Last week it was announced that British designer Tom Dixon will become creative director for the London interiors fair called 100% Design. Tom Dixon will continue with his personal design brand Tom Dixon and his work with developing the Finnish furniture producer Artek (who are known for the Alvar Aalto furniture) side by side with the new adventure.

Tom Dixon says, “With the international design scene becoming increasingly crowded with events and fairs, it’s important for 100% Design to maintain it’s momentum. It’s with this in mind that we are working together to broaden the appeal, expand the facilities, support emerging talent, for more fun, more ideas and more business maintaining 100% Design’s position as an unmissable event on the international design calendar”.

New for this year at 100% Design is something called 100% Futures which will be a showcase of contemporary interiors products by the best new design talent, providing an opportunity to take the first steps on the design ladder. My first reaction is: why did 100% Design wait that long to help bring forward the young generation? The Milan and Stockholm Furniture Fairs have had the Salone Satellite and the Greenhouse for many years now.

It will be interesting to see further upgrades at 100% Design with Tom Dixon behind the steering wheel as creative director.

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I wrote about the band Ok Go and their mega popular video on YouTube some time ago. Now they are releasing their new single and video called “Do What You Want”. Maybe not as impulsive as the first one, but still well worth looking at!

P.s To be able to listen to Ok Go without the sound from the earlier post about the new Jeff Han multi touchscreen video please roll down and pause it first. Sorry, but I don’t know how to turn the autostart off…

Thanks to psfk

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I just read the following written by Alex Steffen in WorldChanging:

“We have extremely huge footprints today. If every person lived as the average wealthy American does today, we’d need almost ten planets worth of resources to sustain ourselves, while the gap between our consumption and the capacities of the planet’s natural systems has already crossed into overshoot, threatening mass-extinctions and catastrophic climate change. If we’re going to have a bright green future — if we want to avoid living out the rest of our lives in one long emergency, a kind of constant Katrina - we need to reinvent our lives now, immediately, on a radical scale.”

Seems like an unfair breakdown of resources to me…

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Cindy Sherman has an exhibition called “Thirty years of staged photography” at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art starting this weekend.

Each picture reflects a new identity taken from the mass media’s stereotyped views of women. She always works in series and never gives her works titles. Instead they are given a number. In the exhibition Sherman’s works are presented in large chronologically ordered series, each of which is held together by a theme. Sherman manipulates her own body by means of make-up, clothes and artificial body parts, and stages herself as various figures that she invents or re-invents, after which she photographs herself in her studio. Sherman’s idiom varies from the amusing and humorous through the shrill to the brutal.

The Loisiana Museum of Modern Art is situated in Denmark south of Helsingør and is overlooking the sound called Öresund that divides Sweden and Denmark. So, if you are passing the area before mid May I do recommend a visit.

And while you are there, do not miss to have a coffee or lunch at the Louisiana café (see picture below).

image of Louisiana café © adrian welch

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Supermarket art fair 2007 is an international independent artist-run art fair in Stockholm. Supermarket art fair 2007 takes place 22–25 February at Konstnärshuset, Smålandsgatan 7 in Stockholm. Konstnärshuset means The Artists’ House and it is a nice old Art Deco palace in the centre of Stockholm. The objective of Supermarket art fair 2007 is to create a dynamic and a free-flowing meeting place for artistic experimentation and initiative.

Supermarket art fair 2007 is organised by SKF Umbrella, a sub organisation of SKF – Svenska Konstnärernas Förening (The Swedish Artists’ Association) in collaboration with a network of artist-run organisations in Stockholm. The organisers promise that it will be a tight fitting, bustling, and upbeat social event. Let’s go and see!

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Tyler Brule launches the magazine Monocle this week. Monocle is a new global media brand that combines print, web and broadcast components in a highly original and innovative way. With Monocle Tyler Brule would like to create a community of the most interested and interesting people in the world. The target group could be described as well-educated and well-heeled. The heart of the new Tyler Brule magazine is original coverage in global affairs, business, architecture, culture and design. It will be interesting to see if the combination of a print magazine and a web-based broadcast component (delivering bulletins, mini-documentaries and talk-formats) will put Tyler Brule on the throne of global trends once again.

Swedish magazine DI reports that among the investors of the Tyler Brule magazine Monocle are a company called Ekstranda partially owned by the two H&M twins Jan and Stefan Bengtsson. PG Nilsson is another owner of Ekstranda and he explains the driving force behind the investment: “Tyler Brule is an interesting creator of magazines and he has put together a nice team and has good financing” (my translation).

Except for Tyler Brule the team includes editor Andrew Tucker from the Independent, editor for the Americas Ann Marie Gardner from The New York Times ‘T’ Travel magazine and Dan Hill as director of web and broadcasting, former head of Interactive Design and Technology at BBC. Richard Spencer Powell who also has joined forces with Tyler Brule at Wallpaper will be creative director. “I’m happy to report that all the people I listed on my dream team a year ago have joined for the launch of this project,” says Tyler Brule.

