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JYVÄSKYLÄ CLAIMS FIRST PRIZE IN 2009 CITY.PEOPLE.LIGHT AWARDS

October 21, 2009 in Design, Events, Materials, Products, Sustainable Design with 0 Comments

Finnish city top in seventh contest to recognize application of light in urban well-being
The city of Jyväskylä in Finland has been awarded the first prize in the 2009 city.people.light awards, the annual competition organized by Philips and the Lighting Urban Community International Association (LUCI) to reward projects which demonstrate the contribution lighting can make to the well-being of those who live, work or visit a city or town.

At a ceremony today in Gwangju, South Korea, Mr. Kari Stroem and Mr. Pauly Partanen, representing Jyväskylä were presented with the 2009 city.people.light first prize, in recognition of the city’s ‘City of Light’ project. This initiative set out to position the city as a forerunner in outdoor lighting, investing in the latest lighting technology to enhance its architecture.
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Letters Bookshelf by Pieter de Leeuw

October 21, 2009 in Design, Events, Futures, Products with 0 Comments

Pieter de Leeuw is a recent graduate in Industrial Design and this is his thesis: letters in various colors that can be arranged to the user’s liking. The wooden letters can also be used as seating. You can these pieces on display now at Ultrechtver Plettert in The Netherlands through October 25th. via:(DesignMilk)

www.utrechtverplettert.nl/

David Chipperfield Form Matters at The Design Museum from October 21st

October 20, 2009 in Events with 1 Comment

David Chipperfield

- Form Matters

21 October 2009 – 31 January 2010

Media View 3pm – 5pm

One of the most important architects working today, David Chipperfield produces subtle and sophisticated buildings with an acute sensitivity for materials and a powerful awareness of their environment. This major exhibition celebrates his work for the first time in the UK and spans his entire career to date, including such acclaimed projects as the River and Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames, and the Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach, Germany, winner of the RIBA Stirling Prize for Architecture 2007. The exhibition also illustrates important public commissions including the reconstruction of the Neues Museum in Berlin, and The Hepworth Wakefield gallery.

This detailed survey examines a range of projects through new and archive models, sketches, drawings, photographs and film. A major component of the exhibition focuses on Chipperfield’s most complex project to date, the ten year reconstruction of the Neues Museum in Berlin, which was bombed during the Second World War and subjected to decades of neglect. The project is like nothing previously undertaken in its attitude to history, and its attempt to make something new out of the old has succeeded in producing a landmark building, not only for Berlin but for museum architecture as a whole.

After studying at Kingston University and the Architectural Association, and working at the practices of both Richard Rogers and Norman Foster, David Chipperfield established his own practice – David Chipperfield Architects – in 1984. Unprepared to compromise with the commercial developers of the 80s, Chipperfield looked beyond Britain to mainland Europe, where he could see himself as part of a group of architects who brought a seriousness and intellectual ambition to their work that went beyond stylistics or mannerism. David Chipperfield Architects is today a substantial international practice with projects across Europe, as well as in China, Japan, the USA and Mexico.

As David Chipperfield’s practice has grown and matured, he has developed his own distinctive voice. His buildings often combine a variety of materials to create beauty and meaning with appealing clarity. Buildings that subtly inspire without spectacle or fanfare.

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The Hepworth, Wakefield, photo Alessandro Milani

21 October 2009 – 31 January 2010

Michael Young – Works In China

October 16, 2009 in Design, Events, Materials with 0 Comments

The furnishing shop “designfunktion” shows Michael Young’s latest products for the first time outside of Asia, at Vienna Design Week, October 1-11, 2009.

Michael Young’s exhibition, called “Works in China,” shows products that were developed during his time in Hong Kong and include the Zipte Link Installation, which premiered during the Hong Kong International Art Fair 2009.

