FoodMarketo returns!

September 3, 2010 by jerome
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Come and visit us during the London Design Week:

Coffee & Friends

20—26 september / 10am—7pm
8b Egerton Garden Mews
SW3 2EH

FoodMarketo is a popup café and shop offering coffee related products and workshops. FoodMarketo features objects specifically commissioned together withproducts from the previous FoodMarketo Milan (at the Salone del Mobile, 2010); the FoodMarketo London interiors are designed by Max Lamb & Lars Fridden, and their specially commisioned furniture will be on sale directly after the event. The space also include DMOLab, a showcase of the work-in-process of 3 hand-picked up-and-coming designers: Sibylle Stoeckli, Jochem Faudet and Harry Thaler.

More details and tbc events on FoodMarketo website.
See you soon!

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Traditionally new

July 15, 2010 by jerome
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DezeenTV just published this video below – they interview designer Tomás Alonso about being an exhibitor at [D3] Design Talents at imm cologne and also about his own practice and work environment.

Extract (original post on Dezeen):

Q. would you say that you have an approach to design, a methodology or a sort of an idea that you always have in your head when you approach your projects?

A. I’m always very interested on trying to find what the possibilities of the material that I’m using offer, how this could be pushed and used in different ways – I think the way something is made and the material that is used to make it is directly related to the way the thing should look. In a way, it’s a very honest piece – when you look at it you can see how it has been made. I try to do this as much as possible in my work and i try to look for this kind of solutions, because i think those are that are going to allow the final pieces to be clean and simple, work well and also be beautiful – because everything is there, it makes sense and it’s doing what it is supposed to be doing. In some ways, it’s a very old approach to design but at the same time i’m trying to find new ways of doing this traditional things…

Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents: Tomás Alonso from Dezeen on Vimeo.

* Tomás Alonso produced and exhibited this Side Table for an Apple at FoodMarketo – it appeared also at the Phillips de Pury & Company Connectors exhibition at Saatchi Gallery.

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Chin Chin Laboratories

July 14, 2010 by jerome
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Yesterday Andrew and Shai invited us to discover their most recent project and sample a few nitro ice cream… You might have read about it recently – London has finally got its first nitro icecream bar. They designed the interior of the new Chin Chin Laboratories’s nitro icecream bar in Camden.

As a key idea behind their work they developped a mad scientists lab environement, where preparation area, display cabinet and lightning devices are all inter-connected with a lot of playfulness.
No wire on the floor; everything goes trough the pipes seems to be one of the main very practical feature. Details amongst others, that I really liked, the cords of the swing have been partially un-woven and re-woven on themselves – there’s no knot!

* Chin Chin Laboratories are located in Camden – the address is 49 Camden Lock Place.

The confectionning and preparation areas, cabinet and display are all hold together by the tubular structure.

The lightbulbs are directly plugged on the structure.

even the drinks had that mad scientists feeling (kir royal in a pipette)

un-woven – re-woven

** Andrew Haythornthwaite and Shai Akram began their collaboration shortly after graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2006 on the Design Products course headed by Ron Arad. Their projects have taken them to China, New Zealand and now, back to the UK.
They presented their Fruit Fishing for FoodMarketo in Milan 2010; which is based on the scientific fact that apples float and pears don’t.

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100 chairs – 2nd edition

July 13, 2010 by jerome
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The 100 chairs books which has been out of stock for a few months now, just got reprinted; this second edition comes in smaller size and is as wonderful as the earlier.
I managed to have a sneak preview just before lunch at åbäke, the volume was not yet bound but looked already really beautiful, similar but different from the first edition.
Very Nice!

Martino Gamper creates his new chairs from elements of existing ones. By deconstructing the chair he gains a new insight into its construction and use of materials which informs the creation of the new design.

* the new edition should be available on DesignMarketo very shortly, probably before the end of the week.

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Mounting the 10 degree chair

July 4, 2010 by jerome
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While browsing the archives, we stumbleupon this short animation that we made a little while ago and never published – it was made to explain the assembly of the flat pack chair designed by Lars Frideen and shot on location in his studio. The chair is made out of 4 elements, piece of wood pre-cut and easy to assemble – requiring no glue or screw.

* Lars also designed the 15 wall shelves working on the same principles of sliding and interlocking simple wood elements – providing a functional storage solution.

** Pictures from Interior Photography

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Ken Kirton’s see-trough website

July 2, 2010 by jerome
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Ken updated his website; he decided to use the see-through technique; instead of representing his work, he used a frame to curate others representing his work.

http://www.kenkirton.com/

Although, I am hesitent to call this my new website, I would prefer my new frame. There are already enough platforms where we can voice our opinions, display our work and even publish our everyday thoughts. Therefore instead of creating an exhibit of work I have created a frame, enjoy! It’s Friday.

* Ken’s work on DesignMarketo: Cook for a day, Three Boys, One Bench and An Apple a Day.

