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.
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.
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D-10999 Berlin
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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.
However, the exhibition takes things yet a step further: over time, a wide spectrum of exhibitors from different countries has joined its ranks, revealing surprising new trends of the international design scene. A spate of cities including Saint Etienne, London, Taipei, Seoul, Warsaw, Bogota or Tel Aviv offer valuable insight into the world of design, and visitors can thus look forward to innovative, enchanting and extravagant projects.
In short, this is the ideal place to enjoy dazzling impressions, exciting developments and above all, creative exchanges.
With a 7.000 square meter exhibition space and more than 150 designers, the DMY Youngsters exhibition has succeeded in establishing itself as a not-to-be-missed event in the international scene for young, creative and innovative design in Berlin.
DMY 2008 Berlin, International Design Festival
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
About commissaires
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're 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
design group 'studi-oh!'
+ Haelan Kim
at cafe grande
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
