Shaw + Smith wine tasting experience
Contemporary design drives the Shaw + Smith wine tasting experience.
This is post by David Report contributor Kristina Dryza.
Andra bloggar om: vin, vingård, arkitektur, design, provsmakning
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The Ace Hotel Portland
The Ace hotel Portland: what a boutique hotel should look and feel like.
This is post by David Report contributor Kristina Dryza.
Andra bloggar om: hotell, resa, foto, design, inredning, portland
To consume or not
I just read some comments to the latest David Report bulletin called “I shop therefore I am” in “The Marketer Who Went Off Consumption”. It’s a year-long book-as-a-blog experiment in why we choose to consume, or not, written by India based Gaurav Mishra. In a very clear and comprehensible way he is putting together a couple of important trends that in one way or another describes how our consumption pattern are about to change:
- From conspicuous consumption to conscious consumption.
- From brand-consciousness to background-consciousness.
- From synthetic to organic.
- From mass-produced to hand-crafted.
- From global to local.
- From short-term to sustainable.
- From fashionable to durable.
- From valuing things to valuing insights.
- From fitting in/ standing out to being.
- From buying more to buying less.
- From doing more to doing less.
- From multi-tasking to down-shifting.
- From buying to sharing/ exchanging.
- From owning to experiencing.
- From having to giving.
Sounds quite attractive to me… What do you think?
Andra bloggar om: shopping, konsumtion, trender, kultur
From Virtual Future to Real Life
At the same time as Milan is opening the doors to the crowded Design Week, Gothenburg is opening the annual International Science Festival. This year the theme is play in all its forms and well-attended game events are taken place all over the city. But in an almost empty conference hall, far away from the public game activities in Gothenburg or the media spotlight and the well-visited arenas in Milan, I have the opportunity to listen to some of Scandinavia’s most renowned computer game researchers discussing our virtual future.
Game Studies is still a young, but growing, field of research, where we get a new understanding of the area and a hint of future expectations of interface design and possible user groups. Their reports indeed indicates highly interesting facts when looking for patterns amongst the next generation of consumers, such as ways of communicating in relation to the screen while playing, factors that may stimulate the never ending hunt for game rewards, or questions about gender and identity.
Even if the discussion mostly is focusing on the game design development – with questions like why replicating the real world, with structures in economy, religion, market, laws, etc., when we are free to create our experimental world in the virtual, or the facts that we see a growing professional sport field in computer gaming – the most interesting questions would be raised if we could combine the reports with ambitions of developing our society in large.
For example, millions of gamers are playing a considerable part of their spare time to get game points – and higher status in the game community. How can we use this knowledge of the power of motivation when discussing how to change behaviours for other purposes, such as sustainable lifestyle changes?
New interfaces mean new challenges. What is a computer tomorrow? And in what kind of situations do we play? The transformation from leisure to work, from play to industry, takes different shapes, but the trend is strong: We have only seen the very beginning of the impact from computer games – the blooming game era is to come, and in areas we have not yet imagined!
This is a post by David report contributor Hanna Ljungström.
Andra bloggar om: vetenskapsfestivalen, göteborg, dataspel, samhälle, media
Milan Design Week 2008 - part one
The Milan Design Week 2008 was offering kind of sweet-sour experiences. I started to go to Milan already back in 1988 but I think I’m as curious (and critical) as I was twenty years ago. I do understand that it is maybe an utopia to expect the Milan Design Week to be better and better year after year. However, at least it should reflect current trends from the surrounding world. I’m not sure it really did that this year. But I’m not surprised, the furniture industry is normally comparatively slow. A few years ago you didn’t go to the Milan Design Week if your prime objective was to spot the latest lifestyle trends. But the event is slowly changing from being “just” a furniture fair to a wider design event with representatives from different areas like cars, jewellery and fashion.
Nowadays, at this kind of design happenings, I’m looking more at the overall appearance than on specific products itself. Kind of the total brand delivery. One conclusion was that you could really feel that we are going towards a recession. Anxious businessmen were doing their best to sell as much as possible. Of course this was affecting the total quality of the Milan Design Week. There were definitely a lack of originality and creativity this year.
But I also saw a couple of really interesting exhibitions. One was Established & Sons at Pelota, a former sports arena in Milano’s Brera area. Good show and nice to see how they are experimenting with basic materials and shapes. With a kind of idea-based simplicity as a common denominator. Another positive experience was the Japanese producer E&Y which had a qualitative exhibition with a beautiful natural light.
