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holon design museum: ‘Common Roots’ just shut down
Holon Design Museum designed by the most famous Israeli designer Ron Arad. The building is made up of red, brown, and orange bands of steel. Somehow I expected the museum not to be so close to an...
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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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what design can do: for an amuse-bouche
You know that feeling when you are bit hungry but you need that specific something before your appetite becomes real hunger. We thought that’s what people need during a conference break. When Robert...
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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...
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julien 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...
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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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phillipe malouin: clear but not that simple
Will Yates-Johnson, Phillipe Malouin and Eva Feldkamp, team & family Two days ago we went to the opening of Phillipe Malouin ‘s solo exhibition in Italy. A show curated by Maria Cristina Didero...
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milano: digital blast chapter 1
Philipp C Schöpfer – similarities with a pig’s roast were not intentional :-) Analog Blast was the title of the exhibition presented by Domus at this years Milan Design Week. Photographs of Italian...
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milano: digital blast chapter 2
David Derksen and Lex Pott – looking smart After 1 comes 2. Here is a second bash of images from last month’s Milan Design Week. Just faces, no objects = a lot of fun! For these who missed the first...
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lola lely: a designing surrealist with romantic thoughts
Lola Lely is one of the designers that my Depot Basel colleague Rebekka Kieswetter and I put immediately on the list of the designers that we wanted to approach for our Craft & Drawing exhibition....
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new friends: nothing is new when you meet weird friends
Nothing is new when you meet weird friends that become new friends – Kelly Rakowski and Alexandra Segreti stalked each others blogs for a while until they started to work together. They liked the...
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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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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...
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