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45 kilo: from Bauhaus to Milan to another label
There is a story behind the name but I can’t remember it, even if they told it more than once. However, none of them obviously weight 45 kilo and google asks me if I want to loose 45 kilo so I decided...
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workshop for potential design: worth to see since 2010
In the recent days the invites for the London Design Festival are flying in, which made me think of the exhibitions that I saw in recent years. ‘Image for a Title’ by Workshop for potential design is...
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assemblage workshop: a collection of things and people
Candleholder by Nora Etmann Earlier this year German designer and Phd candidate Annika Frye invited me to the Hfg Offenbach, University in Germany, to run a workshop for improvisation (we did one with...
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Designeast: japanese poetics of Space and people
At night the sky appears to be mostly a dark void, but on the first night of Designeast the sky was tinted with dark blue and purple – a rare and perfectly wonderful sight that concluded the day for...
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london design festival: a report for Sightunseen
Monica and Jill from NY-based design & arts blog Sightunseen have asked me weeks ago if I want to report the happenings around London Design Festival. I knew, I will be coming, but I told them I...
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felix burrichter: flamboyant restraint
I photoshopped Felix into the Salk Institute, San Diego by Louis Kahn – the picture is by daisy77 dp challange and I stole it from the mighty Internet. This is such a puzzle that I put together over...
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Sarah Mesritz & Marina Elenskaya: not only currently obsessed
Sarah Mesritz and Marina Elenskaya like jewelry. They both believe that ‘Jewelry is what you make of it’. Sarah studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Maastricht and Marina graduated at the...
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Dutch Design Week: what a turn out
Splendour lender by Jelle Mastenbroek at the Design Academy Eindhoven Graduation Show Last night in a bar in Whitechapel, London – it was busy and a Japanese friend of mine who lives in England since...
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z33: staging a jewellery collection
Pick-Up made from aluminium, polyamide, wool, steel by Silke Fleischer and a see-through plastic Hema hair clip owned by me ` Mrs.Wilde is a graceful old lady that went through many stages in her life...
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the exhibition that never happened: 10 profiles in jewellery design
When Current Obsession asked me to curate The Exhibition That Never Happened together with them, I suggested that I want to do a profile on each of the participants. I was interested in where the...
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The Great Indoors: a compliment beats any design
The project for The Great Indoors Education Program took 6 weeks. Each week on Tuesday my assistant Raya Stefanova and I as their mentor met with 4 Belgian and 4 Brazilian Interior Design students...
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ICFF: 4 DAYS IN MAY IMAGE DROP
I know, it’s almost December and ICFF was when we didn’t have to wear a sweater, a coat, a scarf and when the umbrella stayed at home, too. This is, as usually when the title is ‘IMAGE DROP’, a very...
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depot basel: when a craftsman gets a chance to become a draftsman
Neolithic II collection by Guilio Parini – before the ceramics were fired a 2nd time Depot Basel works with designers. In the last two years, since we self-initiated our flexible place for...
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CLASH PROJECT: 5 x 10 wearable projects by people who don’t know how to sew
Tijana Mirceta in Tymek Jezierski & Maria Zaleska, Janneke Jeurissen in Esther Noben, the purple suit is part of the outfit by fantastic photographer Madame Peripetie and the paper suit is worn by...
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jacopo sarzi: initiates constant culinary experiments
I met Jacopo Sarzi at London Design Festival 2012 while performing his ‘Understory’ at the Brompton Design District. He was serving taste infusions to the guests. Three different food experiences with...
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Moshe Zarhy & Vera Ronnen: a shining example of architecture, art and...
2004 Tel Aviv was inscribed on the World Heritage list of Unesco – because of the largest concentration of Bauhaus buildings worldwide. Mosche Zahry’s father Zeev Rechter was one of the architects who...
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Basel: one week in june image drop
Currently I am working on my new portfolio website. It should have been online already, but that’s not the case yet. While collecting all material from the past years I came across a project from 2011...
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jonah takagi: from rockstar to designer
Albert Camus states that life is the sum of all your choices. Jonah Takegi is the living example of someone who makes choices. First I thought he was joking when he told me that he was a musician...
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Depot Basel: can change be an opportunity?
Moritz Lehner replaces the old plexiglass sheet with the Depot Basel logo Today was the last official day of the exhibition CHANGES – CHANCES. (you can still visit it by appointment until mid January...
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dik scheepers: it’s good to go with your instincts
Dik Scheepers has decided to become a designer later than the usual design student. First he worked as chemical laboratory worker in Amsterdam and afterwards as a fine mechanics toolmaker in Leiden....
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2014: we will see what it brings
The agenda assumes that I had a lousy 2013. What’s the definition of a good year or bad year anyway? Julie Joliat hopes to make it better by suggesting the owner of a book a new challenge every week...
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Bureau Matylda Krzykowski: surprise me!
‘The view from that chair in the corner I was sitting ‘ – A surprise post by Raya Stefanova – the first intern at Bureau Matylda Krzykowski. Aug – Dec 2013 As every designer I was looking for a...
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Krytyka Dizajnu: makes it happen
One of my favourite trips from 2013 was the one I did to Warsaw end of the year. In November Rene Wawrzkiewicz, Agata Szydłowska , Paulina Paga and Julia Missala invited me to speak at the “Design...
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Design Date: What kind of partner are you looking for?
“What is the urge to initiate this format?” That is what Barbara Visser asked me when I was telling her about a format I am working on. With Depot Basel we wanted to do an emulated version of the...
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Summer traditions: are light blue
Adam Stech Adam Stech and I have been speaking a lot about how spending time with people build relationships and traditions since we met years ago. In 2015, during a summer that spoiled us with sun...
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