koons is going after two businesses that his lawyers say have violated his intellectual property rights by producing and selling bookends that resemble his famous “balloon dog” sculpture,
the defendants say theirs are not a copy. what do you think ?
fyi “balloon dog” bookends, sells in a san francisco gallery for $30 each. koon’s smaller dogs on sale
on ebay for $7,250 to $12,500.
H&M is offering a limited-edition weaned together from remnants of its earlier collaboration with Lanvin. Labeled “Waste,” the lineup carries more of H&M’s design chief, Ann-Sofie Johansson than Lanvin’s Alber Elbaz. Hopefully H&M will continue more zero-waste efforts.
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infographic explains how big it is.
above: klas herbert
above: gunta stölzl
above: gunta stölzl
above: annelise albers
Remember all those amazing quilts made by the Bauhaus women like Gunta Stolzl and textile artist Annelise Albers? They’re gorgeous, but people seem to have forgotten about them. In fact, pattern-making in general seems to have taken a dive. With the exception of Marimeko, there’s hardly anything good out there, and none of it’s coming from designers, who prefer to focus instead on the more profitable product market. It’s a shame. I went to three different stores looking for a shower curtain – just a plain old shower curtain – and I came home empty handed. They seem to all be designed for college students or lovers of tapestry. It’s a sad day when a girl can’t even find a decent shower curtain anymore. What am I going to do when I need new sheets?
designer: klas herbert
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last year’s auctions and the growth of events like Design Miami, not to mention the postal service’s upcoming series of stamps showing name designers suggest that 2011 may be a big year for collecting design.
But as Adam Lindemann explains in his new book on the subject, for Taschen, Collecting Design. collecting design is not as simple as collecting painting or photography. Lindemann, himself a collector of art and design and author of a previous book, Collecting Contemporary, shows how designer names, producer identity and uncertain supplies make collecting more complex. New style limited editions by star designers add to the issues. The book’s format is interviews with collectors, dealers, curators, and others—32 of them. With a useful schedule of design auctions and fairs around the world and a glossary of terms. These are fun and flavorful in themselves—savor Karl Lagerfeld’s commentary for instance.
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legendary designer stefan sagmeister and his team at sagmeister inc. recently relaunched their website.
The homepage is now a bird’s eye view of their NY office courtesy of a fish eye camera mounted on the ceiling. It’s updated in real time, too, so whenever you visit sagmeister.com you can see what the designers are up to at that moment. Given that it’s the holidays and the end of the year, you can bet they’ll be at it pretty late.
Of course, it’s still a functional website, and to incorporate their site links into the video feed they installed six large appliques on the floor that work like buttons. (See the installation in the video above.) The art blog It’s Nice That spoke with Jessica Walsh from the studio to find out more about the redesign.
Hi Jessica, can you explain to our readers what makes your new site so special?
You can watch us live while we work, which is certainly different from most studio websites. Whether or not it is interesting is up to the viewer! I’ve always been intrigued by what goes on in different types of design studios, and this makes our studio life very transparent. We are still getting used to living in a giant website!
You’re a small team – did everyone have input into the project?
Richard The is the designer / technical genius behind the website and camera, he realized the project alongside Stefan and another developer. Of course being such a small studio, all the designers even a few interns have either touched the project and had input along the way.
The biggest decision was the camera angle which we spent many months trying out. At one point we tried to sneak onto the roof of the building across the street to have the camera looking into the windows of the studio instead of having it inside the studio, but i’m not sure that would have been as reliable or legal. In the end we all agreed the top fish eye angle was the best.
Do you still have a printed portfolio at Sagmeister Inc.?
There are printed materials of our work, along with the two Sagmeister books which are good portfolios in of themselves. Of course the direction of portfolios is going towards digital, especially with laptops and iPads so portable. It was definitely time for the website update.
What have you got planned for 2011?
Stefan will also be working on filming a documentary, and the studio has several identity, book, and web design projects on the way. You could watch us working late this week as we finish up the work before the holidays. It will be great to be able to update the world with the work on the new website in 2011.
designer: stefan sagmeister
this repurposed old chair is technically a makeover, but the end result is so grotesque, so utterly appalling i’m naming it as the “makeunder” of the year.
The last days of December is usually the time when we compile our ‘Best Of’ lists – best movies, best books, best music, best design etc. But for there to be a best, there has to be a worst, and Dirk Vander Kooij’s nastily old brown chair is it. The dutch designer’s other work actually isn’t all that bad, but taking a puffy brown chair that was ugly to begin with and skinning and restuffing it to make a bean bag has disaster written all over it. The retch-inducing plasticky leather makes it look like a sick animal ridden with tumors and its teetering, off-kilter balance gives the impression that it’s about to spring alive and pounce. I don’t care how noble it is to recycle, the Earth would be a lot better of this was hauled straight to the dump.
designer: dirk vander kooij
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“we built this city: how art, graphics, and design policy take shape for new yorkers”
Victoria Milne, Director of Creative Services at the New York City Department of Design and Construction spoke at the SVA’s DCrit lecture series.
An interesting point: most people gain about a pound of weight a year. If you walk about five flights of stairs daily, you can keep that pound off. Making stairs in public buildings more available and attractive can encourage people to use them. In such small but pervasive ways, architecture and design can improve public health. In the nineteenth century, infrastructure had to deal with contagious diseases so the emphasis was on sanitation, clean water and so on. Today’s diseases are chronic diseases of “energy”—and many of the appropriate infrastructure changes parallel the changes needed to reduce overall energy consumption.
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chevy volt shipped 160 monday, the nissan leaf this past weekend. it’s a race.
the leaf was recently named as the 2011 European Car of the Year.
pininfarina’s latest one of a kind car.
The Italian design house Pininfarina rolled out its latest one of a kind car: a channeling of the original Lancia Stratos built for German businessman Michael Stoschek. There is an irony here: it was Pininfarina’s rival, Bertone, then headed by Marcello Gandini, that produced the original 1970 design. The update retains the wedge-shaped body, but updates its details — and tailors its cockpit to the owner’s tastes and dimensions.
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