We Make Carpets

Material Patterns

 

From pasta to balloons, the 'we make carpets' project  takes everyday products and materials and frames them within traditional carpet symmetry. Created by designers Stijn van der Vleuten and and Marcia Nolte and visual artist Bob Waardenburg, the trio were connected by the instantaneous ...

http://wemakecarpets.wordpress.com

Wheel of Nutrition

HAF by Hafsteinn Juliusson with Rui Pereira
Tuesday 11 May 2010

Are you eating right? Or left and centre as well? If you need to read your meal a little more closely this ceramic dining plate offers a simple service. Coming in three different versions - Diet, Extra ordinary and Supersize - its explanatory graphics correspond to varying percentages of ...

www.rui-pereira.com

Fehling & Peiz

Design Germany 2010
Wednesday 5 May 2010

15 - 18 May, ICFF, New York

Yvonne Fehling & Jennie Peiz's Hockerbank seating is one of the featured objects in Design Germany 2010, the German Design Council's touring exhibition that has moved on from Milan and will shortly open at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF). Alongside nearly 100 new products ...

www.german-design-council.de

COLLECT 2010

Lisa Stockman: Pull it Together
Tuesday 4 May 2010

Designers Guild store window, Kings Road, London, until 18 May

In its second year at the Saatchi Gallery in London, alongside the main COLLECT 2010 contemporary craft fair (14- 17 May) is a Trail that sees the works of seven emerging artists feature in the store windows of Designers Guild, Cath Kidston, David Mellor, Osborne & Little and TASCHEN. 


Copyright the artist; recent RCA graduate Lisa Stockham's Pull it Together series features sculptural ceramics inspired by the Designers Guilds' prints and designs.

Art Bollart

World Expo 2010
Tuesday 4 May 2010

Shangahi, China - and Antwerp, Belgium

Mooring posts, bollards, whatever your urban language the presence or absence of this object makes a perceptible impact on the cityscape. Bollart, a project initiated by Belgian sculptor and designer Patrick Villas reinterprets the pleasure of sitting on the dock of the bay, with a direct ...

Dr Hugo Heyrman's The Memory of the Bollart; the warm-sensitive paint of Nedda El-Asmar's version of the Antwerp Ballet - in bollard form

Bram Boo's Still Life

Scene in Milan 2010

Ventura Lambrate

Not your average workplace materials, Belgian designer Bram Boo's ''still life' of a desk' was realised in polished copper and wood. 'Using the silent beauty of archetypal office items and translating them into storage', the resulting objects sought to transform their regular ...

spotted & snapped by Siegrid Demyttenaere

True Stories

Lamborghini Lingo

Scuola Politecnica di Design, Milan

‘In collaboration with Lamborghini’ must have been sweet music to students attending Milan’s Scuola Politecnica di Design Master’s Programme in Transportation Design. Sunday at the Race, which lined up 11 models of new Lamborghini supercars on a rollercoaster, was one of four scenarios that ...

Sunday at the race; Lamborghini concept cars, installation; Stefan Barac, Bostami Bin Ahmad, Daniel Chinchilla, Weiloon Choo, Dario Dropucic,Tuğra Erol, Alberto Fernández Albilares, Viktar Filipchanca, Vincenzo Franchino,David Hernández Bautista, Joseph

Aldo Bakker

Scene in Milan 2010

Ventura Lambrate

Accompanied by pieces from his Urushi series, Aldo Bakker continues his relationship with Japanese varnish. The show was presented by the Amsterdam-based Particles Gallery.

 

www.particlesgallery.com

Studio Job & Pieke Bergmans

Scene in Milan 2010

Pieke Bergmans with one of the seven light objects in the Wonderlamp collection, created together with Studio Job and presented by the Dilmos gallery.

spotted & snapped by Siegrid Demyttenaere

Fountains of Knowledge

Scene in Milan 2010

Concierges in Milan: one of our favourite design species.

spotted & snapped by Walter Bettens

Totem and Taboo

Scene in Milan 2010

Oratorio della Passione, Basilica Sant' Ambrogio, Milan

Designer Ineke Hans is mesmerised by Sottsass at the Totem and Taboo installation.

spotted & snapped by Walter Bettens

The Campana Circus

Scene in Milan 2010

The Campana Bros' Circus rug for Nodus. Baby dolls...made in Brazil.

 

Spotted & snapped by Walter Bettens

13.798 Grams of Design

Scene in Milan 2010

Lambretto Art Project, Ventura Lambrate

Exhibition featuring work by Barber Osgerby, Fernando & Humberto Campana, Konstantin Grcic Gitta Gschwendtner Max Lamb, Arik Levy, Marc Newson, Fabio Novembre, Inga Sempé, Kiki van Eijk, Maciek Wojcicki ao. Curated by Maria Cristina Didero and Susanna Legrenzi.

Spotted & snapped by Walter Bettens

Lullaby

Design: Andrea Fino & Samanta Snidaro

Archetype

Design: Goodmorning Technology

Tape

Design: Mathieu Guyaux

Stick

Design: Jonas Lindvall

Purist

Design: Florian Kallus

Crockery

Design: Atelier NL

Emmanuelle is Shy

Design: Emilie Voirin