Looks like I’m developing a fetish for urban benches. Today a new Tejo Remy and René Veenhuizen dropped in my mailbox: reef benches on the roof of the Picasso lyceum in Zoetermeer. Sit, lie down, hang out, eat or read, reef benches are a wooden landscape shaped like stylized dunes overlooking a real landscape below.
An alternative to the stitching of seats. The Diamonds Chair, made of hand died velcro and steel is build up layer by layer. Because of the many layers it is strong enough to sit on. Plus the structured pattern can after build up be stripped from its rigid perfection. A close cooperation between chaotic impulsive improviser Anna Ter Haar and neurotic perfectionist calculator Cris Bartels.
A plastic bag is not only watertight material, but also a visual expression of a brand. The King Suit by label TAZ differs from the Mother Theresa plastic bag dress because graphic designer Jonmar van Vlijmen manages to use the logo too. With this materialconcept TAZ creates objects with young designers of which the first outcomes can be viewed right now.
More than pop-up origami, Ingrid Siliakus makes miniature architecture out of a single sheet of paper. Designing and calculating the lines to be cut or folded after 17 years, still takes her months. It all started with a book by Masahiro Chatani. Last year she featured on the cover of Wallpaper. This March she brought out a book with which you can make your own Sagrada Familia or London Eye. In a few hours.
A composite frame that resembles human bone structure, with a skin stretched around it that can illuminate. The KG-1 Concept car by KesselsGranger is designed around the human body. The driver sits in an active position, the passenger passive. Headlights are made of a fibre mesh. The high-tech textiles by TenCate can resist any hazard and are light or even lighting.
Lack of time was why Paul Coudamy chose cardboard. The 160 m2 industrial emptiness turned into an office for 20 people in 7 days. Using only glue and tape Paris add firm Elegangz now has a flexible office that reacts on more or less employees in angled style. It’s flexible, speedy, cheap, stylish and recycled. Crisis can do that.
Start repairing! This manifesto describes the creative qualities repair offers. Smash/Repair is the bare repair: what is left from a repaired stool after taking the original away? It shows repairing as an act of love. Rachel Griffin:”If an object is made from the material that is used for a repair, it will never be broken.” Her duct tape glasses remain intact forever.
It’s a giant lego-like puzzle. 7300 Pieces of BeeBoard all have their unique place in the interior of graphic company ScherpOntwerp. “Everything here is cardboard,” explains architect Ad Kil from Ro-Ad. “Tables, walls, ceiling.” Rooms are voids in a giant cardboard block, almost reminding of the Vals Therme by Peter Zumthor where slates of stone are stacked to model space.
Which Dutch Design has concurred the world in 2008? The inevitable storm umbrella but also a surprising project: the Mahlangu handwasher. No conceptual fresh looking form as is expected of Dutch Design. Irene van Peer uses empty plastic beverage bottles. She has devised a clever method for turning these into hand-washing devices to help prevent the spread of disease in Africa.
When you make a temporary interior for an office that claims to start each commission from scratch, what do you come up with? Alrik Koudenburg went back to the beginning himself and built a life size cardboard model that is now the most hyped office online. “No I will not build one again. I like to start without knowledge. I need alienation which can only happen once.”
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