MOTLEY is a publication created to inspire, to present creative imagery in an innovative and unorthodox way. We have no set production schedule, it is created when the mood feels correct. Each new issue of Motley will be unique in design and feature the work of new and established artists, Worldwide.
The premier issue launched in Summer 2010 and features the work of nine international photographers. To avoid producing a publication with a traditional story layout, we decided to mix the photographers work together and devised a front cover grid system code to determine each photographers images. It was important to us that the images spoke for themselves first rather than be dictated by their creators or credits.
Motley is currently available in Berlin, London, New York and Stockholm.
Knowledge company Designboost is launching a new quarterly online magazine called BoostReview. The first issue is focusing on Design for Life. It’s not about the design world itself. It’s about how we can shape and design our way of life. The first issue consists of four chapters. Ten filmed interviews with some of the worlds most acknowledged designers, an interview with Ilse Crawford, a visit at the Mind-sets exhibition by Ineke Hans and a brief story about the importance of a holistic mindset when designing.
Another good thing - BoostReview is optimized for both the iPad and the iPhone.
I went with knowledge company Designboost to Milan and made a MiniBoost to explore the personal viewpoint on what Design for life is for some of the worlds most acknowledged designers. The MiniBoost resulted in ten unique interviews with personalities like; Tokujin Yoshioka, Marcel Wanders, Hella Jongerius, Maarten Baas, Christophe Pillet, Nika Zupanc, Edward Barber, Jay Osgerby, Stephen Burks, Jean-Marie Massaud and Arihiro Miyake. All interviews are available at the MiniBoost section of the Designboost web.
The questions asked looked what Design for Life is all about and how we can create better lives for the many. How we plan, produce, deliver and consume everything from cities, transportation and infrastructure to food, entertainment, products and brands. And that we together have a joint responsibility. And that we all can make a difference.
The questions are written by different Boosters at the DesignBoost 2009 key event “Design for life” in Malmö, Sweden.
Bukowskis first autumn sale is a themed auction called Eclectic. The auction contains interior design objects out of the ordinary. The Eclectic auction presents a wide range of objects inspired by the decades around 1900, the golden era of great adventure and when the old world transformed into the new industrialism.
The auction contains unique objects of the world famous Cinematographer Sven Nykvist. Proceeds from the sale will be used to establish the Sven Nykvist Cinematography Institute.
This camera was used by Sven Nykvist, among many films, on the set of Ingmar Bergman’s “Sawdust and Tinsel,” which was filmed at Grand Hotel 1953. Sven Nykvist later on got the camera for his 60th birthday 1982 by Ingmar Bergman.
The first camera that Sven Nykvist obtained.
Participating actors were, among others, Joe Mantegna, Kenneth Branagh and Judy Davis. This was Sven Nykvist last movie.
The first eclectic auction at Bukowskis takes place Berzelii Park 1 in Stockholm on August 24 at 5-8am.
September 6–7 Designboost presents DesignBoost - Made in [Arnhem] in Arnhem, Holland through a variety of integrated BoostChat (workshops) and BoostTalk (lectures). Designboost will invite Boosters from Holland and all over the world which represent the true frontline within design in its broadest context. All are authorities in their field of expertise and our selection reflects the principle that design is multidisciplinary reaching way beyond the obvious. Our carefully selected Boosters will interact on the theme ”Design for Life” over two days with companies, organisations and institutions.
BoostChat is for invited only while the BoostTalk is open for public as well.
When it comes to sustainable life there are probably many things that needs to be questioned, left could very well be right. The objective of DesignBoost - Made in [Arnhem] is to make everybody question, reach awareness and think in new paths when it comes to creating better lives for lots of people. This is after all the ultimate goal for all design.
Japanese design brand Sfera started the original Uchiwa collection in the summer of 2009, as an example of adopting Japanese traditional craft into our daily life. Uchiwa is a flat, non-folding Japanese fan which have been a familiar part of daily life since centuries. Sfera’s Uchiwa is redefined to fit contemporary lifestyle, simply showing its essential and functional beauty with a timeless appeal. All of the Uchiwa is made by Aiba, a well known Kyoto-style Uchiwa maker with 300years of history.
The Boatanic (boat + botanic) is a novel concept that combines existing know-how to create an unprecedented solution for growing food within the inner city. Its aim is to reduce the environmental impact of our food which, today, still has to travel large distances before it hits our plates.
The concept is to simply convert discarded tourist boats into floating greenhouses as these are ideally suited due to their large glass windows. The idea dawned on Damian O’Sullivan as he was walking around Amsterdam and realised that the typical tourist boat actually resembled a greenhouse. ‘What if you replaced tourists with thyme or tomatoes?’ he asked himself…the Boatanic was born!
The name is also a tongue-in-cheek allusion to the Titanic and can as such be seen as a veiled reference to the environmental danger we are faced with.
The Boatanic will offer fresh year-round seasonal herbs, fruit and vegetables. These will be sold directly from the quay and also delivered by bike to restaurants (wholesale) as well as in the form of monthly subscription baskets (retail).
