Some weeks ago Antoinette Bader presented at Salone Satellite a lamp consists of six identical cones each provided with a bulb. One unit (made out of three cones) is pointing the light to the ceiling the other to the floor. With this assembly you can switch between a direct and indirect illumination of a space, as well as using all six together.
Last Saturday we got to know the most beautiful view out of a railway station exit. The Railway Station Stettbach is two stops away from Zurich main station.
Here a little hint for your plans for tonight: DEPOT Basel dedicates this evening to the hidden and inconsiderable design. They present the two documentations ,Adrian Frutiger – Schriftengestalter‘ and ,Clivio’s Objects‘ with the presence of the director Anne Cuneo.
Another report from Milano. At the Ecal exhibition we were fascinated by Narciso, a project by Giorgia Zanellato who finished her Masters in Product Design at Ecal in 2011. Narciso is a collection of six vases combined with different kinds of mirrors which draw attention to the flowers.
The Field of Excellence Produkt in Zurich invites the designer Yves Ebnoether whose projects he describes as an exploration of digital design and manufacturing methods. He is interested in the interaction between the draft, globalised fabrication and marketability. Wednesday, 9 May 18:00 I Master of Arts in Design, Fi 007, Sihlquai 125, Zurich. Read more about his work on his website.
“Bring a ding” educates young people by having them explore the use, meaning, and emotions of and connected with the objects in their everyday life. Teenagers bring an object that is broken, damaged, no longer cool, or simply “doesn’t shine” any more.The participants will work closely with designers to bring their object ‘back to life’ by giving it a new look, new features or a different purpose.
The teenagers’ revitalized objects will be housed and exhibited at DEPOT BASEL.
The very interdiciplinary Team:
Camilla Schuler (Teacher) Orientierungsschule Drei Linden Class 3c
Katharina Altemeier (Journalist)
Julia Landsiedl (Designer)
Save the date! This weekend, More than 80 studios and shops in the heart of Zürich will open their doors during Kreislauf 4+5. Make sure you get one of the guide books to get you around or check their website for more infos. And we especially like the gorgeous graphic design by Raffinerie.
Michel Charlot, the young Swiss designer known for his eternit-lamp, designed a family of LED-spotlights named U-Turn for Belux. Its patented ball-and-socket joint allows you to turn the lamp whichever way you like. To get to know more about the lamp family, have a look at the Belux-website.
A week ago INCH furniture presetend in Milan «Sange» a new table and «Hiji» a shelving system. Read more.
The four fashion brands 2ème Étage, Amo, Peter Müller and Couture Variétés show their spring and summer collection with live music by Electric Blanket at Musigbistrot in Berne. (A video as last time)
EWO produces the LED-Light «UN» designed by Joerg Boner. (See also our old hint)
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This very basic but impressive installation by Christophe Guberan also caught our attention. Through a normal printer he prints the Hydro-Fold patterns on thin paper. By using watery colours for printing the Origami-Tessellation patterns, the paper can then easily be folded into these structures. A cool idea by the third year BA student at Ecal.
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Big-Game was also invited to exhibit at the 15 years Salone Satellite exhibition. The trio from Lausanne presented a series of new products, among them Chink, a little money box made of elastic rubber. You can enter coins through the slit and once you press its body, the coins will be spit out again. The money box is produced by Hong Kong-based manufacturer Praxis.
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Design-collective Postfossil showed a range of objects for the home named Home Made. The new collection is not only produced by the collective, but also available at their web shop. On the image you see Shoes, Books, and a Bike a prominent bike stand for the home by Thomas Walde, one third of our team here sachenmachen.
As he puts it: “Cycling is again enjoying increasing popularity in European cities. With a level of efficiency of about 95%, the bicycle is the most ecological way of getting around there is.The Shoes, Books and a Bike stand puts the wonder machine on a platform, frames the bicycle and gives it a deserved place of honour in the apartment.”
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This year, Finnish furniture manufacturer Nikari invites 12 designers for their project Designs for Nature. The aim is to underline their philosophy: Delicately manufactured and exquisite quality furniture and the use of local wood.
In April, it was Alfredo Häberli’s turn and he designed this playful familiy of tables named April.
As he points out: “The idea behind the APRIL table family was to create a contrast between the massive socket and the suspended thin table surface. At the same time the skillful craftsmanship can be seen at its best. Different sizes and typologies enable endless possibilities of use.”
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Ecal presented this very exciting project named Hot Tools, a workshop with glassblower Matteo Gonet, overseen by Ronan Bouroullec. The project is a research on the traditional glass-blowing processes and is about possible interventions that can be integrated in the manufacturing process.
Take the to time to watch the pretty impressive movie.
The two Switzerland-based Canadian product designers Stephane Halmaï-Voisard and Philippe-Albert Lefebvre present at SaloneSatellite their new joint venture «The Terrazzo Project».
We are proud to announce that Florian Hauswirth, one third our team, will present his brand new Frame Seat for Stattmann Neue Moebel at this year’s furniture fair in Milano. The unique Frame Seat is cleverly constructed from three wooden elements that stabilize each other and create a beautiful and lightweight easy chair.
Stattmann Neue Moebel is an interesting new furniture company by German materials expert Nicola Stattmann and her brother Oliver Stattmann. The exciting aim of the new furniture company is to challenge designers with a re-interpretation of traditional woodworking techniques and ways to optimize material utilization.
