be@rbrick shadow by medicom toy is a block figure in the form of a bear, approximately 7 cm in size, and was introduced in 2001 on the 100th anniversary of the birth of teddy bear, under the concept to create a “digital teddy bear”.
it is characterized by the rule that no three-dimensional addition is to be made to the nine existing basic parts that compose the figure (head, arms, wrists, body, waist and legs) and that the only alteration is to be made solely by the expression through print.
be@rbrick has collaborated with various brands and artists as well as anime and movies.
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be@rbrick shadow will be sold at tenoha milano for a limited time during milan design week 2019.
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salvioni milano durini is a place to explore, a design destination of six floors with the possibility to go and get stimuli with suggestions for your home or your interior design projects, an experience made possible by excellent partners.
• fferrone design, ideal partner for the art of the table and handmade glass objects, accompanies the best italian design products with the same creative force, embellishing contemporary or classic, formal or daily environments.
• kohro is an italian publisher and producer of large-scale upholstery fabrics. the new “wild splendours” collection is the soul of the textile furnishing accessories of the first floor. here the kohro textile coordinated furnishings bring refined and comfortable elegance to the bedroom and living area, to the table and the reading and relaxation corner created in collaboration with chiara provasi.
• roberto molteni interior decoration, inside an exclusive shop in shop, in collaboration with salvioni design solutions and its team of interior designers, this partner proposes its idea of soft decoration, the art of decorating or better dressing the house in its textile component, with curtains, fabrics, cushions and much more, to give each room a unique and personal style.
• the collaboration with wallpepper®, an italian company producing author’s wallpapers, is renewed. the graphics of the new 2019 catalog harmonize perfectly with the furnishings and become one with the different housing projects proposed by salvioni milano durini.
after ten years of activity, brera design district presents the 10th edition of its design week, choosing an inspirational theme, born during brera design days 2018: sustainability and a green and choice-conscious design. design your life, that draws inspiration from bill burnett and dave evans’ book (designing your life: how to build a well-lived, joyful life, alfred a knopf inc, september 2016), is the title of brera design week 2019, a collective call to pay more attention to project’s impact.
if we were to adopt a design approach in our day-to-day choices, in our everyday life, we would probably be happier and less stressed. suffice it to consider an error contained in a project, as an element recognized as fundamental in the research process that helps bring to perfection. we ask designers to be more committed to the sustainable impact of their work. we ask everyone to behave as daring designers, because everyone’s thoughts and contributions are now essential.
thinking about the theme, design your life is conceptually linked to our 10th anniversary, identifying ten vertical sub-themes, ten ways in which the main theme can be interpreted by professionals, designers and researchers who tangibly contribute to building a sustainable world with their work. thanks to the experience gained with brera design days, we focused on a varied range of professionals among them who provide a perspective and a design approach capable of representing different aspects of sustainability.
the 10 ambassadors of brera design week 2019 are: marco mari and carlotta borruto from italia innovation (design your community); mauro martino from ibm research ai, northeastern university (design your creativity); oliver marlow from studiotilt (design your emotion); mario cucinella from mca and sos school of sustainability (design your future); daniel and markus freitag from freitag (design your ideas); thayse viégas from casa canvas (design your imaginations); aldo cibic (design your memories); stefano maffei from politecnico di milano (design your transformation); ben sheppard from mc kinsey design index (design your value).
award-winning interdisciplinary design agency rapt studio presents tell me more, their debut installation at salone del mobile featuring rich brilliant willing as their exclusive lighting partner. their immersive, interactive exhibit displays a grand installation of vitis, centro pendants, and crisp sconces along the walls.
tell me more aims to explore the intersection of spatial experience and emotional connection, offering visitors the opportunity to experience a microcosm of a rapt-designed environment. inspired by the feeling of entering a beloved space, the two-part installation consists of an arrival chamber and expansive lounge, which serve as a backdrop to explore human connection.
as guests first enter the space, they are greeted by small circular, drapery-clad “stages” –personal theaters. each stage presents guests with a question posed by the stranger who came before them. upon reflecting, visitors are asked to leave a query for the next guest and transition beyond the mirrored walls into the lounge.
in the lounge, guests gather underneath a living collage created by a shower of lights that hang from the vault ceiling. among the lights hang threads, from which the questions posed in the personal theaters reappear to encourage guests to consider their answers, strike up conversations, and make personal connections with those around them.
#tellmemore #raptxsalone
general exhibit information:
general dates and opening times:
april 9-13 10:00-20:00
april 14 10:00-18:00
design and vitra are practically synonymous. the family-owned swiss company is trusted with manufacturing the works of some of the world’s most respected and renowned designers. think eames, vernor panton, and jean prouvé —these are just some of the iconic names that have entrusted them to manufacture their pieces.
this year, vitra design museum is leading the charge in moving the conversation around design forward through a conference called the politics of design. the day-long affair will address design as a political activity with the idea that designers are constantly making decisions regarding social issues such as inclusion, identity, and sustainability. the aim of the conference is to explore the big question that surrounds this line of thinking: “while design is a powerful took for social and political change does it really have an effect on things?”
taking place on april 10 from 1:45 to 6:30, the day will be broken into three parts with top players in the fields of design, philosophy, sociology, and politics speaking on panels. confirmed speakers include paola antonelli, bruce sterling, danah abdulla, jan boelen, claudia chwalisz, indy johar, amelie klein, and etienne turpin.
the politics of design is presented by the vitra design museum and will take place april 10 at trienalle milano, teatro dell’arte.
inbovisa is a cultural project of aggregation and communication, born from associazione zona bovisa, for all the events and the actors of the bovisa district in milan. the goal is to enhance and implement this neighbourhood producer of innovation and creativity.
la bovisa, was historically an industrial district with a laboring soul. in the last years this neighborhood started an urban renewal process based on scientific research, training, culture development, design and innovation. during the milan design week, bovisa turn into a hub of event related to design and entrepreneurship: various creative and cultural start-ups will identify this area as a reference point and as a district where innovation come alive.
also this year some initiatives of this project will be developed during the milano design week 2019: from the 9th to 14th of april, in/bovisa aims to be the hub and the collector of all the different events and characters which wish to participate in a cultural project during the fuorisalone.
