Curating and producing international shows is designersblock‘s specialty. their current project are the selfridges window displays in london. 7 artists and designers were invited to create 7 unique window designs. I show you 5 of the 7.
[we]make
sorry for mirroring. lalala
on monday I started my internship at dezeen, online design and architecture magazine. marcus fairs, former editor of icon magazine, runs the buisness with his wife rupinder boghal and his right-hand woman rose etherington. the office is homely and inviting and this is the place where I spend my weekdays. It’s my desk.
the eames plastic armchair looks after my jacket
an unpacked front table
twenty-first century design,
a book by marcus fairs – an encyclopaedia of design
(I guess lena and jens gonna laugh about the titel)
I’ve been in amsterdam for 2 days and was invited to a dinner at an agency where friends of mine are working – lena steinborn is my ex-roomate (I’ve lived with some people) and jens erfurth is her boyfriend. he is actually the one who introduced me to lena. both studied graphic design at the academy maastricht. lena was a fulltime student and jens was there for a exchange semester. they did their internships in amsterdam and after graduating in 2007 they both moved to the capital of the netherlands. now they even are colleagues at the atelier van gog, which calls itself a creative platform. so isn’t that a real couple?
real
lena steinborn
jens erfurth
lena and jens with wouter overhaus, founder of atelier van gog en designer of the kitsch kitchen corporate identity
jens and wouter as a playing card
lena’s desk
inside the studio
outside the studio – at the veemarkt, an industrial area in amsterdam
there are so many people who romanticize the helvetica. a typeface that affected the life of millions. most, in typeface interested folks, know the helvetica documentary by gary hustwit. now he decided to make a movie about industrial design (I would also mention product design). about the people behind the products you use. to name just a few examples: ronan and erwan bouroullec from paris, jonathan Ive from apple, marc newson from london and hella jongerius from rotterdam. the title is objectified. things are seldom that unambiguous. the movie is currently in production and will have its world premiere in early 2009.
objectified logo by build
marc newson – lockheed lounge
hella jongerius – office pets
ronan and erwan bouroullec – rocks
jonathan ive – iphone
what’s the perfect banana? the brown one, the green one or the yellow one?! people like this fruit in a different way. I prefer a green banana because a brown pulpy banana made me throw up in my childhood. and now my life is affected by a paranoia. and how can people eat a fried banana (this one is even with ice cream ahhh)? you get these often in a chinese restaurant as a dessert. that gives me the creeps. anyway, I am in the mood of some banana topics because I found 2 pictures of bananas in my archive while I’ve been working on a new portfolio.
how to make a gun out of a banana? I am curios what kind of ammo I need for this one
here is the proof: bananas aren’t always curved
yo get what you see – banana juice – clever packaging from naoto fukasawa
the banana wall, an installation from stefan sagmeister – I never expected him to do something like this – but you never can tell
I was really fighting with myself about posting or not posting this, but I need to show it. obviously its a german invention (or a chinese one). and how can they write ‘ ideal for kindergarden, school..’ – I would never give that thing in the hand of my child. it looks so kinky it cries out for a reference in an ann summers or beate uhse catalogue.
banana bunker by erro ‘design’ – be ashamed when you carry this in your bag
last night I have been at the nike store opening in berlin mitte. a nice store and a bunch of people wearing nikes. artwork of diffrent creatives were shown. could not find something that I liked but one. there was this sarah illenberger creation and I immediatly had to think about my beloved maurice scheltens. it’s not that sarah is coping him but I see a striking resemblance (I guess I see a link between the work in the nike store and the one maurice did for psp. check my post from february about maurice’s work) I do not need to say that the dutch wins again, its obvious that he is stronger by use of form. maurice is doing that with an easiness and without adding any unnecessary extras.
sarah illenberger in the nike store berlin
sarah illenberger – mc forest
sarah illenberger – lauter nette kerle
SARAH ILLENBERGER
VS
MAURICE SCHELTENS
maurice scheltens – nike (hey, everbody wanna work for them)
maurice scheltens – fantastic man packing
maurice scheltens – audi
WHAT DO YOU PREFER?
how cool is that – there is an aha video included into one of the family guy episodes. to be honest, it is one of the best videos ever and also a good 80ies song. thumps up for the instructive and brilliant family guy and for the song which was sold 1.5 million times worldwide in one week.
morten harket (aha) + chris griffin (family guy)
the video used a pencil-sketch animation/live action combination called rotoscoping (individual frames of live video are drawn over or colored)
think about your logo!
duncan ledingham – product designer
does it trigger any associations?
duncan, sorry for exposing you in this way. but people use to say that any pr is good pr. my answer is: you are welcome!
