American actress and fashion icon, Chloë Sevigny worked with the cool New York concept store Opening Ceremony, the collection is available @ Colette - Paris.
Archive for February, 2008
French designer Jean Prouve is the focus of the Design Museum’s current exhibition (07 December 2007 – 13 April). The radical, functional and inspiring work of the French designer and engineer Jean Prouvé (1901 –1984) is shown in this first comprehensive overview of his work in the UK. With examples of his unique furniture design, architecture, drawings, film and photographs, the exhibition will present the enormous influence of Prouvé within the history of 20th Century design. 
Although his own work isn’t very very well known outside the world of design, his legacy is essential in two respects. Trained as a metalsmith originally and then later as an engineer, prouve was a key figure that brought metal to modern furniture design. Although his ideas were very close to that of the Bauhaus (the 1930 manifessto the Union of Modern Artists he helped establish reads : “We like logic, balance and purity.”) , he developed a style and design philosophy that is distinct from that of Bauhaus by its preferred focus on the qualities of materials rather than form for its own sake.
Secondly, his work has had a strong impact on the advancement of the idea of a nomadic architecture with designs that prmoted mobility and portability, from foldable chairs to his own house, designed as a prototype, which is now considered a major development in prefab housing. 
—To reveal the increasing essentialness of material with a compilation of brilliant ideas, and craftmanship
Edited by Victionary - www.victionary.com
Following the success of Amatterofdesign™ series, SimplySeries™ is the latest Victionary series in 2008. Be the first volume of it, Simply Material introduces a number of materials that create objects or art forms
in irregular shapes of interest and beauty, and demonstrate how the composition alone is able to liberate these materials from the category of raw junk and arouse visual interest.
Material continues to be, is the most important element underpinning all criteria of design, especially when it comes to architecture, interior, product, industrial and fashion. Objects created with individuality and
narrative qualities – whether by sophisticated new technologies or traditional handcraftsmanship, are explored in Simply Material, so please join us now and be inspired!
Contributor
Analia Segal . Aqua Creations Ltd. . ASSA ASHUACH STUDIO . Autoban . Big-game . BOEK (PIET HEIN EEK). bookhou design . Buro Vormkrijgers . BY:AMT Inc . Chris Kabel Designs. Contraforma . David Trubridge Ltd. ERB . Eric Klarenbeek . Ernst Gamperl . ESSEY ApS . Estudio Campana . Eva Menz. Design Ltd. FEEK . Florentijn Hofman . Foldpaper . FORM US WITH LOVE . FutureFactories . HAYON®STUDIO . Helmutsmits.nl . Hiroshi Tsunoda. Design Studio . Jordi Canudas . Julia Lohmann . Julian Mayor . Karim Rashid Inc. . Karin van Lieshout . KENNETH COBONPUE . L.A. Galerie – Lothar Albrecht. Lynn Kingelin / Ikuinen Design . Maarten Baas . Madelon Galland . Marcel Wanders Studio. Object d’art . Oboiler . Pd DESIGN STUDIO . Peter Callesen . Philips Design . Proef . Radu Comsa . Reddish . Ronen Kadushin . Sam Buxton . Sand & Birch Design . Sebastiaan Straatsma . Sonia Chow Studio . Sternform Produktgestaltung . Stew Design Workshop . Studio Bertjan Pot . Studio Frank Willems . Studio Job . Studio Makkink & Bey . Studio Rainer Mutsch . Studio van Eijk & van der Lubbe . Studiobility . SUZUKIKE . Sylvain Willenz Design Studio . t.n.a. design studio. Tim Parsons . Tjep. . Toshiyuki. Tani . Tyson Boles . Valvomo Architects. WOKmedia . WOOD london
‘Made In London’ an exhibition of photographs by Babette Pauthier..! in Paris
Vernissage / opening - the 28th of February. at 7.00 pm at le 66
on 66 Champs Elysees 75008 Paris
Le 66 - new concept store in Paris.
Organized by the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and co-produced by the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the exhibition brings together some 250 objects to explore, for the first time, the Surrealist movement’s influence on design, painting, theater, interior design, furniture, fashion, films, advertising and architecture.
A unique view of some of the most unusual objects created by the movement’s leading figures, including Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Giorgio de Chirico, Elsa Schiaparelli, Jean-Michel Frank, Frederick Kiesler, and Max Ernst, many of which are on show for the first time.
February 29 - september 7, 2008 - Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
We are soon over to tokyo for the fashion week, and while waiting to be there……, here is the latest feature from the Japanese online lifestyle magazine, Honeyee.
Sponsored by Audi, 5 influential Tokyo Artists are interviewed ; Hiroshi Fujiwara (godfather of Harajuku culture !!!!), Nobuo Araki, Hidefumi Ino (listen to his “Satisfaction” track on Innocent Records), Shukou Tsuchiya and Hirofumi Kiyonaga (designer of Sophnets)., while they take the New Audi TT out in town.
The interviews deal with the artists’ unique relationship with the city Tokyo as well as other subjects such as the internet, magazines, products and more.
If only Office 08 for Mac could be as simple as this website. Actually it is quite cute and very UN-Microsoft.
Realized by Firstborn (nyc) and Maccann (San Francisco)
GetConfused is proud to present two pieces of interactive poetry designed for the launch of the new Wellcome Collection gallery at the Wellcome Trust.
For those of you who don’t know it, here is a bit of propaganda on one of London’s venerable institutions which happens to stage really cool shows.
“The Wellcome Trust’s mission is ‘to foster and promote research with the aim of improving human and animal health’.
Reflecting the profound impact that today’s research will have on society, the Wellcome
Trust seeks to address the social, cultural, ethical and historical aspects of biomedical
research and progress. To achieve this it supports, through its Medicine, Society and History
division, a programme of research, a major library in the History of Medicine and public
engagement activities.
Part gallery, part museum, an extraordinary library, events, conference centre and more,
the Wellcome Collection will take a thoughtful and experimental look at medicine, life and art,
rooting science in the broad context of health and wellbeing.”
Armed with the best intentions and barely as much time as the lifespan of a dragonfly, GetConfused came up with two interactive Flash pieces which celebrate health and disease in a kalleidoscope of typography, graphics and molecular mutations.
“Mutation Babe”
(Concept by Coco and House of Coma ; Graphics by Coco ; Animation by GetConfused)
This piece stages a series of 5 tableaux in which a seductive image of feminity is submitted to a series of distortions and viral interventions culminating in rather sulfurous final montages. Forget the bugs, we had one day to design it.
click here to view “Mutation Babe”
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“Invisible Inspiration”
(Concept by House of Coma ; Animation by GetConfused)
The second piece is a cut-up text that can be played either in its normal sequential order or following a randomized keyboard pattern. Half surreal poetry, half S&M psychedelia, this piece was shortlisted by the Wellcome Trust Jury for the competition’s final run and came out third of all entries.
