fashionclash: already a 5 year adventure
This is part of the image campaign for the 5th edition of Fashionclash Maastricht that evolves around the topic of nomads as we all are creatives that move from place to place. Yesterday was day 1 and...
View Articlemaria jeglinska & livia lauber: recreate the sense of wonder
Polish Maria Jeglinska and Swiss Livia Lauber met in Lausanne, Switzerland. Maria moved there in 2005 to start a Master at écal. Livia had just graduated and somehow they bumped into each other pretty...
View Articlejulien carretero: look what I found
It has been a while since I was in Eindhoven at Atelierdorp.. Back then, this summer, I came across the Stencil pieces by Julien Carretero that he showed to me first time last year. Julien actually...
View Articletoegepast 17: young, creative and looking for a niche
Noortje de la Haye, graphic designer & collector I had the pleasure to meet all participants of this year’s Toegepast (Dutch for ‘applied’) edition, a program by Belgian Designplatform Limburg...
View ArticleTilmann Appel: There is nothing superfluous with Dieter Rams
Stapelprogramm 740 When you think about Dieter Rams, you instantly think about Braun consumer products – the shaver, the radio, the blender. Tilmann Appel rather thinks about furniture. Especially...
View Articlemuseum der dinge: order must prevail
Deutscher Werkbund at Museum der Dinge, Matches from the 60′s The Werkbund was founded in 1907 in Germany. A movement for industrial design. Hermann Muthesius who, influenced by the British Arts &...
View Articlepassionswege: designers encounter artisans, gell?
Set of dustpan & brush designed by Matylda Krzykowski Working with craftsman was a need I always felt. I previously did work with designers and some of them could be eventually titled artisans,...
View Articlejulien carretero: the condition of being surprised
Your own expectations can be your own enemy. I decided to try not to have any. That doesn’t mean it always works. In fact, at design events you sometimes have to make an effort to understand what you...
View Articledepot 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...
View ArticleCLASH 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...
View Articlejacopo 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...
View ArticleMoshe 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...
View ArticleBasel: 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...
View Articlejonah 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...
View Article45 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...
View Articleworkshop 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...
View Articleassemblage 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...
View ArticleDesigneast: 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...
View Articledesign museum: a new collection, an existing selection and new perspectives
I tried to do some modern architecture photography. A dramatic angle for the converted banana warehouse that serves as museum since 1989. Back than I was 7 years old, just moved from Poland to Germany...
View Articlez33: space odyssey 2.0 picture dump
Four months ago I recieved an email from Ils Huygens, curator of Space Odyssey 2.0 at Z33 asking for support with Angelo Vermeulen‘s Seeker Project. I didn’t need to be persuaded to build a spaceship!...
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