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Gal Tevet from Opus DV answers some Questions
Gal you are involved in many creative areas particularly as an Architect, Designer and Musician how did this happen?
I guess the three planes have been present since childhood, and evolved in parallel along the years until joining into one ouvre (an Opus) during my mature professional activity. I think the big challenge is to create a real awareness in the act of design, be it in an architectural context or in a musical one. My activity in music had begun in childhood, and allowed me to evolve into a jazz pianist by the age of 17 till now. Architecture begun in Architecture school, which I graduated from in 1993. Design, I believe, is an in-between activity, an overall one which I have been doing all along (composing music, planning spaces, translating and joining entities). Furniture design bagan later, as part of my architectural projects, and 5 years ago when I founded OpusDV.
The Blank of Ideas at 100% Design London conceived and curated by Corridor.
The phone call suggested we take a last minute free space at 100% Design on the main boulevard. It was a tempting offer, but what shall we do with the space, and in less than three weeks?
The 100% Design show attracts over 35,000 people annually, so the thought of trying to harness the creative thinking and energy that passes through the space, was the ambition.
Entitled The Blank of Ideas, we invited several leading industry experts from design backgrounds, to put forward socially provocative questions. We would turn the negative space into a social thinking hub.
Wood Drop 14 by Skram
It’s a hunk of tree. Look closer. It’s still a hunk of tree, but that’s the point. The Wood Drop 14 stool by North Carolina-based Skram basks in all its imperfect glory, its naturally occurring cracks and flaws turned into valuable assets simply through their presentation.
Wooden Owls from Matt Pugh
Matt Pugh’s wooden owls are adorably irresistible! Available in oak or walnut and a variety of colors, they certainly demonstrate the power of simplicity done right. Definitely worth adding to the potential gift list. See a few more gorgeous wood pieces at: Matt Pugh Design
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martin szekely: heroic shelves & simple boxes from November 7th
table basse image © fabrice gousset, courtesy galerie kreo
galerie kreo, paris november 7th to december 19th, 2009
the upcoming show at galerie kreo ‘heroic shelves & simple boxes’, is a collection of furniture by martin szekely. the pieces are tables, cabinets and shelves made from lightweight cork, but their forms have a weight and robustness.
Recycled, Germ Killing Copper Sinks from Native Trails
Copper has amazing germ-killing properties,and now The Treehugger website points us to another use of the material.
Native Trails uses 100% recycled copper to make handmade sinks for kitchen, bathroom and commercial use. Besides looking good, these sinks have the added benefit of being able to kill 99% of bacteria within two hours. Via(PSFK)
Native Trails
My Three Favourite Design Objects from Fukutoshi Ueno
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Ron Arad Rocking Chair
We asked some exhibitors from 100% Design this year what their favourite design objects where, here is the first answer from Fukutoshi Ueno. www.idee247.com
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Wallpaper* X Victorinox Swiss Army Knives
Wallpaper* and Victorinox have partnered to create a select release of custom Swiss Army picketknives. Much cooler than the standard corporate logo emblazoned on a knife, these actually have the look and feel of Wallpaper* right down to the materials used .
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JOHN WALSH wins ‘Triflow Future Talents’ design competition
Triflow Concepts, one of Britain’s largest independent brassware manufacturers, is delighted to announce JOHN WALSH has won their first ever ‘Triflow Future Talents’ design competition, held as part of this year’s 100% Design exhibition at Earls Court, London.
‘Trees’, designed by John Walsh has designed many successful volume furniture products including several innovative office desking systems for leading European manufacturers.
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MissPrint keeps it in the family
Mother and daughter duo MissPrint’s cleverly walk the line between quirky and commercial with their collection of wallpaper and interior accessories. Following the launch of a range of stationery for WH Smith, Yvonne and Rebecca Drury, who formed MissPrint in 2005, now hope to emulate that success with the likes of their Saplings and Central Park designs, exhibited at 100% Design.
New Foscarini light at the forefront of design
Material:Diffuser in glass material and carbon fibre or Kevlar, Chrome Metal Base
We’ve come to expect a lot from innovative Italian lighting manufacturer Foscarini and once again they have delivered with the Mite Special Fusion. The work of French-born Marc Sadler, a designer who first began collaborating with Foscarini a decade ago, this light is a special edition of a design first launched in 2001. Its slender construction is thanks to carbon and Kewlar thread, more commonly found in golf clubs, weaving around each other, with a chrome base. The result is a striking silhouette, almost redolent of a ceremonial torch.
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Vienna Design Week from October 1st
Festival programme of VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 2009
raises appetite for design by using fresh formats
Eleven day design festival from October 1st to 11th in Vienna, Austria
On Wednesday June 24th, the “Neigungsgruppe Design” presented the festival
programme of the third VIENNA DESIGN WEEK in Vienna, which once more invites to
experiencing design in everyday life from October 1st to 11th. Newly developed formats
as “VDW Lab”, “VDW Debut” and “VDW Carte Blanche” add to the successful portfolio
of talks, presentations and exhibitions.
“VDW Lab”
With “VDW Lab”, young product -, industrial -, and graphic designers receive a
prominent platform at the project space of the KUNSTHALLE on Karlsplatz. Invited by
“Neigungsgruppe Design”, organiser of VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, and guest curator and
communication designer Erwin Bauer, project teams work on-site on special projects.
Thus, visitors of the laboratory get to experience individual operating processes and
approaches in an open studio situation. At the same time, the location serves as
festival headquarters for exchange, meetings, and the gathering of programme
information.
“VDW Debut”
Ten chosen design students and design alumni, who graduated no longer than three
years ago, present their works in the context of “VDW Debut”, supported by the
internationally renowned James Dyson Foundation and James Dyson Award. The
projects of young product -, and industrial designers, who beforehand submitted for
the James Dyson Award, are going to be displayed at Vorgartenmarkt in the
Stuwerviertel neighbourhood. Furthermore, in this once notorious and now more
hipper Stuwerviertel, one focus of this year’s PASSIONSWEGE is located. This design
path across the first and second city district with ten stops in total can be discovered
on foot as the centrepiece of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK.
The aim of VIENNA DESIGN WEEK is to show creative work in the fields of product, furniture and industrial design, and also experimental design. After two successful festivals in 2007 and 2008, this October an exquisite and colourful programme of events will be awaiting visitors. Design has been and is an important field in the production of culture: it shapes our material culture, our everyday life and our consumer world, it influences our lifestyles and fashions and most fundamentally our aesthetic sense and judgements. This wide-ranging impact is a reason both to celebrate design and to examine it critically, and VIENNA DESIGN WEEK has made both of these its mission.
NEW COLLECTION HERITAGE BOY From Lee Broom
British designer Lee Broom presents Heritage Boy, his third collection of furniture Heritage Boy is the much anticipated follow-up toRough Diamond 2008 and Neo Neon 2007 .
Broom’s new collection marks a departure from the eye-catching neon lighting to a more classical fusion of the old and new. Heritage Boy draws on traditional British manufacturing techniques to create a modern-day furniture collection which is divided into three distinct ranges: Carpetry, Parquetry and Tiles.
