Cologne. Germany. From the 14th – 21th January 2008, the [d³] design talents event for young, independent designers will be taking place at imm cologne for the third time. Here are some pictures which are made today – 4 days before the grand opening. Still a lot to do… where are the products?
stand | academy of fine arts maastricht
stand | [d³ contest]
stand | designspotter.com
stand | fh aachen, germany
stand | meetingpoint build by the academy of fine arts maastricht, netherlands
It’s a shelf in the size and apperance of a book. Simply attached to the wall it is a rack for up to 4kg of your books. Nicole van Schouwenburg‘s product let your books float. I dont’t like the print on the rack, but the idea is great!
| book self shelf |
Maastricht. Netherlands. The Centre Céramique, the information- and communicationcentre, presents an exhibition over ‘fragile’ design. ‘Breekbare ideen’ shows ceramic products from different fields. So have a look on what is possible.
maxime anssiau
skyscraper, 2006
ted noten
golden stacking, 2004
maria roosen
decorated toilet / flower, 1998
| centre céramique |
Shanghai. World Expo 2010. Sascha Glasl intend to ask visitors to influence the expo with their memories of the country’s past. He will collect personal souvenirs comprising single German memories. Together they will form a huge pile. As such, the souvenir functions as a way of communicating German memories.
In order to obtain the souvenirs he started a donation appeal in Germany. Germans have been asked to send a personal memento – an object, which fitted in a post package (size ‘S’) plus a description of the memento. These items of everyday life are conserved in transparent luggage bags.
The souvenirs and the concomitant pile will be assembled during the next 3 years until the Expo opens. During the Expo the mountain will decrease, as each visitor takes away a luggage-bag as a ’gift’. In this way, new memories show up every day. At the end of the Expo the German pavilion will consist only of a green park. This donation of souvenirs enables Germans to deal with their history and to give their nation a true and complex identity.
| sascha glasl’s blog cluster of works |
| german pavillion – world expo shanghai 2010 |
| EAP | the project was nominated for the euregional architecture price 2007
maastricht. gallery-showroom Editions. It’s one of the spots were it feels like home. You find yourself in a small, white room which is full of diffrent lamps. The illumination comes just from the exhibited works. A mix of famous and yet not known designers are to find here. But also other diffrent stuff which a designloving person appreciates. Chequita Nahar, gallery owner and Head of Department Jewelry & Product design Academy of Fine Arts in Maastricht, runs through the showroom and arranges everything. She does it with complete satisfaction. Like she would do it with her own work. When I asked here why she opened the gallery, she said:’ I want to show people what exist in design these days.’
Unfortunately the exhibition is over this sunday. But she is already working on a new one. We are looking forward to it!
Chequita Nahar | gallery-showroom Editions
editions | gallery-showroom
tongersestraat 3
6211 LM maastricht
NY. The New Museum is open to the public since December 1, 2007. It is a home for contemporary art and an incubator for new ideas, as well as an architectural contribution to New York’s urban landscape. It is situated in the Bowery. Years ago it was the most exclusive street in New York. But that’s a long time ago. The last news were about the harbourage for the homeless and the soup kitchen: the boulevard of the fallen. And now you can find the institution of art on it. A place for adventure.
But the highest statement is the building. You can’t find any windows and it’s seems that somebody put seven boxes on top of each other. It is radical. It’s diffrent. Like a psychological experiment – I love it.
|new museum|
|sanaa new museum|
|sanaa architects|
another project of sanaa in essen, germany
|sanaa – zollverein school of managment & design|
Barcelona. Spain. International festival of contemporary art. The diffrent participating artists place themselves with sceptism towards the problematic characteristics of the city.
Gerard Cuartero-Betriu / Jordi Querait i Suau
‘dibuixa’t la ciutat’, 2007
This project proposes an analysis and a later reflection about the contemporary city, by making available to the inhabitants – the real protagonists – a discussion framework about the city.
Mark Wolf
‘architecture of density’, 2005
my interpretation: lack of space – lack of intimicy
Gosia Hejnat
‘plakatomania’, 2006
billboard advertisements and posters in berlin to reveal the artistic and personal responses of the artist
at 10 pm the hole terrain was still filled with young artloving people. Where are these people in the rest of europe?