the ‘santa boarders’
he knows what to wear
happy matylda
chris, policeman – nice talk on the way to berlin.
show me your record, baby
I grew up with a walkman – I want it back. Remember back in the days when people use to share music via mixtapes? Here is the solution for the mp3 generation:
yammy
left: piece of compressed wood
right: schneekoppe ‘fruchtschitte’ – energy bar
what do you like more?
ingo binder – c’est chic
Ingo Binder is fashion design student.
His unbeatable trend are white shoes.
how germans can present their identity
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
what a designerheart should have (maybe for christmas)
lamp
a refillable gas fuelled candle
| chris kabel |
ceramic rings
in breaking the ring the bond between people will exist
| frederik roijé |
ring
‘rubber-bend-rings’ made from silver
| gesine hackenberg |
pin
gold in acrylic
| ted noten |
gallery-showroom editions: glow
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
ski suit
What you should wear on the ski run.
music history from the south of netherlands
Patrick Vogt started in 1982. He decided to collect all songs on vinyl which his brother had on tape. It was not easy, because all to often he not even had a tracklist. He got the tip to contact ‘disco patrick’. People said about him that he knows everything about disco, funk rap and bootlegs. He went to the guy and was stunned. He was able to name him every song he played including artist, date of publication and many more. He was sitting there, no special looks but a unbeatable dimension of music knowledge.
Three years ago they started to work on a book. A manifesto about the uncharted mysteries of disco acetates and bootleg vinyl medleys released between 1974 and 1986. 1500 editions are on sale. 1400 in standard and 100 limited – with a vinyl cover. Two guys from Limburg, south of the Netherlands, wrote a piece of music history. Patrick Vogt said to me: ‘The only thing which we haven’t done by ourself, is printing the book.’
patrick vogt | co-publisher
USA:
| Dusty groove |
Japan:
| Diskunion |
new museum: stack the art
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|
pons: how to flirt in dutch
An extract from ‘ PONS – last minute phrase book’ / Dutch.
Read it like a dialog and you will laugh.
TRANSLATION
You have beautiful eyes.
I like your smile.
I like your looks.
I like you.
I think you are amazing.
I love you!
Wanna marry me?
You wanna join me at the seaside?
I wanna sleep with you.
Maybe later.
No, it’s going too fast.
Actually I just wanna cuddle.
Hands off!
But only with condom.
Where can I buy some?
Do you like it?
Did you enjoy it?
It was wonderful.
Sex is not important.
Fuck off!
…
richard hutten: the great indoors
my parents
yeah – this are my parents. I guess this picture is from 1985.
feed it with your shopping bags
not just granny style – really handy
popout tree: a christmas tree for your hole life
The pop-out tree is 1,80 meters high and and has all what a real christmastree has to have: a pretentious dressing. Advantage over an authentic tree is that you can set it up in 10 seconds. And when christmas is over you can store him easily everywhere you want.
Unfortunatly this is one of Simeon van Tellingen’s prototypes. We hope that we see it soon in store. Waiting for christmas in 2008 …
I want this tree!
polska – style icon
poland. This car is small, oldfashioned, uncomfortable and slow – but still polands popularst car. The Fiat polski, polish people call him ‘maluch’ what means ‘the small one’, is 2 meters long and 1,40 meters high. It has not even a trunk. 3,5 million exemplars were produced between 1971 and the productionstop in the year 2000.
If 5 people are sitting in this car, it can reach a speed of 100km/h. The only problem is that the stopping distance is then around like at a locomotive. And after an 1 hour drive it needs minimal a 5 minute rest, because the motor has to cool down – there is no condenser.
maluch
warsaw: vodka and other happenings
poland.
Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła
Kiedy my żyjemy…
inez | kasia
poor beggar
andrzej
agnieszka
advertising tactic
Babylon – what margin is left to us to imagine the future ahead?
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?
delta award 2007: gimme delta
Barcelona. Spain. The Delta Awards were held for the first time in 1961 and since then it has always been an important channel for promoting designers and companies. These valuable platform for public recognition exhibited the winners of 2007 in the fad.
fad – fostering arts and design
jajme hayon – showtime collection | bd barcelona design
I am proud being able to tell that my ass is always sitting on a piece of awarded design! (dont’t pay attantion to the cable spaghetti)
peter opsvik – HAG capisco | my own HAG capisco – yeah!
who the fuck was responsible for choosing the dessin?
|delta-awards|
|hayon studios|
|tord boontje| we love dutch design!
|HAG|
cocorosie: la maison de mon rêve
Barcelona. Spain. Cocorosie in town. Live in the Apolo Club. The sister-band is a folk electronic miscellaneous musical medley sort of band who make music to breathe and bleed. And when you spend enough time in their world you won’t want to leave.
cocorosie tour poster
support act: bunny rabbit