Archive for the ‘design’ Category
|Anti-Modernista|#3
|New Lancia Ypsilon|2011| Let’s have a look And now let’s remember these… Lately Italian car design, in particular Centro Stile Fiat, has turned really baroque. But adding with a very “manieristic” attitude details and redundant particular does not always work out. The New Ypsilon design is at the same time anonymous and too fancy. Usually [...]
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Etichette: 2011, A112, Autobianchi, car, car design, Centro Stile Fiat, design, Fiat, Gruppo Fiat, Lancia, New Ypsilon, Y10
|Art Object|2011|
Art Object is an interesting fair of art and independent design organized every year in Rotterdam. Its mainly aim is to give a commercial exposition for Dutch galleries and their artists coming from all over the world. It is wisely divided into two parts: Art is about contemporary artists, while Object is for limited production [...]
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Etichette: 2011, art, Art Object, design, fair, february, galleries, Netherlands, Rotterdam, Wilhelminapier
|Past-Present|
|When aging is overcome| Design deals with time in many ways. Sometimes objects change and evolve while aging. Sometimes they can get through time, and enter a meta-dimension that goes beyond style, years, and even users. They are not modern, but they become contemporary/concurrent/coeval.
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Etichette: 1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, aging, danish design, dans design center, design, objects
|The Words of others|#12|
|Donald Norman and the Design Practice| Donald Norman is the kind of grandfather that cannot use a remote control, but instead of yelling against the tv, he tries to understand which are the problems of the interface mapping of the device. Tuesday 14.12 Donald Norman had an interesting lecture at the University of Technology in [...]
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Etichette: Design practice, design thinking, Donald Norman, hill climbing process, incremental innovation, Innovation, radical innovation, TU Delft
|Anti-Modernista|#2
|by Riva| Some objects had the good chance to be born from experience, knowledge, skills. And these objects have all these characteristics deeply in their DNA, like Riva motorboats. Companies like Riva should be aware of that, so to preserve and defend the “oeuvre of art” they produce, because those objects can represent a piece [...]
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Etichette: 2010, aquarama, design, Marc Newsons, Motorboat, motoscafo, Riva
|Anti-Modernista|#1
|by Cassina| Have you ever tried penne all’arrabbiata with ketchup? Italian Design companies, especially Cassina, have always created special series of furniture from famous projects of Le Corbusier, Aalto, van der Rohe, etc. These series were always able to give new life and strength to these product, in some way they really could make them [...]
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Etichette: Cassina, design, furniture, Le Corbusier
|DutchDesignWeek2010| part.1
|Design Academy – Graduation Exhibition| The Dutch Design Week was officially born as the Graduation Exhibition of the Design Academy. And still today this is the most important event of the week. The quality of project and exhibition is amazing, like every year. It’s easy to spend four hours in the space of the Witte [...]
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Etichette: 2010, Chin Pong Leung, Chloé Pouzoulet, DDW, design academy, dutch design week, eindhoven, Else Schenkeveld, Emile Pallard, Graduation Exhibition, Maaike Seegers, Soren Wibroe
|Iper Digital|#2|
|Why my iPhone 4 is a BIG FAIL| Few months ago the new iPhone 4 was released, and again the launch of a new Apple product became the Event. Let analyze some interesting steps of the young life of the new iPhone 4. It was presented to the world through a smart marketing action: let [...]
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Etichette: apple, design, interface, iPhone 4, Jonathan Ive, review, steve jobs, tlc, tool
|London Design Festival|#2|
| Design Museum – Designers Block | The Design Museum has always some great pearl to share with visitors. This year there was something even better than the design exhibition. On the second floor a “personal” is dedicated to John Pawson, an english architect whose name does not appear so often on magazines. The presented [...]
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Etichette: 2010, architecture, Design Museum, exhibition, John Pawson, LDF, London, London Design Festival, minimalism
|London Design Festival|#1|
London Design Festival 2010 | 18-26 September 2010 In the meantime I was writing this post, I missed Wien and Brussels Design Week. While Design Week all over Europe are becoming “craftsmanship fair”, it would be nice to take out something interesting from the most important ones, before moving to the next touristic event. LDF [...]
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Etichette: 2010, bench, Cappellini, design, London, London Design Festival, Raw Edge, Tailored Wood, Victoria & Albert Museum
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