Hasta La Ideas

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pbyAMT will be presenting two new collections at Salone del Mobile this year at a href=”http://www.meetmyproject.com/”emMeet My Project: Smart Design for Industry/em/a, alongside 15 other designers./p

pemPeasant Collection/em, pictured top, is a furniture series that makes use of familiar shapes arranged just slightly off-kilter. br /
blockquoteThe image of crooked slats in a weathered picket fence originally impelled Alissia Melka-Teichroew to explore the idea of asymmetrical wood pieces supporting each other. She found a similar kind of irregularity and balancing act in the old-fashioned one-legged milk stool. By merging the two concepts she arrived at the Milk Stools, a sturdy but uneven chair propped up by expressive and lopsided legs. The design evolved into a larger Milk Bench with similarly jumbled legs that almost look like they’re moving on their own./p

pOut of these objects grew a whole family of furniture. The All Is Vanity is based on an easelmdash;yet it refers to something much softer and rounder that brings the rituals of dressing up to mind. A leather strap and hardware keep the delicate structure in place. The Skirt Side Table features a variation on the original idea of wooden slats by turning a set of dowels into a fixed “table cloth” that looks like a hoop skirt in motion. The American Beauty Desk Light and the American Beauty Hanging Lamp have a soft and approachable shape but are made out of hard materials like wood and glass. The idea of a balancing act recurs with the wooden ball, which refers to a stabilizing weight, but it’s function is in fact to provide an elegant route for the electrical cord./blockquote/p

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pemJointed Jewels/em, above, grows out of project investigating ball joints in 3D printed jewelry, expanding to include new forms, scales and colors (including a metallic gold shade and bright colors). Each piece of jewelry is printed in one gomdash;the ball joints are embedded in each other from the get-go./pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/milan10/milan_design_week_2010_byamt_at_meet_my_project__16337.asp”(more…)/a
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pThis year in Milan, Droog presents a href=”http://www.droog.com/presentationsevents/saved-by-droog-/”emSaved by Droog/em/a, in which 5135 items saved from liquidation sales were presented to 14 designers as raw materials. The result is 19 new products, each available for immediate purchase in editions dictated by the limitations of the liquidation lot./p

pFor example, according to Droog’s brand-new and barely populated blog, designer Eric Klarenbeek produced something from over 200 of the salt shakers pictured below. It’s like a href=”http://2021supernormal.wordpress.com/”Supernormal/a meets a href=”http://www.gampermartino.com/projects/a-100-chairs-in-a-100-days/”Martino Gamper/a, Droog style. /p

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pParticipating designers include Atelier Remy Veenhuizen, Atelier Ted Noten, Ed Annink, Eric Klarenbeek, Erna Einarsdoacute;ttir, Luc d’Hanis Sofie Lachaert, Maison Martin Margiela, Marian Bantjes, Marije Vogelzang, Mieke Gerritzen, Minale-Maeda, Roelof Mulder, Stefan Sagmeister, and Studio Makkink Bey./p

pKeep up with the event on Droog’s new a href=”http://www.droog.com/blog/”blog/a/p

pbSaved by Droog/bbr /
April 14th – 18thbr /
Wednesday – Saturday 11:00 – 21:00br /
Sunday 11:00 – 19:00br /
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pemWhat questions are we facing? What is the role of designers today? What is the future role of a designer? What are we focusing on?/em/p

pThis year in Milan, the a href=”http://www.designacademy.nl/”Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE)/a presents em?/em, a show framed as a series of questions addressed by this year’s graduation works. Unlike the ones above, taken from the exhibition’s press release, the ones asked by the student are thankfully much more specific./p

pFor example, in “Hair-Brush,” designer Lea Haefliger asks what kind of feelings hair provokes, incorporating all of its different qualities into a series of hairbrushes: blockquoteWhat kinds of feelings does hair provoke? Is it something mysterious, erotic, or rather, something like a fairytale? Lea Haefliger wanted to incorporate all these different aspects into a series of hairbrushes. During the design process she felt it was important to give the brushes a sustainable quality both in terms of material and emotion. Therefore, the hair on the brushes is not just a decorative element, but a functional one. /blockquote/pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/milan10/milan_design_week_2010_preview_design_academy_eindhoven__16255.asp”(more…)/a
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