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richard florida: the right city is the first step of success

I’ve been lately at a discussion round in the netherlands architecture institute in maastricht. we looked into the fact that people are leaving maastricht after studying. it was a 2 hour talk without conclusion. cécile narinx, editor in chief of elle netherlands, was one of the guests. she is the case study of a proud dutch girl who left the small town in the south and moved to the thrilling amsterdam.

richard florida says that his book is an empirical observation, the way the world is, and not the way he wish the world would be. but the truth is that the right city involves the right people and the right possibilities.

so, my dear maastricht, I have to leave you soon. you don’t offer enough.

richard florida whosyourcity
richrad florida – who’s your city – 2008

cecile narinx
cécile narinx | niek bisscherou – architect and director of the academy of architecture maastricht

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hansen and paul hoepner: biking to milan

there are people who will travel by bus or will take the train. some do have a car and some prefer to take the plane. and everbody will meet up in milan for the designweek. but these twins decided to go by bike. (we are talking about 900 km)

hansen hoepner is a product design student from maastricht and his brother, paul, a graphic designer from cologne. it sounds crazy but hansen constructed his bike by himself. he used various parts of old bikes and created a bike which is, like he said, perfect to make a tour through the hills. he calls the bike ‘hanneman’. today at 2 pm they left maastricht and their first stopover wil be somewhere between liegé, belgium and luxemburg. they are planning to attend at the designweek on the 19th april. so just 9 days for the trip. I am curious if they gonna hit the goal. but I belive in them.

stay tuned! they will send me some pictures from their trip in the next days!

hansen paul hoepner
hansen and paul höpner

hanneman bike
the incredible ‘hanneman’ bike

make a bike
constructing the bike

hannemann bike
the scheduling

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philippe starck: design kills

a little piss-tale of phillipe starck‘s juicer. actually it’s an example of good design which defuses the tension between functional and aesthetic goals. in my judgment: the juicer is overused. I can’t and don’t wanna see him again. you find it in almost every design book. besides this rocket-shaped squeezer appears expressly designed to spray orange juice all over the person who is attempting to use it. anyhow it’s the ultimate designer accessory.

philippe starck juicer

alessi starck juicer
philippe starck – juicer – alessi

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self-help: ‘A’ stamp amusement

imagine yourself sitting 3,5 hours at a techno party cash desk. in the first 2 hours nobody is coming because people use to join late nightlife. you feel bored and unchallenged. there is just an ‘A’ stamp and a pen. the latter isn’t interesting to you. (a pen is an everday object) so why not draw with the stamp. I did it.

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on all drawings (or should I say ‘stampings’) you can see me and my flatmate, miriam hartwig, who was sitting next to me.

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play: four in a row

after I played four in a row with christoph seyferth I become obsessed again. for everybody who has nobody around for a battle (for example a flatmate who not even commiserate with you) send the pattern below to some friends and just play!

connect 4

here it’s called connect 4. but for me it’s still four in a row. I guess there are many exressions for the game.

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there are also many online games. so I don’t need to bother my flatmate anymore. hehe

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