Cusp conference 2010.
Cusp Conference 2010 will be in Chicago September 22-23.
The conference is about “the design of everything.” Museum of Contemporary Art Theater.
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Neville brody's anti-design festival.
in a response to london’s annual design festival, now in its 9th year, and to the “25 years of cultural deep freeze, the anti-design festival will attempt to unlock creative fires and ideas, exploring spaces hitherto deemed out-of-bounds by a purely commercial criteria.” So says founder Neville Brody, who takes the Anti in Anti-Design seriously. “The Anti Design Festival is anti-everything. The Anti Design Festival is anti-nothing. While the ADF is not against design, there is also a need for change. We are not anti-design as much as we are anti-everything.”
If you have any doubts just check out the event website. The ADF logo includes the London Design Festival’s logo – with a big X through it. The front page also does things with kerning and font size any design teacher would shake their finger at. Of course, that’s the point. ADF is not only a chance to play with design without the imposition of clients, bosses or market restrictions, but it’s a chance for your work to rub shoulders with contributors like Jonathan Barnbrook, Stuart Semple and Stefan Sagmeister. It’s nonprofit (i.e. no prize money); If that’s a problem, ADF probably isn’t for you.
ADF takes place in Shoreditch, London from 18-26 September (the last week of The London Design Festival).
Spark 2010 summer promo.
summer promo deadline ends august 15.
The Spark Awards celebrate design in all disciplines, from Architecture to Digital, Product to Print–whatever media you dream in. Please consider joining the Spark communities and of course, entering your work. We’ll make sure to “get it out there!”
Chee Pearlman, Chee & Company, Jury Chair
John Barratt, CEO, Teague
Sally Dominguez, Partner, B. Architecture and Rain Water Hog
Rob Curedale, Curedale Design
Adam Brodsley, Partner, Volume Design
Thom Faulders, Faulders Studio Architects
Tucker Viemeister, Lab Chief, Lab at Rockwell Group
Scott Stropkay, Co-Founder, Essential Design
Michael Vanderbyl, Principal, Vanderbyl Design
Dan Sturges, President, Intrago Corporation
Ken Musgrave, Director, Experience Design, Dell
Heather Fleming, CEO, Catapult Design
Margaret Gould Stewart, User Experience Manager, YouTube
Kerry Tremain, Graphic Designer & Author
Mary Yu, Fashion Designer, Mary Yu Design
Susan Rockrise, Brand Design, Susan Rockwise & Associates
Bryant Yeh, Principal, Yeh Studio Architects
Competition deadlines:
Don’t worry–you have lots of time.
Summer Promo ends Aug. 15 – save $100
Standard Deadline: Oct. 10
Late Deadline, Oct. 22
Bespoke: Handbuilt bicycles.
This exhibition features the designs of six inter – nationally renowned bicycle builders who have authored some of the most revolutionary developments in their craft.
Bike the drive 2010.
from high atop the john hancock building looking north. notice no cars only bicycles on two ( outer ) drive lanes.
above: with john hancock in the foreground we are looking southwest. the green dot is the midway point between a 15-mile stretch on lsd that is closed down from 6am – 10am. the orange dot 7.5 miles away ending at the museum of science and industry.
above: looking north again, the green dot 7.5 miles away where the drive abruptly ends. of interest, lsd is on a landfill, part of a plan ( daniel burnham plan ) to keep the lakefront open to the public.
above: back down to earth this near the midway point where 18,000 will pass.
above: a 2006 cervelo soloist team with zipp 404 clinchers, zero gravity brakes, campy record, selle CF seat, and CSC water bottles. with the $2350 zipp 404 wheels this bike is $9000. not mine btw.
may 30, 2010, was the ninth annual MB financial bank “bike the drive.” the event is a fundraiser for the active transportation alliance chicago’s voice for better biking, walking and transit. the fun continues at the post-ride festival from 8 a.m. to noon in grant park, with live entertainment, event sponsor giveaways, and $7 breakfast options from goose island brew pub.
History:
early bicycles arrived in Chicago in the 1860s. by 1900, there were 54 bicycle clubs with more than 10,000 members. by the late 1890s, chicago was the “bicycle-building capital of america”. according to the 1898 chicago bicycle directory, approximately two-thirds of the country’s bicycles and accessories were manufactured within 150 miles (240 km) of the city.
chicago has recently seen an increase in the amount of bikers traveling throughout the city. this can in part be attributed to the current mayor, richard m. daley. daley has said, “my goal is to make the city of chicago the most bicycle-friendly city in the U.S.” daley created a mayor’s bicycle advisory council (MBAC) in order to encourage bicycling in the city.
the council created the chicago department of transportation bike program. the program, whose efforts are guided by the bike 2015 plan, approved in june 2006, has created over 100 miles (160 km) of new bike lanes, installed 10,000 bicycle racks, and installed 165 miles (266 km) of signed bike routes in 2006.
Resources:
bike the drive org
cycling in chicago
2015 bike plan
twitter journalism
100 years. daniel burnham
iida 2010 competition.
iida 2010
competition theme — green hearts.
the competition calls out to designers with green hearts. seeking fresh and new design proposals that sustainably change everyday city living and propose a future where humans and nature coexist harmoniously. entry deadline: august 25, 2010.
ICFF 2010 wrap up 1.