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The Theatre of the Air / Airspace Activism

June 15, 2010 by jerome
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The Theatre of the Air/ AIRSPACE ACTIVISM=ENACTING THE INVISIBLE
is a set of 2 exhibitions – in London and Newcastle
it is the fruit of the collaboration in between geography researcher Dr Alison J Williams and Interactions designer Nelly Ben Hayoun

Where beats this Human Heart/ Space in Between
Exhibition runs 19/06/10 ‐ 23/06/10
The Bunker
@ The Print House
18 Ashwin street
London E8 3DL

A disused WWII air raid shelter in Dalston, East London, is the backdrop for the exhibition. Inside the passages and chambers of this dark and cavernous subterranean, 5 artists have created a spectacle of sensory and experiential overload.
Use an audio locator to spot the planes coming!

Interventions/ Newcastle University
Exhibition runs 28th June- 2nd July
The Exlibris Gallery
The Quadrangle
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU

picture by Nick Ballon.jpg

Who owns the airspace above our heads? How can we take back control of these spaces? What is the extent of the airspace we can control?

Nelly Ben Hayoun (Interactions designer) and Dr Alison J Williams (geography researcher) met through the Interventions Project, an initiative based in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Newcastle University, UK. This venture teamed for 8 weeks designers with social scientists to develop innovative ways of commenting on their academic research.

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Beautiful crates from FoodMarketo

June 14, 2010 by jerome
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Max Lamb and Lars Frideen designed our popup shop and kitchen in Milan for FoodMarketo. Look below: a few pictures of those beautiful crates that we used for FoodMarketo in Milan; most of them were sourced at a nearby market, and later assembled togeher to form our central table on which we cooked, held workshop and shared wonderful meals throughout the week.

* Just so that we keep your apetite high enough, we are currently working on the second opus of FoodMarketo – this time in London, during the Design Week.

** Stay in touch via this blog RSS or the newsletter; more information when the dates will be set…

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Switzerland Design for Life – at the A Foundation

by jerome
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Tags: arnold circus, book, chair, design, exhibition, london, switzerland
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Alexandre Bettler (co-founder of DesignMarketo), Régis Tosetti and Loris&Livia are part of the exhibition Switzerland Design for Life at the A Foundation – along with our friends Laurent Benner, Jürg and Urs Lehni and Lex Trub. The show will feature as well Bureau Collective, Bureau Destruct, Elena Rendina, Grotesk, GVA Studio, ID Pure studio, Kellenberger-White, Kueng Caputo, Nerves, Stefan Jost, Super Position, Voegeli Voegeli, Zak Kyes and a few others.

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* The show is on from this friday (private view by invitation) until July the 1st, 2010
** A Foundation: Rochelle School and Club – Arnold Circus, London E2 Old Street tube station, Shoreditch Overground (East London Line)

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Tags: arnold circus, book, chair, design, exhibition, london, switzerland
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All Cats Are Grey at the Art Carboot Fair (London, Bricklane)

June 5, 2010 by jerome
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All Cats Are Grey are going to sell their fantastic collection and designs – GO! and visit them (they are on a stall with their friend Cleo).

Art Car Boot Fair 2010
Sunday 6th June, 12-6pm
146 Brick Lane E1
Tube: White Chapel, Aldgate East, Liverpool Street

This Sunday, the girls are joining over sixty exciting pitches with regular booters Sir Peter Blake, Gavin Turk, Bob & Roberta Smith and Pam Hogg joined by Martin Creed, Billy Childish, Pete Fowler, Oliver Guy Watkins, Ian Dawson and Jessica Albarn, for this yearâ€™s fresh and feisty take on what is already gearing up to be the hottest day of the year! Plus! Myriad entertainments from Gabby Young, Revere, Owada, Marawa, and the ultimate fun generators The Bethnal Green Working Menâ€™s Club! Cool cocktails from The East Room, and epicurean delights from The Bath Pig, La Grotta home made ices, Mrs Marengoâ€™s art cakes and St. John Bread & Wine!

http://allcatsaregreyprints.com/ / http://www.artcarbootfair.com/

The 2010 Art Car Boot Fair is gearing up to be the art worldâ€™s summer playground with lots of artful dodging and weaving, bartering and frivolity than ever before and serious art bargains to boot!
New! This year! A Wrestling Ring centrepiece featuring bouts of old school wrestling interspersed with some arty in-fighting and inbetween-bout secret auction thrills as this yearâ€™s crowds snap up Lucha Libre inspired original artworks from the UKâ€™s most famous artists, the freshest talents and the coolest trend setters. Plus weâ€™re upping the stakes with lots of artful games and gaming.

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Coffee & Friends 20—26 september / 10am—7pm 8b Egerton Garden Mews SW3 2EH

Coffee & Friends

20—26 september / 10am—7pm
8b Egerton Garden Mews
SW3 2EH