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[ exhibitions | installations | open houses ]
event> [ ama 2014 ]
venue> v&a | cromwell road SW7 2RL | south kensington tube | 10a > 5.45p
info> Michael Anastassiades in collaborates with Flos presenting lighting installation Ama, made by mouth blown opaline spheres and brass. An appreciation of the pearl diving mermaids of Japan.
event> [ disobedient objects ]
venue> v&a | cromwell road SW7 2RL | south kensington tube | 10a > 5.45p
info> As the central hub location for the London Design Festival for the sixth year, the V&A will again house a broad range of commissioned activity which will be spread throughout the Museum and include installations, events, talks and workshops.
event> [ Double Space for BMW – Precision & Poetry in Motion ]
venue> venue> v&a | cromwell road SW7 2RL | south kensington tube | 10a > 5.45p
info> The exhibit is a kinetic sculpture created from huge reflectors measuring around 10 x 15 meters. One side is flat and the other is like a lens, reflecting the gallery in differing ways as they move in a choreographed fashion.
event> [ high street highline camden collective ]
venue> collective | 26 camden high street | 10a > 5p mon>sat
info> Collective invites artists and designers to produce temporary installations for the roof tops of Camden High Street. We explore the creative possibility of these vacant upper corridors and offer an alternative perspective, taking inspiration from New York’s regeneration project, ‘The High Line’.
event> [ library: a private member’s club ‘open house’ ]
venue> 19 greek street | 122 st-martins lane, covent garden WC2N 4BD | charing cross tube | 10a > 6p
info> Designed by Marc Peridis of 19 greek street, LIBRARY is London’s new member’s club targeting an intellectual elite of architects, interior designers, writers, playwrights and more. Opening in September, the exclusive club will open it’s doors to the public For the duration of LDF.
event> [ louis kahn: the power of architecture ]
venue> design museum | shad thames SE1 2YD | london bridge tube | 10am – 5.45pm
info> The American architect Louis Kahn is one of the great master builders of the 20th Century. In this exhibition, discover how Kahn created a modern form of expression for the eternal and essential qualities of architecture.
event> [ off | cut ]
venue> | fritz Hansen showroom | 13 margaret street W1W 8RN | oxford circus tube | 10a > 6.30p / wed 10a > 9p
info> an experimental, deployable structure that investigates the inventive re-use of Fritz Hansen’s material waste. Designed by Chung Tyson Architects.
event> [ open studio ]
date> 20 september | 11a > 6p
venue> sebastian bergne studio | 2 ingate place SW8 3NS | queenstown Road station |
info> Sebastian Bergne will be opening his studio to visitors. Displayed in the context of his working environment will be new and old projects for the arrangement of flowers.
event> [ space and light ]
venue> sir john soane’s museum | 13 lincoln’s inn fields WC2A 3BP | holborn tube |
10a > 5p tue/sat
info> A pop-up exhibition inspired by Sir John Soane’s use of space and light. Leading contemporary designers and artists, including Ab Rogers, Paul Schutze, Sebastian Bergne and Tiipoi install their work in the Museum’s historic interior.
[ party! ]
event> [ heal’s tottenham court road party ]
date> 17 september | 6 > 9p
venue> the heal’s building | 196 tottenham court road SW2 4DR | the goodge street tube |
above> aluminum front of a london underground train at the entrance to the in the making exhibition
The Design Museum in London, presents “In the Making” an exhibition curated by Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby. An interesting theme is the capturing in various and unfinished states of the production process of 24 objects. The curators comment ‘We have always been fascinated by the making process as it is an integral part of our work. We have curated an exhibition that will provide a platform to capture and reveal a frozen moment in the manufacturing process and unveils an everyday object in its unfinished state. Often the object is as beautiful, if not more so, than the finished product!’
derwent pencils in the making |unfinished swarovski crystal / photography györgy kőrössy
coke can | charles sofa designed by antonio citerio for b&b italia / photography györgy kőrössy
Most of the pieces are everyday objects – we see forks, pencils, tennis balls and a Coke can. There are indeed B&O objects. The 2012 Olympic torch. My favorite is indeed a B&O creation for Italian furniture producer Vitra, the Tip Ton Chair. The chair is made of made of polypropylene and is manufactured from a single mould without the use of mechanical components. This makes it extremely durable and up to 100% recyclable and defines a whole new chair typology: the solid plastic chair with forward-tilt action. The chair still may need to prove that its ‘half-rock’ feature is both good for the back and blood circulation. Tip Ton is also a candidate for iconic object with its innovative and proprietary profile.
the 2012 olympic torch manufacturing process
tip ton
An important underlying idea in the installation is a glance at the ongoing dialogue between designers and manufacturing through the making process. ‘This perspective is distinctive to their practice: throughout their careers, Edward and Jay have had a curiosity about the way things are made.’ Though there are several videos of the manufacturing process the ‘in the making’ theme presented an opportunity to go a little deeper into the ‘dialogue’ idea, a unique difference maker with some of the more function-driven, innovation-driven and design-driven objects in this show and like-kind successful objects in general. After all, how do certain products fulfill a need the best or become become iconic in their form and sensitivity. If you indeed get into what’s going on here, prepare to be educated, entertained and maybe even inspired. And discover in London that many of the most advanced techniques for the production of furniture were born right in the Bel Paese.
