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Dezeen Screen: Dezeen is partnering with Inside, the World Festival of Interiors that takes place in Barcelona from 2-4 November, and we’ve filmed a series of interviews with the judges for the festival’s awards programme: interior designers Andre Fu, Ilse Crawford, Linda Morey Smith and Paul Priestman.

In the first film, they talk about the kind of projects they’re hoping to see entered for the awards. The deadline for entering the awards is 30 June: www.insidefestival.com. Dezeen readers can save 25% on the price of entering the awards and attending the festival – more details here. Watch the movie »

Dezeen promotion: garden trade show Spoga+Gafa invites young designers to enter their Garden Goes Balcony design competition for the chance to win a share of €12,500 and exhibit as part of Garden Unique, which takes place at Koelnmesse in Cologne from 4 to 6 September.

The brief invites designers to create solutions for one of three example balconies and upload them via the competition website.

A prize fund of €12,500 will be divided between 15 winners and three special jury prizes, with a top prize of €2,500.

The selected designs will be exhibited as part of Garden Unique at Spoga+Gafa and manufacturers visiting the fair will be able to purchase ideas at a fee of €3,500.

Read the full brief and submit your entry on the competition website »

Here are some more details from competition organisers Koelnmesse:

garden unique presenting design competition and “Furniture Fashion Shows”

“garden goes balcony”: Designers develop concepts for outdoor residential areas in Cologne’s Rheinauhafen

Exclusive, design-orientated, high quality: with its “garden unique” from 4th to 6th September, Koelnmesse is presenting a new platform for the international premium garden furniture brands at spoga+gafa.

In addition to the international top manufacturers, young, up-and-coming designers with creative ideas are also a key part of the concept.

Under the motto “garden goes balcony” an international creativity campaign is currently underway on the jovoto.com platform, on which over 20,000 graphic and product designers along with architects are registered. The aim is to develop a design concept for the urban balcony. Be it cozy, stylish or functional: at the heart of the concept is furniture which creates the perfect balcony.

The balconies in the exclusive “Im Zollhafen” residential area in Cologne’s modern Rheinauhafen serve as the model here. A top-ranking jury, whose members include the architects Bernd Römer and Tobias Lutz along with Tal Waldman, will select the winners. Among others they will have the opportunity to have their design implemented as a 3-D model and presented during spoga+gafa in the “garden unique” segment. Other ideas selected by the jury and the community will be shown in the “Design Cubes” at garden unique in a special exhibition.

garden unique also includes a catwalk, on which the top products will be presented within the framework of “Furniture Fashion Shows”. On the catwalk a group of creative fashion design students from the Düsseldorf Private Fashion Academy (Private Modeschule Düsseldorf) will ensure a unique interaction between outdoor lifestyle furniture and fashion.

With an own restaurant and catering concept and special meeting facilities in the “Conference Garden”, the aim is to promote personal dialogue and communication within the hall. In addition to the up-market specialist furniture trade, furnishers, architects and buyers from the commercial sector along with building owners will inform themselves and obtain inspiration on the luxury outdoor innovations in a unique setting.

A core element of the “garden unique” hall concept is the “Framewalls”. These frameworks lend the garden unique-exhibitors an exclusive image for their individual presentations and open up a very special perspective for the visitors.

www.gardenunique.de

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Milan 2011: Design Academy Eindhoven will host a series of talks with academy graduates plus designers including Jurgen Bey and Piet Hein Eek and moderated by Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs in the Porta Romana district of Milan on 13 April.

Above: trailer for the My Way talks

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Entitled My Way, the talks and exhibition of the same name will showcase work by recent Design Academy Eindhoven graduates.

The talks will be moderated by Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs with a summary by MoMA curator Paola Antonelli.

They will place 4.30pm-7pm on Wednesday 13 April at Studio Zeta, Via Friuli 26, 20135 Milano.

Email myway@designacademy.nl for more information and to register to attend.

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Here are some more details from Design Academy Eindhoven:

MY WAY

We would like to invite you to the my way talks at the Design Academy Eindhoven Hub on the 13th of April in Milan.

We will start at 16.30 at Studio Zeta, Milan, and round up at 19.00 with drinks & bites, plus a private view.

We see new ways coming into being: designers searching for new roles in between disciplines, or working as a collective combining difference knowledge, qualities and perspectives. There is new purpose.

Showcasing selected recent graduates who represent the new role models for design. Meet the designer as storyteller > Bas Princen interviewed by Jurgen Bey, the designer as translator > Christien Meindertsma interviewed by Joost Grootens, the designer as innovator > Dries Verbruggen, Claire Warnier interviewed by Piet Hein Eek, and a new generation of social designers.

The talks will be moderated by Marcus Fairs (Dezeen architecture and design magazine). And to round up Paola Antonelli (curator Museum of Modern Art New York) will give a reflection.

Entitled This Way, this year Design Academy Eindhoven show will occupy a large space in Porta Romana filled with graduate work, and also large cafe hangout. There will be additional side programme of talks and debates throughout this week. We hope to meet you at MY WAY

MY WAY

Date Wednesday 13th April 2011
Time 16.30 – 19.00 hrs
Location DAE Hub
Studio Zeta
Via Friuli 26
20135 Milano (Italy)
The nearest subway exit is LODI T.I.B.B

MY WAY talks made possible by Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Samenwekingsverband Regio Eindhoven.

