I have seen this vase at the design post in cologne. the columba vase for the dutch label mossi is designed by berlin-based designer david krings and realized with dutch royal goedewaagen.

columba vase by david krings

norwegian designer peter opsvik has designed a 3rd version of the reflex chair for furniture manufacturer naturellement.

I am a little peter opsvik fan because I sit every day on one of his office chairs. see here (3rd picture). but I would love to have this one as an old bird.

imm cologne, 2009

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show me another ‘art meets design’ exhibition and I gonna shoot myself ;-). 2 weeks ago, when I visited the designers fair at the rhein triadem in cologne, an event during the furniture fair imm, I came across one of this events.

dortmund-based heimatdesign presented ‘surface’, an exposition of former design academy eindhoven students. It was a likeable compilation of ‘already seen’ work. most of them old graduation projects. all of them dutch – the best in art and design Interface. In my opinion the pick of the bunch at this event. but I think it’s a pity that a german collective called heimatdesign, which literally means ‘homedesign’, doesn’t present work of german designers. so, get out, german concept designers. we want you!

idea of a clock by hans tan
the time in words at the end of the sentence changes according to real time

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I still have to put a proper ‘about me’ on my blog. I just do not like to write something about my self. so, I am a product design student at the academy maastricht, netherlands. this year it’s my turn: graduation time! I do not have a theme yet. and I am still uncertain about my final thesis. but I like to figure out what I want while discussing it. especially with people who are not product or furniture designers. that’s what can happen then…

my german photo designer friend sebastian mueller came to maastricht and he shoot a series of pictures of me under the title ‘for domestic use’ – personification of household articles. a research in pictures. I have 9 final photographs and I show you 2 of them.

closet

vacuum cleaner

german design student anika engelbrecht has designed a series of vases called swell. these ceramic vases have huge holes. so normally, if you poured some water in them, these vases would leak. so in a way they loose their function by having these holes. balloons fill this holes and the vases retain their function of fl using a balloon as water storage.

I do not maintain that dutch designer els woldhek is running off the pictured chair design from 1981. this is just the perfect example of how form or shape is celebrating a comeback in design. again and again.

bastard chair by els woldhek at [d3] design talents, cologne

front cover domus magazine, 1981