.’

modus operandi from Daniel van Hauten on Vimeo.

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’

berlin/dmy

young swedish designer ramus malbert has designed a shelf that becomes a playful element when its filled with books.

I have to admit that the video embodies amateurism. we did the video on the spur of the moment. 3 takes and the 3rd one was chosen. but I said what I think and have finally an ‘ABOUT’. I like it that way.

find the ABOUT link on the right side …

… and the video appears!

I´ve met a lot people last week during milan design week. I also had the chance to do a drawn interview with ronan bouroullec, shay and yeal from raw edges, pieke bergmans, piet hein eek and some more.

I travelled with the bus from milan back to maastricht, nl. when I got off the bus I had to walk home in the rain. unfortunatly my bag isn´t that waterproof. all drawings got wet. after 2 days of little frustrations about this misfortune I´ve decided to publish them anyway. I mean, it happend and I can´t change it…

milan 2009 /

its sunday and I just got back from the milan design week.
unfortunately I couldn’t find an internet connection in milan. so no posts the whole week. but now I have enough content for the next few months.

here is a little preview from my spontaneous top 3 from last week.
and when I say top 3, I talk about the whole thing: exhibition, presentation, idea, products..

1 – design miami/ fendi present craft punk
design performances by designers at spazio fendi

2 – ‘mat, satiné, brilliant’ by belgium-based fashion designer
maison martin margiela at zona tortona

3 – prophets and penitents by damn magazine, showing chairs in prototype form at the oratorio della passione, a 15th century hall

I announce couple changes that will or have occurred on my blog:

- I have added a ‘drawn interview’ symbol to the interviews of the designers to separate the pictures from the drawings

- I will start to watermark my pictures. It happens often that I find my pictures on other websites without putting a link to matandme.net. shame on you!

- I will finally publish more information about me. so people who don’t know me will find out whats behind all this

lalala, matylda

last friday I attended at the 2nd pecha kucha night at the ainsi in maastricht, netherlands.

pecha kucha forces a presenter to show 20 images for 20 seconds a piece, for a total time of 6 minutes, 40 seconds. this form of presentation was invented in japan in 2003 by tokyo based architects astrid klein and mark dytham, klein dyham.

I am sure everybody of us know some creatives that tend to talk to much and too long about their ideas. anyway, I think I am going to participate at the next pecha kucha maastricht on saturday, 20th june 2009. lalala