Next to Florian Hauswirth, Marina Bautier, Sylvain Willenz and Steffen Kehrle designed the furniture pieces for the first collection.
Go see their collection at Ventura Lambrate / Light Space, Via Privata Oslavia 8, Milan.
The edition number 13 by Edition Populaire is composed of objects by Colin Schaelli, uniformwares, elemen`tary and schnaps by Christoph Keller.
Milan calls! – ACE invites to the presentation of their new collection with new works by Tomás Alonso, Béatrice Durandard, Tomas Kral & Camille Blin and Lucas Uhlmann.You will find their work at Ventura Lambrate Stand nº76 I via Privata Oslavia 8, 20134 Milan, Italia.
The “Castor” chair by the Lausanne based design studio Big-Game, is one of nine new products that Karimoku New Standard will present at Erastudio Apartment Gallery during the Milan Design week 2012. Big-Game already designed a stool, a bench, a shelf and the Wallpaper Award winning coat stand “ Signs” for the Japanese furniture brand Karimoku.
A new issue of Amateur Magazine is out now! This time, we collaborated for the well done section, where we present well-designed but affordable products. Make sure you find an Amateur Magazine in your area or have a look at the pages here!
MaRKR from type-for-type.com on Vimeo.
Welcome to Bern and to Buro Destruct. Director Kai Sehr paid a visit to the Swiss design collective and documented how they stay true to their motto of over 15 years: “Small City. Big Design.” The project: The development of a typeface from a pen. Namely the most distinctive permanent marker by pen manufacturer edding, which therefore can now write on computers, too.
Learn more about this project and, more importantly, get the typeface for download at www.type-for-type.com
Director: Kai Sehr | DoP: Ralf Kalle Dobrick | Editor: Felix Drawe | Animation: OPTIX Digital | Music: Balduin | Sound Mix: Loft Studios | Production Co: 539090, Snap Film | Concept: kempertrautmann, shift Presented by edding.
With the sunny weather, the fashion labels Peter Müller, Stephage and Susanne Brunner start into the new season tomorrow, March 29, 2012. At their Komplott Shop in Basel you can not only see their latest pieces, but also get a peek inside their creative work at the studio.
The new exhibition «FREITAG – Out of the Bag» by Museum of Design Zurich takes a look behind the scenes and spotlights the history, products, manufacture, organization, marketing and impact of this business. The opening is on Tuesday the third of April 2012, Vortragsaal, Museum of Design in Zurich.
The new designs for “SIRE” eyewear by Aekae are out now. The glasses are handmade in Switzerland out of best quality horn. With the special design of these horn glasses, the gap in between the eyes, the wearer looks somehow relaxed and fresh…
You can have a try in Zurich: Mykita Shop and Müller Optik, Bärtschi Optik in Bern, Beyeler Optik in Basel, Ottico Dozio In Lugano or check out the shop list for all around Europe.
ZMIK design studio based in Basel have reinterpreted the form of a chandelier by using ordinary industrial working light and combining it with high-gloss polished chrome elements. The simple and clever ‘Kroon’ exists in two different sizes and the light has just been shortlisted by Philippe Starck as one of the 10 finalists for the Frame Moooi Award 2012.
MILK is a new plattform which promotes a design dialog. Read more
Please participate at the Symposium Design 2012 Smart & Dirty through the Livestream produced by CAST.
Yesterday, at the Doing Fashion – graduate show in Basel we were pretty impressed by the impressive staging and the variety of collections by this year’s graduates. In contrast to the average fashion show, the collections were presented in elaborately staged sequences under the influence of Alexandra Bachzetsis. To get to know more about this year’s graduates, have a look at doingfashion.ch.
Depot Basel takes on the topic of SEATS for the prelude of the 2012 season. They will take a close look at the past, present and future – of how chairs take shape and how they have changed with time. Sibylle Stoeckli and Christian Horisberger will re-interpret Enzo Mari’s DO IT YOURSELF chairs from 1974. The workshop will be put into practice at Depot Basel together with the School of Design Basel – Renata Borer and Kuno Nüssli. Read more.
The architects EM2N and Stepan Trueby (MAS Spatial Design) discuss on Thursday the architecture of the new ZHdK and ZHAW campus. Read more.
The new minimalist PALETTENREGAL by Roethlisberger Kollektion unmistakeably carries the handwriting of Trix and Robert Haussmann. We would like to know from when does the design date? Read more.
Last autumn the new material FluidSolids by Beat Karrer received the Materialica design and technology GOLD award in the category “CO2 efficiency”. Read more
That is a wonderful artwork called Album 1 (aus der Serie Welcome Back) made by the artist Claudia Breitschmid. She and 11 other young artists will show their work at ewz-Unterwerk Selnau. Read more
This evening is the opening event of Reseda – Neue Entwürfe at Reseda home, Zurich.
The new collection by talented Swiss Fashion designer Laend Phuengkit can now be seen at a showroom in Paris from March 2-5, 2012.
Whereas Laend Phuengkit first caught our attention with his earlier bright and colourful men’s collection, this more reduced women’s collection for A/W 2012/13 perfectly combines clear cuts with geometric prints, playful folds and a variety of shades of gray as well as subtle colours.
