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New book about sustainable design
2008-04-28 08:39:00 I’m proud to announce that my knowledge company Design boost has released its first annual book named “Designboost 07″. It’s the first in a series of books that in words, pictures and moving media describes the work of Designboost. Designboost is a knowledge company that helps companies and organisations to learn more about design in general ... More About: Marketing , Branding , Book , Sustainable
Designboost in L?uomo Vogue
2008-04-27 22:05:00 I just have to tell you that my knowledge company Design boost is featured in the April issue of Italian supreme magazine L’uomo Vogue . As you can see on the picture below it is a full page with the title “The sustainable creativity knowledge”. In the same issue L’uomo Vogue is listing the hundred most influential ...
Milan Design Week part three
2008-04-22 20:11:00 Here follows some further images from the Milan Design Week 2008. This time from some of the exhibitions around the Zona Tortona. The biggest impression was that Superstudio Piu was quite boring this year. Superstudio used to put together an interesting mix of companies all the way back from the time when Giulio Cappellini once ... More About: Part
From Virtual Future to Real Life
2008-04-22 07:33:00 At the same time as Milan is opening the doors to the crowded Design Week, Gothenburg is opening the annual International Science Festival. This year the theme is play in all its forms and well-attended game events are taken place all over the city. But in an almost empty conference hall, far away from the ... More About: Life , Lifestyle , Events , Trends , Future
E&Y party at Milan Furniture Fair
2008-04-21 17:03:00 The David Report friend Tomoki Kusakabe visited the E&Y party in Milan the other day during the Milan Furniture Fair and sent me a couple of images which I’m posting below. Among the prominent guests were Jasper Morrison, Harri Koskinen and Ilkka Suppanen. Here’s a quote from Tomoki: The exhibition is very nice space, clean and ... More About: Design , Events , Party
Nureyev bookcase
2008-04-20 21:32:00 Why should a bookcase be fixed to the wall? Linteloo, the Dutch furniture brand, presents Roderick Vos? design that makes books move through the room. During the Milan Design Week visitors of the Linteloo stand can experience this new and refreshing interpretation of the classic book carousel. The bookcase is called Nureyev and is 190 cm ...
Milan Design Week 2008 - part two
2008-04-20 12:51:00 Here’s some further pictures from this years Milan Design Week . Natural simplicity by Vincent van Duysen and John Pawson at the “When Objects Work” exhibition. The Milkbar by Finnish producers Marimekko and Artek. Yours truly at the Egg chair exhibition at Corso Como 10. Which by the way still is one of the worlds best concept stores? Japanese baths. ... More About: Part , 2008
Milan Design Week 2008 - part one
2008-04-18 19:34:00 The Milan Design Week 2008 was offering kind of sweet-sour experiences. I started to go to Milan already back in 1988 but I think I’m as curious (and critical) as I was twenty years ago. I do understand that it is maybe an utopia to expect the Milan Design Week to be better and better ... More About: Products , Events , Trends
Vulgarism at Milan Design Week?
2008-04-15 21:24:00 I’m off to the Milan Design Week tomorrow morning. As always it will be nice to come to Milan and meet the spring (I’m from Sweden you know?). What interests me most is to see if the DesignArt, or Vulgarism trend as I prefer to call it, from lasts years Milan Design Week is as ... More About: Events , Competitions
Swedish prefab house
2008-04-15 15:31:00 Plus House is a pre-fab two-storey house by Swedish architects Claesson Koivisto Rune. It has generic proportions of a traditional Swedish barn house. Instead of windows positioned like regular “holes” along the walls, entire sides are glazed. On the entrance floor both long walls are glazed. On the upper floor the gable ends are glazed. ... More About: Products , Architecture , Innovation
Is it a skirt? or is it a pair of trousers
2008-04-14 19:01:00 A graduate of Goldsmiths College in London, fashion designer Anna Antoniades? work focuses on the relationship between body, garment and space. She distresses the form to accentuate the silhouette through excessive folds, bold pleats and voluptuous draping. Antoniades? work has been seen in London - four shows in London Fashion Week - Bilbao and Tokyo, where ... More About: Design , Trousers , Skirt , Pair
The Milkbar at Milan Design Week
2008-04-12 12:53:00 Finnish supreme companies Artek and Marimekko will break boundaries when they are presenting the Milkbar, a new concept at this years Milan Design Week . You will find the Milkbar at Viale Francesco Crispi 3. Ping Intressant.se tags technorati : milan design week milan furniture fair artek marimekko Andra bloggar om: milano, ... More About: Marketing , Branding
Inga Sempe at Milan Design Week
2008-04-11 16:20:00 Here follows a couple of images of new products presented at the Milan Design Week by French designer Inga Sempe. They are: Endormis plates by Domestic, Double stray paper lampshade by Artecnica and Low back Moel seat range by Ligne Roset. I especially like the plates. In the typically shrewd design style that has become ... More About: Products , Events , Competitions
Bouroullec at Milan Design Week
2008-04-11 15:35:00 Here follows a couple of image of different projects presented by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec at the Milan Design Week. The products are Alcove love seat highback for Vitra, Rocs for the Vitra Edition, Steelwood collection for Magis, Pebble for Tectona and Papyrus chair for Kartell. Ping Intressant.se tags technorati : milan design week milan furniture fair ... More About: Interviews , Trends , Innovation
Worlds first passive museum
2008-04-10 19:07:00 When the tourist office and the city museum in Ulricehamn, Sweden grew to large for their facilities the municipality asked Kjellgren Kaminsky Architects to design a new building combining the two programs. The building will be a passive house, making it the first museum in the world built with this technique. SITUATION The site for the new ... More About: Architecture , Worlds , Sustainability , Museum , Passive
Konstfack at Milan design week
2008-04-09 10:57:00 For the third year Konstfack, the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm will be present at the Milan Design Week with the exhibition Functional Design for a Dysfunctional World. The exhibition focuses on a group of young designers, students or recent graduates of Konstfack, who operate both as producers and social engineers. In ...