The exhibition opened on the 22 January and goes until 4 May 2014.
edward barber, jay osgerby
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A website out-duels architecture, fashion, furniture, graphics, product and transport. Deyan Sudjic, Director of Design Museum said: ‘GOV.UK is a remarkable success on so many levels. It makes life better for millions of people coping with the everyday chores, from getting a new passport, to paying their taxes. It’s a reflection of the government understanding how to communicate with the country in a way that works, it’s simple, direct, well mannered, all the things that we would like to take for granted from the government, but in a sea of red tape and jargon, usually can’t. GOV.UK looks elegant, and subtly British thanks to a revised version of a classic typeface, designed by Margaret Calvert back in the 1960s. It is the Paul Smith of websites. The rest of the world is deeply impressed, and because it has rationalized multiple official websites, it saves the taxpayer millions, what’s not to like?’
The award was presented to Mike Bracken, Executive Director of GDS, Ben Terrett Head of Design at GDS (Government Digital Service) and Nick Hurd Minister for Civil Society at an awards reception held at Angler, South Place Hotel, London. The jury unanimously agreed that GOV.UK was the overall winner for Design of the Year 2013 for its well thought out yet understated design, making the user experience faster and easier. The website is regarded as one of the leading government websites in the world.
The Rt Hon David Cameron MP, Prime Minister and Conservative Party Leader said: ‘I am delighted that the GOV.UK website has won the Design of the Year Award 2013. This government is committed to being the most transparent in the world. For the first time, people can find out what’s happening inside government, all in one place, and in a clear and consistent format. It is just another example of Britain’s world class design talent standing out on the global stage; in this case helping to enhance the modern relationship between the public and government.’ [ designs of the year 2103 ] [ designs of the year 2013: shortlist ]
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Designs of The Year exhibition at the Design Museum runs 20 March > 7 July. Winners announced on 17 April. Pete Collard is curator of Designs of the Year..
The full list of nominees is as follows…
the shard | renzo piano
[ architecture ]
Druot, Lacaton and Vassal: La Tour Bois-Le-Pretre, Paris
Studio Egret West: Clapham Library, London
Farshid Moussavi Architecture: MOCA, Cleveland
Hackett Hall McKnight: Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast
David Kohn Architects in collaboration with artist Fiona Banner: A Room For London
SO – IL: Kukje Art Center, Seoul
Andrés Jaque Arquitectos: Ikea Disobedients
MVRDV: Book Mountain, Spijkenisse
Renzo Piano: The Shard, London
Gonçalo Byrne Arquitectos & Barbas Lopes Arquitectos: Thalia Theatre, Lisbon
Witherford Watson Mann: Astley Castle, Warwickshire
Orhan Pamuk with Ihsan Bilgin, Cem Yucel and Gregor Sunder Plassmann: The Museum of Innocence, Istanbul
Akihisa Hirata, Sou Fujimoto, Kumiko, Naoya Hatakeyama, Inui and Toyo Ito: Home For All
Klein Dytham: T-Site, Tokyo
Zaha Hadid: Galaxy Soho, Beijing
BIG, TOPOTEK1 and Superflex: Superkilen, Norrebro
Louis Kahn: Four Freedoms Park
digital postcard and player | uniform
[ digital ]
rAndom International: Rain Room
Shing Tat Chung: Superstitious Fund Project
Raspberry Pi Foundation: Raspberry Pi
Jason Jameson, James Hall and Rhys Griffin of Unanico Group, with Andrew Tanner Design and Royal Winton: English Hedgerow Plate
Uniform: Digital Postcard and player
Microsoft: Windows Phone 8
Government Digital Service: GOV.UK Website
Six to Start and Naomi Alderman: Zombies, Run! App
Free Art and Technology Lab and Sy-Lab: Free Universal Construction kit
Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Bertini Viegas: Wind Map
Moritz Waldemeyer for Ingo Maurer: Candles In The Wind
Patrick Bergel: Chirp
Nippon Design Centre Inc: Dashilar App
Stamen: City Tracking
Lytro: Light Field Camera
a/w12 collection | craig green
[ fashion ]
Jacqueline Durran: Anna Karenina Costumes
Giles Deacon: A/W12
Yayoi Kusama: Louis Vuitton Collection
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel
Elisha Smith-Leverock: I Want Muscle
Craig Green: A/W12 Collection
Commes De Garcons: A/W12
Prada: S/S12 Collection
Proenza Schouler: A/W12 Collection
a-collection | ronan and erwan bourellec | hay
[ furniture ]
Studio Swine & Kieren Jones: The Sea Chair
Zaha Hadid: Liquid Glacial Table
Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec for Hay: A-Collection
Jolan Van Der Wiel: Gravity Stool
James Shaw and Marjan van Aubel: Well Proven Chair
Pinwu: Tie Paper Chair
Marni: 100 Chairs
Konstantin Grcic for Mattiazzi: Medici Chair
Studiomama (Nina Tolstrup and Jack Mama): Re-Imagined Chairs
Studio Markunpoika: Engineering Temporality
Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec for Vitra: Corniches
Muller Van Severen: Future Primitives
the gentlewoman #6 | veronica ditting
[ graphics ]
Brighten the Corners and Anish Kapoor: Zumtobel Annual Report
A Practice For Everyday Life: Bauhaus Art as Life exhibition
OK-RM: Strelka Institute Identity
Tzortzis Rallis and Lazaros Kakoulidis: Occupied Times of London
Veronica Ditting & Jop van Bennekom: The Gentlewoman #6
Serviceplan: Austria Solar Annual Report
Irma Boom: Rijksmuseum Identity
Studio Frith: Kapow!
