london
danecia sibingo, a 3rd year architecture student designed this year’s architectural association summer pavilion.
the triangular pavilion is built from sustainable spruce plywood and is called driftwood. It is constructed from slices of plywood assembled vertically on a wooden frame, creating an undulating surface. danecia’s work is based on the bedford square and looks like something that was forgotten by an unknown species. I think, It should stay there forever.
london
after graduation you suddenly lose all your work possibilities. but there are some institutions that might help you out. couple months ago I visited the metropolitan works. It calls himself ‘london’s leading creative Industries centre’. the aim is to help designers and manufacturers develop ideas and bring new products to reality.
a con is, that london-based designers get a discount while other designers have to pay the full price… at least there is a new space and a manufacturing resource for designers working in the city. so, move to london or pay the full price.
prototype of core by antony gormley
the original is made out of iron using cnc-milling
laser-cut bricks by timorous beasties
rapid prototyping: allegro crescendo speakers by tord boontje
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a previous entry about the metropolitan works:
maastricht
graduation is over. now I need some time to ‘recover’. I found a nice photo of one of my prototypes of my modus operandi collection. one of my fellow students used it to sit on it during lunch. we called it ‘stair chair’. any buyers? this graduation made me poor. : )
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. I talked about the power of blogging, the difficulties of becoming a designer and how people start taking your seriously when you work on a project on a regular basis. Here is the video of my presentation:
‘damn, I am fucking nervous’
maastricht
croatia born designer patrizia dona graduated at the willem de koning academy rotterdam in 2006. the former fashion design student was exhibiting her ‘objects to wear’ during fashionclash, the first fashion event in maastricht, nl. the exhibition will be shown till 5th july.
necklace constructed out of typing mechanism
bag and necklce
bag wth typewriter keyboard
I can proudly say that I am a part of a great project. this project is about fashion. it is called fashionclash and its the first big fashion event in maastricht.
For this event we invented a project called CLASH:
CLASH is a project for non-fashion designers.
We selected 10 creatives for this project.
Each of them was responsible for one outfit.
They were allowed to do anything they want.
here is a preview of what you can expect:
liv langeslag, artist
joost howard, director/actor
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timmerfabriek, boschstraat 3, 6211 maastricht
26 june – 5 july 2009
photography: mueller3000
milan 2009/
there is no need to advertise english furniture brand established & sons, but I like them so much that I will anyway. here are some snapshots from the press preview during milan design week.
5 years!
alasdhair willis, founder of established & sons,
in a quilt seat designed by ronan and erwan bouroullec
alasdhair willis and maarten baas
surface chair by terrence woodgate and john barnard
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see more establshed & sons stories:
surface table by terence woodgate and john barnard