Magnificent operaesque voice accompanied by high lonely tones on a hard rock guitar. That’s all Moto boy aka. Oskar Humlebo needs to arouse the same kinds of hair-raising feelings that Jeff Buckley did and a movie by David Lynch is able to do. The song is called Beat heart and the video is recorded live in a bicycles tunnel in Malmö, Sweden. Bikes came by at high speed, Moto boy just kept singing and playing. More info about the artist from the Malmö based record company Songs I wish I had written.

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Ten new speakers have just been announced for the lecture day of the event Designboost which will take place in Malmö, Sweden on October 18. The theme for Designboost this year is “sustainable design” and the speakers will give their personal view on the subject. I’m one if the founders of the event and we are offering an “early bird” price until October 5th. Be sure to secure your personal seat by visiting the Designboost registration page.

The speakers are:

Stephen Burks

Stephen Burks is one of the most successful designers in his generation. He is working with everything from shop interiors and packaging to to furniture and home accessories. One of his latest projects was the design of the bottle for the new Calvin Klein perfume CK IN2U.

Mathilda Tham

The work of Mathilda Tham includes trend forecasting, fashion and sustainable issues. Mathilda has also been working with design, pr and marketing. Mathilda works as professor at Beckmans college of design in Stockholm and teaches about eco-design at Goldsmith college in England.

Ilkka Suppanen

Ilkka Suppanen once belonged to the successful Snowcrash design community and his creativity often leads him forward towards new materials and technologies. He is both preserving and developing the innovative and functional Scandinavian heritage.

Katarina Graffman

Katarina Graffman works as an ethnographer. Her tools are simple but the practice is complex. It consists of digging for something with unknown shape, colour and size. The research take place wherever, whenever as reality is her lab. The experiments are conducted in cars, homes, stores, workplaces and parks.

Kristina Börjesson

Kristina has for most part of her professional life as a projects manager and managing director worked for an altered attitude to marketing. Kristina lives since 1996 in London and has written a Master thesis on designers as the link between culture and meaning as also a PhD thesis on the affective sustainability of objects.

Jens Martin Skibsted

Through is company Skibsted Ideation Jens Martin Skibsted develops innovative products that are brand carriers, drive numbers and massively boost PR. He applies the thinking of branding, fashion and music to the world of industrial design. Jens Martin Skibsted is the founder of Biomega - the luxury urban mobility brand.

Nina Jobs

Nina Jobs is an internationally recognized and awarded designer. With a background as graphic designer she holds a master degree in product-design from ENSAD-Paris. Her designs includes works within products, furniture and textile design. In 2001-2005, Nina Jobs also assigned to promote Swedish design in Asia on the behalf of the Swedish government. Nina also make speeches world wide.

John-Michael Ekeblad

John-Michael Ekeblad runs Daytime Projects Inc which is a strategic design consultancy based in New York City that creates magic out of rationality. John-Michael’s philosophy is about convergence of design culture with deep consumerism and artistic movement that creates a platform of Commercial Aesthetics.

Björn Jeffery

Björn Jeffery works as CEO and Internet Strategist at the Swedish communication agency Good Old. As co-founder of the company, his main focus is the implementation of current and future web trends to large publishing houses. Björn is also the founder of two of Swedens largest blogs, Discobelle.net and Manolo.se.

Thomas Sandell

Thomas Sandell is one of the most acknowledged designer and archictect in Sweden. Thomas has received several Swedish and international design awards. His assigners include Cappellini, B&B Italia and Asplund to mention a few. His recent work with the proposal of a new Kallbadhus in Riddarfjärden has caused a lot of debate.

The five following speakers are already confirmed from before: Satyendra Pakhale, Jennifer Leonard, Eero Koivisto, Kristina Dryza and Brent Richards.

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Neo is a new collection of pots by Claesson Koivisto Rune by Finnish producer Iittala. According to them it was a challenge to achieve the possibility to cook in all different ways (gas, induction etc) and keep the sense of quality at the same time as Neo should be lightweight enough for women to use (who in general is not as strong as men and still, at present time, cook most of the food at home…).

Here is an explanation of the project from Claesson Koivisto Rune:

“Cooking can be a precise exercise. Modern kitchen design and its materials are often reminiscent of laboratories. But the people cooking and the food that’s prepared is anything but dry science. It’s organic. It’s human. So we made it our mission to combine these two opposites. Our working name for this project became “organic precision.”

Our pots have a unique ergonomic feature that also became the aesthetic feature. Two handles, positioned vertically.

Handling an empty pot is no problem. But a pot filled with boiling water is something else. With the two handles, one on either side, you can easily control lifting, carrying and pouring with both hands. Issuing first horizontally from the pot body, then continuing in a distinct, downward angle, our handles are better suited to the natural position of your hands. Thoroughly researched and tested with prototypes, of course.

At first glance the handle is flat, slender-looking, but once grasped reveals itself to be rounded on the inside. It sits comfortably in the hand – wet or dry. A similar open handle on the lid allows it to be hung on a wall-mounted rail.

The pot’s body opens towards the top from an angle midway up. This makes for easier pouring, as well as affording a safe distance between the handle and the warm surface of the pot body.”

The picture below shows the CKR office when working hard with the design of the collection…

Photo copyright: Louise Billgert

In cookware Iittala can present some mile stones before today: the famous Timo Sarpaneva pot, that has became a design icon, was designed already in 1960 and is still in production. In 1998 Iittala launched the Tools series, designed by the Swedish Björn Dahlström. You can see both of them together with the new Neo series below.

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The Home Rejuvenation Blog is conducting a survey to find out who the 10 influential bloggers (blogs) in our design community are. It’s time to find the movers and shakers of the design blogging world. Follow this link to read more about it.

