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Milan 2011: our latest movie made in Milan last week features Yves Behar of fuseproject talking about Jambox, the wireless speaker he designed for Jawbone, and JamScape, the audio installation presented in the Ventura Lambrate design district. Watch the movie

We’re continuing to upload all our videos to Dezeen Screen, including this interview we did with fashion designer Hussein Chalayan in 2009.

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.

How one global art community is connecting through sketchbooks

Five years ago, Shane Zucker and Steven Peterman, fed up with the challenge of making a living as artists, founded Art House as a student project. Now, the active online community has over 50,000 users and an art library that is traveling the United States.

Art House’s beginnings go back to Atlanta College of Art (SCAD since bought it), where Shane was studying graphic design and Steven, printmaking. Seeing their friends daunted by the task of getting into galleries as a daunting task, the two rented a space and held their own pay-to-play exhibit, charging artists enough to show so that it covered their overhead.

Shane’s father mentioned sketchbooks—what if people from all over the world paid to submit sketchbooks to be displayed? Between April and November of 2010, 28,000 people signed up to be a part of the Sketchbook Project and 10,000 of the sketchbooks sent out to people in 94 countries were sent back. The collection is now touring nine U.S.cities and you can even get a library card to check them out.

Shane sat down with me and a new member of the Art House team, Eli Dvorkin, recently to explain the power of community.

What is the meaning of paying to be part of an art project?

Eli: We’re not telling anyone that they are going to suddenly become famous through this. Also, we don’t sell any of the work. There’s no financial benefit to anyone here. If you think about the resources that go into this tour and having a permanent space in Brooklyn, it adds up to a lot of money and time. As five people or even 100 of your closest friends, you could never do this, but when 10,000 people come together, you can actually do it.
Shane: For a lot of galleries, art is a means of commerce. They make money. That’s just not us.

How would you describe the typical participant?

S: Serious artists. Scrapbookers. Moms. There’s a huge range of people who do the Sketchbook Project. There are teachers that have their students do it and then there are senior citizens who are just bored.

Is there any sense that you’re reigniting peoples’ involvement in art?

E: People have written exactly that to us. People say, “This is essentially my one outlet a year for my artistic impulses.” Overtime they sit down with the sketchbook and it’s with them for a good chunk of the year. We get little life stories. Like 10,000 lives on shelves. Only a small subsection is any formal study. It’s cathartic.

When you check out a book, you choose a theme. What’s with that?

S: Steve came up with most of the themes. My favorite is “Science Project Gone Wrong.”
E: I think I’d have to go with “Mystery Maps” even though I devised it. The themes are not rules, but it’s interesting to see how a teenager in Singapore and a senior in Canada interpret “Science Project Gone Wrong.”

What’s next?

E: We’re starting to collect a lot more information about the participants. When you check out a sketchbook, the artist has the option to be notified by SMS and eventually you’ll be able to get in touch through our website.
S: We’re going to relaunch the site and will be scanning most of the sketchbooks so that people can start tagging individual pages of books. You”ll be able to search “Photography” and “China” and find results. But what’s really cool is that we don’t have to do that, because the community is dying to get involved.

Any personal projects?

E: Shane, you better not!
S: No, this has been pretty full time. I haven’t even made a sketchbook. Steve started one, but I don’t know if he finished it.
E: We have a lot going on at Art House though. Soon we’ll be launching our own notebook collection. The names will co-ordinate to the sizes, like “Back Pocket,” “Messenger Bag,” etc.
S: And of course there’s the tour and soon we’ll start sending out the 2011 sketchbooks to participants!

The 2010 Sketchbook Project began in April, so stay tuned for this year’s launch. Also, to see the library in person, check out the 17,900-mile tour or the permanent location in Brooklyn.

Photography by Aaron Kohn

In this latest movie from our series of Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to Barbara Friedrich, jury member for this year’s [D3] Contest young designers competition.

Click on the symbol in the bottom right of the video player above to view the movie in full-screen HD. Can’t see the movie? Click here.

In the movie Friedrich discusses the contest, gives advice for young designers and marvels at all the good-looking men in the design industry.

Barbara Friedrich is editor-in-chief Architektur und Wohnen magazine, based in Hamburg.

You can watch all 13 movies from the Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents here. More details about the talks here.

See also:

Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents: Harry Thaler
Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents: AKKA
Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents: Hanna Emelie Ernsting
Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents: Shay Alkalay
Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents: Stefan Diez
Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents: Mathias Hahn
Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents: Mark Braun
Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents: Marco Susani
Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents:Axel Hildebrand
Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents: Michael Hilgers
Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents: Harald Gründl

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[D3] Contest winners: AKKA	[D3] Contest winner: Harry Thaler	[D3] Contest winner: Hanna Emelie Ernsting