ABSOLUT vodka is today launching a radical medium to view and experience art, as a new online virtual “gallery” goes live, showcasing Helmut Lang’s “Alles Gleich Schwer”. This, a bold new exhibition of artworks, will be brought to a global audience as part of the artist’s vision of an ABSOLUT WORLD, eradicating traditional barriers between viewer and art, consumer and gallery – accessible to all for a three month period.

“Alles Gleich Schwer” is not a statement or a final answer or question. It is about the consideration and the reflection to evaluate which weight or importance or meaning one as a single person wants to contribute in a changing world to personal, social, emotional, global and ecological or any other issues and arrangements which surrounds one or concerns one. The attribution of importance can be explored in a vertical or horizontal direction.

I will post some more films from “Alles Gleich Schwer” by Helmut Lang in the next couple of days.

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Phillips de Pury & Company to offer important Robert Mapplethorpe photographs from the collection of Lisa Lyon at New York auction on October 16, 2008.

Photographs from the Collection of Lisa Lyon features an exceptional selection of  eighteen images from Robert Mapplethorpe’s celebrated series Lady Lisa Lyon. Between 1980 and 1982, at a pivotal moment in Robert Mapplethorpe’s artistic practice, the photographer produced this intimate series of black and white portraits of the pioneering 1970s female bodybuilder Lisa Lyon. As collaborators, performers and close friends until the artist’s death in 1989, Robert Mapplethorpe and Lyon transcended the standard photographer/subject relationship. While the portraits cast Lyon in a multitude of characters, from girl-next-door to dominatrix; fashion model to vamp; the photographs also convey a collaborative play in which both Robert Mapplethorpe and Lyon inhabit performative roles – much as Robert Mapplethorpe performed as both photographer and subject within his radical self-portraiture. The results are electric, a powerful series of work documenting a play of selves both before and behind the camera.

Sale to include strong group of fashion photographs with iconic works by Helmut Newton, Stephen Klein and David Lachapelle alongside significant early photographs from Alexander Rodchenko, Edward Seichen and Eugène Atget.

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As a company, you can choose either to just be on the internet, or to fit in your commercial offer so it captures all the opportunities that a full feathered internet concept will give you. Communication pro John Mellkvist, entrepreneur behind the design company JohnLook.com and the fashion community SaleRacer.com shares his best advice on how to build and market a brand on internet.

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1. Find your signature product
Hermès has their scarf, Lacoste has their polo shirt. Identify your signature product or service. Internet is big and thick so you need a sharp edge.
A collaboration with another specialist – from a different field of business – will create a unique offer as well a big surprise, that will draw media attention.

2. Make sure your welcome page communicates. A commercial web concept needs to be much more direct compared to a physical company. What are you selling, what’s the price of it?  Write out your concept in editable text (i e not flash or similar) on page one as well as in the headline/frame of your web page. Display your concept in a 1,2,3-process. Don’t sit on your information. Share it! This will make you an authority.

3. Create a blog linking to your web page. Or even better, collaborate with a well known blogger blogging from your page. This will make your content more dynamic and increase search.

4. Google Adwords and Analytics Good for traffic, but be careful with your budget – use only a few keywords if you don’t want to pay for a lot of irrelevant clicks. Monitor it with Google Analytics.

5. Organise your e-mail network and communicate what you do continuously. Create an e-mail signature explaining your concept in a short line of text. Did someone write or say something good about you? – enclose hyperlinks. And don’t neglect Facebook. It’s easy to call it an adult toy. But also easy enough to use as a marketing tool.

6. Be brave – contact the best in your field. If you get along, ask for a quote or a good luck to publish on your site.

7. Think local. Just because everyone can see you doesn’t mean they will. Instead, start by building success in a small community, and go from there.

8. Overkill. As a webshop, replace human touch with small or big surprise, like the amuse (or the birthday cake) at the restaurant.

9. Banner advertising. Good for an ”I’ve seen that” effect. But before counting clicks consider; how many banners do you really click on?

10. Get real. The more internet based your concept is, the more it will gain from an ambassador in the real world.

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Julian Schnabel will show Chinese paintings at Saatchi gallery in London October 9 - January 18. It is a serendipitous coincidence that the ground of this image happens to come from a Chinese mirror that Julian found 20 years ago and gave to his ex-wife Jacqueline, one of the many influences that he has drawn from to invent other versions of himself - in a constant shifting image of painting, like a diary.

Phillips de Pury & Company, in partnership with Robilant + Voena, London presents this selection of 7 paintings out of a series of 10 that were painted outside in Montauk, Long Island this summer.

This show will run concurrently through January 2009 alongside Saatchi Gallery’s inaugural exhibition The Revolution Continues: New Art From China which brings together the work of 30 of China’s leading artists in a survey of cutting-edge painting, sculpture and installation.

An exhibition catalogue with essays by David Moos and Tracey Emin will be available from Saatchi Gallery and Phillips de Pury & Company.

