"The State of Things", the inaugural exhibition of the Design Museum Holon, features more than 100 objects that collectively reflect issues concerning the practice, consumption and cultural impact of contemporary international design.
The establishment of Design Museum Holon is a high point in the ongoing process of transforming the city of Holon into an epicenter of culture and education. Over the past decade, the city has introduced a wealth of edification programs, launched cultural festivals. opened new museums and introduced urban art installations, all leading to the enrichment of municipal life.
The primary goals of Design Museum Holon are to inspire and challenge the design community and the general public's perception of design and the way it affects their lives.
"POST FOSSIL¡ªexcavating 21st century creation"
Exhibition directed by Li Edelkoort
Li Edelkoort, the world¡¯s premier trend forecaster, has drawn upon her unique insight in order to choose and present a new generation of artists and designers whose works will redefine what we currently regard as conventional design. Incorporating natural materials and processes, these designers are traveling back in time and revisiting the primitive roots of the very act of design itself. The exhibition as a whole seeks out clues necessary for the human race to live fulfilling lives and define our future.
The name is read as "Two-one two-one design sight." It derives from the term in English for perfect vision, "20/20 Vision" (or sight), and was named to express our wish to become a venue that will generate design that sees even more clearly what is ahead. The logo is designed after the often-seen Japanese address number plates, which represents 21_21 DESIGH SIGHT's being a "place" of design, and the importance that design plays in everyday life
9-7-6 Akasaka Minato-ku, Tokyo JAPAN
PHOTO£ºMasaya Yoshimura£¯NACASA & PARTNERS, Inc.
This international project will involve three hundred renowned designers, whose works will be compiled in a catalogue to be published in partnership with Moleskine and Abitare and showcased at an exhibition to be staged at prestigious venues in Milan in conjunction with the Milan Furniture Fair in April 2010, using similar methods to those used for the project entitled ¡°The Hand of the Architect¡±, which met with tremendous success in 2009.
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About Johnson trading Gallery
Johnson Trading Gallery is committed to commissioning and funding unique contemporary
works from emerging artists, designers and architects, and to curating exhibitions
of the finest 20th Century design. Paul Johnson made his name as owner and
operator of Phurniture Inc., founded in 2001. His extensive knowledge and vast
collection of historical design, as well as his attraction to contemporary artists
that push boundaries, proved invaluable to his future as design gallerist.
490 Greenwich street New York 10013
40 Place du Grand Sablon 1000 Brussels, Belgium
Collaboration with SAMARE
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KOSID - Korean Society of Interior Architects / Designers
About Seomi & Tuus
Located in the heart of Seoul, Seomi&Tuus opened its doors to the public in 2003. The gallery has the distinguished reputation of presenting significant work by Korean and international, emerging and mid-career artists. Operating with only the highest standards, Seomi&Tuus is dedicated to artistic exploration in design, specializing in twentieth-century masterpieces and contemporary art objects.
Miami is a fascinating combination of metropolitan city, sandy beaches, fine restaurants, vibrant nightlife, and Latin flair.
In recent years, Miami has become a hip destination for art and design due to the resurgence of the Art Deco District in South Beach, the revitalization of the Miami Design District, and the city's designation as an art mecca.
Named most exciting city in Wallpaper* magazine's first Design Awards issue (Jan./Feb 2005) Miami has become the place to be every December when the international set descends for Art Basel Miami Beach.
NE 38th Street and 1st Court, Miami, Florida
About Johnson trading Gallery
Johnson Trading Gallery is committed to commissioning and funding unique contemporary
works from emerging artists, designers and architects, and to curating exhibitions
of the finest 20th Century design. Paul Johnson made his name as owner and
operator of Phurniture Inc., founded in 2001. His extensive knowledge and vast
collection of historical design, as well as his attraction to contemporary artists
that push boundaries, proved invaluable to his future as design gallerist.
490 Greenwich street New York 10013
Uhlandstrasse 45, D-10719, Berlin
Release: October 2009
Hair'em Scare'em presents an extraordinary exploration through the fascinating beauty and inventive possibilities of hair as a medium for artistic expression in contemporary art and design. The book documents this palpable trend into a visual sourcebook that presents a captivating collection of hairy works in graphic design, photography, illustration and art as well as interior design, fashion and jewelry design. The extraordinary works featured in this book are the best indication of trends in hair outside the mainstream.
