fashion design student wayne fitzell has designed a biker jacket for puma. wayne, who studies at central saint martins, has won the motorsport re design competition – an collaboration with iconic motorsport brand ducati.
Yearly Archives: 2009
LDN
people tell me that they get confused when they suddenly have entries from another city/country. I am announcing that I am in london. again!
maurice mentjens: balanced shoes
about 2 weeks ago kymyka, a new shoe and bag store, opened in maastricht, netherlands. the interior is made by designer maurice mentjens.
I like the idea of shoes on pins hold by magnets.
a very classy resolution.
maurice won the dutch design awards in 2005, 2006 and 2007. I think he might look forward the dutch design awards 2009 ;-)
roderick vos: biological structures in a vase
today I popped into the conflict design store in maastricht. it is a little store with a carefully choosen selection of dutch design… and here it was again: the ma-ma vase by designer roderick vos. it is a beautiful vase for royal tichelaar makkum, the netherlands’ oldest company. you can have it in glossy white, matte gold, matte aluminum, matte brass and a decorated version.
my new business cards
last new years eve I lost my wallet. I needed some new business cards, wondered what to do … and that’s what I came up with..
young london-based designer matthew plummer fernandez, english designer max lamb, my grandma (she wears my cool sunglasses), maarten baas furniture producer bas den herder with eindhoven-based designer alexander pelikan, fashion designer branko popovic, dezeen founder marcus fairs with his wife rupinder boghal (what a great couple!), the e pellicci team (my favourite greasy spoon in london), my brother and me (we did not change), hong-kong based designer michael young, spanish artist-designer jamie hayon, fashion concept designer miriam hartwig, london-based designer tomas alonso
eventarchiectuur: bookshelf
marres, centre for contemporary culture, in maastricht has one of my favourite bookshelfs.
amsterdam-based interior studio eventarchitectuur have designed the wooden bookshelf in september 2005. but every time when I am there I realize that I like it more.
studio makkink & bey: a great ‘chairbox’ idea
I am kinda into chairs at the moment because I have to write my bachelor thesis and as I like chairs a lot I choose for them as the main topic…
so the arched gallery in the nai, netherlands architecture institute, maastricht is showing an installation called ‘living with things’ by rotterdam-based architect rianne makkink & designer jurgen bey. the creative duo evoke the industrial hall, where they lived until recently, in the 3th level of the institute – a space that they regarded as the ideal house.
this chair is a little detail of the hole exhibition and one of my favorites. I like the combination of seating object and private space. armchair in a box. and when you sit inside you look through a tv window and you can observe whats going on outside. the only disruptive element are the black stickers on the box.
the forgotten egg chair
this is the egg chair (looks like a halved surprise egg) I saw yesterday in the nai, netherlands architecture institute, in maastricht.
the chair is designed by english architects alison and peter smithsons in 1956 and I couldn’t find it the 1000 chairs book by taschen. even google is almost not giving any informations about it. so, here it is – the egg chair – arne jacobsen has designed the famous version;-) – which colour reminds me of the yolk of the egg in my breakfast.
the plastic egg chair was designed for the smithsons
‘house of the future’, 1956 – an visionary ‘model home’