Monocle is published from London (with bureaux in Tokyo, New York and Zürich) by Winkontinent, the editorial and broadcast arm of Winkorp, Tyler Brule’s Zürich-based holding company.

Tyler Brule launched the style and fashion magazine Wallpaper in 1996. The magazine became one of the most influential new magazines of its time. Tyler Brule left Wallpaper in 2002 and has since then been working as a columnist for Financial Times and has been a host at the TV media magazine The Desk on BBC 4. Tyler Brule has also running Winkreative, a design agency with clients like Bally, Swiss air and Stella McCartney.

Read an earlier post on the new Tyler Brule magazine at the David Report blog called “Tyler Brule looking through a Monocle?” here.

Update 1: Here’s a peek inside the first issue of Monocle.

Update 2: You can read a detailed critique of the first issue here.

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This is a new demo by Jeff Han and his x-large multi touch screen. I found the movie at psfk and this is their vision for the future:

“The death of the mouse might be sooner than you think. Rumor is these screens will come to market as early as later this year. Imagine giving a Powerpoint presentation, then this guy gets up and starts digital fingerpainting. Snap.”

And they are surely right when comparing it to the iPhone on ecstasy…

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The exhibition The Silent Supper by designer Damian Williamson was one of the best parts of the Stockholm Furniture Fair which closed last Sunday.

I got some words from Damian Williamson on his philosophy behind the exhibition:

“The Silent Supper draws reference from the famous painting The Last Supper by Di Vinci. This striking image of a social gathering around a large table plays a key role in the concept. I use The Last Supper as a metaphor, replacing the apostles with objects. I have presented twenty larger objects positioned around a long table as ‘guests’ and twenty smaller objects served as ‘dishes’ in front of the ‘guests’. There’s an intriguing paradox here; although these objects might be silent to the ear they still possess an amazing capacity to communicate and leave an impression on our psyche. I am exploring how these objects communicate with humans. This experiment presented in such a format invites us to imagine the kind of non-verbal dialogue exchanged across the table.”

Damian Williamson continues: “The 20 smaller objects are presented in front of the guest within a hoop to symbolize the plate and Iittala candles as the ‘drink’. I have chosen the forty objects based on the strength and relevance of each respective idea. Objects that illustrate what I consider to be timeless design.”

The Silent Supper image by Patrik Engquist.

Other posts on Stockholm Furniture Fair from the last week:

Stockholm Furniture Fair: Best in show

Konstantin Grcic at the Stockholm Furniture Fair

We are going underground

Stockholm Furniture Fair: Artek launchs Bambu

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Don’t forget the Likemind coffee tomorrow hosted by me and Björn at Solde Kaffebar, Regementsgatan 2 in Malmö. We start at 9am. Visit Likemind home page for a list of all coffee mornings tomorrow around the world.

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Recently started on-line social network Iqons is aiming to have the same impact on fashion as MySpace had on music. The ambition is to create the world’s first truly interconnected ‘fashion ecology’ comprising of designers, retailers, models, fashion PR professionals, photographers, stylists, financiers, show producers, magazine publishers, manufacturers, head-hunters, consumers, aficionados and basically anybody with an interest in fashion. Communities and social networking are all what the new web 2.0 is about and Iqons is not an exception.

Highly respected people from the fashion industry, which they refer to as Iqons, will review and comment on the work showcased by members of the site. Names like Vivienne Westwood and John Galliano are in the line-up.

At Iqons you can meet and chat with selected community members, showcase your talent and find friends for shopping, style exchanges and more. Colin McDowell, one of the worlds most famous fashion commentators, will act as Iqonographer and host some of the biggest names in fashion during the coming months on Iqons.

Iqons will also run different projects like RECYQLE which is a competition aiming to create new products from existing materials. Iqons, as a lot of other communities and companies, has understand that a transparent agenda, social responsibility and care for the nature have turned into hygiene attributes and will be the difference between fame and failure.

Iqons will also present a guide concerning fashion events and parties in international fashion capitals like New York, London and Paris.

Another event on the Iqons agenda right now is a video competition about fashion, beauty and style and the total running time cannot be longer than sixty seconds. The winners will have their films screened on the Iqons community web page. Get your cameras rolling!

The people behind Iqons are Rafael Jimenez who worked at Comme des Garcons and was involved in the upstart of the guerilla stores and Suran Goonatilake, co-founder of Bodymetrics, a company pioneering the use of body-scanning and virtual reality technologies in fashion. Diane Pernet works as co-mentor at Iqons and has pioneered the use of the Web as a medium for fashion communication through her highly influential blog.

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