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Brit Leissler | 11 May 2009
The designer Alice Wang visited us in the Appartamento in Milan and talked to us about her approach to design and the methodologies she uses. Looking at mundane activities from a psychological and emotional point of view with a particular interest in the man machine relationship, she manages to create everyday objects with a certain twist, unmasking the "dark side" of our everyday actions. Her latest project Chairs for the Dysfunctional is dealing with the fact that the society we live in is changing and therefore the interactive side of these daily objects should change with us. "Perhaps the function of the objects stay, but it is the process of how we interact with them that must change. Should there be different chairs designed for people with different sitting habits? Do you sit on all four legs or just two? Do you continuously shake your leg? Or do you like to sit with your back facing the public?" This series of chairs, presented at this year's Salone Satellite in Milan, illustrates each of these stories. "Will these chairs become props that normalize the unwelcomed habits? Or will they act as therapy to âcureâ oneâs syndromes?"
This chair is specially designed for people who tilt their chairs. It has a spirit leveler attached to the side allowing one to measure how balanced one is.
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Brit Leissler | 11 May 2009
Sven Ehmann, the creative director of Die Gestalten Publishers, came to visit us in our temporary production office in Via Tortona in Milan. We interviewed him as part of our series of Post Futurist Manifesto Talks. He not only spoke out on where the design world should be heading in the close future, but also explains how Die Gestalten are achieving to realize the values he is talking about in their everyday working activities and introduces us to the term womanomics.
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Brit Leissler | 10 May 2009
On the Salone del Mobile we had the great pleasure to meet Marti Guixe on the Danese booth, where he showed his Xarxa chair - a seat, made of 5 different pillows of different materials and characteristics, but united together, so that you can use it as a bed, a sofa or a chair, depending on the position, order and sequence you arrange the pillows taking in this way a quantic behaviour. The self-proclaimed ex-designer gave us an interesting insight into his take on where design is currently at and where it should be going. This video is part of a series of interviews that we conducted during the Milan design week, the so-called Post Futurist Manifesto Talks.
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Brit Leissler | 9 May 2009
The question was "What are the three main ingredients for a new value system for design?". This video features a conglomeration of answers given by the designers Tomek Rygalik and Alice Wang, as well as Emma Firmin of DAMn magazine and Sven Ehmann of Gestalten Publishers. The video is part of a series of interviews that we conducted during the Milan design week, focusing on the current state of the design world and attempting to create a so-called Post Futurist Manifesto. More to come soon!
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Brit Leissler | 8 May 2009
Marco Bettiol is a researcher of the Venice International University. He visited our temporary production office in the Lago Appartamento in Milan and gave us an insight into his research about design & economy. This video is part of a series of interviews that we conducted during the Milan design week, focusing on the current state of the design world and attempting to identify the ingredients for a new value system out of the crisis - the so-called Post Futurist Manifesto Talks. More to come soon!
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ap | 8 May 2009
A quick sampling of some of our favorites from the Salone Fairgrounds. For a ton more, check out Core77's entire gallery from the fairgrounds: 175 images.
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ap | 8 May 2009
A quick sampling of some of our pics from the streets of Milan. Want more local flavor? Check out the entire street life gallery here: 43 images
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ap | 7 May 2009
Another part of the Public Design Festival, one of my personal favorites, was Springtime's People Parking. Here, Senior Designer Volker Pfluger, introduces us the design concept for their parking space installation right on Via Tortona. I witnessed one designated car space accommodate 50 people, a very subtle and effective design lesson.
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Brit Leissler | 7 May 2009
Barbara Bondi and Marco Raino of the architecture company brh+ were visiting us in the Lago Appartamento in Milan. Marco is also the president of TURN - a design community in Turin, Italy.
"Design concept is TURN's mission focus. Starting from the definition of three main categories - Product Design (things), Environmental Design (places), Communication Design (messages) as given by Norman Potter in his essay What is a designer (1968) - TURN thinks the word design as a broad and up-to-date term, reflecting how a designer can rethink its society and look for a role in it following its own insight and courage, its mind's openness and creativity.
TURN loves Turin and believes in its future. That's why TURN takes in charge the role of primary interface towards the local administration - letting people understand which is the new Turin's creativity asset inside a strategical planning for the city. Every single associate works with passion keeping in mind Turin's fate and its design. So TURN represents a careful watcher of planning and communication quality inside the city and its governance activities."
We had a great talk with them - in the video a short version of some of their views about design.
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ap | 6 May 2009
Inside the fairgrounds, Moroso created a garden of white pillars to divide their booth. There we saw the work of Diesel, Nendo, Front, and many independent designers. Stay tuned for a Post Futurist Manifesto interview with Tokujin Yoshioka, designer of the Paper Cloud sofa (see above).
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ap | 6 May 2009
While touring the Established & Sons exhibition in Milan we met Jason Bruges designer of the Flat Liner. This family of interactive LED lamps respond to touch. While different sizes are suspended, the table and floor lamps allow more adjustment--face the lamp towards the wall and display the backside, a "stealth like" surface displaying the circuit board beneath.
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Brit Leissler | 6 May 2009
On the Salone del Mobili in Milan, the Finnish furniture company Artek presented their new packaging with a message: Communicating the company's value of time-less and sustainable products but wanting to avoid the semantically inflated word "sustainability", they chose simple but strong messages such as "One chair is enough", "Timeless content inside" and "Buy now, keep forever". We love it!
