January 2012
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“I hate design,” Mr. Biesenbach will tell you emphatically. When he travels, he has a habit of stripping his hotel room of anything that moves (furniture, colored pillows, desktop accessories) and stuffing it all into the closet. “It’s a little bit of curatorial disease,” he said. “I like to reduce everything to its original surface.” - Klaus Biesenbach, director of PS1 for the...
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Watch The Making of a Blueware Vase by Glithero
London based designers Glithero are masters at documenting their creation process. Although I have seen their Blueware Vases before I hadn’t seen this beautiful ‘making of’ film. The process used is called cyanotypes, where direct impressions of botanical specimens are captured on earthenware, using photosensitive chemicals.
The vases are coated with...
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Watch HK HONEY ‘HK Honey’ is a short documentary narrated by Michael Leung, HK Honey Founder, Designer and Beekeeper. HK Honey is an organisation of Hong Kong beekeepers, artists and designers that aim to communicate the value of bees and the benefits of locally produced honey within busy urban society. For more information about this unique organisation, please visit their...
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BLOOM - Une Vision Végétale
“A new romantic yet also realistic view of living in the country has emerged.The current financial crisis and our concerns about ecology have contributed to the rethinking of our existence in the challenging and stressful city, while advances in information technology have participated in setting humans free from a fixed location within the urban environment.” ~ Li Edelkoort Bloom...
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Chair Design
“Chairs are the staple of design, one of the first categories of objects (together with cars) that people all over the world think of when confronted with the “D” word. In a designer’s life, the chair is also a ritual of initiation, the first truly mature challenge that involves the responsibilities that come with the design profession. In chairs, more than in any other...
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