Archive 2010

No Castles made of Sand

+20 Egypt Design in Cairo

It was already clear during last year’s Salone del Mobile in Milan: the Egyptians are back. With all the furniture-manufacturing facilities around Cairo - some among the biggest in the Middle East - it was just a matter of time before the birth of +20 Egypt Design. This first design platform ...

Words & photos: Walter Bettens

The Scavenger Project 2

Art House Co-op

Art House Co-op projects are all about giving anyone a go at being part of something creative. Mostly based on sketchbook-sized participation, its collection of amateurs and professionals can be viewed online, in exhibition, and at the Art House's library in Brooklyn, USA. Brandon GM ...

Undeniably Geek by BrandonGM for The Scavenger Project 2, courtesy of Art House

Where Is My Vote? Posters for the Green Movement in Iran

Demonstrating Graphics
Friday 18 June 2010

School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York, 30 August - 25 September


 

Italian Andrea Rauch was just one of the graphic artists that responded to the call of an Iranian photographer named 'Green Bird' to create posters in support of the protests in Iran that followed the 2009 elections. The posters were originally collected on the web site SocialDesignZine, the ...

© Andrea Rauch, courtesy of the artist; © Zina Saunders, courtesy of the artist;

Helen Levitt

As seen at PhotoEspaña 2010

Helen Levitt, New York ca. 1939, courtesy private collection of Estate of Helen Levitt.

Vincent Bitaud

As seen at PhotoEspaña 2010

Vincent Bitaud, Ciudad sin Cuidado, 2009 (c) Vincent Bitaud

Oscar Munoz

As seen at PhotoEspaña 2010

Oscar Munoz, Narciso, 2008, courtesy of Sicardi Gallery, Houston (c) Oscar Munoz

Picture Madrid

PhotoEspaña 2010

Various locations throughout Madrid, Spain, until 25 July

On the 9th of June, the 13th edition of PHotoEspaña opened the doors of various Madrilenian spaces to a total of 69 shows on photography and visual arts. The formula has become one of Spain’s most important cultural events, supported by the city authorities, its cultural institutions - from ...

Juergen Teller demonstrating the buddy shot, photo: Walter Bettens

Under the Volcano

Salone del Mobile, Milan

The 2010 edition of Milan’s Salone del Mobile will be engraved in our memories as the year of slowness and inertia – the year traffic stood still. Attempting to event hop around Lombardy’s vast capital - from Rho Fiera and La Triennale to the districts of ZonaTortona, Brera/Duomo, ...

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

Maid in Shanghai

BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group: Danish Pavilion, World Expo 2010

until 31 October, Shanghai, China

Copenhagen's Little Mermaid must be used to being tampered with. Her history is littered with sawn off body parts, blasts and paint attacks. Situationists, radical feminists, anti-war and immigration protestors - they've all had a go. Well now she has a temporary 'harbour' in Shanghai as ...

images by Iwan Baan/www.iwan.com

Change & Transformation

Gijs Bakker & Yii

Text by Anneke Bokern

Gijs Bakker has high hopes for his Yii-project. ‘My aim is to prove that a conceptual approach generates different products when placed in a new context’, he says. In general, conceptuality is independent of context. But when you link it to local skills and culture, that's when it becomes ...

Product details: Lace Bowls, design: Ching-ting Hsu, craft artist: Tsun-jen Lee; Brick Plan: Vase, design: Rock Wang, craft artist: Pei-ze Chen; Moon Rabbit Plate: design: Hsiao-ying Lin, craft artist: Jun-ching Tang; Ikea plus Tertial: design: Pili Wu, cr

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

Dragonfly.MGX

Friday 30 April 2010

Design: WertelOberfell - Platform

www.mgxbymaterialise.com

Growthobjects

KXdesigners and CloneNature
Friday 30 April 2010

A new project from KXdesigners and CloneNature fuses the possibilities of generative design, mathematics, biomimetics and advanced technologies. Growthobjects are new objects; created, grown and made digitally. Their instigators' describe the work as continued 'experimentation in the ...

www.clonenature.com

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

A Chairless World

Vitra & Alejandro Aravena
Friday 30 April 2010

Posted by Walter Bettens

 

A few months ago, when bumping into Alejandro Aravena and asking him about his architectural contribution to the Vitra Campus - a workshop and training facility building project for the Weil premises – the Chilean architect kinda raised his left eyebrow, co-produced a subdued smile and ...

www.indigene-paraguay.ch; Chairless product image copyright Vitra.