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2011: a year like any other
Worldwide Every end of a year is about reviews. Remembering the good moments because no one likes to think about the bad ones. The end of the year is about looking back to what people have done or...
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aldo bakker: more comfort for a peasant
Rotterdam Two months ago I attended the Object Rotterdam, where Aldo Bakker launched the 3dwn1up chair, which is part of his wood collection. Aldo shows this project in Milan with the Particles...
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fabian von spreckelsen: rocks the big pony
Milan This is a little preview for the upcoming Design Week in Milan next week. My friend Fabian von Spreckelsen will present a black life-size pony that moves similar to a regular horse at the new...
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achille is watching us: and you can watch us too: on video!
Milan Robert Andriessen from designguide.tv spend the whole week with us in Milan and made a video about the Achille is watching us exhibition Marco Lorusso and me presented during the Design Week. We...
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robert stadler: hidden information in space
Milan Robert Stadler presented the installation ‘informed’ from at Nilufar Gallery during Milan Design Week. The Paris-based designer placed a mirror, a rug, some bookshelves and a stool in a turquoise...
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roel de boer: little animals make me smile
Milan I went to the Design Academy presentation when I was in Milan for the Design Week. They offered a nice breakfast in the morning including some talks. Afterwards you were able to look at the...
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costas voyatzis: mr. ‘big smile’ yatzer
Milan Costas wears a Sotiris Georgiou jacket : ) Imagine you just finished an internship with dezeen and you recieve an email of the editor in chief of another very established design magazine called...
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chinabrenner: a party in my mouth
Milan Thomas Wrobel & Jo Zarth (a connoisseur on the right side) The first time I ate a dish made by the Chinabrenner was last year in October, when Thomas allowed me to use his kitchen to make...
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dirk van der kooij: gave a robot a second life
Milan After strolling though the Design Academy Eindhoven show in Milan, I found myself in the courtyard of the great spazio staring at a robot who makes chairs out of a plastic string which he...
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thomas schnur: sucking and standing (definitly just sarcastic praise)
Berlin German people regularly discusse how you call the stick with a rubber cup on the end that one uses to clear blocked sinks and such. There are really plenty of names for it like ‘Klostampfer’ or...
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llot llov: bubblicious
Berlin Every Design week has their cocktail parties and openings, which are mostly about having a drink while looking at the recently launched products. But Berlin-based design collective Llot Llov...
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appel design gallery: 10 sitting options
Berlin green: Orgone Chair by Marc Newson, 1998 white: oversized Frankfurter Stuhl, first one was designed in 1935 yellow: Elephant Chair by Bernard Rancillac, 1966 guy: Tilman Appel Appel Design...
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nicolas le moigne: a well-presented object
Basel ‘Occasional table’ I know what you think. You think ‘Great, Matylda. That’s just some furniture and vases on a white stand.’ I thought the same when I arrived at the stand of Gallery...
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alkesh parmar: nature-inspired design principles
London Annually the Royal College of Art showcases its roster of design students at their Graduate show. Today started this year’s edition in the Darwin building of the College in South Kensington....
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iris verstappen: a disease in porcelain
Maastricht ‘Nifedipine’ – long-term treatment of high blood pressure It’s graduation show time! How I like it to see ‘never seen before’ projects instead of going to all the design events facing the...
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my bauhaus is better than yours: a wishlist of pretty stuff
Milan Ashtray by Peter Schwartz Some of them studied at Bauhaus University and Weimar and some of them somewhere else. They got together couple years ago in order to exhibit together in various...
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johannes nagel: my ceramist hero
London I came across Johannes Nagel‘s work couple months ago, when I visited Fumi Gallery. One of his recent pieces were exhibited on the main floor of the East London gallery. I got really exited...
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km and ém: here comes vera
London 1:4 project by Phillippe Malouin Who is Vera? Vera is a fictional person that came to existence through a staple of photographs that were found on a second hand shop in Brighton, England. The...
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bcxsy: curated a farm
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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julien 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...
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