Some weeks ago a posted two nice videos by Robert Hodgin (here and here). The video I’m posting today is called Flocking in a flowfield and is another good example of Roberts skill with the open source program Processing.
Move your cursor from the play button (after you hit it) to get a full view of the video.
Andra bloggar om: video, konst, processing
The easy chair Otto was design by Peter Raacke in 1968 and was the first cardboard-furniture that have been manufactured industrially. Otto is now put in production again by German producer Pulpo. As you can see on the image above Otto can be painted with your favourite pattern or just be left untreated. Otto has been placed at a couple of museums during the years which includes MOMA, Vitra Design Museum and Deutsches Technikmuseum.
Andra bloggar om: design, möbler, wellpapp
The architect office Mansilla + Tuñón got this years Mies van der Rohe Award with their new contemporary art museum MUSAC in Castilla y León. The prize, founded 1987, is also known as the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture and is granted every two years by the European Union and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona, to acknowledge and reward quality architectural production in Europe. Candidates for the Award are put forward by a broad group of independent experts from all over Europe, as well as from the architects’ associations that form part of the European Council of Architects and other European national architects’ associations.
The winner receives 50 000 euro. Not bad!
Thanks to Arkitektur.
Andra bloggar om: mansilla tunon, Mies van der Rohe, award, arkitektur
The posting has been a little slow lately due to some hectic days at the Milan design week. After Milan I went to Mallorca where I organised a field trip for the Global brand team of Absolut vodka on the theme Future Luxury, based on my latest bulletin with the same name. We had some nice days staying at a beautiful hotel, lectures, discussions with interesting people and of course some really good restaurant experiences. As I’m bringing forward in the bulletin the future luxury is about responsibility. It is also more about high quality than mass consumption and probably more regional than global. For sure it is more based on experiences than just another bling-bling object.
Mallorca is a good place to explore the future of luxury at when it definitely is in a transformation from a noisy charter destination into a very interesting and inspiring island.
Next in line for the blog is a post about this years Salone Satellite exhibition in Milan and also some pictures from Mallorca - stay tuned.
Andra bloggar om: mallorca, lyx, framtid
Maybe a month or two late but I really like the new song Cheek to cheek from Sweden-based 4 piece all-girl rock band Sahara Hotnights. This video is a singback version from Grand Prix. Sahara Hotnights has been around for quite a few years now and with this song I’m sure they will hit big around the world. Listen and judge yourself.
The new album “What if leaving is a loving thing” was released on April 18th. If you would like to get a signed copy in your mailbox order your personal copy here.
Andra bloggar om: sahara hotnights, cheek to cheek, tjejband, rock, video
Marc Gobé, author of Brandjam says: “Design is the new advertising. The agencies should fold, they’re out of line and out of touch. The only advertising that works is about product that you’re drawn to any way.”
I have been touching this matter in two of my earlier David Report bulletins called Welcome to the Credibility Loop and Communication Through Product. Today advertising is a questionable effort both to build recognition and to build a brand. The academic elite as well as business professionals have a second thought how to do. It’s all about building a trustworthy and reliable partnership with your (future) customers. It’s to become a part of their mind so to speak. And when most people are sick and tired of all advertising everywhere, there must be a better way to communicate with them, mustn’t it? I mean that you should communicate with the consumers through design.
Interested to read what more Marc Gobé has to say about this issue? You can find Brandjam at Amazon here. If you would like to know more about Marc Gobé and his book Brandjam please read this interview from Brand Noise.
Andra bloggar om: marknadsföring, reklam, varumärke, brandjam, marc gobe
Day three of the Milan furniture fair took me to the fairground itself. Actually I did not went there last year and the architecture itself was surprisingly good (that’s why I’m adding a few architectural images of the fairground for the Milan furniture fair below as well). If you compare to the showrooms at town it was more business and less exercise in bringing art and design together. Mainly because the ongoing neo-surrealism trend has a majority of perpetrators among Dutch designers, and they where not simply at the fairground.
Last years trend of putting flowers at everything (with Tord Boontje in the lead) was not as dominating. In search for a historical connection antiques objects, old books etc was visible in a lot of stands. The translucency trend, both concerning cut or stamped metal and plexi was adopted by a majority of the exhibitors (at least in the contemporary halls 8 and 12). The Algue plastic element by the Bouroullec brothers had a lot of followers, and as normal you also saw look-a-like copies of both chairs, table and other pieces at the years Milan furniture fair.
The new “green” thinking that is growing rapidly in a lot of other types of businesses was as invisible at the fairground as at the showrooms in central Milan. So was ethical thinking. It is confusing but I know from my years with David Design that the furniture industry is much slower to adapt new thinking compared to other industries. The fashion industry is a good example where a lot of interesting responsible work is going on. Kartell pointed out themselves at the Milan furniture fair with guards that stopped you from taking your own pictures. As I mentioned the other day that kind of behaviour is really strange when the overall trend in business is about involving the customers and allowing them to generate their personal version of a brand. I like Kartell as a brand and maybe it is just reflecting some old style arrogant behaviour?
As with my earlier reports from the Milan furniture fair here and here, I will let my images speak for themselves. Please feel free to send a comment below if you would like to know any details about any of the images. I will come back with a special report of the Salone Satellite at the Milan furniture fair in a separate post.
Andra bloggar om: möbelmässa, milano, möbler, trender, design
Creating a site to provide financial advise online can turn into a profitable business. One topic that can be covered on the site is real estate issues such as home refinancing or home insurance. Then other issues such as low interest banking options and credit loan relief can also be covered. To provide a wide range of variety various fundraiser events can be included to let people know where they can make donations.
While the Milan design week is rumbling Time magazine has come up with their brand new The design 100 list. It contains the 100 best designs (according to Time magazine) in eleven different categories. They include among others green (of course), interiors, shopping, packaging and fashion. Good design is everywhere these days - is the starting line of the article in Time magazine. I’m not that sure that this is true. I would say - bad design is everywhere these days. The good design shows up here and there but it is not everywhere, unfortunately.
Andra bloggar om: time, design
If day one at the Milan design week was a lot about maximalism and decorative neo-surrealism, day two has offered some more simple, rational and functional form with products that you actually can use. The Dutch based neo-surrealism is touching the art landscape without having the same deep and meaning. Should we call it design or do we have to invent a new world for these kind of experiments?
What I do miss most is more examples of responsibility and sustainability. The new green lifestyle is in a strange way non-visible in Milan, at least among the big players. Tons of papers in form of catalogues and leaflets are handed out daily. CDs as well. It is a mystery why this is happening in a time when the technology allows us to share this information via internet in a more convenient and environmental friendly way.
Another thought that comes to my mind is why you are not allowed to take photographs at a lot of the shows? At Flos for instance, beefy types are in a threatening way stopping you from making your own reminiscences. Which world are they living in? Did they miss the chapter about involving the consumers and taking them to your heart?
Below you will find my images from day two at the Milan design week. Tomorrow I will visit the fairground, so stay tuned for some more design experiences. Just write a comment below if you would like to know more details about a specific image.
You can see images from Milan design week day one here.
Andra bloggar om: möbler, design, möbelmässa, milano
The first day of the Milan design week has come to an end and I would like to share the most interesting moments with you. I have have been strolling around town so all the info and images is from outside the fairground itself.
I will post quite a lot if images in a row so please have patience with the downloading time for this post about Milan design week day one. It is a line of images without words. Stay tuned, I will post further images the next couple of days.
If would like to know what’s on a specific image - just drop me a comment below and I will reply a.s.a.p.
Andra bloggar om: möbler, design, milano, möbelmässa
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