Tag: design

  • Salone del Mobile 2016

    Salone del Mobile 2016

    Our contributing photographer Teresa Enhiak Nanni, who recently photographed Fridabike for our Stories, takes us around Milan during the last edition of Salone del Mobile, which took place last month. Teresa captured some of the exhibits and displays, as well as buildings that are rarely open to the public and everyday moments happening during this international design fair.

    www.cargocollective.com/teresaenhiaknanni

    Future-Positive-Fuori-Salone-1-Low Future-Positive-Fuori-Salone-2-Low“The photos above were taken in the area known as ‘5vie’ in the heart and historical centre of Milan. The project ‘5VIE Art + Design’ wants to develop history, culture and innovation in this area”.

    Future-Positive-Fuori-Salone-3-Low Future-Positive-Fuori-Salone-4-Low“Ventura is the name of a quiet street in the Lambrate district. It is a street lined with rusty garages, an old radio station, white-painted galleries and gigantic factory halls once used for building snowploughs. The area was a rough diamond, which hardly anyone would have noticed a few years ago.”

    Future-Positive-Fuori-Salone-5-LowFuture-Positive-Fuori-Salone-7-LowFuture-Positive-Fuori-Salone-6-LowFuture-Positive-Fuori-Salone-8-Low“The Porta Genova district is the most popular area during the Fuori Salone – a mix between historical buildings and modern art.”

    Future-Positive-Fuori-Salone-9-LowFuture-Positive-Fuori-Salone-10-Low“The Albergo Diurno di Porta Venezia is an elegant and functional service centre for travellers built between 1923 and 1925, and designed by Piero Portaluppi. It was open during the week of Fuori Salone.”

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    “The Chiostri di San Simpliciano is an oasis in the middle of the city, ideal for resting between walks around the fair.”

  • Small Bodies of the Solar System

    Small Bodies of the Solar System

    We’ve talked about the work of Antwerp-based designer Stephanie Specht before here on our blog. She has now collaborated with artist and designer Lilit Asiryan and potter Thomas Salzer to create Small Bodies of the Solar System, a capsule collection of tableware and graphics inspired by fluid shapes and everyday functionality.

    The pieces reflect the creative clash of ideas between the three of them, mingling timeless craft with free artistry drawing inspiration from space and nature. All pieces are made using clay from Swedish soil, taking inspiration from the the shape of moons and asteroids present in the solar system.

    The mix of craft, art, graphics and illustration reflect the three artists’ creative heritage.  The collection includes jugs, cups, coffee pots, letter holders and posters, and every piece is one of a kind and produced in a very limited edition.

    Small Bodies of the Solar System will be presented at Studio Specht in Antwerp on June the 17th and the collection will be available to purchase on the website below.

    www.asiryan.com

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  • ATUEMARÜ

    ATUEMARÜ

    Margit Steidl and Roland Dorn are the founders of Graz-based collective ATUEMARÜ. As a parallel project born from their love for bikes, Margit and Roland have started building lamps using rims from found bicycles, resulting in unique designs.

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    Photos & Interview by Clara Wildberger

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    Please tell us about your passion for bikes. How did you come up with the idea of creating rim lamps?

    Roland: A long time ago my mother bought me my first bike, but I enjoyed more riding my sister’s pink princess bike because it was faster. Years later, I started building and restoring my own single speed and fixed gear bikes. After a few bike projects, I ended up with quite a lot of leftover parts…

    Margit: …and you wanted to have a lamp in your room. You were sitting on the balcony, besides some of your bike stuff. So, why not doing a lamp out of the leftover bike parts? We mounted different rims and spokes and created the first rim lamp – we liked it and named it ‘The Earth’.

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    How do you distribute tasks?

    Roland: Margit is the best bike waste collector ever!

    Margit: Roli is the one who has the knowledge about electricity and such things. Basically we make any decisions and work on tasks together.

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    Tell us about your design process? How many different models are you planning to create?

    Margit: There are many possible connections of rims and spokes left to create more different forms of lampshades. Therefore, I doubt on ever reaching a finite point. This is also one of the main motivations when creating these rim lamps.

    Roland: Every lamp is and will be unique. First, we create a draft of a shape we imagine. We then start choosing parts we’d like to use and from that point we just work on the object. Sometimes we end up with a shape different from the original draft.

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    How would you describe your lamps?

    Roland: An object with history, caused by the former life of the parts – kind of reincarnation of wheels. Dirty somehow, looking fragile, although they’re not at all.

    Margit: Playful somehow, lively, working with one of the most archaic shapes: the circle.

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  • Typodarium Calendar 2016

    Typodarium Calendar 2016

    Typodarium 2016 is a tear-off calendar, just like the one our grandmas used to hang in the kitchen, but this calendar unveils a new font everyday. On the front, the font is prominently displayed, and on the back it’s described in more detail – how it originated, from what or who came the inspiration and where we can obtain the font. Typodarium 2016 is published by Verlag Hermann Schmidt Mainz.

    www.2016.typodarium.de

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    Images courtesy of Typodarium

  • La Charrette by Antonin+Margaux

    La Charrette by Antonin+Margaux

    Antonin+Margaux is a Nantes-based graphic design and screen printing studio. Founded in 2011, Antonin+Margaux do client work, have an online shop where they sell their own screen printed products and also run numerous workshops. Their love for screen printing has turned into La Charrette, a project in which they’re planning to transform a bike into a screen printing trailer and travel across France and even Europe. We invite you to find out more about this innovative idea on the video below and to contribute to Antonin+Margaux’s crowdfunding campaign.

    www.kisskissbankbank.com/la-charrette-print-ride

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