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
Category: Product design
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
About design schools and worldly expectations
I thought that this related beautifully to the opposite rants found recently online about what design schools are teaching nowadays (I’m mainly talking about Adaptive Path’s call for designers who can actually make things, and Peter Hall’s claim that there should be more holistic and systemic thinking in education). Via the always great Pintday.
Rough guide to Salone
When asked what he thought of this year’s Milan Furniture Fair a friend of mine said: “hmm, i think that the european furniture market is doing well, it’s def on the up-and-up. very shameless stuff. after a few years of crisis it seems that it’s doing better… big things. marcel wanders, hayon, studio job, moss,… Continue reading Rough guide to Salone
How to stop you from smoking
Brilliant.
Topoware @ Milan Furniture Fair 2007
Since i can never stand still for very long, I’m very proud to announce the 2nd project that will be exhibited at the Milan Furniture Faire this year: Topoware, a collection of cheeky tableware that examines the territories of our eating habits. This was designed with my great friend Karola Torkos.Go and visit the site… Continue reading Topoware @ Milan Furniture Fair 2007
Good Night Lamp @ Milan Furniture Fair 2007
I am quite proud to be presenting at the Milan Furniture Fair this year 2 projects, I’ll talk about the second one very soon. But for now, the Good Night Lamp will be exhibited at the Dotdotdot space in Milan. Come and say hi! We will also be some great pieces from Wellington’s Fine Leather… Continue reading Good Night Lamp @ Milan Furniture Fair 2007
designswarm update
I finally de-lazied a bit and am slowly putting up videos of my past works, there are a lot of them but with Youtube I no longer have any excuse : P The Hungries videos.
Bye bye 2006!
Originally uploaded by mbiddulph. I can’t take fancy “depth of field” pictures with my camera, so I told Matt to take one of my pixelblocks construction… Happy New Year everyone and much health, love, success and blogging!
About the democracy of creation and sustainability
As soon as I started blogging, a little over a year ago now, I’ve always been interested in how my former life of industrial designer merged with the internet. I went to blogject workshops, read about the “internet of things”, went to “near field interactions” workshop, looked at Matt’s work on Second life, listen to… Continue reading About the democracy of creation and sustainability