The wave of über-hip, W Hotel-esque modern (and modular) design that has swept the globe in recent years is finally, it seems, beginning to subside.
above: a quilt and bed from shimna
above: from parsons student show — can you guess what these are for?
above: textile design from dana barnes
While that school of thought was certainly not lacking in representation at this year’s ICFF, it was clearly giving way to the growing trend towards natural and handmade artisanal goods that made itself known in every category at the convention.
I’m not just talking about sustainable design, though this craft-based movement happens to be that too. If you took a step back from the booths at the show and watched what people gravitated towards, nine times out of ten it’s to something they can touch and feel. That plastic injection molded lounge seating may have been the new, slick thing not too long ago, but it doesn’t appeal to the human touch the way a handmade chair of aged Moravian Oak does.
The judges felt it too, just take a look at the ICFF Editor’s Awards to people like textile designer Dana Barnes, who sculpts fibers into beautiful, totally unique, curl-your-toes-into floor and wall coverings. Or the award to MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art) for best Design School for their exhibit “Material Inspired Concepts and Artifacts” that showed off work from an environmental design class that examined traditional, natural materials and invented modern uses for them.
Elements of the handmade popped up in surprising places, like the Oshibe light sculpture, a woven nest with light-up eggs or at Shimna, a Mennonite furniture company and in the work displayed in Metropolitan Magazine’s Airstream. Stay tuned for highlights from the show.
Resources:
ICFF
ICFF editor’s awards
dana barnes
shimna
oshibe
Scandinavian design auction 2010.
auction begins 25 may 2010 noon cst.
above: hans wegner — ox lounge chairs 1960
above: jens quistgaard — tjorn flatware 1962
above: finn juhl — settee, model NV-48 1948
above: tapio wirkkala — floor lamp, model k10-11 1958
above: kay fisker — pitcher 1950
above: georg jensen — coffee set, model 80 1950
above: piet hein — ursa major candelabra 1953
above: piet hein — bar stools, set of four 1976
above: jens nielsen — laminex chairs, pair 1966
above: bruno mathsson — maria folding table 1967
auction held at wright auction chicago
Milan 2010. Wrapping it up.
milan 2010. once again thousands descended upon milan for this year’s saloni del mobile international furniture design fest. attendance was 7% up on last year. with 56% of the 2010 Milan design show’s exhibitors coming from beyond Italy’s borders.
above: highway loop by bartoli design for segis is a public seating system. modular benches connect by way of half loops.
above: slovenian home appliances company gorenje and the french designer ora-ito presented the new collection gorenje ora-ito carbon. this collection is a successor to the older collection by gorenje and ora-ito (black and white color).
above: brazilian designers fernando and humberto campana designed a range of furniture for Italian brand edra, including this storage unit entirely concealed by dangling lengths of raffia. definitely not another white cube.
“BARBARIANS”
This tribute to the Barbarians refers to the populations who in the early part of the first Century AD, helped to bring down the stultifying empires of the Western world, laying the groundwork for the Europe of today. Pulsing with passion and drive, fresh blood and daring, they ventured forth from the furthest outposts of the known world to occupy the heartland.
above: rachel whiteread, 2005. projectb is proud to present for the first time in italy the art of chess, in partnership with RS&A london, which invited some of the world’s leading contemporary artists to produce the chess sets, previously exhibited in 2009 at the reykjavik art museum. the exhibition in milan featured seven life-size chess sets designed by the artists tracey emin, tom friedman, damien hirst, barbara kruger, yayoi kusama, alastair mackie, and rachel whiteread. see more chess art in our earlier story.
above: artist, fueledbycoffee makes a point. the regulars who go every year noticed things in general were down-scaled this year. several items mentioned seen below…
above: chairless is a seating device for the modern nomad. the sturdy strap allows its user to sit down in a relaxed manner — but with neither seat or backrest. chairless is so light and compact that you can carry it with you wherever you go. chairless relieves the spine and legs, so that hugging your knees or using a support is no longer necessary. designed by alejandro aravena and produced by vitra see more in our earlier story.
above: sparkling chair by dutch designer marcel wanders for magis is made by a blow molding technique used to manufacture water bottles. after the molding process, the hollow spaces are filled with high pressure air to strengthen the design. with this technique the plastic usage is minimal and the total weight of the chair is only around 1kg. see more in our earlier story.
above: artist nendo shares concept growth with chair garden: a stool grows sideways, and becomes a bench, or lengthwise and becomes a lounge chair, or even a bed. if we can see a piece of furniture’s function changes as it grows and matures over time, we may find new clues, even a way to design form naturally. this installation explores ways of determining form based not on function or a modular system derived from the proportions of the human body, but on ‘furniture that grows’.
whereas in the last couple of years the saloni was, perhaps, not that inspirational design-wise, a consequence crisis-induced budget-tightening, the experimentation has continued. indeed, the designers and manufacturers which dedicated some time towards looking to the future gained the most from this year’s event.
aside from bigger names such as kartell, driade and artemide, there were plenty of smaller companies and individual designers making a name for themselves either in the main exhibition halls or within the smaller spin-off events dotted around the city.
and bottles or no bottles, marcel wander’s sparkling chair speaks of the creativity and design innovation showcased at this event.
Resources:
blog from italy
core77
Seoul cycle design competition 2010.
seoul design foundation together with designboom promotes an international design competition.
participation is open to applicants from every country in the world, including professionals, students, and design-enthusiasts. free registration. Seoul cycle design competition 2010
entry deadline: july 05, 2010