I am up for the designweek. as you can see I already hang up the zona tortona board from last year. my former flatmate ‘accidentally’ took this board with her. it was all but on the ground. and because she is such a provident person she couldn’t leave the board alone…

If I give some thought to the zona tortona I would say that it’s the heart of the design week in milano. every year hundreds of companies, like abc, tuttobene, tom dixon, park, maarten baas etc. offer a preview of their products in all the locations of zona tortona district. there are some good brands and design to see and, of course, some stuff I would like to delete of my knowledge. but the area is full of design interested people and the ambiance is unbeatable. we should pray for last year’s weather now and everthing will be perfect in 2008.

some impressions from 2007

zona tortona ‘entry’

creative hanging around

tales from eindhoven crew

maarten bass

zona tortona guide

I am a constant reader of morf, a dutch magazine about design which is published by premsela, which is a platform for design and fashion. the aim of morf is to stimulate the students to think about their profession and their own future place within it.

I found this article in an old issue, no.3 – november 2005. ted noten gives advice. reading the article is more than a pleasure. finally I found my godfather. (check commandment 7)

2 months ago I got an email from a friend who wanted to write an essay about hysteria on design. he is from spain and also a designer. guillem ferran asked me to send him some informations about maxime ansiau, a dutch-french designer. he saw a picture of his work on matandme. I’ve send him all he needed and now his article is printed. he compilated different works of studio job, wok media, maarten baas, martino gamper, maxime ansiau, ted noten, atelier van lieshout and jerszy seymour.

yeah, guillem! but is there an english version? my spanish isn’t that good.

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