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Brit Leissler | 6 May 2009
Sociologist Francesco Morace, president of Future Concept Lab in Milan, was meeting us in the Appartamento during the Milan Design week and shared with us his interesting views on the current state of the design world and the opportunities that the crisis creates. He also introduces us to the manifesto he had launched with the Future Concept Lab just before the Milan Design Week took of.
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Brit Leissler | 5 May 2009
The Senseware exhibition in the Triennale during this year's design week in Milan showed a wide range of installations exploring new technological fibers and their respective potential applications. One was mintdesign's "to be someone": breathing masks that are literally masks to disguise yourself as a chimpanzee or put up a "beautifully proportioned face". So, if the human race is - as we are continually being told on the news - being doomed, then at least we can all go down with a certain style and irony... maybe a "Miss Piggy" mask would be most appropriate in the current situation?!
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Imagine how the new artificial fibers that have evolved through the application of high technology will spur humans to a new wave of creation. Some of these fibers are as fine as individual cells, some are more pliant than rubber, and some are electrically conductive like metals. This exhibition is an attempt to visualize some of the domains that the new Senseware can open up. Ideas were sought from architects and designers of all ilks, automobile and electrical appliance manufacturers, media artists, and even a flower artist. The exhibition represents an intersection of technology materials, and talent, all oriented towards future manufacturing.
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core jr | 4 May 2009
We've just flipped the switch on Core77's massive galleries of the best of Milan. From the fair grounds and Satellite to the Zona Tortona, Superstudio, and street life, we've got the most vivid, inspiring images from Milan Design Week 2009.
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Brit Leissler | 30 Apr 2009 |
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Aimed at young, European designers, the Prix Emile Hermes rewards the creation of innovative objects. This year it was happening for the first time with the theme "Everyday Lightness". The jury unanimously decided not to award a first or second prize for this first edition of the Prix Emile Hermes, but rather to award three third-place prizes. The results of the contest were exhibited at the Triennale during the Milan Design Week. Here you get more info about the designers who were selected.
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ap | 29 Apr 2009 |
Comments (0) During our tour of the Public Design Festival, we were happy to be fed by the ladies of Public Pie. Maaike Bertens and Marieke van der Bruggen invented a portable kitchen, which includes seats for two (heated by the oven), and can bake up to 200 pies a day!
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Brit Leissler | 29 Apr 2009 |
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The fine little show "Made in Berlin" was presented by a delegation of young design mavericks from the german capital, consisting of "the usual suspects". Shown above are lamps by Coordination and E27 as well as Werner Aisslinger's seating objects that make you want to go "Paul Cocksedge" (partcicularly since Aisslinger even created a lamp as well... see after the click). Shown below are llot llov's "The Reminiscence of Decadence" installation and a wardrobe by Ett la Benn.
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ap | 29 Apr 2009 |
Comments (0) We were excited to meet up with Core77 contributor Bruce Tharp in Milan, where he and his wife Stephanie Munsen (together as Materious), created an exhibition at the Tuttobene. Inspired by a selection of philosophers, the work is smart, smart, smart.
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ap | 27 Apr 2009 |
Comments (1) If you weren't able to walk around the Zona Tortona last week, check out this tour of the Lago Appartamento with artist Diego Paccagnella. Not only were all the Lago designs on display, but they were in use as well--a concept sure to be imitated at many festivals to come. Lago also promoted work by some Royal College of Art students. One of our favorites was Valentin Vodev's "Kick It," soft flexible lamp. The Appartamento will be open for the next couple months, you may need to schedule an appointment, but it is well worth it.
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Brit Leissler | 27 Apr 2009 |
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As usual the Spazio Rossana Orlandi was one of our favorite places in Milan this year. You just can't beat the athmosphere and patina of this space. So many things are to be discovered and the attention and love to detail is such a great pleasure. This year was a wide range of objects collected under one roof: Li Edelkoort curated the "Talent Milan" exhibition, a selection of 21 design graduates from 11 countries, which was happening in the court yard mongst other new works of various designers.
In the various galleries within the space were Piet Hein Eek, Weltevree, Established & Sons and Nacho Carbonell amongst many, many more. Pictured above is TAFs Soft Parcel sofa and one part of Tina Gerini's "Playing Memphis" installation. Below some impressions of the court yard bustle and a radiator in the shape of a ram.
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ap | 26 Apr 2009 |
Comments (0) A couple of days ago we met Jordi Canudas on the street, who was happy to show us the graffiti sculptures that he and a friend, Andrew Haythornthwaite, installed for design week. The work is entitled BUON APPETITO.
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Click below to see Jordi and Andrew's Public Design Festival competition entry. (Didn't get picked, but congrats on the installation!)
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ap | 26 Apr 2009 |
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At first we had no idea where the loud music was coming from, but while walking to a party we stumbled upon the Sander Mulder showroom. It was quite a nice surprise to finally find the music source, and blame it on a dog! Woof Woof "Woofers."
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core jr | 25 Apr 2009 |
Comments (1) Check out the latest video's from Core77 Milan Design Week 09 coverage above, and all of our coverage so far, including blog posts, right here. Tons more, plus huge galleries, coming up shortly!
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ap | 25 Apr 2009 |
Comments (0) Because I spent many years in Portland Oregon, and many more in New York City, I assumed bike messaging was ubiquitous business. This is not the case in Italy. Today we met the first, and only bike messengers in all of Milan, Urban Bike Messengers. Give 'em a call!
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ap | 25 Apr 2009 |
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A few nights ago, Tuttobene threw a party and we had consumed so much Prosecco that we didn't remember any of the designs...so we had to go back today to visit the exhibition with a clearer head. The display was the most inspiring we've seen so far. (Stay tuned for a Bruce Tharp drive-by!)
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