At the Stellwerk in Basel, emerging creative talents wit a focus on design and visual communication can find attractive studios and ideal surrounding conditions as well as support for the successful foundation of an enterprise. The first Swiss founder’s centre for creative start-ups has next to a bistro, a shop and leisure time facilites more than 1′000 m2 office and studio spaces for rent. Quite a tangible and likable concept to support the creative scene in the city. Interested? Check their website and make sure you get your own space until September 30.
Le festival d’arts visuels Images est le premier festival de photographie en plein air de Suisse. Il produit tous les deux ans des expositions de photographie monumentale inédites dans les rues de Vevey.
After four successful workshops in Europe and an inspiring excursion to Taiwan in 2009, DeSForM returns to Europe. The Lucerne School of Art and Design is looking forward to inviting you to DeSForM 2010, an international workshop on Design & Semantics of Form & Movement, to be held on November 3 – 5, 2010, in Lucerne. Please registrate!
Christian Gafner designed the official watch of the Musée International d’Horlogerie (MIH), the international museum of watchmaking in La Chaux-de-Fonds. The MIH Watch personifies the mission of the museum, which is to convey to a broader public the importance of horology, and of mechanical watchmaking in particular. The MIH Watch has been designed from the ground up and has a mechanical movement. Please read more.
Fascinated by the idea of materializing the ray of light, Design Studio estragon designed an object, which, beside its warm and poetic character has the capability to structure space. Sitting at a table gives you a feeling like being close below a drifting cloud. It is not static, it is alive. Originally produced for a design exhibition, nuage can be installed in many different places like at the recommended restaurant Rosso in Zurich, as shown on the photo.
Sabine Lauber from IT’S LAUBER examines the past to transfer the finds into a vision for the future. She tries to discover what now could be on but could stay for longer. That means she does not work on seasonal outfits or collections. She brought along leather jewellery, an accessory with fringes. She enjoys making accessories because they are not mainly functional, such as a bag would be, but rather stylistic decorative objects.
To get to know more about It’s LAUBER, read the full interview here.
A big thank you to Gina Folly for the photos.
A diploma with so much simplicity and charm in the design… a well-done research too.
ÉCAL University of Art and Design Lausanne graduate Jennifer Rabatel has taken inspiration from tools such as spanners, spatulas and try squares to create a series of functional everyday objects.
Lausanne based designer Nicolas Le Moigne lately worked on a project named materia, where he plays with materials and the duality between art and artisanry. This series of tables named vesta is part of the project. The tables are made of wooden pieces which are cut and fitted creating a solid volume. The aluminium cover on top lends the table its structure and rigidity. A surprising mixture between lightweight construction and the looks of heavy wooden tables.
The Soirée graphique by Swiss graphic design practice Cosmic is exhibition, aftershow and auction at the same time. It’s third edition will take place on September 10, 2010 at the cosmic office in Bern, accompanied by a 120 pages magazine.
Big names and young talents from the graphic, photographic and arts scene will make it an unforgettable event. The name dropping starts with Stefan Sagmeister but includes other talents such as Trix Barmettler, Noë Flum, Désirée Good, Walter Pfeiffer and many others more.
During the design days 40 Swiss fashion labels show their latest works in the hotel Tiffany in Geneva. You will find there beside «prêt-à-porter» also accessories, jewellery and streetwear. Please read more about the showroom which is organized by Romandy Magazine Edelweiss.
Boycotlettes unfortunately couldn’t make it to our we make – Basel shooting.
But they sent us a knitted iPod- and headset-cover as well as a dress out of bio-cotton, with a colourful print, peculiar cut lines and an exaggerated oversize hood – a shelf warmer from last year as they say!
Their studio is at the port, so while they are sewing colourful clothing they watch the huge ships on the Rhine. For a change, they go to West Africa every now and then, to see the most exciting developments concerning silk-screen printing. “Africa is the future” Boycotlettes predict.
To get to know more about Boycotlettes, read the full interview here.
A big thank you to Gina Folly for the photos.
Zoid stool by Yves Ebnoether, cnc-cut anodised aluminium (elox), hand folded, is now also available in black. You can buy it at Einzigart, Zurich for CHF 580.-
What started with a limited edition of journalist bags in collaboration with Das Magazin, is now a compeletely new product line. The bag label Freitag became famous with its messenger bags from used truck tarpaulins with eyecatching graphics and colours. Its new range of bags is for situations, where your messenger bag doesn’t match and you need something a little more elegant.
An elegant handbag from truck tarpaulins? Oh yes, Freitag can do it!
From 4th to 8th September 2010 – during the fashion trade shows in Paris – a multi-brand showroom dedicated to Swiss fashion will take place under the name Who’s Swiss. The exhibition in a loft in the 2nd Arrondissement shows a selection of promising labels already recognized in Switzerland.
Design Preis Schweiz goes on tour. After the DMY in Berlin, the exhibition goes now to: Shanghai (Swiss Expo Pavilion), Chicago, Shanghai (University of Tongij) and Washington.
The competition is for finished products mainly but will also support research projects, new visions and implementations in keeping with the market, enabling them to achieve breakthrough.
The Design Preis Schweiz both observes and makes an impression on the market, honours outstanding achievements and sees its role as that of giving uncompromising encouragement to adventurous ideas which will create new paths for the future of design.
The project by assistant professors Christ & Gantenbein at the ETH in Zurich is about the typological transfer from the urban metropolis of Hong Kong to the architecture of Zurich.
A publication named Hong Kong Typology accompanies the exhibition and presents the results of the research.
