I am bad. yesterday I went to the exhibition called ‘feierabend’ (german word for home time) at the kate mcgarry gallery in bethnal green, london.

a nice guy from the gallery told me not to take pictures. but he said that it is okay as long as it was for non commercial use. I didn’t mean to put anything about the work of london-based designer martino gamper, his artist girlfriend francis upritchard and jewelery designer karl fritsch on my blog. but the exhibition is a beautiful collaborative installation and I couldn’t resist to publish at least 2 of the pictures I took. In hope to encourage you to see the exhibition in the tiny gallery in east london.

the gentleman by francis upritchard, sculpture, 2008

blue eared by francis upritchard and martino gamper, chair, 2009

this is the spaghetti bench by argentina-born pablo reinoso. I took this picture at the design art fair in london last year. It randomly returned from oblivion in my photographs folder.

spaghetti bench by pablo reinoso

the carpenters workshop gallery in london had another opening yesterday. amsterdam-based designer sebastian brajkovic presents his ‘lathe’ chair collection at the gallery. It’s his first solo show. and the continuation of his graduation project from design academy eindhoven in 2006.

lathe VIII, bronze with nitric-acid burned patina
needle stitched embroidered fabric, 2008 – his recent work

more from the ‘lathe’ collection →

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.