Kapitza: Organic
Pedro Nora: Doc Lisboa ’12
Cardon Webb Ralph Ellison Collection
John Morgan: Venice Architecture Biennale Identity
CoDesign: Dekho Conversations on Design in India
Anthony Burrill: Made In Los Angeles
Australian Government Department for Health and Ageing: Australian Cigarette Packaging
olympic cauldron | heatherwick studio
[ product ]
Heatherwick Studio: Olympic Cauldron
Cecilie Manz: Bang & Olufsen Beolit 12
Dave Smith/Varanasi Research Group MIT: Liquiglide Ketchup Bottle
Scholten & Baijings/1616 Arita Japan: Colour Porcelain
Hal Watts: E-source
Berg: Little Printer
Inga Sempe for Legrand: Switch Collection
PostlerFerguson: Papa Foxtrot Toys
The Centre for Vision in the Developing World and Goodwin Hartshorn: Child Vision Glasses
Dirk Winkel for Wästberg: w127 Lamp
Form Us With Love: Plug Lamp
MakerBot: Replicator 2
Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Delaware: 3D Printed Exoskeleton
Unfold Studio: Kiosk 2.0
Jasper Morrison/Japan Creative: Oigen Kitchenware
Anthony Dickens: Tekio
Olafur Eliasson: Little Sun
Simon Berry: Colalife
Pierre Hardy: Frederic Malle Travel Sprays#!
Phil Cuttance: Faceture Vases
Front: Surface Tension Lamp
Nike: Flyknit Trainers
mando footloose | mark sanders
[ transport ]
Vitamins for Maddak Inc: Morph Folding Wheel
Priestmangoode: Air Access Seat
BMW: i3 Concept Car BMW
Mark Sanders: Mando Footloose
Honda: N-One Honda
Ben Wilson: Donky Bicycle
Dixon Jones / The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea: Exhibition Road
TfL /JEDCO / LOCOG: Olympics Wayfinding
DB Mobility Logistics AG: Touch&Travel
[ previous designs of the year winners ]
2012 – London 2012 Olympic Torch – Barber Osgerby
2010 – Folding Plug – Min-Kyu Choi
2011 – Plumen Lightbulb 001 – Samuel Wilkinson for Hulger
2009 – Barack Obama Poster – Shepard Fairey
2008 – One Laptop per Child – Yves Béhar of Fuseproject
[ design of the year 2013 winner: uk.gov ] [ 2013 jury ]
The Design Museum’s annual Design Awards exhibition opened earlier this month. Called “the Oscars of the design world,” the awards honor the most innovative and progressive designs in seven categories: Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Furniture, Graphics, Product and Transport. An overall winner will announced in April, but until then, here are our favorite nominees, starting with what we do best here at Design Applause, Product.
1. Heracleum by Bertjan Pot (above)
A stunning and delicate chandelier powered by ELECTROSANDWICH by Marcel Wanders for Moooi. From the designer:
“Heracleum’ arrived at Moooi as a fantasy. I had the wish to light many LED-lights at the same time. I experimented with bundles of electricity wires that I shaped into a branch structure. During the development of the design it just seemed that too much soldering was required. Then Marcel Wanders had the ‘luminous’ idea to use his ELECTROSANDWICH® to make the design possible. The structure was coated with a plastic layer for isolation and on top of that a conductive layer to supply the LEDs with power. Using this technique it was possible to create a structure more slender than I had hoped for when I started the project. The technique and design are perfect for each other.”
2. Invisible Cycle Helmet by Hovding
Worn like a collar, the helmet automatically inflates like an airbag around your head upon impact. “The airbag is deployed by sensors – accelerometers and gyros – that pick up a bicyclist’s abnormal movements in the event of an accident. The sensors then send a signal to the gas inflator to inflate the airbag.” Watch a video of it in action.
3. The Learning Thermostat by Nest
A touch screen thermostat that remembers every time you adjust it until it learns your habits. It can also be controlled via your iPhone when you’re away from home.
4. Totem, by Bethan Laura Wood and Pietro Viero
A hand-blown Pyrex glass light tower made by stacking various glass shapes.
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