Release: August 2009
Arcadia is an expansive collection of contemporary alpine and backcountry architecture and interior design. The book profiles architects and designers who are embracing nature and creating provocative rural hideaways that adapt to their surrounding habitats and their topographical and climatic conditions. It features both traditional and progressive examples of private mountaintop homes and hotel lodges nestled in the forest landscape as well as bespoke furniture and interior designs inspired by nature and folklore. Arcadia is an inspiring reference that shows how the archaic idea of life in harmony with nature can be reflected in contemporary living.
Design Miami/ is the only fair that features limited-edition design within a complex milieu of intellectual inquiry and energetic enjoyment. In order to contextualize the commercial component of the show, Design Miami/ organizes a wide variety of programs - from panel discussions to non-commercial exhibitions and awards - that bring to light the manifold network of people and ideas that influence the value of design in general.
LYNfabrikken is connecting just do it people.
Inspired by the two slogans connecting people and just do it, LYNfabrikken has been a platform for creative businesses since 2002. The focus has been on inspiration, networking and a high level of ambition.
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LYNfabrikken
Vestergade 49B, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
About Johnson trading Gallery
Johnson Trading Gallery is committed to commissioning and funding unique contemporary
works from emerging artists, designers and architects, and to curating exhibitions
of the finest 20th Century design. Paul Johnson made his name as owner and
operator of Phurniture Inc., founded in 2001. His extensive knowledge and vast
collection of historical design, as well as his attraction to contemporary artists
that push boundaries, proved invaluable to his future as design gallerist.
490 Greenwich street New York 10013
22nd - 24th April, '09
Spazio Fendi
Via Sciesa 3 Milano 20135
Design Miami/ and FENDI present Craft Punk a series of design performances at Spazio FENDI during the Salone del Mobile.
As an extension of the Design Miami/Design Performances, Craft Punk will feature a selection of innovative designers working onsite with traditional handcraft methods to create nonconformist, cutting-edge objects, installations, and encounters.
The international roster of designers includes: Kwangho Lee, Massimiliano Adami, Nacho Carbonell, Peter Marigold, Raw-Edges, Sarah Becker, Simon Hasan, Studio Glithero, Studio Libertiny, and Yuri Suzuki & Household.
Each designer is invited to use discarded materials from the FENDI production process, such as Selleria leather, branded fabrics, plastic decorative elements, and metal hardware.
The design performances will bring together music, video, live demonstrations and conversation, transforming the 750m2 Spazio FENDI into an active environment for social interaction, unruly intellectual inquiry and action-based design processes.
22nd - 27th April, '09
Oratorio Della Passione Sant'ambrogio
Milano
A chair is a chair is a chair.
Some come close to religion, others are ugly as sin. A narrative on an almost sacral theme, for the designer the creation of a chair is like that of a string quartet to the composer: a unique reading of it creator¡¯s cerebral signature, revealing his modus operandi against the zeitgeist.
To celebrate the existence of this daily life four legged comfort bringer, about twenty five designers were invited to the Oratorio della Passione at Sant¡¯Ambrogio ( Milan¡¯s oldest church ) to express their personal confessions on chair prototyping.
The exhibition reveals the invisible detours on the quest for perfection. Those imperfect-perfect moments, where against all the cliches of digital 3D moulding, prototyping still continues to be regularly performed, in this instance, by the canonical elite and the choirboys as well.
That the word prototype is an elastic concept, we experienced upon receiving the first entries. Some chairs are a prototype to the true sense of the word: first experiments in a preliminary stadium of the design process to mass production. Others are rather one off sculptures intended or not (nearly) finished pieces doomed to stay a first prototype forever with or against their will. But there¡¯s a place for everyone in the church: having different genders, we decided to give them a different wing in the chapel.