The new Saatchi Gallery opens to the public on October 9 in partnership with Phillips de Pury & Company. This space, 70,000 square feet located at Duke of York’s Headquarters building on the King’s Road, in the heart of London, will be dedicated to contemporary art. The Phillips de Pury & Company’s contribution enables free admission to all shows at Saatchi Gallery in order to bring contemporary art to the widest audience possible and will make Saatchi Gallery the only completely free entry contemporary art museum of its size in the world.

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Designer Harry Allen has made an innovative approach to wire management. It’s called WM25 and is extruded rubber and the grooves flex; it is easy to push wires in or snap them out. There are a total of 5 grooves and comes in powder blue, mango and avocado. WM25 is produced by Doug Mocket.

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For 400 years Swedish company Skultuna has produced objects of the highest quality design and goods for both everyday use and for special occasions, always with that same sense of quality, function and design. You could amlost say that Skultuna of today creates tomorrows antiques. Timeless design and definitely sustainable from a holistic point of view. Below are some examples from their product range. And yes, you can buy all pieces on-line at the Skultuna web as well.

Serviette ring Moebius by Claesson Koivisto Rune.

Cuff Links, Fleur de Lys

Coaster Basso for champagne and wine bottles, by Claesson Koivisto Rune.

Earring Guardian Angel in sterling silver

Office candlestick.

Bowl, design Olof Kolte

See further products from there collection here: Skultuna

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This year’s theme is Time Crevasse. More information about Yokohama Triennale.

This is a post by David Report contributor Kristina Dryza.

The value of a ring generally depends on the material used. ”Filio” is a ring beyond all material values. It is an idea sketched with lines and outlined in its body. It is the fiction of a geometrically cut gemstone. Its inside is open, leaving room for sentimental and immaterial values.

The Austrian designer Thomas Feichtner designed this ring for his wife when their son was born in spring 2008. This explains the name ”Filio”, which comes from ”filius”, the Latin word for son. The ring is a unique specimen, and no reproduction is planned.

Thomas Feichtner designs his objects not on the basis of economic criteria; the strategy he pursues is keeping his distance from globalization and mass production. His works focus on cultural and artistic aspects of the design, further development of form and break with the concept of design purely based on a specific purpose.

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A Parisian apartment was the discreet venue to which Chanel invited press and VIPs to discover their new perfume - ‘Eau première’. French designer Jean-Marc Gady laid out the 250 m2 set for the new baby, in an itinerary that evoked the heritage of the name and its enduring style, which is simply beyond ostentation.

Amidst a grove of test sprays, a drip fountain sent drops of the fragrance falling in mid air - dreamlike yet functional. The set wound up with pix of some of the beautiful women who have helped identify the label over the past century, from Marilyn Monroe to Nicole Kidman.

The official launch of ‘Eau première’ is slated for 10 October next.

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If you can’t first hand experience the array of novel and ingenious Japanese products on display at NY Felissimo Design House, you can still ‘see’ them online here. This high design showcase is part of Japan C, an 11-week celebration of contemporary Japanese design and culture.

Over 70 Japanese designers and firms have come together to present in NYC the products that are currently captivating the Japanese audience. A comprehensive introduction on ‘things Japan’ - there is not only a substantial product showcase - but also events featuring talks and exhibitions by relevant designers and experts. Events range from a Sanyo Eneloop demonstration to kamishibai ‘paper theatre’ storytelling to a seminar with Naomi Moriyama, author of ‘Japanese Women Don’t Get Old or Fat’.

Free and open to the public until November 1, Japan C will showcase new objects in the areas of home and fashion accessories, food, stationery, beauty and pop culture. Each week will focus on a different category, with designers and industry leaders on hand to demonstrate the products and discuss the influence and innovation of products coming out of Japan. Themes include: ‘The Smart Japanese Kitchen’, ‘Secrets of Japanese Beauty’ and ‘Notes from Japan: The New Stationery’.

For the last year and a half, the team at Felissimo reviewed products and hand-selected designers and companies that represented the ‘best of the best’ in Japanese product design. Conceptual designer Tobias Wong and design consultant Josée Lepage were also enlisted to the team.

The collection is certainly diverse with robots next to fine stationery, and animé characters next to high-tech rice cookers. As Felissimo Director Haruko Smith said, “Japan is going through an interesting time. Designers have come out from the shadow of western influence and are starting to create something totally new from the fusion of both cultures, and they are having fun with it. But there is also a sense of craftsmanship that doesn’t exist in most mass-produced products elsewhere.”

Felissimo’s beautiful turn-of-the-century townhouse is located at 10 W. 56th Street. And as they say, the house offers “inspiration, experience, opportunity, and encounters for those who are in pursuit of happiness and harmony through design.” It is also home to the online community, DESIGN 21: Social Design Network - a project devoted to promoting and exploring ‘Design for the Greater Good’.

So stop by - off or online - in the pursuit of happiness and harmony.

[Photographs courtesy of Japan C]

This is a post by David Report contributor Kristina Dryza.

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