Chris O’Shea’s Hand From Above

October 16, 2009 in Design, Design & Art, Events, Products with 0 Comments

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Chris O’Shea’s latest installation Hand From Above encourages us to question our normal routine when we often find ourselves rushing from one destination to another. Inspired by Land of the Giants and Goliath, we are reminded of mythical stories by mischievously unleashing a giant hand from the BBC Big Screen. Passers by will be playfully transformed. What if humans weren’t on top of the food chain?
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100% design shanghai from October 15th

October 14, 2009 in Design, Events, Interiors, Materials with 0 Comments

Tomorrow 100% Design Shanghai and International Home Decor and Design will unveil yet another inspirational installation made with CRYSTALLIZED™ – Swarovski Elements to welcome the gathering of international and local design leaders in Shanghai.

Fruit & Flowers at Rove Gallery Private View Thursday 15th October

October 13, 2009 in Design & Art, Events with 0 Comments

Through 23 December, 2009
Featuring Arik Levy, Zaha Hadid, Carolyn Quartermaine, Mathias Bengtsson, Based Upon, Maria Pergay, Peter Harvey, Max Lamb, Tom Dixon, Richard Woods, and Brendan Cass.

The impact of the recession on local art galleries is there will be less of them plying their trade in the near future. What people will see more and more in the galleries that do manage to survive is more conservative, safe and cautious fare. Nowadays, it’s going be more bowls of fruit and flowers rather than art intended to provoke, a return to traditional notion of beauty and quality. Which is why a depression is not so depressing in the art world. Though there won’t literally be much in this exhibit in the order of fruit and flowers, still lives or figurative art, there will be a return to quality and value in art and design.
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WHAT IF… FUTURE FORM, FUTURE FUNCTION? at Science Gallery Dublin through to 13th December

October 13, 2009 in Design, Events, Products with 0 Comments

WHAT IF…insects could diagnose illness? WHAT IF…clouds were modified to snow ice cream? WHAT IF… we lived in a society where our every thought was public? These are just some of the questions asked in the upcoming exhibition at Science Gallery which probes the space between reality and the impossible and where designers meet scientists to explore the future.

China Design Now: A Multi-Sensory Experience Opens in Portland Through to 17th January 2010

October 12, 2009 in Design, Events, Interiors with 1 Comment

This October, the Portland Art Museum will present China Design Now, a multi-sensory experience reflecting the new Chinese urban environment and encapsulating the scale, speed, and energy of change in China today. Visitors will embark on a journey of discovery through China, focusing on the graphic design, fashion, interior design, and architecture emerging from three vibrant and rapidly evolving cities. Continue Reading…

Public Perception of Colour an inclusive project conceived by Rob and Nick Carter in association with Pantone

October 12, 2009 in Design, Design & Art, Events with 0 Comments

“Perception of Colour” was created by artist duo Rob and Nick Carter, from Thursday 24th September to Sunday 27th September, 2009 at 100% Design, Earl’s Court Business Centre, London, incorporating the colour choices made by members of the public attending the event.

2,700 Pantone swatches (the entire Pantone range) will be available for 1,000 members of the public to select shades which, in their minds, best represent the 7 spectral colours, Pink, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue and Purple. The individual swatches chosen at the event will be mounted on to sheets of aluminium, to create 7 ‘monochromes’ evolving over the course of the exhibition. Thus the finished monochromes will represent the public ideal of the key spectral shades.
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Pavillion of Art&Design London from October 14th

October 10, 2009 in Design & Art, Events with 0 Comments

Building on the success of its previous two years, Patrick Perrin and Stéphane Custot have expanded DesignArt London to create a new concept, the Pavilion of Art & Design London. The Pavilion of Art & Design London will mirror its elegant Parisian counterpart, the Pavillon des Arts et du Design Paris, now on its 13th year and held in the prestigious Jardin des Tuileries, by encompassing fine art in its repertoire. The London fair, held in Berkeley Square in Mayfair, will run simultaneously with Frieze week, from the 14th to 18th October. During this time, the Pavilion will house an impressive stable of 45 established international exhibitors who represent the leaders in their respective fields of Modern Art and 20th Century Decorative Arts.

