Green advertising Written on February 27, 2009, by Ingeborg.

Free samples and flyers are sooo boring. The sustainable wave has made space for more creative forms of advertising. Waterblasting makes green graffiti, a cleaning cloth reverses grafitti, then there’s snow tagging, growing logo’s and falling waterdrops that spell out words. You want it even if you’re no ecoist or ecoista.

Do-It-Yourself dress Written on February 24, 2009, by Ingeborg.

Clothing by Berber Soepboer can in some way be altered or adjusted. The colouring dress has a black and white dessin, which can be hand-coloured by the owner. The assembly dress is a set of three dresses that can be taken apart and combined with a button-system. The dresses were on shown in Bergeyk in internationally renowned and sustainable textile factory De Ploeg.

Friends foosball Written on February 23, 2009, by Ingeborg.

Kudos to my ex-homemate Lieke Ypma. The design for a foosball table she made at Audi in Ingolstadt 4 years ago has been produced. “The cars around me in the design studio were an inspiration. Since it takes 4 years for those cars to hit the streets, that was the ‘leadtime’ for my kickertisch too.” I fantasize the table in our livingroom has something to do with it too.

TinTin museum Written on February 22, 2009, by Ingeborg.

Designed by Christian de Portzamparc with Dutch cartoonist Joost Swarte, the not yet finished Hergé museum is already named “Most beautiful building of Belgium.” The drawing style of Joost Swarte is based on the “clean-line” as Hergé used it. For a cartoonist to design a building interior is not that strange: Swarte also did the Toneelschuur in Haarlem.

Combined couture Written on February 21, 2009, by Ingeborg.

Catching our eye as the new Viktor & Rolf, fashion designer Jimmy Paul decided to become a duo himself. With co-graduate Marie Burlot he’ll continue as MaryMe - JimmyPaul. “In future we want to combine couture with other disciplines. Move fashion shows into the museum to make it more accessible, while preserving the exclusivity of a couture show.” Peau de Chagrin was on at the AIFW.

Building as bench Written on February 19, 2009, by Ingeborg.

Located in the middle of a square, the orange whale NIO architecten facilitates a waiting place for the bus. It is completely made of polystyrene foam. The form of The Amazing Whale Jaw is left over when deducting routes and sight lines, leaving a waiting room and benches. Maurice Nio is known for his hybrid and computer generated forms.

Pavement as bench Written on February 19, 2009, by Ingeborg.

Cubic pavement by William Graatsma & Jan Slothouber forms a place to sit. The concrete blocks can be exchanged for normal concrete pavement tiles. The benchlandscape is formed by only three different types. Featured at the 1970 Venice Architecture Bienale “Democratic design”, first built in 1982, now given a 3rd life with new form and colour.

Data as bench Written on February 19, 2009, by Ingeborg.

According to satellite navigation, a bench moves every ten seconds. To make the inaccuracy of GPS visible, Jeremy Wood measured the locations of 2 standard parkbenches in the Amsterdam Beatrixpark. The sculpture Data Cloud shows where the benches were in that minute. Wood travels with a gps, exploring the borders between science, technology, art and geography.

Fence as bench Written on February 19, 2009, by Ingeborg.

A fence is used to keep two worlds apart. The fence at a school playground by Tejo Remy & René Veenhuizen is not just keeping people in or out, but adding something usefull. The division is made into an interesting meeting point. A project that is both (public) art and product design. The work, that covers five fence parts joins the standard Heras fence as is used ubiquitous.

Off you go Written on February 17, 2009, by Ingeborg.

To start Experimenta Design Biennale you have to ride your bike over a long catwalk/ticket desk/coffee table that circles the room and ends in the street. The theatrical gesture of putting the participant on a platform is not uncommon for Marcel Schmalgemeijer, who is now into scenography where lighting, sound, costumes and decor became his tools. Interview for Artichoke.