News
December 2011
Crafts Council’s 40:40 – Forty Objects for Forty Years
Our Wednesday Light features in the Crafts Council’s 40:40 – Forty Objects for Forty Years a major exhibition celebrating 40 years of the Crafts Council Collection.
40:40 – Forty Objects for Forty Years is part of an exploration into ambitious digital online presentations and gateways, seen in the online exhibition programme and the new online Collection catalogue and images library, launching in early 2012.
The exhibition features 40 works from the Collection, each selected by an invited commentator: These friends and colleagues of the Crafts Council have a personal and professional relationship with us and the Collection and consist of makers, curators, and critics, who have contributed a personal interpretation or response to their object of choice. The objects are showcased with supporting films, audio clips or previously unseen archive material.
The Wednesday Light, part of the Wednesday Collection first presented in 2001, lead to our iconic Garland Light, first available from Habitat in 2002 and then Artecnica in 2004.
December 2011
The Pop-Up Generation - Design Between Dimensions
We’ve collaborated with Philips for The Pop-Up Generation - Design Between Dimensions an exhibition by Lidewij Edelkoort, trend forecaster and visionary from Paris, which is currently on show at MOTI, Museum of the Image in Breda, The Netherlands.
In the exhibition The Pop-Up Generation, the design curator and former director of the Design Academy Eindhoven presents designers and artists who embody this movement, some of whom have worked in collaboration with industries from the province of Brabant, are doing research into new ways of working and techniques.
At the start of the 21st century, the world is a cacophony of different cultures, destitute economies, innovative mass media and hyper technology. Old structures disappear and are replaced by a longing for synergy that flourishes with the new worldwide means of communication. In the practice of design, disciplines merge and worlds are linked together; 2D & 3D, analogue & digital, culture & capital, science & art, nature & technology and local & global.
Edelkoort explains that “Nestled in that no man’s land, a new era with new work is being prepared; artistic and elastic statements that without a doubt are shifting between all disciplines and all dimensions.”
In both the exhibition and the book entitled The Pop-Up Generation - Design Between Dimensions (Bis Publishers), Edelkoort has selected designers who make transience and the immaterial visible; as an apparition; from pop-up shops, pop-up events and guerrilla brands to moving merchandising and architecture. Moving in the sense of motion and action, but also in the sense of the emotional, aimed at the senses.
The dynamism of pop-up is reflected in the exhibition: its flexibility and versatility is a source of inspiration for many disciplines. Visitors will experience multi-media installations, see films and performances that become clocks, chairs, graphics, songs and lights, meet new characters animated by technology, witness computer programmes that make books magically come to life, and encounter cardboard and textiles that pop-up into animals, mushrooms, fashion, furniture and masks. Roles shift, connect and merge to the extent that there seems to be only one universal and elastic discipline that pops up, moving constantly between dimensions, and possibly trying to define a new one.
The Pop-Up Generation - Design Between Dimensions runs from 13 December 2011 to 12 April 2012 and will then tour to other destinations.
December 2011
Droplet carafe for Triflow
The carafe, shaped like a droplet of water, has been designed for Triflow. It launched last month and is available to buy now from their online store.
More images can be found here
November 2011
New mosaic wall decorations for Bisazza
Four new wall decorations have been launched as part of Bisazza’s 2012 Collection: Day Vision, Night Vision, Dark Water and Clear Water.
September 2011
Resonated Yamaha
Tord Boontje has designed limited edition speaker surfaces for Yamaha’s ISX-800, a new audio system launched this Autumn. The two designs will be presented at the Yamaha showroom in Ginza, Tokyo, from 7th – 16th October as part of the design exhibition Resonated Yamaha.
Read Yamaha’s news release (in Japanese) here
September 2011
Products on show: Allegro Crescendo, Witch Chair and Witches’ Kitchen
Materia goes 3D Printing - Allegro Crescendo
An exhibition on 3D printing and additive manufacturing at the Materia Inspiration Centre, Amsterdam.
8 September 2011 – 18 January 2012
Creative Junctions - Witch Chair
Curated by Gilda Bojardi and Yang Dongjing for the Beijing International Design Triennial, an exhibition that focuses on the junction between renowned designers and the famous brands in the world.
28 September – 17 October 2011 at the National Museum of China
Useless? The Wandering Pain - Witches’ Kitchen
Part of EXD'11 Biennale in Lisbon, Useless? presents 2 polarised curatorial approaches: Useless? An Exploded View by product designer Jonathan Olivares, and Useless? The Wandering Pain by design writer Max Bruinsma and designer Hans Maier-Aichen introducing alternative value systems by which to establish uselessness.
2 October – 27 November 2011 at MUDE (Museu do Design e da Moda)
