http://matandme.net design, people, interview, drawing, art, style, matyda krzykowski Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:06:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en london I went to the barbican to see ron arad's 'first major survey exhibition' in the uk the other day. ron has lots to show. I mean, he is in the design business since 3 decades but this mirror-polished stainless steel moving bookshelf is the most striking product I have seen ... http://matandme.net/ron-arad-likes-it-shiny-we-like-it-too/ eindhoven it's a long time ago when I met andrea and simone from formafantasma. to be precise, it was last october during the dutch design week. this video is made by robert andriessen from designguide.tv and shows an interview I did with formafantasma at the design academy. watch it! andrea trimarchi, simone ... http://matandme.net/formafantasma-an-interview-with-formative-italians/ london it doesn't look like anything that can be brought in context of airplanes. but the truth is that german designer stefan diez used a production methodology which is used in airplane model-making. I quote:' 2 flat plywood slabs are streched around a complexly milled solid wood ring to form back ... http://matandme.net/stefan-diez-high-tec-milled-solid-wood-which-cant-fly/ cologne I am in london since 1 month and I really miss having a proper work desk. I had a massive desk in my old apartment in maastricht which provided anything I need for work. at the moment I have to much of a nomadic life to settle down and have ... http://matandme.net/robin-grasby-organized-working/ london jason bruges is a london-based designer. since 2001 he has ran a studio with a team of designers and architects. the trained architect was always on my list of people to do a drawn interview with. when I went to the press preview of the brit insurance design awards in ... http://matandme.net/jason-bruges-currently-a-panda-fan/ london I browsed through my pictures from the brit insurance design awards this morning. I like the form of konstantin grcic's 360° chair for italian manufacturer magis but I do not understand why they put the orange version of the chair on display at the designmuseum. It looks like a piece ... http://matandme.net/konstantin-grcic-process-in-chair/ london 1934 born designer reinhold weiss is one of the creaters of iconic electronics manufacturer braun. this elegant piece is one of the exhibited pieces at the 'more and less' show at the desigmuseum. but what is it exactly? a hint: it's hand-size. function fbs_click() {u=location.href;t=document.title;window.open('http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(u)+'&t='+encodeURIComponent(t),'sharer','toolbar=0,status=0,width=626,height=436');return false;} html .fb_share_button { display: -moz-inline-block; display:inline-block; ... http://matandme.net/reinhold-weiss-guess-what-it-is/ london I never met dieter rams in person. even if I would love to. recently I saw his 'less and more’ exhibition at the designmuseum in london. dieter was the director at the german electronics manufacturer braun and is known globally for his simple and elegant aesthetics. there was a picture ... http://matandme.net/dieter-rams-dieters-and-my-livingroom/ london 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 ... http://matandme.net/pecha-kucha-i-didnt-hear-the-sound-of-conversation/ london 3 days ago this year's nominations for the brit Insurance designs of the year have been announced. I went to the press preview at the designmuseum and had a closer look at the selection. japan-based dilight are lucky to be nominated with their bead-shaped LED lights installation. the self-claimed branding ... http://matandme.net/dilight-luminous-little-beads/ london I went to the brit insurance designs of the year press preview on tuesday. the designmuseum in london shows a selection of best designs for the third time. In june 2008 american automobile designer chris bangle introduced a car that questions the purpose of a car's usual body. the former ... http://matandme.net/chris-bangle-a-concept-car-that-actually-works/ brussels kaspar hamacher enjoyed a protected life in the nature. his father is a forester in eupen, german speaking part of belgium. kaspar graduated in 2007 at the academy of fine arts in maastricht. during his product design studies he was often criticised by his tutors. but when it came to ... http://matandme.net/kaspar-hamacher-from-the-woods/ cologne I am in london since couple days. today I was standing in my new housemates garden. the next door neighbour had some old pitchforks standing around. It took me a while till I thought about cologne-based designer david olschewski who found a way of reusing this tool. david olschewski at ... http://matandme.net/david-olschewski-repurposes/ brussels norayr khachatrayan was born in armenia. since 1999 he has been living and working in belgium. norayr graduated in 2007 from the st-lukas Institute in brussels. I met norayr when I went to the 'craft wood' exhibition at the kreon showroom in brussels last month. together himself and close friend/colleague ... http://matandme.net/norayr-khachatryan-begins-with-form/ maastricht let me be a little bit sentimental. today I leave maastricht for 4 months for a 'better' (either more expensive) life in london. I think that's the best moment to present you my favourite building in the in the southern part of the netherlands. It's the fire station by rotterdam-based ... http://matandme.net/neutelings-riedijk-the-green-fortress-against-fire/ amsterdam sebastian brajkovic graduated in 2006 from the design academy eindhoven. he didn't really like to go there because he knew what he wanted to design from the beginning. he felt that he is getting little out of his education. really, everything was already nicely put together in his head. the ... http://matandme.net/sebastian-brajkovic-a-stone-not-a-sponge/ cologne I like french designers. and this one created a lamp on the principle of an organic body. lyon-based rémi bouhaniche has build a black skeleton which is the lampshade and a white surface which received the role of the skin. by pulling the rod down the light is switched on/off ... http://matandme.net/remi-bouhaniche-it-lives/ dortmund pierre kracht is a product designer. katrin füser is a graphic designer. the dortmund-based couple lives and works together. they realised that they complement each other well. that's why they founded fremdform, a studio which 'develops visions and concepts for interior space'. last year I visited pierre and katrin in ... http://matandme.net/fremdform-not-that-strange/ cologne czech designer klára šumová has designed a lamp from a raw tree branch. the base is lathed into a clear baroque curve and equipped with a huge paper lamp-shader. 'lamp love' can be purchased in three species of wood: pine, ash or larch and was part of the 3d talents ... http://matandme.net/klara-sumova-turn-on-the-tree/ berlin last week I traveled to berlin to see some commercial brand fair and to have a look at the dizajn=design exhibition at the polish Institute. the show deals with polish design and gives you an overview of east european aesthetics. michael okraj, graphic designer and curator of the show, has ... http://matandme.net/michael-okraj-show-me-how-polish-you-are/ london today is the last day of stuart haygarth's 'found' exhibition at the haunch of venison in london. I met stuart and interviewed him in december 2009, shortly after the opening: stuart + magoo chandelier 2009, found optical lenses M are you a designer or artist? SH I am an artist-designer. M do ... http://matandme.net/stuart-haygarth-walks-with-his-head-down-while-looking-for-things/ cologne german brand alape presented 'betty blue' a sink that makes the water disappear in the edges at the imm, furniture fair in cologne, last week. the brand says that 'a bathroom is an architectural space'. mine isn't but they have certainly convinced me that it could be. Im not ... http://matandme.net/alape-magic-water-table/ cologne dutch designer pepe heykoop had his 2nd showdown at the 3d contest exhibition, the young designers competition of the imm furniture fair in cologne, last week. pepe has won the contest in 2009 with http://matandme.net/pepe-heykoop-and-then-came-the-anti-emotion/ cologne german designer robert haslbeck has designed a folding table with the name 'under-koffer'. unused it has the shape of a flat suitcase. but when you unfold the product it becomes a table that reminds me of an ironing table. robert graduated with this project at the burg giebichenstein hochschule für ... http://matandme.net/robert-haslbeck-buy-one-get-one-free/ cologne german designer marc ulm worked 7 years in a bookstore before enjoying the pleasure of becoming really creative. he went to the hfg offenbach where he just completed his pre-degree with 'trilas', a dynamic seating for the everyday life. marc ivited me to sit on one of the chairs. he ... http://matandme.net/marc-ulm-rides-my-pony/