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amsterdam-based designer aldo bakker and a range of porcelain tableware for frans ottink at the superstories design triennale in hasselt, belgium.

vinegar flask, 2008

milk can, 2005

salt cellar, 2006

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amsterdam-based designer joris laarman has launched the first version of the bone chair 3 years ago – developed on a computer and then cast in aluminum. joris took advantage of software that car manufacturers use to develop shapes for auto parts. it’s a collaboration with the research lab of the International development centre adam opel gmbh.

In 2008 he has designed a beautiful version moulded from a mixture of marble and porcelain mixed with resin which is now on display at the z33 during the superstories design triennale in hasselt, belgium, till 10th may.

bone chair, 2008, molded marble resin, 75 x 80 x 100 cm
edition of 12

my friend robert andriessen from designguide.tv has made a movie about the eindhoven-based atelierdorp.

I have previously covered some stories about the design family which robert describes as a place ‘where people get a chance to explore their true creative potential.’ but this movie unveils the real and authentic atmosphere in the church.

Atelierdorp, a design family from robertanderson on Vimeo.

couple weeks ago I visited the atelierdorp in eindhoven. nacho carbonell and his intern were working on new furniture for droog design which will be unveiled at the salone del mobile in milan later this month.

I received the official press release and now I feel free to publish the snapshot I took the other day. the modular furniture consists of ‘a thin, closely adhering and elastic layer that allows the user to place objects underneath it. I am very curious about nacho’s work. he is also exhibiting at spazio rosanna orlandi and designmiami’s craft punk exhibition for fendi.

work in progress:
nacho and his intern alejandro sánchez in the workshop

the product design and jewellery department of the academy fine art maastricht, netherlands, shows ‘various works of ceramic fascinations related to the human body and mind’ at the salone satellite 22-27th april in milan.

the 2nd and 3rd year product design students are coached and refined by designer tomáš gabzdil libertiny from studio libertiny. last week I went to the work review. now I present a little preview on the pieces that will be shown at pavillion 22/24 stand 20.

jo sijen, tutor for autonomic design and tomáš gabzdil libertiny

tomáš gabzdil libertiny and chequita nahar,
coordinator jewellery and product design

pour femme by dik scheepers

albertine van iterson working on a deer head

toys by marco Iannicelli

glazing room in the academy fine art maastricht

yes, tomáš..it’s a carrot

the answer to industrial production of shoes is marloes ten bhömer. her work is on display at the brit Insurance designs of the year 2009 in the designmuseum, london.

rotationalmouldedshoe

rotationalmouldingmachine

japanese designer oki sato, his studio is called nendo, has designed the cabbage chair for the XXIst century man exhibition. the show was curated by Issey miyake at 21_21 design sight in tokyo in 2008.

nendo transformed a roll of pleated paper into a small chair that appears naturally as you peel away its outside layers, one layer at a time. and this year the chair was nominated for the brit Insurance furniture award 2009.

this sunday morning I’ve been browsing through my pictures from last years design week in milan. I found these pictures of me and my friends sitting on konstantin grcic‘s awarded cantilever chair. we were having a rest at the triennale design museum and decided to take some of the myto chairs out on the terrace.

derya inanici, theda schoppe and me

you can have this umbrella for an affordable price of 59,95 €. netherlands-based senz have designed this umbrella that ‘always finds the best position in the wind’.

gerwin hoogendoorn, gerard kool, philip hess and niel heiijman are surely proud of their design: it has won the brit insurance awards, red dot design award, if award and many more. congratulations.

rotterdam-based designer wieki somers has designed a wardrobe for the boijmans van beuningen museum in rotterdam.

she came came up with the idea while watching the jiska rickels film, 4 elements in which mine workers had to hoist their coats back up because the space was so limited.

the red and white fairground carousel is made from plastic pulley blocks. fire hoses and metal weights were used to make the mechanism, which is simple to use – just pull on the rope, hang the coat and fasten the lock. the metal weights ensure that the hoisting up and down works automatically.

the image is a picture of a picture. I took it at the brit insurance awards, designs of the year 2009, at the design museum in london

‘the absent presence’ (june 2005) is a short film by hussein chalayan for the 51st venice biennale. a biologist, played by tilda swinton, extracts cells to examine their dna sequences.

one of this forms was presented at hussein chalayan‘s ‘from fashion and back’ exhibition at the design museum, london. the dna forms in the animation were frozen at a point in action and transformed into 3d objects and put on a table.

It is ‘representing how an individual reacts to their environment.’

I have visited the hussein chalayan exhibition at the design museum in london. its a comprehensive retrospective about the fashion designers work between 1994 – 2009.

this is the aircraft wing chandelier for the swarovski crystal palace at kunsthalle mannheim .

Its a large flap moving slowly up and down, revealing a long strip of swarovski crystals which are illuminated from behind by led lights. the installation is called ‘repose’ and belongs to the autumn/winter collection 2006.

also included into the installation:a digital clock with specially cut crystals, featuring 24 leds and 96 crystal octagons

roy mcmakin is sometimes described as a designer, sometimes as an architect but mainly as a craftsman.

english furniture manufacturer established & sons is presenting an exhibition of selected work of the american creative. It’s his first european debut in london.

high chest of drawers with knobs,
originally made in 1986, made of mahogany

ebonized stools

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london-based designer tom price has designed the panels on the ground floor level of metropolitan works, creative Industries center. It is a specially commissioned frieze that has been laser cut out of the panels to give the structure a sense of movement and life.

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couple days ago I have visited metaalwarenfabriek phoenix, metal working factory phoenix, in eindhoven. designconnection brainport, a network for designers and industry, have organized a guided tour through all facilities of the factory.

I found a case of a henk suitcase in the showroom of the factory and couldn’t believe that $20,000 are standing in front of me. yes, $20,000!! a dutch real estate magnate named henk worked together with frog design to create a strong, agile suitcase for the elite travelers. It is crafted of 500 component parts and its shell is made of super lightweight carbon fiber.

I mean, I am traveling a lot but I prefer to buy a car instead of a suitcase that is worth $20,000.

I can highly recommend this movie about the underside of our production and consumption patterns. annie leonard is guiding through the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues in a way that possibly make you change the way you look at all the stuff in your life.

more about the movie here.