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As I have mentioned earlier I’m one of the founders of the Designboost event which will take place in Malmö 17-19 October. Designboost consists of workshops, lectures and an exhibition (or as we prefer to call it boost meetings, boost chats and boost show). We are asking our one hundred participating “boosters” to write a one liner concerning sustainable design (the theme for 2007). As well as I’m posting them in the Designboost blog I will post some of them here as well. Some of the “boosters” will also talk on the boost chats day October 18th in Malmö (which is open for the public). When you register on-line before October 5th we offer you an early bird price! The confirmed speakers for October 18th include Satyendra Pakhale, Jennifer Leonard, Eero Koivisto, Kristina Dryza and Brent Richards (further speakers to be announced this week).

Here are some thoughtful quotes on sustainable design:

Jennifer Leonard - designer researcher and writer

“What will endure is what is uniquely human”

Satyendra Pakhale - cultural nomad and designer

“Every design ought to be Sustainable design, meaning something people refuse to trash”

Kristina Dryza - trend forecaster

“The sustainability of cultural heritage amidst the backdrop of global change and modern life”

Christel Vaenerberg - product portfolio director/Iittala

“Solutions which meet the needs of today without compromising the ability of future generations to fulfill their own needs”

Thomas Sandell - designer and architect

“Quality is always sustainable”

Katarina Graffman - ethnographer

“Sustainable design gives an authentic value to the consumer”

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The forest superintendent cabin by Strata Arkitektur in Stockholm was announced as winner of the debutante price from the magazine Arkitektur the other day. Strata Arkitektur is founded by Petra Gipp och Katarina Lundeberg. The cabin has a low-voice functionality and all materials are chosen with an environmental perspective. The architects want them to age with beauty. The cabin is situated in Grimeton nature reserve and has a magnificent view of the sea below.

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T-post offers you to subscribe to cool T-shirts. Once you sign up a package will arrive every six weeks. It’s almost like having a subscription to a magazine. All T-shirts from T-post have a design based on a current news item. This topic is always printed on the inside inside.

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The Little Disk Program is a collection of portable, digital storage devices designed by Sam Hecht and his studio Industrial Facility. They are produced by LaCie. I love the clean and rational look. Sam Hecht describes the idea behind them like this:

A good tool is never a gadget. A tool is something that is holistic, where each part is dependent on another, where nothing is redundant. There are no irrelevant details, no feet, no visible sockets nor switches. Each device represents a re-alignment between the virtual act storing data and the physically of the hardware itself.

The Little Disk Program collection is really clever and functional design far away from the shallow and very much hyped design-art which I have described in my Vulgarism bulletin. I’m looking forward to see further work from Sam Hecht and Industrial Facility.

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Playground for urban cities in 2015 is a a project by Alain Gilles, formerly working at Quinze and Milan and now opening his own studio.

Urban Jungle: Hanging or walking between rubber vines. Playing hide and seek with their peers. Young children need to learn to go beyond their fears, to step into unknown territories.

Antzzz or the little community: Open, closed or linked structures replicate everyday social behaviors. Encouraging communication and/or confinement, especially when passing over a bridge.

Cosmosphere: sunlight can shine through tiny holes made into the sphere and give an inner image of a sky full of stars. Children, while still being accessible, can hide away from their parents thus learn to become more independent.

Culbuto: Leat all that positive energy out, as children need to unleash once in a while. Up to four kids can shake that tree like structure and reap the benefits of their effort.

Boulo Modulo: Big memory foam balls in which children can leave their imprints for a little while. By leaving their marks in, they will make the playground their, and be tempted to respect it a lot more.

Follow that Frog: Society is a lot about behaving like other, and in a way following other people in their footsteps. Children can jump on one green lotus after the other as they light up the path taken by a virtual frog. Computer controlled LEDs are lit via bluetooth sensors thus defining a random path.

Below is a brief explanation of the project by Alain Gilles himself:

“Young children acquire most of their social behaviors through playing with others. So, what they play with greatly matters. In large urban cities, the playground is often one of the few outside place children have free access to. It is time to redefine the functions a playground should offer in ten years from now, by 2015. Considering that most social needs of children age 3 to 8 will not have significantly changed, as tends to show different various scientific analysis of the evolution of society, cities and children in general. They obviously need to exercise outside, but they must also acquire self-confidence and social values.
Too often, playgrounds are seen as boring and are deserted after a while. Hence, the idea to have a solid structures allowing for different games to be rotated between playgrounds, or even within every playground itself. So the various elements are held to the ground by a series of studs evenly embedded within the foundation of the playground itself. It goes without saying that this grid is a constraint that has to be taken into account during the conception of each interchangeable element. It plays a role in the determination of the size and shape of each game, just as much as the ergonomics and general legislations.
In order to make sure that the elements of the playground could be financially accessible to a wide range of communities the pieces have been designed to be producible using generally accessible technology: metalwork, rotation molding, PUR foam, recycled rubber…
The various element of the playground are meant to foster the acquisition of some values needed to live in a community. So some of games will in a way highlight some social behaviors and encourage communication, independence, self-esteem, respect for other and for what belongs to the community, but also encourage the need to behave as the majority, as well as encourage young children to find their own path and venture out.”

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Likemind is an opportunity to enjoy good coffee and conversation. Drinking coffee with like minded people is fun. It’s for people like you. As earlier Likemind coffee mornings I’m hosting the Malmö branch together with Björn from Good Old. This month we will meet on Friday September 21th at 9 am at Solde Kaffebar, Regementsgatan 2. Coffee kindly paid for by New York agency Anomaly.

Likemind is spreading over the world. Just look at the map above.

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