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
01/06/2009
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
22/06/2009
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.
Qing Zuo 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.
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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
Talk by Marianne on her work process, with diverse chapters such as city fabric, material studies and conclusions of 5 weeks project work, her finished book print “Wire my Position’ and her design approach. From 7pm onwards at the [studio] in Julu lu, Shanghai. Please visit BoomWehmeyer site for more information.
Wrap up Work
19/08/2009
The work weeks this summer period in Shanghai also came to an end after long days, long weeks and extreme information flows. To conclude first months we had an informal evening presentation by ourself on the project Re:Wire and an intern work presentation by Marianne Meijer.
Lodz Design festival
15/09/2009
The farmgirls are on display in an exhibition curated by Marek Cecula at Lodz design festival from 15 till 31 october.
The contemporary ceramics exhibition titled non-object-ive during Lodz Design 2009 will cover a wide spectrum of the newest ceramic output selected from the int. survey showing progression of the ceramic medium in the milieu of the phenomenal design expansion.
London design week
15/09/2009
The exhibition Airmail comes to London, Airmail is an exhibition with new objects dealing with the idea of weight, or rather the absence of it, in design. Airmail, Bringing lightness to everyday objects will be shown at IDEA GENERATION GALLERY
11 Chance Street London E2 7JB
23 – 27 Sept, 12 - 5PM daily
The proposals will show a rather unusual combination of approaches and processes with projects ranging from jewelry to lighting and a varied use of production techniques, from printed textiles or ceramics, to sand casting and electroplating.
Please come and visit the work REPOSED LIGHTS at IDEA GENERATION Gallery.
The exhibit will concentrate on ceramics, which represent the interface between art and design and new interpretations of industrial aesthetics, ready-made product, and the work, which combine new material and advanced methods of production.
Commissaires Montreal
21/09/2009
Pierre Laramee curated a new exhibition in Montreal at Commissaires under the theme of Nature and Other Anomalies. Part of my Hare collection from China will be on display. If you are in the area please visit to see a great selection of diverse works.
Nature in design always has been and always will be a source of inspiration and an object of representation. But what about those stranger, less reputable manifestations with nature, or our very existence.
Those darker manifestations are the subject of Nature and Other Anomalies.
With and extraordinairy series of infected jars from Tamson van Essen’s Medical heirlooms, a gigantic plastic-flower installation from San Franciso artist Yedda
Morrison, birds from taxidermist-jeweler Kelly Mccallum ( currently exhibiting at London’s Victoria and Albert), a disconcerting Vanitas lamp from Charlotte Dumoncel d’Argence, plates and Hare Heads from Judith van den Boom, strange jewelry from Bjørg, and place settings with invasive species from Future Retrieval.
Vernissage on Thursday, September 24 from 6.30 und till the end of November
Commissaires, 5226 St-Laurent Montreal
Mobile places
30/10/2009
The next months we will be located again project work between Germany, Shanghai & Jingdezhen. We are working on some diverse design projects that will reveal begin of new year. Some work will be about a new
Ways of Working
10/11/2009
Moving beyond your borders. Re-thinking your ways of working. What is happening in design, in our locality, how can your own ways of working contribute in new ways to designing. Last thursday we facilitated a clinic with BA product design students about expanding work ways in design by crossing borders and stimulating other approaches of design work.
Host design shop Coming Soon & Artez , Arnhem (NL) website CS.
Slow Revolution
30/10/2009
This month the exhibition Taking Time opened. Taking Time is a nationally touring Craftspace exhibition curated by Helen Carnac and launching in partnership with Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
We as BoomWehmeyer take part in Taking Time by opening our work approach and latest project in China for the viewers. For more information please visit the website of BoomWehmeyer and Slow Revolution.
The artists in the exhibition are: Judith van den Boom & Gunter Wehmeyer, Gary Breeze, Neil Brownsword, Sonya Clark, Rebecca Early, Ken Eastman & Dawn Youll, David Gates, Matthew Harris, Amy Houghton, Esther Knobel, Sue Lawty, Heidrun Schimmel, Paul Scott & Ann Linnemann, Elizabeth Turrell, Shane Waltener & Cheryl McChesney Jones.
Catalogue book by hyperkit studio.
furniture line, design research project Re:Wire and projects with other designers and local communities. Follow us at BoomWehmeyer or email us about subjects or participations.
Work in progress
12/12/2009
These weeks we are full on shaping the new work for 2010. Weeks are full with planning, structures, concepts, experiments, logistics and pushing the boundaries of expectations, time and material. A great and raw side to living the full time weeks directly on the work floor.
The collection of work is pushing our ideas deeper into new directions of the layers around us, people’s usage of material, products and space.
Until begin february we will be mostly based in Jingdezhen working through the projects.
Please contact for information.
Re-thinking your ways of working
New Year
29/12/2009
This year is nearly to its end again and we look back into a great year full of diversity of work, meeting new people and shared energy on design projects.
Our step into 2010 will take place in China while being busy with our work projects. We will start on 1 january with a evening lecture about our work approach for students and curious people at the Sculpture factory in Jingdezhen.
The theme of the talk is Moving Beyond Your Borders, to start the new year with a fresh energy and approach. The evening will be focussed on bringing diversity to grow people’s work directions. If you are in the area feel free to stop by and contact us for more information. We hope you all have a great start of the new year and look forward meeting you again for some synergy.
Best wishes, BoomWehmeyer
Roots in progress
30/01/2010
The new year started fully and we will be based between Arnhem and Germany in the february weeks. From March onwards back in China for finalising project work.
Also coming through is one of our projects, the new work Roots and will launch the coming period.
If you like to meet with us or want more information on our other activities please contact us. Keep in touch !
