New trend: souvenirs are the new outlet for designers. It dawned on me when I attended a talk by Scottish curator Stacey Hunter at the exhibition design Language during the Milan Designweek about her project Local Heroes in Edinburgh last year. She invited nine designers to create souvenirs that went beyond the heritage clichés. It reminded me of a Dutch project by designer Elmo Vermijs, 100% Terschelling, which is in the running for one of this year’s Dutch Design Awards.
I was at the Milan Design Week 2017 to spot the newest developments in design. Today I spotted designs at the Triennale designmuseum and the Lexus Design Award. Lees het artikel…
I was at the Milan Design Week 2017 to spot the newest developments in design. Today I was at the Tortona district, spotted designs at the Moooi exhibition and Palazzo Clerici and interviewt Marcel Wanders.
I was at the Milan Design Week 2017 to spot the newest developments in design. Today I was at Lambrate, spotted designs by Maarten Baas x Hans Lensvelt, Creative Chef Jasper Udink ten Catea and Designschool Kolding. I visited the Ikea festival and the expo One Planet, One Future by Anne de Carbuccia.
Elke woensdag ben ik tussen 10 en 11 uur te gast in het KRO NCRV radioprogramma De Ochtend op Radio 1 om actuele ontwikkelingen op het gebied van architectuur en stedelijk leven te bespreken. Vandaag: De Design Week vorige week in Milaan is de grootste designhappening van de wereld met zo’n 300 duizend bezoekers. Welke trends en ontwerpen vielen op?
I went to the Milan Design Week, always the international hotspot for the design world – and 2017 was no exception. And… I started doing a video blog, a ‘vlog’. It’s fun to experiment with a new form of storytelling. This is the vlog for my first day, including Atelier010’s project Sugarrush, work by Piet Heen Eek, en exhibition in a 16th-century villa curated by Airbnb, the Dutch exhibition Masterly and Tom Dixon’s collaboration with Ikea (behh).