Went to see Design products show from the RCA (headed by Ron Arad) and I have to say I think the general trend in product design master’s is to make designers become more and more conceptual to the point of hovering in a grey area between art and design. In any case, I wasn’t moved… Continue reading Sleep less indeed
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Religion2.0
I’m sitting here in Schipol airport, majorly delayed, so I thought I’d do something constructive and write about a few projects from Sacral design a great exhibition put together at the Designmai festival in Berlin. I think it’s interesting to look at a body of work that addresses the presence / absence of belief in… Continue reading Religion2.0
In transit
I’m in a non-descript hotel in Amsterdam, a place I called my home for 8 months. Now I stay in hotels here. There’s something terribly disturbing about traveling to 4 different cities in the same week especially when you’ve lived significant amounts of time in some and no time at all in others. You brush… Continue reading In transit
What people must be thinking…
… when I travel Via Someecards.
Xtech talk: Ceci n'est pas une pipe
Had a great time at Xtech on monday and basically tweaked my talk in light of the great things I had seen at Designmai. I talked about product design, how designers see objects and how that influences how the future “internet of things” will be designed. So you can download the pdf of my slides… Continue reading Xtech talk: Ceci n'est pas une pipe
The difference between a U and an S
I’m sitting in Berlin in a great café with a bear on the logo, on my way to Paris, not ready at all for my talk tomorrow, but have been terribly impressed by what I saw at the Designmai event. More on that later I promise. I was also part of a panel, invited by… Continue reading The difference between a U and an S
Quote of the day
A Stuttgart-based painter asks me over a typical meat-based breakfast: “But isn’t design supposed to be easy on the eyes?” I didn’t know what to answer. Maybe she’s right.
Quote of the day
“If you really want your life to pass by in front of you like a movie, just travel, you can forget your life” – Andy Warhol
A Day in the life of smart things: 2030
Tom Klinkowstein will be exhibiting a visual projection of what it will feel like in a connected world in 2030, a project he worked on with Irene Pereyra: “The project, a large digital “diagrammatic narrative”, portrays a day in a designer’s life in the year 2030 and her relationship to the objects and environments around… Continue reading A Day in the life of smart things: 2030
Ich bin ein Berliner
I will be, for just 24 hours unfortunately, dropping by Designmai, a yearly design event in Berlin, to be part of a panel named“What they hate about the world of design”. As the organiser of the panel Mell Byars describes the conversation as follows: ” I wrote to a number of journalists, museum curators, manufacturers,… Continue reading Ich bin ein Berliner