DesignMarketo en BCN
del 1 de diciembre de 2011
al 6 de enero de 2012
inauguración > jueves 1 de diciembre a las 20.00h

Hey! we will be showing some of lovely designers projects in Spain starting tomorrow (1st of December); Alexandre and Lars joined Jordi down there to prepare the space which is looking quite exciting (see below). Come and join us if you are around! Thank you Otracosas for the super nice invitation.
At the occasion of this shop/exhibition DesignMarketo is producing a book looking back at what happened the beginning of our adventures with you all.
(more details will follow soon)

Otrascosas de Villarrosàs
Via Laietana 64, Principal
08003 Barcelona
MAP

Lunes – Viernes
10.00-14.00h / 16.00-19.30h
otrascosas@villarrosas.com
t (+34) 93 238 83 04
http://www.otrascosasdevillarrosas.com/

for the press release in spanish:
DesignMarketo, creado por Alexandre Bettler y Jerom Rigaud, es una plataforma de difusión para diseñadores emergentes con pequeñas y limitadas producciones de objetos. Establecidos en Londres, su principal objetivo es proveer a los diseñadores con una herramienta que les permita difundir, exponer y vender sus productos. La autoproducción —lo que conlleva a series limitadas—, el ingenio y la honestidad —tanto en sus materiales como en sus formas—, son sin duda características del tipo de piezas que encontramos bajo el abanico de DMO.
Julian Bond, Lars Freeden, Martino Gamper, Harry Thaler, Mischer’Traxler, Oscar Díaz, Tomás Alonso, Officeabc, Peter Marigold o David Weatherhead entre muchos otros están presentes en esta plataforma. Agrupando sus productos en algunas ocasiones bajo diferentes tipologías, temáticas o eventos, encontramos desde fruteros con clasificadores para organizar las manzanas por días, el taburete Arnold Circus, un jersey donde la manga figura como una trompa de elefante o hasta exprimidores de limones alejados del Juicy Salif.
DesignMarketo en BCN abarca una amplía selección de piezas de la plataforma en una instalación especialmente diseñada para la ocasión por Jordi Canudas y Lars Frideen. Y si, aprovechando que casi es Navidad también haremos de todo esto una pequeña Xmas Pop-up Store.

Making Of DesignMarketo en BCN – pictures from Otracosas Facebook page

There’s a new book by Gestalten Verlag about the new food culture and the various practice surrounding the new tastes and interesting projects, amongst them two projects by DesignMarketo that you might recognise: FoodMarketo and a Dinner with DesignMarketo, amongst a few others events and collaborations we have worked on recently…

You are HOW you eat, as much as what you eat. Now, more than ever, eating is an expression of our mindset, identity, spirit, culture, and aspirations. Against this background, this book is an entertaining visual exploration of a diverse scene of young entrepreneurs that see eating as a creative challenge. They are united by a passion for making food an experience and are striving to deal with eating and nourishment in more imaginative, more sensuous, and more responsible ways.
Delicate is an inspiring collection of people, places, projects, and products from around the world that are blazing trails for a new passion for food and the ways we share it.

More About This Book

Eating is so much more than merely fulfilling a fundamental bodily need. Eating appeals to all of our senses; it boosts our well-being on every level. Now, more than ever, it is an expression of our mindset, identity, spirit, and culture.
Around the world, a scene of young food entrepreneurs is developing that brings together creatives, tradespeople, and activists. This scene aspires to deal with both the food that we need, and the food that we enjoy, in more creative, more sensuous, and more responsible ways. It is united by a passion for making food an experience as well as by a high appreciation for the quality, origin, aesthetics, and workmanship of food.
Delicate introduces the protagonists at the forefront of this current movement along with the projects, places, and products associated with them. The book documents a wide spectrum from small brewers, coffee roasters, and chocolate-makers to artists, event managers, and creators of zines.
Event concepts are shown that use food to facilitate communication and social interaction in tried and true, as well as surprising new ways. Locations such as shops, markets, and restaurants become meeting places for everyone who would like to learn, participate, sample, and enjoy.
The experimental projects featured in Delicate are blazing trails for a better understanding of nourishment and a new passion for food.

Delicate: New Food Culture
An exploration of a worldwide scene that sees eating as a creative challenge.
Editors: R. Klanten, K. Bolhöfer, A. Mollard, S. Ehmann
Release Date: August 2011
Format: 21 x 26 cm
Features: 240 pages, full color, flexicover
Language: English
ISBN: 978-3-89955-369-7
Catalog Price: €38.00 / $60.00 / £35.00

Lars, Alexandre & Jérôme would like to invite you for Crèpes & Café.

Come this Sunday (13th of December) from 1pm to 4pm at Lars’s place,
22 Belsham Street (E9 6NG), off Mare street.

Alongside home made treats, we will have a temporary showroom “Today’s Special” where you will be able to take advantage of new furniture at a friendly price!
Looking forward to see you on the 13th.

This saturday, Alexandre Bettler organised a Bread Workshop: Le Corbusier Bakes Units”; part of the Le Corbusier exhibition at Barbican, there was a day of activities and workshop – see here for more details and here for pictures of the event on Flickr.

* One of the ‘The Bread Workshops’ is actually developped, documented and explained in the book Alexandre is selling on SuperMarketo: ‘The Bread Workshop’:

Designed as three books in one, each one has its specific format, design and typeface and depicts a specific bread workshop organised in 2005 as part of the ‘Pan-european/Pan-européen’ project.