eindhoven

this is ‘heimat’ by dominic plüer. the swiss-born graduate of the design academy created an affectionate container for a liquer that reminds him of switzerland. It really makes me want to hug it.

eindhoven

‘blok 7’ is the new product of the maastricht-based designer laurens hamacher, who works preferably with wood. his interest in the material is influenced by his childhood. he grew up in the belgian forests. laurens is exhibiting his new work in the strip-s, part of the dutch design week, which continues today.

eindhoven

this work is a chest of drawers and a bookshelf in one piece. guy keulemans, who did his masters in humanitarian design at the design academy, wanted to ‘presents an inversion of aesthetic function’ in his research project. his project is also on exhibition at the graduation galleries 2009 till October 25th.

eindhoven

just got back from the dutch design week. on saturday I joined the press tour and went to the graduation galleries of the design academy. here is something from the man and well-being department:

yoeri treffers’ inflatable void, a blow-up space made of tyvek, comes in first. the ‘void’ is inflated within 20 seconds by a fan hanging from the ceiling. the fabric adapts to the surrounded objects and can be used in various rooms. basically it allows you to create your own private space, in any space.

outside

inside

yoeri treffers helps the man to get out

eindhoven

this weekend is all about dutch design. I am going to eindhoven to spend some time with rose etherington from dezeen and robert andriessen from designguide.tv. a quote from robert: ‘we go for the freebies’. yes, we like the free nibbles and refreshments.

london design festival

‘three yet one’ is an exhibition by london-based parallel projects. the idea was to show how the media affects our understanding of design. a writer and a photographer were invited to demonstrate the work from their personal point of view. the text and the image were displayed during the london design festival as an addition to the product.

this is a clever idea which dezeen shows in detail. I just present my usual suspects without showing the picture + text of the invited writer and a photographer.

table/bench/plinth by jonathan legge

cappello della luce by henny van nistelrooy

fast track light by oscar diaz

paper-pulp by debbie wijskamp

london

london-based gallery fumi placed a competition this year with two design schools, rca london and ecal lausanne/haute école d’art et de design.

the intention was to design a mirror, defined in the brief as ‘an object which enables reflection’. one of the winners was anurag etchepareborda, ma product design student at ecal.

london design festival

design platform detnk asked me to interview some designers during the london design festival. I made my first experience in the DETNK.TV STUDIO at tent london.

watch the one with english-based designer terence woodgate, who I already met in the beginn of the year in cologne where I interviewed him for designguide.tv. see here

london design festival

london-based creativ consultancy studio toogood has designed an installation called ‘geology rocks’ in the entrance of the dock, an exhibition of creative talent curated by tom dixon. the studio was inspired by rock formations. the final outcome is a sculptural ceiling in stretched gold PVC by barrisol.

london design festival

british designer lee broom has launched his new furniture collection called ‘heritage boy’. It is lee’s 3rd year showing at the london design festival. he was inspired by british manufacturing techniques which he cleverly applied in his 8 new pieces. here are 3 of them.

carpetry sideboard

parquetry coffee table

happy lee

tile lamp

london design festival

‘comic-like frivolity’ (with lots of boobs) is how I would describe ‘american chateau’, a showcase of work by nienke klunder and jaime hayon which opened at spring projects – spring house earlier this month. it’s all about the sausages.

‘the rocking hot dog’

‘holly on caramel marble table’

‘yellowstone’

london design festival

designing lightning is a big thing within the designers. the victoria and albert museum in london spotted that trend and opened an exhibition called ‘in praise of shadows’ last monday during london design festival.

doodle, plumen series by hulger, 2009

fragile future by drift, 2006-09

lucid dream by eric klarenbeek, 2006

medusa light by mikko paakkanen, 2008