Black and Blum’s stylish dish rack

October 7, 2009 in Cute, Design, Events, Interiors, Materials, Products, Sustainable Design, Uncategorized with 0 Comments

Great design no longer stops at the kitchen sink with Black and Blum’s stylish new dish rack ‘High and Dry’. As well as being a gorgeous piece of sculpture for your kitchen, it is functional too – its wave of spikes can solve the tricky issue of drying wine glasses, even the most delicate champagne flutes, its makers Dan Black and Martin Blum promise.

martino gamper: 100 chairs in 100 days Through to November 8th

October 7, 2009 in Design, Events, Products with 0 Comments

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100 chairs in 100 days project and stanze e camere exhibition at the
Triennale Design Museum in Milan has just opened.

in 100 chairs in 100 days, gamper has reconfigured the design of 100 seats which were retrieved over a period of two years through his adventures of rummaging through garbage, picking up rejected and deserted chairs.

Future of Design at Taubman College from October 9th

October 7, 2009 in Design, Events with 0 Comments

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Future of Design Taubman College Hosts 30 Design Experts in Future of Design Conference University of Michigan’s Taubman College is hosting the Future of Design conference, Oct. 9 & 10, 2009. Thirty designers, critics and provocative thinkers will come together to brainstorm about how design is evolving across various disciplines including architecture, landscape architecture, interactive, industrial, and interior design.

Nina Tolstrup at Jaquline Rabun Gallery Through to October 16th

October 7, 2009 in Design, Events, Interiors, Materials, Products with 0 Comments

This September will see jewellery

designer Jacqueline Rabun open

her exquisite studio and showroom

in Grosvenor Crescent Mews, Belgravia to the London Design Festival and

100% Design. The space will exhibit

designs by Danish designer Nina

Tolstrup from Studiomama, who

Jacqueline has long admired. There

will also be six new collections from

Jacqueline on show.

Nina’s collection contains a series

of original pieces made from

reclaimed pallets. Pieces include

furniture, lighting and objects.

The process of making these pieces

is what distinguishes Nina’s designs.

A pallet is a generic thing found

anywhere in the world. Nina designs each piece of furniture, but the

assembly guidelines are then sold

online. Then a final piece of furniture is made anywhere in the world

using locally sourced and reclaimed pallets. This is a sustainable,

collaborative and meaningful approach to design that by passes costly and

unsound supply chains.

“I admire Nina’s unique approach to

design, we share a desire to achieve simplicity and purity in our work.

Her creations come from the soul and she never compromises she does

exactly what she wants to do.

I admire this attitude and that is what we have in common,” says Jacqueline.

A further dimension to Nina is her

commitment to philanthropy. Studiomama

has given Cecilia Glik, a photographer and charity worker based in

Buenos Aires, Argentina the rights to

manufacture the pallet chair in a

workshop in Lugano. This is one of the poorest neighborhoods in Buenos Aires.

Inside the slum there is a collective

workshop, which are now producing

the pallet chair. “Nina has given

the community the right to produce

and sell her pallet furniture which

provides an income for them. I respect this idea very much”, adds Jacqueline.

During 100% Design an auction

will take place of personalized pallet

chairs by famous British artists.

Nina’s furniture will also be made

to order from Jacqueline Rabun’s

gallery using pallets from London,

and there will be a new range of

do-it-yourself guidelines

downloadable from Studiomama’s

website; Studiomama.com

Jacqueline Rabun first began designing fine jewellery in 1989 in her native

America; she has been dedicated

to creating innovative ideas

that inspire and contribute to the

international design world.

Her fluid and sculptural forms

are recognized by the cognoscenti

the world over, be it pieces

designed for Georg Jensen, or under

her own eponymous brand.

She extended her poetic approach

to creating fine jewellery and design objects to the unique Gallery

she opened in the heart of Belgravia

in a converted stable.

Jacquelinerabun.com

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Designer Jacqueline Rabun open her exquisite studio and showroom in Grosvenor Crescent Mews.

The space will exhibit designs by Danish designer Nina Tolstrup from Studiomama, who Jacqueline has long admired. There will also be six new collections from Jacqueline on show.