September 12th the most talented Dutch art graduate will be chosen and awarded. In fashion all critics agree: it must be Jimmy van Rinsum who studied at the Rietveld Academy. His work is presented as Jimmy Paul and is original (though it brings Viktor & Rolf’s harlequin collection to mind). His originality does not conflict with wearability. Fingers crossed, Jimmy.
Living with 6 people, you often have a full plate leftover after dinner. We joke about taking it to the guy outside Albert Heijn. We never do. We lack an easy and elegant way of passing it on. US cities - where the food thrown away is said to equal the need in the 3rd world - have Replate. I dought this works in small communities with few foodless people. Any other distribution for leftovers?
Is graffiti pollution? Not in the way Alexandre Orion does it. In the Sao Paolo tunnels that are blackened by exhaust gasses, he paints thousands of skulls by wiping away the soot. His graffiti draws attention to pollution. And cleaning can never be illegal, now can it? Few people know he washes the cleaning cloth and paints canvasses with the soot. Now that’s what I call superuse.
The persusasive trash bin by Bart Klein Hemmink seduces people at festivals to throw their 1,1 kilo of trash per day into a litter bin. The prototype has the shape of a speaker and contains tracing sensors to track people and garbage. Festival visitors will be thanked for their trash by their favorite band. Deus - who played Lowlands - should change their title just by one letter.
The DOGtime program of the famous art school Rietveld has produced its first graduates. I like the figurative power of the work by Sander Stada. He makes bracelets, rings and cuffs out of daily products like suppository pills or stuff from the one-euro-shop. Creative enough to make the cut for the Bright Bunch article I am writing that scouts the best Dutch design graduates of 2008.
Logo’s, clasps, buttons and rings. Product design graduate Vivian Hoogendoorn thinks decoration should not be added afterwards, but should follow construction or way of carrying. Often the handle of her bags determine the form. Women form a relationship with these handmade bags like children who carry their stuffed animal.
As a writer I shouldn’t write about a subject of which I do not know location nor background. But these signs for directions in an unknown parking garage are so appealing to me, that I’ll post anyway. Using the fact that the person who the sign is for is in motion, a bucket of paint does the trick. Anamorphosis turns the lines into a floating picture. UPDATE feb 09: found it
Two industrial designers from my old school TUDelft won an IDEA award. Where the stormproof umbrella SENZ prevents irritation for many worldwide, Size China specifically helps Asian heads. The helmets, sunglasses and headsets China makes, do not fit the makers. Size China holds a database to encourage products that fit Chinese heads.
26 year old Nele Vos is a graphic design student in Arnhem, who questions the honesty of nature. In Nature-Culture she places labels in trees and plants, to show that they are not natural but a product of mankind. “Esthetics and trends form nature. We go out but want to keep our shoes clean. What we call nature, is what we think it to be.” Nele creates awareness in our opportunistic attitude.
The sandman is surely closeby when asleep in the Sand hotel in England’s Weymouth. Located on the beach the hotel rents two rooms with sea view for 10 pound a night. In 1993 I did some sand sculpting myself and even made the Guiness book. The Sand hotel is carved by Mark Anderson, who lives in Weymouth. Maybe so he can offer you his own bed in case of rain.
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