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wera modzelewska: heritage of a grande dame
Łódź The proud Wera Modzelewska at the Łódź Design Festival Once I arrived in Łódź for the Design Festival last month, people told me about an armchair of an Polish design pioneer, that was introduced...
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bcxsy: curated a farm
Łódź BCXSY: Sayaka Yamamoto & Boaz Cohen I was invited by BCXSY to participate at the ‘Neofarm’ exhibition they curated for the Łódź Design Festival. It was their first show. Boaz and Sayaka made a...
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mass: refers to matter – an exhibition
Eindhoven True colours by Lex Pott For the Dutch Design Week 2011 last month the curators Rachel Griffin and Elise van Mourik invited 10 designers to deal with methods, materials and manufacturing...
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how a free copy of a daily newspaper can teach you a little design
London Design Museum London put their current location on sale. The museum will move from their top notch location at the Thames to the former Commonwealth Institute. All this will happen in 2014. This...
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max lipsey: is able to not just make functional products
Eindhoven A honest smile from Max at the back of his studio I remember when I took a picture of Max Lipsey underneath his coathooks in 2009. His work was exhibited at Spazio Rossana Orlandi in Milan....
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studio job: a house for an exquisite selection of dutchness
Bergeyk 1972 Ford Taunus GXL Coupe I have to admit there were some exceptions at Studio Job House. Not everything was made or designed by a Dutch designer. For example the Bucky II chair by Marc Newson...
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daniel posta: genealogical reserach through objects
Vienna It is now like half a lifetime ago that I met Czech designer Daniel Posta in Vienna. He was one of the selected designers for Passionswege, a concept that brings designers together with Viennese...
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concordia design: poland has now a design and creativity centre for business
Poznan Poznan’s town hall at the Old Market Square Last month was an eventful month in Poland. The School of Form, a design school that combines humanities and design co-founded (some would say...
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Maastricht Half an hour ago I deleted all posts of all Studio Job projects on my blog. The trigger was Gabrielle Kennedy from design.nl who wrote an article of a recent TV appearance of Job Smeets ,...
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review & winter break until 2012
Karpacz 2011 is about to end. Some quick bullet points on what happened this year: Earlier in 2011 I got back from a long Asia tour with my boyfriend Tom Astrella. Shortly after that I found myself...
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MATANDME MAKEOVER
Dears, I present the MATANDME makeover. The decision to do the makeover was at the beginning of the year. As some of you know I started with MATANDME in 2007, back then I was a student at an Art...
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VIA LAGHETTO SET-UP
Once a year, during April, there is a showdown of design that takes place in Milan. Last year I curated a show called Achille is watching us with Marco Lorusso at Via Laghetto. Since this year the...
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THE FRONT ROOM: GEOMETRY AND COLOUR
Cirkel collection by Daphna Laurens, Myltada by Henny van Nistelrooy and Time by Studio Like This THE FRONT ROOM is the most diverse of our domestic space. It is where we mingle and entertain, read in...
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Bertjan Pot: an unexpected masquerade
Last week we photographed the outfits for the annual CLASH Project that I execute for Fashionclash. Every year I invite 10 non-fashion designers to make an outfit that is presented on the opening of...
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depot basel: craft & scenography 08
A C E department – part of the Personal Content presentation photographed by Christoph Sagel I am in Basel right now where my partners and me from Depot Basel are presenting Craft & Scenography, a...
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oeuffice: a folly for Depot Basel
Oeuffice is a Milan-based design studio founded in 2011. Jakub Zak and Nicolas Bellavance-Lecompte combined oeuf, the French word for egg, and the word office and ended up with their name. Jakub says...
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design centrum kielce: wzornictwo is design
Last weekend the Design Centrum Kielce opened their space to the public. Their aim is to create innovation and new developments in contemporary design that can be linked to the industry. The centre is...
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the machine: designers make their own tools, systems and materials
The Machine posters by Simon Davies, Rotterdam. Begin of the year I was asked to be involved in the project management of an exhibition that is placed in a former coal mine at C-mine in Genk. The...
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