- Prophets & Penitents
22nd - 26th April, '09
Palazzo Giureconsulti, Piazza Mercanti, 8 (close to Duomo)
Milano
Collaboration with Commissaires Gallery and Samare
5226, boul. St-Laurent Montreal(QC) Canada H2T 1S1
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Korea Design Foundation(KDF) aims to increase appreciation for design across the society by highlighting the sociocultural values delivered through design and by making design accessible and enjoyable to the public at large. KDF also hopes to do its part toward improving quality of life and realizing integrated social advancement. With such goals in mind, KDF will build the foundation for creating integrated design culture through production and distribution of design contents befitting to the Knowledge and Information Society while also focusing on promoting growth of leading design talents.
- KDF
1214 Queen St West, Toronto, ON, Canada, M6J, IJ6
The Gladstone Hotel seeks Expressions of Interest for innovative, cutting-edge, contemporary design and installation-based projects for The Gladstone Hotel's annual alternative design event, Come Up To My Room. The sixth installment of CUTMR will take place from February 5th to 8th, 2009 at the historic Gladstone Hotel in downtown, Toronto. Site-specific work will be mounted in the rooms and public spaces on the 2nd and main floors of The Gladstone.
Ideal candidates for juried consideration are artists/designers who focus their practice in the areas of experimentalm, inter-disciplinary, self-taught, hand-made/craft-based installation, as well as Environmental Art and Design (including graphic, new media, lens-based, i.e. photography, film & video, and more). We are looking for practitioners and emerging designers who approach their discipline with a radical personal vision, and who use design to converse, connect, collaborate and delight in the unexpected.
Commissaires presents
5226, boul. St-Laurent Montreal(QC) Canada H2T 1S1
rue de rotterdam 61,
1080 brussels -
molenbeek st-jean,
belgium
All students and graduates from design colleges, who received their degree not longer than three years ago, can hand in their designs to participate in the international [d3] contest. The 30 best contributions will be shown in a special exhibition.
Koelnmesse has commissioned the Rat fur Formgebung / German Design Council like in the last 5 years to act as overseers and organizers of the young designers' exhibition and prize at the International Furniture Fair, imm cologne 09, which is named [d3] contest since last year and was formerly known as inspired by cologne. Entries are sought from design students and young designers from around the world. Products from the interiors sector, including furniture, home accessories, lighting, flooring, wallpaper and textiles, will be accepted for inclusion in the nomination process.
Being a designer-oriented platform, DMY Berlin brings together international and Berlin-based design. In St.Etienne DMY Berlin will present a curated selection of objects from this year's design festival.
Miami is a fascinating combination of metropolitan city, sandy beaches, fine restaurants, vibrant nightlife, and Latin flair.
In recent years, Miami has become a hip destination for art and design due to the resurgence of the Art Deco District in South Beach, the revitalization of the Miami Design District, and the city's designation as an art mecca.
Named most exciting city in Wallpaper* magazine's first Design Awards issue (Jan./Feb 2005) Miami has become the place to be every December when the international set descends for Art Basel Miami Beach.
NE 38th Street and 1st Court, Miami, Florida
Hall/Stand : #16 / Johnson Trading Gallery
490 Greenwich street New York 10013
Ga-Hoe-Heon is located in Ga-Hoe-Dong, center of Buk-chon, the most traditional area in Seoul. It offers warm ambience with the high-end dishes and wide range of wines from all over the world for special meetings of friends, family and business. Also available are light meals at Gourmet, such as sandwiches, soups, salads and other fresh deli items made on the premise to eat here or to take out.
The Saint Etienne International Design Biennial 2008, established 10 years ago, opens the doors for two weeks to the public and schools, but also for industry and professionals. The biennial has, since its early days, been bringing together creators of different cultures and professions from both France and abroad and it also includes a larger programme with symposia, guided tours and special events.
Being a designer-oriented platform, DMY Berlin brings together international and Berlin-based design. In St.Etienne DMY Berlin will present a curated selection of objects from this year's design festival.
10 years of encounters, exhibitions and exchanges focused on design and designers!
The global forum for collecting, exhibiting, discussing and creating design.
