Tent Digital; Michael Eden, Lab Craft
September 23-26 sees Tent: London take over the Truman Brewery for its multi-faceted design show. ARTS THREAD previews the event and picks out some of the talents to visit.
Tent London: Preview
New Designers – Furniture highlights
Sebastian Cox, University of Lincoln
Sebastian Cox’s beautiful pieces hooked us in immediately. We weren’t alone…his work has attracted interest from the top end of the industry this week. A simple chair suspended on a weighing scale drew attention to its lightness, yet the piece is very strong and durable. Sebastian’s MA project utilised traditionally coppiced hazel as his main material – chosen as “It is strong, light, entirely renewable, and grows in abundance in the UK”. He believes that this is a great resource that is “hugely overlooked in this country”.
New Designers Awards, Part 2
The BDC New Designer of the Year Winner Tortie Hoare, Bucks New University
Last night saw the winners announced for New Designers Part 2. Held at Islington Business Centre, the show celebrates 25 years this edition. Tortie Hoare won this year’s BDC New Designer of the Year award for her spectacular collection of eco-friendly ‘French armour’ inspired leather furniture. Each piece was carefully crafted and a unique exploration of the boiled vegetable tan leather process.
Noho Design District 2010 New York
Icosa pendant light, Rose Menuez; Satsuma light, Jonas Damon
Noho Design District launches its first design presentations alongside the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) and New York Design Week, running from May 15-18 2010.
Event organiser Sight Unseen has brought together design brands, local businesses and retailers, emerging and established designers to open pop-up stores, exhibitions, open studios and much more. ARTS THREAD looks at a few of the opportunities open to visitors.
Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK) at Milan Design Week
Cloud Factory, KABK
The students of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK) presented their experimental works during Salone del Mobile in Milan. The focus of the show was the importance of the research process and the interaction between experiences in the virtual and the physical world.
Made in Berlin – Open Process, Milan Design Week 2010
Stitching Furniture, Studio Aisslinger
During Milan Design Week (April 14-19 2010), seven designers and creative labs from Berlin gathered for the exhibition Made in Berlin – Open Process. Coordinated by the contemporary design platform DMY Berlin in collaboration with Create Berlin, the exhibition revealed new prototypes and innovative concepts for future living spaces.
Konstfack from Stockholm at Spazio Rossana Orlandi, Milan Design Week 2010
Amber chair, Jaeuk Jang
The Savage Mind is a show featuring seven students from Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design of Stockholm at Spazio Rossana Orlandi during Milan Design Week April 14-19 2010.
Ivar Björkman, president of Konstfack explains the idea behind the works of young talents in the show: “The age that we are living in stretches back to the origin of human beings, irrespective of whether we are modern or not. In his book The Savage Mind, French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss explains that there are no fundamental differences in how we think between primitive peoples in the Stone Ages and ourselves nowadays”.
Kingston University at Salone Satellite, Milan 2010
Kontuur Blind, Helena Karelson; Coat stand, Daniel Rawlings
Graduates from Kingston University’s Product and Furniture Design are showcasing their products at Salone Satellite during the Salone del Mobile (April 14-18 2010) in Milan. The products on show had been created as part of Kingston University students’ graduate projects for 2009.
Questions from Design Academy Eindhoven at Milan Design Week 2010
Tafelgenoten (Table Companions), Caroline Wilcke; Morning Glory, Wendy Legro
During Salone del Mobile (April 14-18 2010) Design Academy Eindhoven presents ‘Questions’. The exhibition will show the most recent work of graduate students from 2009 and is curated by Anne Mieke Eggenkamp, Chair Executive Board Design Academy Eindhoven and Ilse Crawford founding Head of Department for ‘Man and Well Being’. Crawford heads the renowned design company Studioilse, alongside her brand consultancy.
“What questions are we facing? What is the role of the designers today? What is the future role of a designer? What are we focusing on? Questions are the start of everything.” comments the academy on the show.
Hotel RCA at Milan Design Week 2010
Hirsutio Vase, Giles Miller, Design Products graduate 2009; Coffee stool, Aysenaz Toker, Design Product student 2009, RCA
The Royal College of Art Design Products department presents Hotel RCA April 14-18 2010 during Salone del Mobile in Milan. Professor Tord Boontje, Head of Design Products at the Royal College of Art in London, will be presenting work by 90 students and recent graduates of the MA course at the exhibition Hotel RCA located in over 900 square metres of a disused factory in Lambrate – the old industrial district of east Milan.
Trend Preview: Milan Design Week 2010
A Human Measure, Digna Kosse, Design Academy Eindhoven; Radiolarian Sofa by Lazerian studio, Designersblock
Milan, design capital of Italy is ready to celebrate its biggest annual design event Milan Design Week in April (12-19 April) alongside its well known Salone del Mobile, International Milan Furniture Fair. During this important week dedicated to design, many events and exhibitions will be held in different venues throughout the city. ARTS THREAD looks at some key trends emerging for this year’s fair.
The Sense of Fanciful, Nilufar Gallery, Milan
L’Arco della Pace, Martino Gamper, Italy 2009, veneer and plywood; Mirage, Rajiv Saini, India 2008, stainless steel
The Sense of Fanciful opens during Milan Design Week at the Nilufar Gallery in Milan, exploring the fanciful within contemporary design.
