During this year’s Design Week Cologne, British Designer Ross Lovegrove spoke with Designspotter about, well let’s face it pretty much everything.
If you have an extra 20 minutes to spare, and as Lovegrove puts it, some incredible stamina, this might be worth a watch.
Royal College of Art
Kensington Gore, London,
The RCA presents Boom, an exhibition highlighting the innovation, inspiration and talent from this years post graduate students at the College.
The exhibition will feature a series of studio works in progress by students in Architecture, Innovation Design Engineering, Design Interactions, Printmaking and Animation.
In Talk, a series of conversations on issues that concern us as capitalists and citizens, Deyan Sudjic talks to designers Sam Hecht and Konstantic Grcic about the meaning of design.
Attempting to re-establish the core meaning of design, Sudjic questions Grcic and Hecht on design's central ideas, how it relates to art and can design be critical.
Museum of Arts and Design
2 Columbus Circle New York, NY 10019
To coincide with the exhibition ‘Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary’ MAD hosts a symposium exploring artistic innovation and sustainability.
For this year’s Cologne Furniture Fair German designer Johannes Hemann presented Storm Generated Forms, a series of products realised, not by the destructive forces of the winds, but by energy-generating forces, as can be seen in sand dunes or snow drifts.
Gallery Pascale
Humlegårdsgatan 15, Stockholm
To coincide with the Stockholm Design Festival, Gallery Pascale will present work by Ilkka Suppanen, internationally acclaimed Finish architect and designer.
Centre de design, University of Quebec in Montreal
1440 rue Sanguinet, Montreal
To coincide with the Montreal Festival of Lights the Centre of Design at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM) presents Paris/ Design in Mutation.
Recent product design graduate, Kilian Schindler has come up with a simple solution which takes the ordinary out of your garden variety white plastic chair.
Pierre Bergé & Associés
Drouot Richelieu -Salles 1-7, Paris
Design works by cutting-edge contemporary designers including, Marc Newson, Tom Dixon and Philippe Starck will be offered at the upcoming Pierre Bergé & Associés Auction: Arts modern et contemporain.
Stockholm Furniture Fair
K11 conference room, S-125 80 Stockholm
Forming part of this year’s Stockholm furniture Fair, DAMn° Magazine presents Peach Kauch, a twist on the traditional idea of a design talk.
Alice Rawsthorn reflects on the present state of Limited-edition design in her article published November 28, 2008 for the International Herald Tribune.
imm Cologne
Koelnmesse, Cologne
Cologne will once again become the European centre of design from 19th to 25th January 2009.
This year’s fair will feature a comprehensive selection of designer furniture and products, presented by approximately 1,000 imm cologne exhibitors from over 50 countries.
MAD Theater
2 Columbus Circle, NewYork, NY
The Museum of Arts and Design will host a panel discussion on the blurring of the boundaries between craft and design.
Swedish designer Pernilla Jansson’s ‘A New Proposal’ is a playful investigation into light.
Determined to “disturb the order of things and bring in the unexpected,” Jansson’s ‘A New Proposal’ puts an everyday object into a new perspective, one which so aptly emphasises the beauty and delicate nature of light.
imm Cologne
Congress Centre North, Deutz-Mülheimer StraBe, Cologne, GER
For the first time in Europe imm cologne will be hosting DesignCamp, an open, participatory workshop-event whose content is generated exclusively by participating designers.
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