kilian schindler graduated in 2008 at the state university of media arts and design (they do not have an english version of their website) in karlsruhe, germany.

he describes the project he was showing at the imm, cologne furniture fair, as follows: ..’extracting well-know elements from their usual context..’ – basically he reduced the well known plastic chair into outlines. the plastic chair is designer’s favourite right now:

berlin-based jerzy seymour has done a redesign for magis, 2004.
see here

the swedish girls from front design covered it in leather, 2008.
see here

dutch designer maarten baas designed a version made of wood, 2008. see here.

pepe heykoop graduated last year from the living department at design academy eindhoven. I have seen his chair at the graduation show and filmed it. now he has won the [d3] design talents award in cologne. basically its a simple shaped chair with flexible rubber joints.

‘a restless chairacter’ – flexible chair by pepe heykoop
model: derya inanici from designguild san francisco

london-based industrial designer ross lovegrove visited cologne last night to present his istanbul bathroom collection for turkish brand vitra (I know what you think.. ‘doesn’t that name belong to the manufacturer of designer furniture? THE vitra‘)

during his speech the socalled captian organic described the range as ‘digital organic islamic’. what a description. but again he is using a nature based design language. so I really wanted to talk to ross but unfortunately he was so busy with talking to different people that I didn’t get the chance. what a pity..

ross lovegrove →

I will be in cologne the next days.

check the furniture fair called imm and the other events around. they are presented in context with the passagen cologne. lalala