New bulletin - I shop therefore I am
2008-04-07 09:51:00 I?m proud to announce the new David Report bulletin called “I shop therefore I am”. In this issue we are looking into the world of consumer culture from different point of views; ethical, social, political, economical and humanistic. Shop ping has turned into a lifestyle. We consume as leisure and a way to pass time. But at ... More About: Lifestyle , Trends , Future , Sustainability
Comme des Garçons in collaboration with H&M
2008-04-03 13:45:00 Comme des Garçons? founder and head designer Rei Kawakubo will create this autumn?s guest designer collection at H&M. Rei Kawakubo, famous and admired for her creativity and artistry, will design a women?s and a men?s collection, with some pieces for children too. Accessories and an exclusive unisex fragrance will also be included in the collection. “I ... More About: Marketing , Lifestyle , Branding , Fashion , Collaboration
Build on green
2008-04-02 23:14:00 Now you can make your green design concepts even greener by sourcing for sustainable building and interior materials at a new material library located in San Francisco and Providence, USA. Initiated by Matt Grigsby and Joe Gebbia, two graduates from the Rhode island School of Design, Ecolect is a free on-line library that hosts an impressive ... More About: Green , Innovation , Sustainability , Build
Designboost at Hem and Villa fair
2008-03-29 17:33:00 Here follows some images from the Design boost activites during the Hem & Villa fair in Malmö 6-9 February. All in all we produced 21 lectures, 17 workshops, 13 exhibitions, 1 concert. On top of this also a sustainable children?s house. The different activities by Designboost were based on “sustainable design” and took place as an ... More About: Events , Competitions , Sustainability , Fair
I shop therefore I am
2008-03-28 18:03:00 Next Friday, April 4, issue nine of the David Report Bulletin will be released. The title will be “I shop therefore I am” and it will concern future consumerism and consumption culture. Among other things you will be able to find interesting texts from Kristina Dryza, freelance strategist and designer and Sante Poromaa, teacher ... More About: Lifestyle , Trends , Future , Shop , Sustainability
Shoptalk by FutureDesignDays
2008-03-26 20:36:00 Shoptalk is a series of sessions on tomorrow?s retailing and beyond by FutureDesign Days. These Shoptalks will take place April 2 in Malmö, May 15 in Stockholm and May 22 in Borås, Sweden. I will be one of the participants in the panel debate at the Malmö event. Book your ticket by clicking the link above, however ... More About: Events , Trends , Competitions
Myto by Konstantin Grcic at Milan Design Week
2008-03-25 17:47:00 The new Myto chair by Konstantin Grcic will be launched at the Milan Design Week in April. Returning David Report readers maybe remember my earlier post about the Myto chair when it first was presented back in July. Myto will be produced by furniture manufacturer Plank in collaboration with chemical company Basf. Myto is made ... More About: Products , Events , Innovation
Support the Dalai Lama
2008-03-24 18:58:00 I just signed an urgent petition calling on the Chinese government to respect human rights in Tibet and dialogue with the Dalai Lama . This is really important, and I thought you might want to take action as well. After decades of repression, Tibetans are crying out to the world for change. China’s leaders are right now ... More About: Support , Social responsibility
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
2008-03-21 11:23:00 All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. No one could say it better than Jack? There’s more to life than work. DON’T FORGET TO PLAY! In some way the next David Report bulletin, which will be out within approximate a week, will touch this issue. We will dive deep into uncool ... More About: Lifestyle , Play , Work
Ora-Ito to build around the globe
2008-03-19 15:02:00 French designer Ora-Ito and real estate entrepreneurs have teamed up with a new concept of luxury housing and resorts around the globe. The new brand is called LH&R-Luxury Houses & Resorts, a Paris based development-design joint venture. Advanced design will be delivered through the O-BY ORA-ITO brand. The O team will be the lifestylers ... More About: Design , Lifestyle , Architecture , Globe , Build
Design vs branding
2008-03-18 15:25:00 I was reading an article some weeks ago in the Swedish business magazine Dagens Industri which made me a bit confused. The theme was branding (and design). In the article, Stefan Ölander from the branding agency Rewir says; “Today most products and services are exchangeable, it’s branding and communication that make the difference.” I have a ... More About: Marketing , Design , Branding , Sustainability , Social responsibility
Future Shopping exhibition
2008-03-17 11:23:00 Some time ago I wrote about the seminar Future Shopping which I moderated during the Stockholm Furniture Fair. Here follows a couple of images from the exhibition that was part of the Future Shopping project as well. If you read Swedish, or would like to look at some images of the student projects, you can ... More About: Lifestyle , Events , Trends
Milan Design Week preview
2008-03-14 08:41:00 My first Milan Design Week preview this year is the desk Bambi by Nendo for Cappellini. Bambi is in the form of a single plane, bent this way and that. Each of the legs fold in a different direction, giving the desk a sense of unsteadiness at first glance, but you soon realize that it ... More About: Products , Preview
Your mum is a hacker!
More articles from this author:2008-03-13 13:04:00 During the first six months of its release, more than two million iPhones have disappeared ? or rather, they were sold, but never activated through AT&T. As we all know, these phones have been hacked to work with other networks in many different countries. With more than two million units cracked, you can follow a lively ... More About: Lifestyle , Trends , Future , Hacker 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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