Julian Mayor is an artist and designer whose work can be found in Europe’s more conceptual design galleries. On graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2000 he worked in California for IDEO design. He returned to London in…
CODE 09 – FIRST NORDIC DESIGN FAIR
What happens when design classics and today’s most innovative ideas and trends meet? Introducing CODE – the first Nordic design fair ever and the perfect opportunity to display your products and gain maximum attention. CODE stands for COpenhagen DEsign and…
David DiMichele – Pseudodocumentations
A California native, David DiMichele studied art at University of California at Berkeley, U.C. Santa Cruz and Cal State Long Beach. His diverse influences, reflecting the hyprid nature of his work, include conceptualist Jim Melchert, at Berkeley, and the New York…
Josiah McElheny
Josiah McElheny’s work is frequently concerned with issues of reflection, infinity, purity and utopia, and has clear links to the work of the American abstract artist Donald Judd. His work also sometimes deals with issues of museological displays and one’s…
State of Design Festival – 15-25 July 2009 Melbourne, Australia
State of Design Festival is an initiative of the Victorian State Government in Australia and is the public face of the Design Victoria Strategy. Established in 2004, the Festival has had three editions—2004, 2006 and 2008. Starting in 2009, the Festival…
Nervous System jewelry
Nervous System creates experimental jewelry, combining nontraditional materials like silicone rubber and stainless steel with rapid prototyping methods. We find inspiration in complex patterns generated by computation and nature. This bracelet comes laced with a silk satin ribbon allowing variable…
Polygon Crash lamp by Flip Sellin/Coordination
Polygon Crash is a handcrafted, prototype pendant light measuring approx. 110 x 80 x 60 cm. It is made of mild and stainless steel and consists of three layered polygon shades, each holding a micro-tubelight. The partially mirrored polygons are…
Amusing porcelain tableware by Jorine Oosterhoff
Tea Time is a high tea set based on characters. Build up to be a family. Each piece has its own identity. With their character-like look they seem to come alive, living their lives on the table like soldiers in…
Chair/Chair
The letters C-H-A-I-R assemble into a chair. Eric Ku says of his creation: An inspiration from the American contemporary artist Joseph Kosuth, One and Three Chair. Instead of giving new definition, I redefined the concept of a chair by using…
La Biennale di Venezia
From February to November, festivals and international exhibitions confirm Venice in the middle of discussion on contemporary arts 05 | 27 | 2009 Art, Dance, Cinema and Music are the highlights of the year