Welcome! DesignMarketo is a platform diffusing up-and-coming designers’ small and limited productions.
We also organise events where you can pop by and see the real thing.
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.
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…
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