In the first room of Moroso’s “The little garden of love”, water was pouring down from the ceiling. A show for all your senses. I have added some pictures from the mentioned exhibitions bellow. Stay tuned, further report from the Milan Design Week tomorrow!
First eight images is from the Established & Sons exhibition.
Next two images from the E & Y exhibition, with founder Yoichi Nakamuta.
And finally the Moroso exhibition called “The little garden of love”
Andra bloggar om: möbler, inredning, mässa, design, milano, italien
Vulgarism at Milan Design Week?
I’m off to the Milan Design Week tomorrow morning. As always it will be nice to come to Milan and meet the spring (I’m from Sweden you know…). What interests me most is to see if the DesignArt, or Vulgarism trend as I prefer to call it, from lasts years Milan Design Week is as strong this year. The invitation cards shows that designers like Studio Job and Jaime Hayon (who is responsible for the creation above) is well represented at different shows at town. Also the presence of Meta, the contemporary arm of Mallet, the London and New York antique house shows that Milan follows the trend from Art Basel Miami Beach.
I will let you know in a couple of posts from the Milan Design Week in the next couple of days.
Arrivederci!
Andra bloggar om: milano, möbelmässa, konst, design, inredning, möbler, trender
Bouroullec at Milan Design Week
Here follows a couple of image of different projects presented by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec at the Milan Design Week. The products are Alcove love seat highback for Vitra, Rocs for the Vitra Edition, Steelwood collection for Magis, Pebble for Tectona and Papyrus chair for Kartell.
Andra bloggar om: design, möbler, inredning, milano, mässa, bouroullec
I shop therefore I am
Next Friday, April 4, issue nine of the David Report Bulletin will be released. The title will be “I shop therefore I am” and it will concern future consumerism and consumption culture. Among other things you will be able to find interesting texts from Kristina Dryza, freelance strategist and designer and Sante Poromaa, teacher at The Zenbuddhist Society in Stockholm. There will also be an interview with Mathilda Tham, guest professor at Beckmans College of Design in Stockholm. Here’s a short introduction text by Sante Poromaa:
“In the future luxury goods will be methods that bring us back the power of our own attention: the power to choose ourselves what we want to notice or not. And there lies the true luxury of the future, to be able to resist shopping and still be happy.”
To be sure to get a notice when “I shop therefore I am” is released please go to the David Report home page and sign up for a subscription. And the best of all, it’s free!
Image by Barbara Kruger.
Andra bloggar om: david report, trender, framtid, shopping, konsumtion, design
Shoptalk by FutureDesignDays
Shoptalk is a series of sessions on tomorrow’s retailing and beyond by FutureDesignDays. These Shoptalks will take place April 2 in Malmö, May 15 in Stockholm and May 22 in Borås, Sweden.
I will be one of the participants in the panel debate at the Malmö event. Book your ticket by clicking the link above, however seats are limited. Here’s a short description of the event by FutureDesignDays:
Have you grasped the full implications of the real world web? The fact that the dividing line between the virtual/digital world and the real world melted away long ago? With the resultant paradox that, in an increasingly digitalised world, physical meetings are being subjected to new demands, and that the shop once more stands centre stage in the growth and development of retailing, a position that is increasingly focussing on relations rather than transactions.
So what are the challenges? Where are the opportunities? Most important of all, who are the crazy, courageous and insightful people who are driving the issue of tomorrow’s retailing?
FutureDesignDays Nomad continues its quest for tomorrow’s business models from a design perspective, and turns the spotlight on the future of retailing in a series of exciting splashdown-events in spring 2008. As usual, the programme will feature lots of interesting speakers, plus a series of come-and-enjoy supporting events in which the networking opportunities of the mingle format are justifiably renowned. The first three splashdown points will be Malmö, followed by Stockholm and Borås.
Andra bloggar om: framtid, design, seminarie, trender, retail, shopping
Future Shopping exhibition
Some time ago I wrote about the seminar Future Shopping which I moderated during the Stockholm Furniture Fair. Here follows a couple of images from the exhibition that was part of the Future Shopping project as well. If you read Swedish, or would like to look at some images of the student projects, you can follow this link.
Andra bloggar om: shopping, konsumtion, trender, framtid, konstfack, gallerian
