like pretty much all other museums in amsterdam, the maritime museum is currently closed for extensive renovation, i just saw an artists impression of a rather striking feature which will be literally above the new courtyard: an enormous steel construction based on the old compass rose, let’s hope it looks as good as i’m imagining it will…
dutch photographer ‘krista van der niet’ and furniture designer ‘caroline ziegler’ are teaming up for a show at the amusingly named coming soon gallery in paris, from sept the 30th till mid nov, i quite like the idea of shows with different disciplines together like this, an interesting development…
thanks to fontanel for the tip: an unusual collection of industrial design projects from young designer florian krautli
earlier this afternoon i visited a workshop with my clients ‘nathalie & claartje’ to discuss the process of re-using the billboards created earlier this year by various designers and artists as part of the ‘façade’ exhibition, such as the one above by ‘martijn engelbregt’
the materials will all be cut up and reused in a series of products from the ‘re:frame’ design competition and also as covers for the ‘façade’ book i am currently working on
fortunately for us the test today proved that we can actually sew the stuff together, gluing the books may be a bit more difficult to achieve… although part of the charm of this project is however, that fact that we are making decisions as we go along, nothing is really set in stone at this stage…
several new additions to the advertising billboard section of the project will probably be added last minute (the very last minute) before the book goes to print later this month, i’ll keep you posted… see also this post
what a cute idea this is, just the look i want in every room of my house and quite a bit cheaper than actually buying thousands of euros worth of books (via ‘bright’)