This interview with ZMIK is another interview from our we make – Basel series.
Rolf Indermühle, Mattias Mohr und Magnus Zwyssig from ZMIK usually work rather conceptual. To them, design means to find solutions within the setting of a task and to figure out solutions and concepts, which make a virtue of necessity. They see interior design as a service and their designs are often multidisciplinary.
The three of them develop the designs together but in every project, one is the project leader. They are pretty different characters so the exchange is very important and enriching. There is always someone who is more critical towards an idea.
To get to know more about ZMIK, read the full interview here.
A big thank you to Gina Folly for the photos.
It’s been announced for quite a while, but now Swiss furniture manufacturer Möbel Pfister has launched a new range of furniture named atelier pfister. Surprisingly, the collection consists of about one hundred varied pieces designed by thirteen different Swiss designers under the art direction of Alfredo Häberli.
‘Tell me Swiss’ is a transdiciplinary performance created for the Swiss Pavilion at the Expo 2010 Shanghai China. Cisco Aznar, the choreographer, has orchestrated a transdisciplinary performance combiningdance, song and film projections showing an innovative and mordant view of Switzerland today. The dancers’ costumes are a creation of the fashion design students of the Head–Geneva and are inspired by the guide uniforms they previously created for the Swiss Pavillon.
René Burri, born 1933 in Zurich portrayed Le Corbusier in various situations, both at work and in everyday life. The new exhibition in the Museum Bellerive describes an impressive series of images relating to the person and work of the architect. Please read more.
Zurich based Kafi Z asks every four months several designers to rework the Swiss design classic Horgenglarus 1-380. This friday, 20th of august, Thilo Fuentesells his chair family by an auction. Please read more.
Swiss Industrial Designer Christian Gafner discovered in 2005 the limited-edition ilmia shoes and prepared an sensational relaunch. Please read the full story about this German sport shoe.
Sachenmachen.ch started as an exhibition linked with the „Artclash“ a street art battle in 2006. Now Simon de Pury a big player in the art scene with Swiss roots, is the mentor of „work of art“ the next great artist! …like the music star thing. De Pury is Chairman and Chief Auctioneer of Phillips de Pury & Company, the leading global auction house for Contemporary Art, Design and Photography, now the mentor of a new TV show in the USA.
… a bit late but you have to see! But somehow the summer ist still here and actually they do the SOLD days now starts at the 21. August @ Le-laboratoire
Last autumn, twenty kids developped their own playground called ”Sirius, a Star” together with mega!phon. In the next days they will celebrate their ground breaking ceremony. Please read more about the project and check the nice drawings of other gears!
Back from the summer break… with another interview from our we make – Basel series.
Tot the shooting we did in June, Anita Moser took along her favourite pair of shoes from the collection. They embody summer 2010. “It’s a shoe that is typically me” Anita Moser says. It readopts earlier elements and shows the thread running throughout her past collections which were very diverse. Anita Moser sees design as an insistent developing. “It’s in the process that ideas come into existence. The don’t just pop up if you sit around drinking coffee”.
To get to know more about Anita Moser, read the full interview here.
A big thank you to Gina Folly for the photos.
A nice little book for the summer holidays is Schweizer Mobiliar. The publication about Swiss icons in public space by Paul Schneeberger is published by NZZ libro.
The official shop from the “Art” fair in Basel, once again designed by the local ZMIK designers from Basel. The boxes are staked and assembled by a textile bandage. Artshop 10, a clever system with niches and displays on different levels. This shop design can be easily stored on two euro pallets and reused next year. So no more work for ZMIK?
In his studio in Berlin, Daniel Heer creates contemporary luggage and fine horsehair mattresses which are finely handcrafted. Daniel Heer’s Swiss familiy has a long tradition in leather craftsmanship and upholstery. Have a look at the report by NZZ domizil to get to know more about Daniel Heer as well as an insight into his studio.
„Cities are melting pots for people, visions and opportunities.“ The smart urban stage is an international platform for trend-setting ideas and concepts that provide answers to urban life tomorrow. It presents conceptual works from the areas of science, culture, design, art, architecture and mobility in different European Cities. From August 18th until September 12th 2010 the event will take place at Puls 5 in Zürich.
For INCH Furniture design means to transfer ideas into contemporary objects while keeping handcraft, existing solutions, experiences and fundamental concepts in mind. They show us their “Shanghai Chair”, a chair from solid wood they made for the Swiss Pavilion at the Expo Shanghai 2010.
Each year, Tom Wüthrich and Yves Raschle from INCH furniture spend one or two months at their production facility at a vocational school for wood-work in Indonesia, where they also teach. There they enjoy having a lot of time for the development of their projects in the evenings.
To get to know more about INCH Furniture, read the full interview here.
A big thank you to Gina Folly for the photos.
Royalblush is an eco-friendly label for bags and accessories. They are mainly functional while designer Jana Keller sees their eco-friendly production as self-evident. The bags are made in Europe, to keep the transport lines short, with materials from Germany, Switzerland and Italy. Due to the fact that the handbags are made from vegetable leather – the older the product, the prettier it gets. „The patina of used leather turns your bag into a unique piece.“ Jana Keller says.
The Swiss beach- and cliff-guide pied a la lune just released its second edition with three new spots. A pretty cool guidebook to cliffs, sand- and pebbles-beaches and wonderful waters all around Switzerland. For all those who spend their summer in Switzerland… just to forget about the seaside!
The collaboration between GE Ecomagination and fuseproject has led to the GE WattStation, an electric vehicle charging station that is designed for public and private spaces. Please read more here
