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dae 11

the stone twins (currently heading up the ‘man & communication’ course) shared some of the projects with me from the latest crop of graduates from the design academy eindhoven ‘class of 2011’

as the press release states, under their leadership the curriculum is aiming to change direction and clarify it’s relevance to sociey… or put simply “Less Bubble, More World”

…do we really need another chair?… asks graduate ‘michael kluver’ and in a similar vein ‘suyin tjon a hie’ questions our ever expanding consumption in this animation ‘a plastic life’

‘tessel brühl’ tackles the issue of bereavement in her abstract film called overcoming grief whereas ‘charlotte porskamp’ (shown above) faces up to facebook

the golden record project by NASA gets revisited for the current age by ‘vincent meertens’ and finally some beautiful lo-tech animation by ‘julia veldman’ entitled ‘dear neighbours’ shown below

m / 12-10-2011 13:49 - tags: , , , , , ,  

big string sofa

these beautiful objects with multi-coloured string were intended to work primarily as furniture but also as a kind of room dividers, designed and constructed by studio bertjan pot

(thanks to ‘rene veenhuizen’ for the link)

m / 07-10-2011 09:02 - tags: , ,  

archive for sale

as the cuts in the arts sector become a reality these kinds of commercial partnerships could well become more widespread: pushing the car to save petrol seems like an apt metaphor to me, or is it merely a logical and bona fide collaboration? hard to say… the dutch photography museum in rotterdam has offered a selection of it’s archive to dutch household goods chain hema, for sale as ‘wall decoration’

m / 04-10-2011 08:52 - tags: , ,  

recurring patterns

i seem to be in a bit of a geometric pattern phase at the moment and just came across this: the new ‘dries van noten’ collection for next year, he is too apparently… i’m not very knowledgable about fashion but a big fan of his stuff and find this really beautiful…

m / 03-10-2011 13:32 - tags: , ,  

podium

some of the printed matter for the podium identity we made during the summer is starting to arrive back… the results look very promising so far, i’ll post the whole set when everything is complete later this autumn… the final part of the project is a new websie which we are due to start working on right now

m / 29-09-2011 08:29 - tags: , , ,