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Archive 2009
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Public Design Festival 2010
13 - 18 April 2010, various locations throughout Milan
Parking spaces are always at a premium in Milan, so it's brave of the Public Design Festival to reclaim them for a second time during the city's design knees-up. The Duepercinque competition welcomes pretty much anyone and anything, from urban furniture to installations and performance - just ...
Karl's Journey
These days there's no really strange answer to a question like 'What do Karl Lagerfeld, Sarah Palin and Lindsay Lohan have in common?' Truth and fiction both prevail and they all appear in alexSandro Palombo's Humor Chic blogspot. An illustrated musing on the worlds of fashion, costume, ...
Wien, nur Du allein
Visiting Design Festivals has become a full-time job for some since there are more of these city events than weeks on the Gregorian calendar, and it’s still in crescendo – Must be the European Year of Creativity and Innovation? - where in October alone there’s been Vienna Design Week, ...
Capri, C´est Fini!
Beautiful Capri is fed up with it: meaning, the ‘pollution’ of the masses of day-trip tourists that swamp the island’s extended shopping street, creating friction and obstruction along the small village’s backbone. We’re talking about the flocks of Japanese and Americans invading the marina at ...
Business of Design Week (BODW)
Hong Kong, 30/11-05/12 2009
BODW is an initiative of the Hong Kong Design Centre and since 2002 it has played an active role in focusing Asia’s attention on design and innovation, bringing exhibitions, forums and conferences on global design to the streets of Hong Kong. Its aim is to vitalize the interplay between design ...
Play Time
EXD'09 / LISBOA, until 8 November
Speed and acceleration, that’s what the body experienced during the ExperimentaDesign opening days, a whirlwind of events hitting the streets of Lisbon. If a few years ago the secret word was ‘Matter’, this year’s edition is about ‘Time’.
Under the ticking title ‘It’s About Time’ the opening ...
Helsinki: Almost the World Design Capital 2012
With just a few weeks to go before the official announcement of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid) if Helsinki or Eindhoven may wear the crown of World Design Capital 2012 - and while there’s still some lobbying to be done - during the Helsinki Design Week 09 ...
China Granite Project
19 - 27 September
20 Hoxton Square, London
Contrary to the expectations of his name, Max Lamb is very much a mineral man. During the upcoming London Design Festival, the non-Mandarin speaking British designer will be showing the results of his latest quarry. Working in close collaboration with a small stone yard, An Li Stone in ...
Autumn Launches from Normann Copenhagen
Ross McBride, Ole Jensen and Anne Lehmann are just some of the featured designers in Normaan Copenhagen's collection for the season of falling leaves.
The company also has its own design blog, which includes lots of uncensored Normaan and non-Normann content.
www.spottedbynormanncopenhagen.com
Per fare un Albero…
The new Fiat 500C, via Montenapoleone and the Milanese Summer. Until September 30th, the street par excellence of Milan’s fashion hub will host the initiative “Per fare un albero” (“To make a tree”), the result of an idea of the Municipality of Milan – Department for Design, Events and Fashion ...
Stretching Your Conscience
Among the latest product launches from LA-based Artecnica and its Design With Conscience programme are designs that incorporate the recycled large format billboards of international advertising agency TBWA. The first phase of the venture with the agency responsible for campaigns with brands ...
Berlin Now
With a mix of Karl Lagerfeld and construction sites, this book won’t be ‘now’ until it is published in September. Carrying the weight of over 300 colour and duotone photographs of the people and places that are attracted to present-day Berlin, it has a foreword by Hungarian writer, Nobel ...
From Handcraft to Mindcraft
Time for an au revoir to Scandinavian stereotypes? Danish Crafts’ new collection of craft & design will premiere at the lifestyle fair Maison&Objet in Paris later this summer and must hope to answer that question. Under the title ExtraOrdinaryCraft, this thirteenth collection of works from ...
urbanSHED International Design Competition
Competition deadline: 2 October 2009
Regardless of the city, feeling like you are living in the middle of a building site can give you hard-hat blues. With that in mind, the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter (AIANY) and the New York City Buildings Department (DOB) have launched a competition, open ...
RetroStart
Vintage goes global for the international link directory RetroStart. With 750+ links to online shops offering original vintage mid-century modern design furniture and/or accessories, a new ‘map of vintage’ allows you to locate your Eames et al with deadly precision.
Alligator Tees
Lacoste has teamed up with the Campana brothers on its fourth Holiday Collector Series that goes on sale in November. Fernando and Humberto Campana have created a range of polo shirts based on their Alligator Chair formed from cuddly, piled-up, reptile toys. Philippe Lacoste, grandson of the ...
Design Parade 04
All exhibits remain open until 20 September.
As for its former editions, the opening weekend of this 4th Design Parade at the Villa Noailles in Hyères (Var, France) was a celebration on design - offering an eclectic mix - by inaugurating its summer-long exhibitions and appointing its design awards. The ‘grand exhibition’ this year was ...
Revolving paper trees planted on a non revolving paper and wood console Table. Design: Raw Edges