Slow rapport
16/10/2008
For the site www.design.nl , I wrote small article about the Slow Loket by slowLab during the Freedesigndom in Amsterdam.
Have a read ! Article here
Active thinking
10/12/2008
A period of looking into empowering each other, design activism, slow values and a outward focus for creating new ideas on the design practise. Fresh start off term 2 teaching with the product design students from Academy of Art & Design in Arnhem.
Investigation Oberlin
19/01/2009
A great group of students and their two faculty members Susan and Don from Oberlin College (USA) came to have a two intens work weeks in Amsterdam.
The weeks were set up with full program learning and working the principles of slow design as how slowLab has defined them. Read more here.
Ceramic Product Design
20/03/2009
At the CBKG in Arnhem opens the exhibition of Ceramic Product Design.
An exhibition that shows the diversity and quality of ceramics used in product design.
My work from Once Upon A Time is present. 26 March till 10 May at CBKG Arnhem.
The notion of the craft, innovation & quality are combined in a divers group show. Work from Floor van Ast, Pieke Bergmans, Bas Kools, Willem van Landeghem, Sander Luske and many others.
Airmail - Bringing lightness to everyday objects.
06/04/2009
A good place to visit is Glasgow between
29 May and 28 June to visit the exhibition organized by GOODD and Parallel Projects. A new view on lightness.
A divers exhibition with new work from various designers. Also available will be my new range of lighting Reposed Light. More info soon.
Airmail is an exhibition with new objects dealing with the idea of weight, or rather the absence of it, in design. Lightness has been often used to measure progress in society (e.g. aircrafts or architectural structures.), and its relation with mobility is as old as mankind.
Talent Milan 09
20/04/2009
Spazio Rossana Orlandi hosts the designhuis anotholgy of talent. My work Qing Zuo porcelain stools is present in this exhibition at the Milan Design week.
Reposed Light & Light Voids
2/05/2009
When the motion of light could turn haptic, would you touch it? Could you direct the movement of reposed rays of light ?
Light gives the motion to what we create.
This project will continue throughout 2009 and will have several int. creative thinkers, designers, analysts, documenters, realists and idealists involved. Also in the summer Marianne Meijer will join our studio a design student from Academy of Art & Design in Arnhem with her creative input. More info soon.
Relocated for fieldwork
20/05/2009
This year our BoomWehmeyer research project is taking off based in Shanghai.
In May we relocated to our Shanghai workspace and investigate into several chapters all concerning in dialogue with the other. The project can be followed at BoomWehmeyer.
Berlin Gallery
01/06/2009
A great new gallery by Karena Schuessler for contemporary furniture design-art will open this June in Berlin. Karena curates a group of divers design-art furniture objects in her gallery. The gallery will host a great selection the contemporary design-art scene based in Berlin.
Work from Tejo Remy & Rene Veenhuizen, Willy Guhl, Andreas Grahl, Le Corbusier, Max Lamb, Judith van den Boom, Drift, Harush Shlomo, Lutz Hüning, Danny Venlet, Oskar Zieta and Richard Hutten.
Please visit www.karenaschuessler.com
The new series of ceramics lighting, Reposed Light & Light Voids are now being shown at the Airmail exhibition at Goodd in Glasgow.
My stools are an investigation in the bodylanguage of furniture and its users. Please visit my work and of many others here from 22 to 26 April.
A relation that recently is leading to mobile devices where the convergence of functions suggest that we could, one day, have function without matter.
Probably as a reaction to that, there is being an increase in the production of heavily crafted objects and the revival of pattern and decoration. Between this progress-based idea of doing more with less, and the heavily handcrafted pieces "Airmail" finds its place.
"Airmail" features different experiments, interpretations, and developments on the idea of lightness in its broader meaning.
shared design views at BoomWehmeyer web
Book / Design Activism
22/06/2009
Design Activism / beautiful strangeness for a sustainable world. This new book is written by Alastair Fuad-Luke and freshly published by Earthscan. A great read for understanding and also activating your own perspective of design. The work I do in China contributed in the book.
If you’re interested in purchasing the book you are offered a 20% discount, please load the detailed pdf Design_Activism Book.pdf
Design Activism provides a rigourous exploration of design activism that will re-vitalise the design debate and provide a solid platform for students, teachers, design professionals and other disciplines interested in transformative (design) activism.
About the author, Alastair Fuad-Luke is a sustainable design consultant, facilitator, lecturer, & writer. Visit his website here
Book / The Independent Design Guide
01/06/2009
A new book has been published what covers my porcelain Qing Zuo stools and fluid floor tiles. The author is Laura Housely and the book is published by Thames & Hudson. A great collection of new products from a new generation of designers. Houseley’s selection of designs react to a
wider cultural or political issues. Certain themes emerge, dealing with nostalgia, sustainability, material and technological innovation, process and craft, irony and play. Hardcover: 352 pages - Publisher : Thames & Hudson (27 April 2009) ISBN-10: 0500514577