Hasta La Ideas

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with publishers Myrdle Court Press to give readers the chance to win books about Trenton Oldfield’s time spent behind bars after disrupting the Oxford-Cambridge boat race.

The Queen vs Trenton Oldfield: A Prison Diary was written by Oldfield during his 6 months in prison after jumping into London’s River Thames and delaying the annual university boat race between Oxford and Cambridge to protest against elitism.

“Trenton Oldfield was sentenced to six months imprisonment at HM Wormwood Scrubs for a peaceful direct action protest at the Oxford & Cambridge Boat Race,” said the publishers. “His aim was to draw attention to the unjust inequalities in British society being severely exacerbated by government cuts and a culture of elitism.”

Oldfield’s diary is published along with articles considering the architecture of prison buildings and the design of everyday items used by inmates.

The 308-page book includes a visual archive of prison material – from dishes and toiletries, to clothing and paperwork. It also contains a guide to prison resources and a transcript of Oldfield’s trial.

The book is available to buy from the Myrtle Court Press website and selected retailers.

Competition closes 21 April 2014. Five winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeen Mail newsletter and at the top of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.

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Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with London’s Design Museum to give readers the chance to win five pairs of tickets for the upcoming Designs of the Year 2014 exhibition.

The Design Museum will host the exhibition of shortlisted projects for its annual Designs of the Year awards, which honour exemplary projects completed in the past year.

A selection of the 76 projects nominated for the Design of the Year title will be displayed, including a mobile phone you can build yourself and a floating school in a Nigerian lagoon.

It will also feature projects by international names such as Zaha Hadid, David Chipperfield and Miuccia Prada – see the full shortlist here.

Five winners will each receive a pair of tickets to the exhibition, which opens on 26 March and continues until 25 August.

Dezeen readers can also receive 25 percent off the admission price when booking online and using the code DEZ25 under the Dezeen Special Offer.

Competition closes 9 April 2014. Five winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeen Mail newsletter and at the top of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.

Here’s some more information from the Design Museum:

Five pairs of tickets to see Designs of the Year 2014 at the Design Museum

Now in its seventh year, Designs of the Year gathers together a year of cutting-edge innovation and original talent; showcasing the very best in global Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Furniture, Graphic, Product and Transport design.

Featuring Kate Moss’s favourite app, a floating school in a Nigerian lagoon, friendly lamp posts, a mobile phone you can build yourself and many others, Designs of the Year 2014 include international design stars such as Zaha Hadid, David Chipperfield and Miuccia Prada, alongside crowd-funded start ups and student projects.

This not to be missed exhibition is a clear reflection of everything that is current and exciting in the world. Someday the other museums will be showing this stuff.

As a Dezeen reader, you can also receive 25% off regular admission price when pre-booking here and using code DEZ25 under the Dezeen Special Offer.

More information can be found on the Design Museum website.

www.designmuseum.org

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There is no other place, this time of the year that I’d like to be other than Munich. The pride of Bavaria played host to the 2014 iF Design Awards Ceremony. As media partners, YD was at the event, covering the Awards Night & Gala. We (Nancy Wang and I) got to see and meet some interesting people. Stefan Diez, Claus Potthoff, Edward Barber & Jay Osgerby, Ralph Wiegmann, BMW Welt … ring a bell?

Thankfully Munich was a warmer city this year, with temperatures steady at 9 degrees Celsius, we didn’t have to layer up too much (last year it was around -10 C). Day 1 was all about visiting the BMW Welt and getting acquainted with the Museum. Two main things to report back from here: the BMW Concept Cars that are hidden from the spotlight. We had exclusive access to this area and got up close with the Gina. The other area of interest was an introduction to the BMW i3 City Car.

We had a one-on-one session with the head designer, Jacob Benoit, who told us all about this Mega City Car. Some of the details like a pure carbon roof and plants (material) used on door panels impressed us very much. Did you know that the front and back door open from the central point and the middle divider is completely removed? So, when you open both the doors together, it gives you such a sense of space! Zaha Hadid has designed an exclusive factory space for the manufacturing of i3 and i8 cars! Too bad that 35,000 Euros is out of our budget!

The next stop for the day was the Neue Werkstätten, where we met with Edward Barber & Jay Osgerby. They were brought in by Knoll to discuss the collaboration on the Lounge Collection. Many of us associate Knoll with office furniture only, so this new sofa collection comes as a pleasant surprise. What stand out is the modular legs of the sofa; they are designed to fit in a modular fashion and compliment the body very well.

The evening rounded up with dinner with CEO of the iF Design Awards, Ralph Wiegmann. Dinner discussions included an in-depth view on watches, especially the beautiful Panerai he wore. What impressed us were his views on value, he still treasures his humble Swatch (gifted by his father) over the most expensive watch in his collection. Sweet!

Day two began with an elaborate visit to Munich’s very own Furniture Designer – Stefan Diez. We love him, period! His is the kind of place where every one is welcome; the studio has a warm homely atmosphere. We spoke a lot on how the current generation of students are not as dedicated and focused on their craft and have too many distractions to cope with. Yes, Stefan is a teacher as well and feels that 90% of the students are not committed and only 10% are above the bar. His association with Rosenthal is legendary. His main forte has been working with glass, ceramics, steel and plastic. He is constantly inspired by the car industry; we guess the proximity to BMW, Audi and Mercedes may have something to do with it.