The Boatanic also intends to engender a return to the commercial exploitation of the inner-city waterways which have all but been lost in the last century as we turned away from them in favour of road transportation.
The Boatanic is ideally suited for cities with inner-city waterways, a rich gourmet culture and a climate that is neither too hot nor too cold. We aim to have a pilot up and running in Amsterdam by 2011 and would then look toward expanding to other cities in Europe and North America.
In short, the Boatanic will reduce the food-miles to food-at-your-feet!
The Boatanic will feature as part of a group exhibition at Fort Asperen (NL) until September 2010. Other designers include Arnout Visser and Christien Meindersma.
The Swedish Crown Princess Victoria will get married on June 19th and a lot of activities are going on in Stockholm these weeks. IKEA has made a nice and fun “interactive releation activity” at Skeppsbrokajen in front of the royal castle. Everything is presented with a theme called TILLSAMMANS (together). You will find a copy of the “Haga castle” (where Victoria will live with her Daniel) with 14 different rooms looking into “royal interior” with a creative touch. There are the “pavillion” with among other things visualitations of relations by the swedish design schools (yours truly has been involved in the creative process). Other things are the “camping”, the “photo booth” which also is online, the “shaddow booth”, the “love tents” and the “baloons” that are sent out by the help of the visitors with love messages to the world
On top of all this a real ant-hill has been moved from Småland. You can follow the lives of the ants both in reality at Skeppsbrokajen and at the webb, a good example of advanced realtions! Check into it all via images below, or even better, at Skeppsbrokajen in Stockholm.
Peroni Nastro Azzurro, the premium Italian beer, starts a new online project called The Beautiful Game. As part of its sponsorship of the Italian football team, Peroni launches today an online community for Italians and all enthusiasts of Italian style - both on and off the pitch.
Online exclusively for the five weeks of the World Cup, Ilbelgioco.com features interviews, blog entries, podcasts and images from the brand’s global ambassadors: 2006 football champion, Fabio Grosso; Michelin star chef, Giorgio Locatelli; celebrity fashion designer, Antonio Berardi and Italian design heir, Matteo Alessi. Other guest contributors include: fashion icon, Elio Fiorucci; Puma Italia’s managing director, Andrea Rogg; published author of Calcio: History of Italian Football, John Foot; founder of food emporium Eataly, Oscar Farinetti; Paris based curators, Luca Marchetti and Emanuele Quinz; CEO and Chief Creative Officer of Philips Design, Stefano Marzano; Australian photographer Julie Adams, who captured The Beauty of Italian Women, to name but a few.
Each week, conversations with online visitors will also be triggered by an iconic quote taken from one of the several books on Italy and Italians written by Beppe Severgnini - the journalist, author, blogger and passionate football fan. Severgnini, who’s also behind the hugely popular Italians blog, will write an exclusive piece from Cape Town in celebration of the Azzurri team and things Italian.
Visitors are encouraged to interact with these influential Italians to communicate and celebrate their passion for football, food, design and fashion. They are also encouraged to upload images, films, words and sounds that depict their visions.
“With football lying at the heart of Italian life and culture it is a natural progression for Peroni Nastro Azzurro to partner with team Azzurri, a true icon of the game and Italy,” said Andrew Walker, Peroni Nastro Azzurro global brand director. “With Il Bel Gioco we want to create a community of consumers who are passionate about all things Italian.”
G. is a furniture project designed, manufactured and sold by GPOD.
It is inspired on what Indie represents within the music industry. By remaining independent it conquers the space for pure reflection, and for defining its own set of operating rules – aesthetically and otherwise. Its reflection, more than formal, is mostly about the social and economical aspects surrounding the design industry. It is aimed at understanding quality and the necessary mechanisms to achieve it, as well as how design products become part of everyone’s lives.
Being independent of any establishment, due to the intrinsic freedom to define the what- to-do, the why-doing-it and the how-to-do-it, with a fairly high level of risk control, makes it easier to address complex issues like sustainability or cultural identity, as well as other social issues surrounding the manufacture of utilitarian goods, in order to try out ideas that could then be applied on a bigger scale.
The following 4 topics are the guiding lines of the whole development:
1 – Ecolomy of Scale - To make a fundamental premise out of the perfect balance between economical viability and ecological impact of any product. 2- Mass Customization – An essential tool for having context sensitive products 3- Glocal - To eventually sell everywhere, but to always produce where one’s selling it, and always using locally produced materials.
4- Ethical - Design products do not constitute a primary need. Although, a percentage of their sales can be. G. will always team up with local NGOs to define a donation model.
G.pt is the application of the ideas above to the Portuguese context. It is composed of a tabouret, a dinning table and a system for side tables, all locally produced with “home grown” materials. Partnerships are currently being studied to take the project to other European countries. G.dk and G.de are in the pipeline. This will be specially interesting for testing one of the basic design premises of the project: to design products flexible enough in order to resist different “home grown” materials while keeping their design identity.
The authorship of G. consists on a group of commercial products that makes tangible its design research as the best way to test the ideas shaping them. The reaction of the public will be an important meter for taking the research process further.
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