Reykjavík Rewind, DesignMarch
Reykjavík Rewind, DesignMarch
As part of Reykjavík DesignMarch, students from the Iceland Academy of the Arts were invited to meet some of Iceland’s most successful furniture and product designers, who have been contributing to Icelandic design since the 1950s.
The Scandinavian Touch in Belgian Furniture – 1951-1966, Design Museum Gent
Paola series, sideboard P220, Designer: V-Form team – Oswald Vermaercke (1926), Manufacturer: V-Form, 1959, Bangkok teak, sycamore interior
During the fifties and sixties, a substantial amount of Scandinavian-style furniture was produced in Belgium. Some of the more successful designs from 1951 to 1966 are currently on display at Design museum Gent in an exhibition entitled The Scandinavian Touch in Belgian Furniture.
48m2/SAME BUT DIFFERENT, Beckmans College of Design, Stockholm Furniture Fair
At last month’s Stockholm Furniture Fair Twelve graduating product design students from Beckmans College of Design presented furniture for a 48 square metre apartment.
2010 Brit Insurance Design Awards: Category Winners
Monterrey Housing by Elemental; Plato’s Atlantis by Alexander McQueen
Last Friday saw the category winners of the Brit Insurance Design Awards 2010 announced. Covering architecture, fashion, furniture, graphics, interactive, product and transport. The overall winner will be revealed at the Award’s ceremony on March 16 2010.
Greenhouse at Stockholm Furniture Fair
Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design; Greenhouse 2010
Greenhouse is Stockholm Furniture Fair’s area for independent designers and design schools. Design schools participating this year included Stockholm’s Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design and Beckmans College of Design through to northern European colleges outside of Sweden, such as Art Future Design School from Saint Petersburg and Tartu Art College (TAC) in Estonia.
[d3] Contest winners at imm cologne
Etirement, Rémi Bouhaniche
The 2010 [d3] Contest saw 30 products from 33 young designers from 12 countries on show in a special exhibition at the imm fair in Cologne, Germany this January. The jury of interior experts chose three winners and three highly recommended. The three winners take away prize money of 2000€ each.
New Design Britain Award Winners 2010
Bamboolarule by James Cadogan
This year’s New Design Britain Awards were recently announced at interiors 2010, Birmingham. 16 product design finalists were selected from the 150 original entries. Applicants were from a range of disciplines from over 80 universities. Award Winners were invited to exhibit by the organisers of New Design Britain and their work was on display in the Thinking Space in Hall 2 of the NEC.
Tom Price at Chapter 7, Hangzhou, China
UK designer Tom Price’s solo exhibition at Chapter 7 in Hangzhou was the culmination of a ten week invitation to China to create new works for the gallery’s opening show. The gallery provided accommodation, assistant and an impressive studio space with all the necessary equipment and materials.
Designersblock at interiors 2010, Birmingham
Aschenputtel, Thomas Forsyth & Owen Gildersleeve
For the third year running Designersblock has created a feature area for interiors 2010 in Birmingham running January 24-27. Designers, companies and manufacturers have collaborated on new projects that will be shown for the first time at the show, with new projects from Ercol, Timorous Beasties, Sitting Firm, Chris Eckersley, Puff and Flock, Lazerian, Pure Whyte, Hendzel & Hunt, Assembly Room, Thomas Forsyth, Owen Gildersleeve, Camira, Bute Fabrics, Lunchtime Cinema and more.
10 new talents chosen for now! design à vivre, Maison & Objet, Paris
Boffi Paris in collaboration with the Manufacture de Sèvres, Normal Studio
10 new talents have been sponsored by Philippe Starck, Maison’s 2010 Designer of the Year to be part of a showcase curated by Chantal Hamaide, editorial director of the Intramuros magazine at next week’s now! design à vivre exhibition, as part of Maison & Objet, Paris.
Joseph Walsh: bridging art and design
Formations & Layering, Enignum Table, Burr Olive Ash, White Ash, White Oil finish, 2009
Every so often you come across work that is so unique it refuses to be categorised – and this is certainly true of Joseph Walsh’s work. His beautiful wooden furniture is sensuous, organic and intriguing and it’s individuality captivating.
Robin Grasby, 100% Design
Robin Grasby, Homework
New Designer’s prize winner Robin Grasby won a complementary stand at this September’s 100% Design, where he showed his flexible office/studio desk Homework and Bench lounger. Graduating in 2009 with first class honours in 3D Design: Furniture and Product from Northumbria University, Robin Grasby aims to create rational, enduring, functional furniture for mass production.
Northumbria University, 100% Design
Calendars, Philip Luscombe, Northumbria University, 100% Design
At the recent 100% Design, Northumbria University’s School of Design had a stand promoting new work by its Designers in Residence, as well as a selection of work by 2009 graduates on the 3D Design: Furniture and Product course.
BA Graduation Galleries, Design Academy Eindhoven
Return, Gerdiene van de Pol; Chitchat, Teun Flesken; A Drop of Water, Bas van der Veer
All photos by Jainy Gans
As part of Dutch Design Week, the Design Academy Eindhoven opens its doors to showcase the work of its graduates of design in both the BA and MA courses. ARTS THREAD takes a trip around the BA galleries to see what’s new.
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