it feels like the netherlands moved to milan. there is dutch design everywhere. and you hear a lot people talking dutch. we had great weather and some exciting encounters. here are the first.

the ghost collection – nhow hotel – 2nd floor, zona tortona

lonneke gordijn & ralph nauta – drift – presenting their ghost collection

bonjour! french designers in milano: olivier lellouche, julien demanche, najla el zein, nicholas daul and marcus fairs from dezeen

barbara kooij and barbara vos, promoting the royal dutcheese exhibition

sajoscha talira and paul timmer – 2 royal dutcheese, royal academy of art, den haag

mieke meijer, emely hermans and daphna isaacs – girls from eindhoven. presenting their work in a caravan

at the studio job exhibition. me and jeanne van beers, general manager of the designhuis, eindhoven

studio job exhibition. the gap between design and art – I love it

martijn ten bhoner, ivo stuyfzand, thomas de wolf, from tu eindhoven, department of industrial design

niels van eijk next to his blommy buddies. a work of him and miriam van der lubbe

caterina di lorgi and her collegue interviewing me for their blog – blogosfere

at the maarten baas party. good music, good people, great talk

.. it’s late. I am tried. we spend the night at the maarten baas party and had some drinks. I feel overloaded with design. I go to bed now and will post the rest in the morning…. lalala

last month, when I was in munich, I saw this intallation of the interior design department of the academy of fine arts munich. check out here: tie-wrap world.

and here is another jungle. but this one was an experiment. they build a giant handcrafted jungle as a group project with the product design and graphic design departement from the university of applied sciences in aachen. the challenge was: do it within 48h. you can find more information on the weblog. here are some facts:

48 hours | 14 groups | 56 participants

each team:
200 roof panels | 160 cardboard tubes | 180 cardboard boxes | 400 tie wrap (I love these) | 6 m2 amount of space for each group

the beginn

who are the design heroes? they are some creatives from aachen (you might ask yourself where aachen is. it’s in the west of germany, close to the dutch boarder). most of them studied product design. after their studies they were looking for a studio, some workspace. 3 of them opened the design at work studio/shop in the centre of aachen.

last year, at the ambiente in frankfurt, they were exhibiting their products. and because 4 designers from aachen were presenting their work (just 20 people from germany are getting some exhibition area) people use to ask if aachen is going to become the new design metropolitan. First sneered at, the aachen design heroes started to believe into it. now they are going to promote the idea in milan at the designweek. so watch out! – there is an olive scooter driving through the city. and there is a lot of tape involved. if you won’t be attentive you could be sticked to the wall. yeah, designmetropole aachen!

patricia yasmine graf, valentin derksen (trainee), julia graf, jürgen reichert, andrea derichs, daniel tsvetkov (trainee)

in the centre: fabian seibert

hm.. how can we conquer the world? maybe with scooters and tape?

or enter to the design world?

another must-see is that’s design. various universities and institutions are presenting innovative design made by students at the zona tortona. I would say another platform for the new creative generation.

phillip mann – stainless steel, granite, glassware, plastic bottle
rhode Island school of design

list of participants:

• university of art and design halle
• canterbury school of architecture
• domus academy
• hong kong design centre
• konstfack university college of arts, crafts and design
• lund university, Industrial design
• politecnico di milano
• accademia del lusso
• rhode Island school of design
• scuola politecnica di design
• british higher school of art and design
• strate collège designers
• unitec new zealand- school of design
• university college falmouth

superstudio piu’
via tortona 27