Inspired by the galvanizing effect of Art Basel Miami Beach, the founders of Design Miami/ set out to create a design fair unlike any other that came before. In 2005, Ambra Medda and Amy Lau saw the opportunity to create a nexus for the far-flung global community of cutting-edge design dealers, collectors, creatives, curators, and critics. They envisioned a new commercial and cultural forum that would capture the thriving general interest in design and elevate appreciation for limited-edition, experimental and historically significant design work, presented within an energetic, visually striking environment. No other design fair had ever attempted such a feat.
About Johnson trading Gallery
Johnson Trading Gallery is committed to commissioning and funding unique contemporary
works from emerging artists, designers and architects, and to curating exhibitions
of the finest 20th Century design. Paul Johnson made his name as owner and
operator of Phurniture Inc., founded in 2001. His extensive knowledge and vast
collection of historical design, as well as his attraction to contemporary artists
that push boundaries, proved invaluable to his future as design gallerist.
490 Greenwich street New York 10013
The Gladstone Hotel seeks "Expressions of Interest" for innovative, cutting-edge, contemporary design and installation-based projects for The Gladstone Hotel¡¯s annual alternative design event, Come Up To My Room.The sixth installment of CUTMR will take place from February 5th to 8th, 2009 at the historic Gladstone Hotel in downtown Toronto. Site-specific work will be mounted in the rooms and public spaces on the 2nd and main floors of The Gladstone.
1214 Queen St West Toronto, ON Canada M6J 1J6
The Gladstone Hotel¡¯s 6th Annual Alternative Design Event /
February 5-8, 2009
this book accompanies the exhibition seoul design essence
(shown at seoul design olympiad, from october 10-30, 2008).
'seoul design essence' celebrates south korea's diversity and primarily focuses on the aesthetic principles and technological achievements epitomized in contemporary korean art,
architecture and design.
the book is divided into the 6 chapters:
historic korean folk craft,
contemporary korean arts and crafts, contemporary korean art, young contemporary korean design, contemporary korean industrial production, contemporary korean architecture
Koelnmesse has commissioned the Rat fur Formgebung / German Design Council like in the last 5 years to act as overseers and organizers of the young designers' exhibition and prize at the International Furniture Fair, imm cologne 09, which is named [d3] contest since last year and was formerly known as inspired by cologne. Entries are sought from design students and young designers from around the world. Products from the interiors sector, including furniture, home accessories, lighting, flooring, wallpaper and textiles, will be accepted for inclusion in the nomination process.
After 4 successful editions in its native Lisbon, ExperimentaDesign, the international Biennale dedicated to design, architecture and contemporary culture, was invited by the City of Amsterdam to branch out to the Dutch Capital. As a result of this, ExperimentaDesign will now take place in alternating years in Lisbon and Amsterdam, each with different programmes.
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Droog Design and Scott Burnham have assembled a team of some of the most innovative designers and architects from around the world to create 13 newly designed interventions, tools, toys and objects that are temporarily placed along a route on the central IJ-riverfront in Amsterdam. Reversing the traditional approach to urban design, in which objects and areas are created explicitly to discourage public interaction and intervention, this collection of objects will be created to encourage interaction and physical engagement by the public.
Taking place in the capital¡¯s most exciting venue, the Truman Brewery, a vast reclaimed industrial site in Brick Lane, Tent London is the most comprehensive and diverse design event of the year, showing art and architecture, vintage and contemporary design by emerging and established designers from around the world.
Sponsored by Korea Design Foundation
The BusanBiennale 2008 unfolds at the Busan Museum of Modern Art , Gwangalli Beach and APEC Naru Park between September 6th and November 15th under the theme of Expenditure. Culture is more closely related to wasteful activities where products are released and consumed to go back to the beginning of the cycle, rather than activities of production, construction, preservation, and augmentation. In this regard, the theme of the Busan Biennale 2008 promises to exhibit a distinctive philosophy of 'Expenditure' and a vivid scene of contemporary art through a variety of artworks created by artists invited from throughout the world, including paintings, photographs, videos, installations, outdoor sculptures, etc.
Design in the 21st century has liberated itself from industrial conditions and the associated physical demands. With new technology, expanded choice of materials and the practice of luxurious craftsmanship, designers are embracing design with scintillating attitude, challenging aesthetic boundaries and speculating new expressions in visual codes. Desire documents current developments in furniture and object design today, showcasing recent work by the most exciting and influential designers from around the globe categorized into four distinct trends and groups: Modernists, Taletellers, Inventors and Entertainers.
