london
the design museum‘s current exhibition called ‘super contemporary’ shows key moments in the development of design in london. It explores what attracts creatives to live, study and work in the capital.
london-based designer thomas heatherwick presents his ‘lamp post chandelier’ – his vision of lanterns for the english capital.
berlin
designdrive, a creative platform for latvian and european designers in latvia, was exhibiting at the dmy, design festival in berlin.
gundega zake cimza, one of the participating designers, presented a new kind of prayer bench which is easy to use in different positions. ‘goodspeed’ can be also used as a bench at home, school, clubs, sport hall etc.
goodspeed by gundega zake cimza
berlin
beta tank the design practice which is based in berlin and london has presented their new product called ‘memory stücks – stone’ during the dmy in berlin. basically it is ‘a limited edition of memory pieces which bond the tangible physical with the ephemeral digital’.
memory stücks – stone
beta tank, 2009
london
london-based designer philippe malouin and his architect friend sacha leong have designed the new interior of the b store showroom.
the creatives work together under the name post office – interiors and architecture studio. my favourite in the b store is the noticeable lamp that consists from white long lightbulbs. simple and good. guys, when are you coming to my place to install my lamp?
hasselt
the furniture is an 2 year old project of london-based designer martino gamper. a series of design classics by Italian designer gio ponti were destroyed and reassembled into new pieces in front of a live audience at the design miami/basel. the whole happening is called: If only gio knew…’. the pieces were exhibited at the superstories triennale at the z33 in hasselt, belgium.
london
I visited the new designers show last month. design students andrew duffy, craig tyler and edward harrison from the university of rochester presented a minature rotational moulding machine.
the DIY (do It yourself) rotation moulding machine is built to replicate the industrial process to help further understand its possibilities. it was built at no cost from scrap materials and simply powered by a cordless drill. one of them told me that they just invested 5 pounds for the machine. what a bargain.
hasselt
the ‘prototype LLC 04’, a leather lounge chair from 2004 from the deceased belgian designer maarten van severen was presented at the superstories event in the z33 in hasselt, belgium. It was the 2nd edition of the triennial of contemporary art, fashion and design and ended end of may.
london
michelle schields has created a table that stands on long birches called ‘fujimori table’ for the ‘mint tells tales’ exhibition at the mint gallery. In my opinion, one of the most convincing pieces in the exhibition which makes me drift away in my own thoughts about tales.
‘there is once an old table’
there was once an old table who had tired old legs
a long tiring life nearly left him shreds
with years yet to come it planted some trees
It hoped that these birches would answer its needs
It wanted to ascend to the heavens above
at least to relieve its sore limbs thereof
the years went by and it measured the trees
with boxwood rules and patience indeed
just as it hoped the birches grew taller
as each year passed its worries grew smaller
