Typically, an architect designs a house. Afterwards, an interior designer takes care of the walls, rooms and decor. They design from large to small, from outside to inside
Robert Bronwasser takes the reverse approach. In the eyes of this industrial designer, the furniture and products that people enjoy using every day – are what make up a house.
Dutch furniture brand Lensvelt’s latest collection is designed to be uninteresting in a bid to help workers concentrate. ‘ The Boring Collection ‘ furniture is designed to restore the balance between work and play in the workplace
The exhibition concept was developed by Lensvelt in collaboration with Space Encounters Office for Architecture and students from KABK in The Hague and won the Milano Design Award for its conceptual innovation of transforming a stereotype into a playful experience.
It is too unbelievable to recount, and too painful to recall, the thousand-and-one insanities, hassles, and surprises that can befall the visitor just getting from the subway to the fair to an internet café and on to a dinner function.
Maybe one day they’ll work out the kinks around here and create a design fair that actually feels like somebody designed it. !!!
On the other hand, what would be the fun in that ?
Design Academy Eindhoven presented “Eat Shit” at the Salone del Mobile – the first exhibition of the new department Food Non Food, directed by Marije Vogelzang
‘Eat Shit’ is a definition of the human condition. You eat, you shit, you eat, you shit, and then you die.
Food is life. Input leads to output. So it makes sense to also examine one of foods stinkiest consequences – shit and waste.
Shit is your print-out, the great revealer of a person’s health and culture.
Belgian furniture maker Maarten Van Severen devoted himself to the rigorous exploration of basic furniture typologies and in the process developed a formal language of uncompromising simplicity and beauty.
Maarten who died from cancer in 2005, aged 48, left behind an extraordinary collection of furniture and several important architectural projects.
The Design Academy of Eindhoven ( DAE ) alumni presented their graduation projects in Milan, Italy: at the Lambretto Art Project Building.
The ‘self’ in the exhibition title still first and foremost refers to the student. The Design Academy of Eindhoven is fully focused on the talents, preferences and fascinations of its students. For their graduation they have to initiate projects themselves, in which these come to the fore.
But when you look at those projects – about healthcare, open source production, new economic systems – they come across as pretty altruistic. Contemporary design is very much oriented toward the ‘unself’.’
Altered Appliances is an exhibition presenting projects that investigate the retooling of industrial low-tech appliances and gadgets to offer alternative design solutions and experiences for today’s kitchen.
The exhibition is staged as a “live demonstration” presenting the process of making.
This year Dutch designer, Tjep preferred to organise his own solo exhibition at Ventura Lambrate.
For Frank Tjepkema, it was an exciting, exhausting, and exhilarating week, with his Studio’s collections receiving great acclaim,
In a world overpopulated by signs, products, images and experiences can a threshold of the invisible still exist ? And above all, what happens when design faces the imperceptible, the complex, the infinitely large/small, the counter-intuitive?
The (In)visibile Design exhibition investigates these potential new scenarios through 26 projects by international designers and artists engaged in studying the frontiers of the invisible.