Mariannenstr. 9-10
D-10999 Berlin
Germany
For (young) design protagonists as well as the Festival¡¯s visitors, the exhibition in the Arena represents a central meeting-point. Here, the latest developments in design are introduced to both professionals and to a wide-ranging public. A wide variety of transdisciplinary and experimental work- but also projects by renowned designers-will be put on display.
Known for its unconventional, imaginative and free-thinking spirit, DMY Youngsters knows no laws or limits, and successfully combines its open-mindedness to an innate instinct for up-and-coming trends.
Beginning April 25, commissaires presents ¡°Comme une foret de fil¡± (¡°Like a forest of wire¡±), an exhibit of star designer Kwangho Lee¡¯s lighting-installations
- for the very first time outside South Korea. Made of electric wire knitted and shaped by Lee, in lengths reaching more than 100 meters, these lamps are possessed of a rare poetry and, in the end, of great simplicity -
enthusiastic explorations of how to make extraordinary things out of an everyday material. They are also part of a design trend in which the focus returns to a production process emphasizing the handcrafted. - volume2
commissaires is a gallery of creations from international designers, offering the public unique pieces, limited editions, North American firsts, and carefully selected doodads for everyone.
It has been cited on a number of occasions in publications like L¡¯Express, Le Nouvel Observateur, Monocle and the New York Times as a not-to-be-missed spot on a visit to Montreal.
5226, boul. St-Laurent Montreal(QC) Canada H2T 1S1
SEOUL, one of the rising international cities speaks Asian Living Trend
Seoul, soul of Asia! Seoul is now becoming the center of Asian cultures leading world trends. The city is hub of new metropolitan cultures in Asia providing new lifestyle. In the central part of cultural contents of the city, Seoul Living Design Fair is a center for international business exchange housing and supporting design. Creating and providing better, beautiful and clear environment making the power of effective production in the industry, Seoul Living Design Fair suggests always new design of our future.
DESIGN VS UNDESIGNED-INITIATIVE ATTITUDE, OBSERVATION, POSSIBILITY
In the name of design, various products exists as part of our every-day lives.Most designed products are packaged with the right answer for consumers.In other words, products that have been designed under the justification of convenience that are best for consumers may be piling up in storage rooms, like and unwanted gift.
What are products that are designed and undesigned?
Consumer's initiative, active attitude towards a designed product can bring all sorts of inspiration,furthermore, a driving force for an endless discovery.Through observing and getting inspiration, I'm looking for the possible initiative attitude(design) which goes beyond the passive(undesigned).
Organized by designers party show at BMH
The name of this whole projects is Light of shadow project
Initiated from the remnant of light, a shadow , this project is organized by 24designers of DP Network Community. They have had four months of preparations, a workshop to understand technological matters to produce their work for this exhibition.
+ florist - Jiseon Park
redefining traditions by floral designing - The floral design which florist Jiseon Park's suggesting starts from an inquiry inti tradition. Traditions from the past are analyzed subjectivity and it is understood differently under different circumstances. When talking about tradition, continuance is not necessary. Through this art work, the florist is trying to redefine the meaning of traditional material culture, pattern of thinking and acting in the past, and the expression of certain events or people etc.
+ florist - A-ryung Lim
waterfall kranz - The ring shape of a kranz stands for eternal love. Different from other floral designs, as Kranzes usually have their own characteristic by their shapes, nobody has dare tried to make a Kranz in a different shape. However, the artist has tried to get rid of this idea and created a Kranz which is running down by drawing an extensional line.
design group - studi-oh!
+ Haelan Kim
Everyday in everyday we are getting better and better. how about you?
Haelan Kim - get inspirantions from everyday life and create new stuff
Kwangho Lee - ordinary objects can become somethig else
at cafe grande
Everyday in everyday we are getting better and better. how about you?
Meet of two designers who have different minds and specialties 7kinds of furnitures and lightings that these two people introduced.
the baek Kim - lyrical, function in form, ready to mass production
Kwangho Lee - easy to form, handmade, not so complicated production