What caught our fancy was this sideboard – storage project that he was working on for Hayes. It was light and super-super thin. He has done away with the hinges and instead used plastic. Interestingly, the material used is the same as Tupperware; it is very durable and tough. Not a great fan of MakerBot and other instant 3D printers, Stefan relies on the expertise of his trusted printers with the real deal. His word of advice is not to get involved in many projects at one go (he works on only 10 at a time) and keep questioning if the company you are collaborating with is investing the right way, are they moving in the right direction?

Post lunch we moved to the International Design Museum where we caught up with Claus Potthoff, Head of Design Strategy AUDI AG to view the Audi Wall. Audi has commissioned this very impressive installation using 1800 cars on the wall, milled in metal (aluminum), and each car weighs one kilo! A towering Audi in white hangs vertical on the wall. Still reeling under the magnitude of this installation, we walked passed curated design products from the early days to the new-age product design.

A quick change and our latest 7-series BMW drove us to the BMW Welt for the iF Design Awards Night and Gala. The red carpet welcomed designers from across the globe. This year marks the 61st year of the iF Awards. A total of 75 iF Gold Awards were handed out to ecstatic designers from across the globe.

A total of 4,615 entries were received and 1,626 were awarded the iF Label (Product Design, Communication Design and Packaging Design). A new introduction this year is the iF Design App (get it here), you can view all the award-winning entries in a stunning digital format. Two things warmed our hearts: watching the designers pose like crazy in front of the iF Design Winner’s Wall and dance like crazy at the after-awards party! Aww, designers you’re the best!

We got to our hotel early (3:00 am) because we needed to head to Hamburg in the morning. Why? Because the award-winning entries were on display at the iF Design Exhibition at the Harbor City. The Communication Design winners were displayed in a digital format, however the Product Design and Packaging Design winners will be showcased in three shows. It was nice to have a visual connect with the award winning products.

This just about wraps up our three-day stay in Germany! Met great people from across the globe, connected with a lot of designs that we saw and overall enjoyed watching the hard work of our beloved designers get its due recognition. As they say in Germany, bis wir uns nächste!

 

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(Munich Musings and the iF Design Awards 2014 was originally posted on Yanko Design)

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Competition: Dezeen and publishers Phaidon have teamed up to give one reader the chance to win a monograph of work by Modernist architect Mies van der Rohe.

Mies by Detlef Mertins is a comprehensive guide to the architecture and design of German-American architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, one of the most influential architects of the twentieth century.

Mies’ pioneering architecture is explored and dissected in the text by Mertins, who sadly passed away before the book’s release.

The writing is accompanied by over 700 images including drawings, plans and sections, plus archive and contemporary photographs.

Comparisons are drawn between the architect’s iconic houses such as the Farnsworth House in the USA and the Tugendhat House in the Czech Republic, along with the furniture designed for each residence.

It also includes towers such as the Seagram Building in New York and 880 Lake Shore Drive apartment buildings in Chicago, as well as his New National Gallery in Berlin.

Published by Phaidon, the book will retail for £100 when released on 7 April.

Competition closes 31 March 2014. One winner will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeen Mail newsletter and at the top of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.

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Competition: Dezeen is giving readers the chance to attend panel discussions, organised by London’s Sir John Soane’s Museum in conjunction with an exhibition of 3D-printed versions of prints by Italian artist Piranesi.

Three talks this Spring involving architects, designers, artists and academics have been organised to coincide with the Diverse Maniere: Piranesi, Fantasy and Excess exhibition, which opens on 7 March at Sir John Soane’s Museum.

The exhibition will explore the relationship between work by British architect Sir John Soane and Italian printmaker and architect Giovanni Battista Piranesi, and will include 3D-printed realisations of Piranesi’s designs.

The talks programme will look at how different disciplines approach design, replication and materiality, and the evolution of architecture and design. It includes:

» Visualising Design Ideas: 10 March 2014, 6–8pm
» Using Objects as Evidence of Themselves: 18 March 2014, 6-8pm
» Casts, Copies and the Dissemination of Design Ideas: 19 May 2014, 7:30–9:30pm

Titled Visualising Design Ideas, the first discussion will involve architect and designer Michele de Lucchi, designer Ross Lovegrove and director of Factum Arte in Madrid Adam Lowe.

The group will use Piranesi’s prints and Soane’s architectural drawings as a reference for how various production methods and strategies are utilised in the design process.

Academic and writer Jerry Brotton, academic Lisa Jardine and artist Grayson Perry will focus on different approaches used to analyse an object’s design during the Using Objects as Evidence of Themselves talk.

The third instalment will examine how copying has been used to recycle and merge ideas from the past, and the possibilities offered by contemporary technologies.

This session – Casts, Copies and the Dissemination of Design Ideas – will be between art historian Adriano Aymonino, architect and writer Sam Jacob, and artist Simon Fujiwara.

All three talks will be chaired by Abraham Thomas, director of Sir John Soane’s Museum, and will take place at London’s Royal College of Surgeons.

We have five pairs of tickets for each of the talks, which winners will be available to collect on the door.

To enter this competition email your name, age, gender, occupation, and delivery address and telephone number to competitions@dezeen.com with “Sir John Soane’s Museum talks” in the subject line, specifying which talk you would like to attend. We won’t pass your information on to anyone else; we just want to know a little about our readers. Read our privacy policy here.

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Competition closes 6 March 2014. Winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeen Mail newsletter and at the top of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.

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