#inbovisa
porta venezia in design, the fuorisalone circuit that combines design and art with the architectural and decorative heritage of the liberty style – of which this area of the city is particularly rich – to make it better known to citizens and foreign guests who visit milan during the design week.
an itinerary divided into ‘three’: showrooms, stores and companies featuring new design and art, the food&wine itinerary, which finds space in some selected bars and restaurants, guided tours of the liberty facades, organized in collaboration with fai – fondo ambiente italiano.
the idea of this circuit is to highlight places, sometimes ‘hidden’ in courtyards, other facing the road: design and furnishing companies, hospitality and leisure with good food and wine, architectural companies and workshops. the cultural corner, linked to the liberty heritage, has always been our focus, by organising free tours, thanks to the collaboration with fai-fondo ambiente italiano.
isola design district is a territorial marketing project created by blank, a young milan-based creative agency, with the aim to give visibility to emerging international designers and local artisans, within one of the most lively neighborhoods of milan: isola.
the event is organized every year during milan design week, in collaboration with 24pr&events and emilio lonardo, and involves the entire area with design exhibitions, installations, workshops and talks, that take place within hidden locations, galleries and private courtyards.
if you want to discover young designers and new design brands, this is the right place to be, just next to contemporary architectural excellences as the vertical forest and gae aulenti square!
next to contemporary architectural excellences such as piazza gae aulenti, bosco verticale, unicredit tower, there is a heritage of hidden places, an incredible landscape of possibilities. within this context, a new system made of typical courtyards, shop windows, indoor and open spaces has been created to showcase projects of international emerging designers and local artisans.
locations are open to experimentation and contamination of different types of knowledge and disciplines, to go beyond the product and its function, continuing the research path that has characterized the event in previous editions.
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thanks to the uniqueness of the curatorial program and the continually expanding success of previous editions, 5vie art+design is now recognized internationally as an important new hub of cutting-edge design. with a special focus on one-of-a-kind pieces, art design, and the cross- contamination among the various arts, the 2019 edition aims to build on this growing success and embrace experimentation more openly than ever and to cultivate an even more international presence.
this year’s goal: consolidate our reputation as a cultural reference point,bringing together plurality of thought and international heterogeneity.
working as always in close contact with curators and designers and concentrating on clusters of creativity, 5vie is increasingly establishing itself as a meeting place for generating connections between different areas, investing in research, in the selection of projects, and in their final implementation. as such, our identity as a true “integrated design district” becomes crystal clear.
as always, 5vie uses respected curators to trace the editorial line and confirms its collaboration with annalisa rosso, maria cristina didero and nicolas bellavance-lecompte, entrusting them with site-specific installations to reaffirm 5vie’s attention to the territory. as if to say…: “never change a winning team”.
in the mystical setting of the oratorio della passione, didero works with carlo massoud to create her first solo show, a social and political exhibition filtered through a child-like vision. roberto sironi decides to tackle the hot-button topic of big data in a sophisticated exhibition curated by annalisa rosso installed in the intriguing setting of the roman cellars of siam in via santa marta. nicolas bellavance’s curates the work of anton alvarez, who experiments with new casting techniques for bronze with surprising results in a solo exhibition entitled l’ultima cera. the exhibition will be held at the church of san bernardino alle monache, which will open to the public only on this occasion.
born out of a trip to eindhoven, the collaboration with kiki van eijk and joost van bleiswijk takes the form of a site-specific installation in the by now familiar apartment on via cesare correnti 14, headquarters of 5vie with the participation of niels hoebers, sander wassink, and michele castagnaro. the objects, designed expressly for the occasion, represent autonomous forms whose function is only barely suggested, transporting the viewer into their creative process. “in my capacity as general consul of the netherlands, i appreciate the high standards of the international curatorial selection, and i consider the growing presence of dutch designers in the 5vie district to be a very positive development”, comments johan verboom. “since 2016, the embassy and consulate have collaborated with the district, and this year we decided to support this project with the shared aim of promoting talent and design”.
like every year, 5vie dedicates design week to a great master. the guest of honor for this edition will be ugo la pietra, an artist who established his reputation back in the late ‘50s and whose production has since explored an incredible variety of creative techniques. his exhibition is entitled design territoriale, genius loci.
new wireline lamp for flos will be presented in milano in two different locations.
first as a preview in the collectors’ lounge of miart (5- 7 april), then at the salone del mobile (9-14 april) in the pavilion 24 at new design holding booth .
further elaborating on some of the design principles of the previous lamp wirering, formafantasma is again using the power cable as one of the main design features. flattened to resemble a belt made of rubber and hanging from the ceiling, the cable holds a ribbed glass extrusion containing a led light source.
the lamp, that can be installed as a single piece, or repeated to obtain elaborate visual compositions, is in fact reduced in size once packed.
wireline will available in 2 colors: grey and light pink.
pavilion 24 – c01 c21 e02 e20 – s.project
