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Red, Rood, Rouge
The most simple concept is often the most powerful one, communication wise. Rood by rENs is one of those concepts. During the Dutch Design Week (DDW) this duo, consisting of designers Renee Mennen & Stefanie van Keijsteren, went all the way and tastefully dipped clothing, carpets and furniture in a Cadmium red, Carmine red, Apple red, Oxblood red, Kraplak red, Vermilion red, Mahoney red, Red Oker, Alizarine red, English red, Bordaux red. Any kind of red you can think of, actually. Normally Rood only consists of a clothing collection of which each garment is unique and characterized by a code, that enables you to track and trace the garment on the website and find out the entire story of your piece of Rood. But because of the DDW rENs was able to fill one of work spaces of designer Kiki van Eijk creating a whole lot of red. rENs even joined forces with Piet Bergman, a designer turned cook, to whip up a three course red diner. We had to skip that part, but the exit, on the red carpet, was glamorous.
Lisa Telussa
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Bernotat & Co Design Studio
Textielmuseum
Macumba
(project chair wear )
Gros Foulard
( project chair wear )
Knit-Net(project chair wear )
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Garden of Eden - Light Forest
Eat Drink Design
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‘Levels - Falling water’, by Ontwerpduo, at the Eat Drink Design exhibition
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Kranen/Gille
MONK
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Nov 6th -
okay, the D.D.W photo’s
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full update on the ddw this wednesday
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I wish I could go !
it’s actualy not that far from here
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‘ban pavilion’ by orprojects for the 2012 beijing design week, china
image © jasper james and orproject
‘ban,’ the chinese word for ‘leaf,’ drives the concept for the pavilion designed by international firm orproject for the 2012 beijing
design week. hundreds of bent transparent polymer sheets are connected at simple nut-and-bolt nodes that create a self-supporting
structure. extensive research into anisotropic sheet morphologies produced an understanding of directional structural strength applied
to the connection of a individual uni-directional, almost two-dimensional components that seems to hover lightly in the sky,
only touching ground at three columns that define a vaulted space. the transparency of the material property focuses the viewers
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the well proven chair by marjan van aubel + jamie shaw
images courtesy of marjan van aubel
images © petr krejci
through the understanding that there is 50% to 80% of timber wastage during manufacturing, london-based designers marjan van aubel
and jamie shaw have investigated ways of incorporating waste shavings into design using bio-resin. a curious chemical reaction occurs when
they are mixed with the scraps, expanding it into foam. the reaction is exacerbated by different types of wood, the addition of water,
air trapped in material, and increased temperatures these different factors can give expansion of up to 600-700%.
by adding colour dye and varied-sized shavings from different workshop machines, a colourful, lightweight and mouldable material is created,
reinforced by the fibres in the hardwood discards. a porridge-like mixture the formed material is slapped on to the underside of the chair
shell by hand, building up the material wherever extra strength was required. The mixture then foamed explosively to create its own exuberant
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Li Hui - Reincarnation
