Hasta La Ideas

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pKegan Fisher and Liz Kinnmark of a href=”http://www.designglut.com”Design Glut/a curated the emUncomfortable Conversations/em show as part of this year’s ICFF off-site events. 15 participating designers were challenged “to create something which provokes an uncomfortable yet important conversation.” Watch above as the duo explain the origins of the idea and demonstrate one of their favorite pieces at the show: Dominc Wilcox’s emPre-Handshake Handshake./em/p

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pemMind the Gap/em, a set of gloves by Andrew Haarsager, probably deters conversation of any kind, comfortable or not. The subway gloves “protect against unwanted landings,” adding bird spikes to the hand. /p

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pThe Kevin Carpet Bench, by Will Robison, brings a fetishist into the room. A human carpet, Julio, is rolled up in a carpet and placed on a specially built armature to become a bench (much to his enjoyment). Will gives the backstory in the video above, and, according to the NY Times, the a href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/fashion/14carpet.html?_r=1″story is no joke/a. /p

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pA shredded is embedded into a briefcase in emIn Case/em, Materious’ comment on the all-time low level of public trust in corportations. They ask, “how does a society that is founded upon, and so reliant upon, the corrporation reconcile its lapses of morality?”/p

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pThe Designboom Market at ICFF featured a wide range of design objects, presented and sold by their makers. Above are a href=”http://www.rheintoechter.net”Anki Delfmann’s /aem”Rheintoechter”/em handbags, made from a combination of bathing caps with a long zipper (that serves as closing mechanism as well as the handle), and the beloved em”Anti-Theft Lunch Bags”/em by the Japanese/Zimbabwean design team a href=”http://www.thinkofthe.com”THE/a./p

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pThis is one of many ant farms-in-a-picture frame, designed by a href=”http://www.hughhayden.com”Katie Vitale and Hugh Hayden/a (for “sophosticated children” as they said) and below is the little piggy from the series of plywood animals in the shape of postcards, created by a href=”http://www.lovi.fi”Lovi/a from Finland./p

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pShown below are the typographical bags and scarfs by a href=”http://www.littlefactory.com””Little Factory”/a and the street map jewellery by a href=”http://www.briscella.com”Briscella/a, Walking Things and a href=”http://www.fluid-forms.com”Fluid Forms/a./p

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pNow in its fifth year, GLM and a href=”http://www.bernhardtdesign.com/”Bernhardt Design/a present the a href=”http://www.icffstudio.com/”ICFF Studio/a as part of the show in the Javits Centre. Described by the organizers as “the design industry’s answer to the millionaire matchmaker”, ICFF Studio puts together emerging designers (or rather their prototypes) with appropriate potential manufacturers. Featured above are Brooke Woosley’s shelf system as well as Mark Kinsley’s relief shelf./p

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pThis pictures shows Chase Will’s modular shelf system (that also works as a bench) and shown below are Viktor Skorikov’s metal tube bench and stools./p

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pCore-fave a href=”http://www.subports.com/”Subports/a, a text-to-buy retail platform aimed at helping artists and designers sell their stuff without needing four walls, a roof and a cash register, is ever present during this year’s design week, partnering with Fair Folks A Goat, the Joey Roth Sounds Like Show, Uncomfortable Conversations, and CITE Goes America. Many objects from these shows come with codes, allowing you to purchase them securely and on the spot with your cell phone. We love thismdash;with Subports, exhibition spaces hybridize with retail spaces, helping young designers sell work while upping their visibility./p

pSubports’ just-published first catalog is one of the more fun publications being tossed around at openings. Named Portal/76825 after their SMS number, the pamphlet indexes the newest Subports offerings with images, descriptions, and purchase codes. Many of these come directly out of Design Week, so it also makes for a nice souvenir. Pick one up at any of the Subports partner shows mentioned above. Or a href=”http://www.subports.com/contact”get in touch/a with them if you’ve got ideas for more retail experiments with SMS. /p

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pa href=”http://www.german-design-council.de/en/gdc-english.html”Design Deustchland’s/a bright orange booth at ICFF was a big improvement on last year’s. Instead of being arranged by category and hung on the wall, the objects were spread out in mini spaces that felt like small rooms, with lamps on tables, chairs on desks, and the odd car here and there./p

pThe show encompassed both established companies and young designers. These weren’t differentiated in layout, but the objects in prototype stage were marked with a tag that said “Looking for a Producer.” Below, a few of our favorites from that category (like Slot, the dining table complete with Winter Wonderland centerpiece, by Matthias Ries Design Office and Studio Hausen’s UDO Chair, a snap-together aluminum lawn chair)./p

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pUDO by Studio Hausenbr /
emJouml;rg Houml;ltje (Studio Hausen) presents the UDO, an into four elements dismountable tube-chair. No additional procedures like welding, sanding or polishing are needed, as well as expensive tooling costs. All four elements can be customized coloured within a certain colour range and connected with blind riveting and screws. The dismounted UDO can be packed cost efficiently in a flat-pack and can be assembled by the customer himself./em/p

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pSlot by Matthias Ries Design Officebr /
emBesides the classical linoleum bord Slot convinces due to its unreckoned leg construction. Their design provides structural strength in vertical, horizontal and diagonal directions, which additionally helps to strut the table. Due to additional corner caps the table can be easily color customized. For the Design Germany exhibition a special one-off with a little model scenery has been created. It plays with peoples perceptions and assumptiuons./em/pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/ny_design_week_10/new_york_design_week_2010_favorites_from_design_deutschland__16568.asp”(more…)/a
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