Good Design™ Award for Huggy
I am delighted to announce that the armchair Huggy, which I designed for the furniture company Lago, was awarded with the prestigious Good Design Award in the Chicago Athenaeum last week!
Founded in Chicago in 1950 by architects Eero Saarinen, Charles and Ray Eames, and Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., GOOD DESIGN bestows international recognition upon the world’s most prominent designers and manufacturers for advancing new, visionary, and innovative product concepts, invention and originality, and for stretching the envelope beyond what is considered ordinary product and consumer design.
A big THANK YOU to the jury!
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Your Vote Counts!
Two Shoot the Stylist! products got nominated for the People’s Design Award at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York – many thanks! But now it is time to vote for them, and therefore I need your help! Please vote for Huggy and Punch’n'Cuddle before 6:00 p.m. EST on October 20, 2009 by following the links. The winner will be announced live at the National Design Awards gala in New York City on October 22. So, fingers crossed and thanks a lot for your support!
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Sunny Side Up!
The coming weekend (5.-7. September) sees the launch of our surrealistic fried egg boat at the Venice Art Biennale where in the guise of giant houseflies we will cruise the canals and transform reality. With Sunny Side Up! we are promoting positive thinking and (metaphorically) proof that it is indeed a wonderful thing to just “ride the waves” and hook up with perfect strangers in beautifully surreal situations (after all, what else can an ordinary house fly do but create a buzz).
The boat will be launched on Saturday, 5. September on the Venice Arsenal around 11:00. So if you are lucky enough to be in Venice and up for a surreal buzz, come and have a look – the yoke’s on you – join us for a ride on the “Flied Egg Boat”!
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WannaBee?
Wanna be a bee? Our beloved honeybee is on the brink of extinction! Come to this year’s Village Fete at the Victoria and Albert Museum and take on the role of a honeybee: Wear a fancy bee-poncho & kaleidoscope glasses and collect pollen & defeat mites! Win honey jars filled with seeds of bee attracting flowers for guerilla gardening and bee shelters to help our little honey making friends to survive. Bzzzzzzzzzz!
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Punch’n'Cuddle at Bubble London
The Kids Trade Show Bubble have invited us to partner with them at their show, happening next week in the Business Design Centre in Islington, London. The event will run on June 21st and 22nd. Having just had delivered our first production samples of Punch’n'Cuddle, we are looking forward to some jolly days full of playful anarchy.
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During Milan Design Week 2009, working for Core77, I sought to create a “Post Futurist Manifesto” through dialogues with some of the leading thinkers in the world of design. Interviewing designers, producers, publishers, gallery owners and sociologists, the dialogues centered around the new values that designers (and the design industry) should address, and the new approaches they ought to take in order to confront the paradigm-shifts that we are currently facing. Here’s the point of departure:
100 years ago the futuristic manifesto was announced in Italy–to express the spirit of the era, break with all the conventions of the 19th century and replace them with new values. We all know that the futurism of the 20th century went terribly wrong at one point, and eventually ended in fascism. However, it is important to understand that initially it was all about liberation and freedom–aesthetically, politically and socially.
100 years later, the world is in collapse. The futurism of the 20th century has reached its end, and it is well time to create a post-futurist manifesto that seeks to define the true nature of the 21st century, establishing a new value system to replace the ruins of the old.
Check out all the dialogues below or have a look at all posts in one place, including interviews with conceptual artist Michelangelo Pistoletto, ex-designer Marti Guixe, publisher Sven Ehmann, and many more.
Michelangelo Pistoletto Founding member of the Arte Povera Movement
Emma Firmin Co-Founder and Editor of DAMn Magazine
Marti Guixe Ex-Designer
Francesco Morace President of Future Concept Lab
Alice Wang Designer
Sven Ehmann Creative Director of Die Gestalten Publishers
Barbara Bondi & Marco Raino brh+ Architects of TURN
Marco Bettiol Researcher at the Venice International University
Snippets Three Main Ingredients
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L’Appartamento in Milan
Tomorrow I will be off to Milan Design Circus – so here a quick glimpse of the L’Appartamento project that I am involved doing: Staff of the furniture company Lago and the online design magazine Core77 will be living together in an apartment on Via Tortona 21 for the duration of the design week, sharing the kitchen, shower and wardrobes. Some will leave to work on the fair in the morning and others will “stay at home” to welcome “off-show” visitors during the day.
Watch the Appartamento blog as well as Core77, filling up live while the project is taking shape. And if you are around you must come by and have a coffee with us!
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Love Design!
Shoot the Stylist! is featured in the new ”Love Design” book by daab publishers. During the Milan Design Week (on Friday 24.April) it will be released with the Love Design Cocktail Party. If you are in town please RSVP so we can have a lovely time together! The loveliest thing of it all is that my lieblings radio DJ Klaus Fiehe will be responsible for the sonic love vibes – highly recommended!
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Presto, presto!
After we realized that we won’t be able to sort out the final tweaks via Skype video chats, I spontaneously ended up In the middle of nowhere between Padova and Venice, trying to finish a new prototype for Lago. Fingers crossed that the little “detail devils” can all be banished before Milan Design Week… which will happen in two weeks already – uuuaaarrrrgh!
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Punch’n'Cuddle at Kids.Modern
Punch’n'Cuddle will participate at this year’s Kids.Modern presented by Showhome, the curators of London’s Midcentury.Modern show.
»Kids.Modern appreciates that children deserve good design. Modern-minded parents will love the latest in bright and clever design solutions for kids from celebrated international designers.«
So if you (and your kids) would like to have a jolly Sunday afternoon full of playful anarchy, please come and visit us – we will be happy to see you!
Sunday 15th February 2009, 10am-4pm
Christison Hall, Dulwich College SE21
Entrance £6 / Children £2
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