We’ve teamed up with illustration magazine WRAP to give away a free copy of their first issue with the next 100 orders from Dezeen Watch Store.

WRAP showcases the work of up-and-coming illustrators and is designed so every page can be re-used as wrapping paper.

WRAP retails at £6.95 and the next issue is out in April.

Dezeen Watch Store is a carefully curated store specialising in watches by named designers and boutique brands.

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Here are some more details from WRAP:

‘Read Wrap, wrap Wrap – new design magazine showcasing illustration work by up-and-coming talent that can be put to good use as wrapping paper.’

Wrap is a new design and illustration magazine with a difference – each sheet of Wrap can be used as wrapping paper.

Set up last Autumn by London designers Chris Harrison and Polly Glass to showcase work by talented young artists, it is printed on 100% recycled paper and available in top London design stores including Mint, Viaduct, Beyond the Valley and The Design Museum.

We showcase design and illustration work by talented creative people (both up&coming, and established), giving our readers the chance to see and hear about what the featured artists do, and how they do it… and what’s really great about Wrap, is that once you’re done looking, you can get wrapping, as all the wonderful and exciting pages in Wrap can go on to be used as wrapping paper.

In our launch issue we have interviewed and printed work by 10 brilliant designers from across Europe – our feature is on Llyr Pierce who hides away in North Wales creating truly wonderful and thoughtful work. We are now busy working away on our second issue of Wrap, which is looking very exciting indeed – we have some wonderful designers involved. Issue 2 will be available for sale in April.

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Dezeen promotion: Swiss company Ruckstuhl will present their collection of rugs, carpets and acoustic panels at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile this April, including these wool panels by Italian studio Matteo Thun.

Established in 1881, Ruckstuhl produce rugs in coir, wool, linen, cotton, jute and sisal.

Edition Ruckstuhl will be on show in Hall 20, stand E02 at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile.

Here are some more details from Ruckstuhl:

Edition Ruckstuhl

In comparison with the attention which the design-conscious public repeatedly pays to furniture and lights, carpets are all too rarely the focal point of attention. Yet the type and appearance of textile floor furnishings is certainly no less decisive in creating a room’s atmosphere than is an attractive lamp or a sofa. It is a realisation that seems slowly to be gaining currency of late. Whether this is due to the current “homing” trend postulated by opinion and consumer researchers is neither here nor there. The Edition Ruckstuhl being presented here is certainly another good reason to take a closer look at carpets, a subject which was underappreciated for far too long.

Edition Ruckstuhl is, in short, nine authors, designers and artists and twelve out-of-the-ordinary limited edition carpets. This traditional Swiss carpet manufacturer, world-renowned for its design awareness and its quality “Made in Switzerland”, is entering uncharted territory with this collection. Edition, which will be presented to the public for the first time during the Milan Furniture Fair, owes its origin to the belief that it would be nice for once to ignore the constraints imposed by larger production runs and by the marketplace, and to create an exquisite selection of “floor concepts” which interpret the ancient carpet concept in new and unconventional ways. The authorship of each creation, and the associated individual design approaches of each creator taking part, was to remain recognisable; practical and functional aspects, on the other hand, were to play a subordinate role. The Edition also offers scope for experimental approaches. An obligation to work primarily with natural materials – which is of course standard procedure at Ruckstuhl – was practically the only condition that had to be fulfilled for this project.

The selection of authors was anything but representative. Peter Ruckstuhl, who not only initiated the Edition collection, but also oversaw it as curator, relied entirely on his knowledge of textiles and his personal assessments. He consciously resisted the temptation of selecting one or more “stars” from the design scene, in spite of the marketing advantages this could have entailed. Instead, he strove to acquire the services of designers and artists who have demonstrated their expertise with textiles and those with potential – even if some, such as Ursula Spicher-Waldburger or Céline Sorigue – have not yet been prominent in the field of carpet design. Some of them, such as Fiorella Fasciati, Jutta Bernhard and Hugo Zumbühl, have had professional relationships with Ruckstuhl for many years now. Others, including Claudy Jongstra and Deborah Moss, are practically new discoveries. For Marcello Morandini and Atelier Oï, Edition represented a welcome opportunity to deepen existing connections.

The reasons for which these authors were selected are as varied as their backgrounds – all, however, could be expected to engage deeply with the matter at hand, and to provide their own innovative approach, whatever form it might take. In light of the designs which have resulted, it is clear that this plan has been a success.

Edition impresses thanks to its wealth of motifs and to the variety of techniques employed. Taken as a whole, it offers an exciting cross-section of contemporary carpet design. While there are a multitude of design approaches and aesthetics in evidence here, each work also has some fundamental things in common: the care which went into each design and the outstanding craftsmanship and quality of the finished products guarantee that each carpet in the Edition collection will enjoy a long life.

Ruckstuhl have an online shop (shop.ruckstuhl.com) plus three showrooms:

Milan
Via Cerva 23
Phone: 0276 009 294

Paris
20, rue du Mail
Phone 0144 82 03 30

New York
29 Ninth Ave
Phone 212 741 1180

www.ruckstuhl.com