Hasta La Ideas

Get ready for Dutch Design Week, coming up next month in Eindhoven:

With a nomination for ‘World Design Capital 2012’ in mind, Dutch Design Week presents a wide range of design. More than 1500 designers from home and abroad display their work in the field of industrial design, concept design, graphic design, textiles & fashion, spatial design, food design, and design management & trends. From process to product and from industrial design to conceptual design. The transfer of knowledge and information taking place during Dutch Design Week ensures the development of a sustainable connection between the audience, companies, and designers. Among the DDW participants are established bureaus, high-profile designers, talented newcomers, and recently graduated designers.

The list of events is currently slated at 267…and counting! Stay current on what’s coming here.

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Created by the Association of Designers of the Region of Valencia (ADCV), Valencia Design Week kicks off today, parallel to the design fair Feria del Hábitat Ideas y Pasión. The week promises to be full of design happenings—parties, award ceremonies, exhibitions, round tables, workshops—organized by both public and private bodies in support of design and design-awareness in the region of Valencia.

Don’t miss Eric Ludlum, founding partner at Core77, who will be speaking on September 22nd at the ADCV-organized Conferences at the MUVIM. Other participants include: Corian, Claus Molgard, DXI, Designboom and Corian. For more information, check the event listings here.

Eric Ludlum@Valencia Design Week
8pm, September 22nd
MUVIM (Museo Valenciano de la Ilustración y la Modernidad). Salón de Actos. Av/ Guillem de Castro 8 y Quevedo 10.

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On Friday evening, we invited the local contributors of issue 3 down to Sandy Beach Park for a bonfire (weenies! s’mores!) and to film a little magazine movie. Thanks to all who came; it was a lovely evening. I’m working on editing the video, which will be posted here later in the week. A few more pics are over here.

A new addition to the London Design Festival 2009, The Dock is an emporium of creative talent instigated by Tom Dixon and sponsored by Derwent London. The week long event takes place at the newly completed Portobello Dock development in Ladbroke Grove and plays host to a series of stand alone exhibitions, pop up shops, indoor and outdoor installations presented in over 40,000 square feet of space. A little preview of what you can expect to see are the following three projects:

Dominic Wilcox creates Field, an installation that aims to make a connection between the products we consume and the natural world to which they ultimately return. Using hundreds of shoes from ethical shoe company Terra Plana, Wilcox has applied a touch of magic to the laces as they rise up in unison and grow towards the window’s light.

A simple folding mechanism makes Luka Stepans bar stool more space efficient to store while not in use. While folded flat, its overall thickness is not much thicker than that of its legs. The seat is made from cast aluminium, the legs from powder-coated steel.

The Stretch Marquee‘s graceful architectural lines offer a beautiful alternative to what is currently available on the market. It requires no lining or draping and comes in a variety of colours and sizes. They are able to conform to the environment, as opposed to finding an environment to conform to the tent. They can be changed in their set-up every time and can act as free-standing structures. Without a cumbersome frame the tent’s unique two-way stretch material allows it to be attached to buildings or structures, be put up on different levels, on slopes, over stairs and even indoors. Stretch Marquees are fully weatherproof and depending on requirements and conditions can be configured to offer either a cosy and comfortable environment or an airy and free-flowing space to compliment beautiful surroundings with a combination of sides up and down.

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(Photo: London Design Festival)

We’re sitting out London Fashion Week this season, and adding insult to the injury of missing up-close looks at spring 2010 collections by the likes of Christoper Kane, Louise Goldin, and Mark Fast is the coincident timing of the London Design Festival, which begins tomorrow and runs through September 27. Among the extensive line-up of events and attractions are a poster exhibition curated by Pentagram partner Domenic Lippa with festival chairman Sir John Sorrell, a series of panel discussions about the business of design, a “chair arch” created by Martino Gamper for the garden of the Victoria & Albert Museum, and Marc Newson‘s “Supercell,” a colorful steel structure that will be on view at Southbank Centre. The centerpiece of the festival will be “The Tournament” (pictured above), a giant chess set by Jaime Hayón now installed in Trafalgar Square. The Spanish designer worked with Italian ceramics firm Bosa to make the 32 chess pieces, each of which stands nearly seven feet tall on a gleaming glass chess board whipped up by the mosaic savants at Bisazza. Many of the handpainted pieces are topped with domes, towers, and spires that reference specific iconic buildings in London. Want to play? Apply here for the opportunity to direct the movement of the giant pieces while seated in a high-backed chair atop an elevated platform. Match winners will receive a pair of Camper shoes designed by Hayón and outsized bragging rights.

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