Bruce Mau&His Incomplete Manifesto

1. Allow events to change you.
2. Forget about good.
3. Process is more important than outcome.
4. Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child).
5. Go deep.
6. Capture accidents.
7. Study.
8. Drift.
9. Begin anywhere.






Bruce Mau uses design to originate and innovate businesses, brands, products and experiences.
Manifesto points:
1. Allow events to change you.
2. Forget about good.
3. Process is more important than outcome.
4. Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child).
5. Go deep.
6. Capture accidents.
7. Study.
8. Drift.
9. Begin anywhere.
brucemaudesign.com

Nanimarquina and the Beauty of Origins

I totally got into this video by Spanish carpet manufacturer Nanimarquina and a highly recomend it. It describes with beautiful images the production and the artisanry of skilled rugs workers in India working in collaboration Nanimarquina designers.

Those carpets are precious pieces, made with care and love.
After seeing where it all comes from and who are the people working on them, I think products are given a more important value and apreciation.
I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I did.

http://www.nanimarquina.com/

Hendzel and Hunt

Hendzel and Hunt is a newly established London based design studio, specialising in the manufacture of cabinets and furniture.
Love their style on wood working and especially this chair is my favourite
hendzelandhunt.com

from Crinoline to Crinoline

The first Crinoline was stiff fabric made of horse-hair and cotton or linen thread. The fabric first appeared around 1830 and in the 1850s they started to make rigid skirt-shaped structures of it.
Now, designer Patricia Urquiola made beautiful furniture pieces inspired by this shapes.

Misfit in R'dam

I went to see this exhibition the day before coming back to Italy and I really loved it. The show displays the desiger work by Hella Jongerius in a very creative way, using colour palettes and contrast to lead the viewers eyes from one object to the other.
The way Hella works is very unique and what is so special about it is the way she uses craftmanship into massproduction by adding little 'misfits' and imperfection in each of her objects.
Her work I find very attractive and feminine too, but curagious and funny at the same time.
worth checkin' it out be4 february 2011 at Boijmans Museum, rottedam<<<<<

http://www.jongeriuslab.com
http://www.boijmans.nl/en/

Not just paper flowers

Flowers paper version of Sandra Bautista. Spanish designer behind Itunube studio that has created flowers made out of paper, in different variations (32 unique flowers that come in a newspaper format)

Faking Vintage Beautyfully

by London designer Lee Broom

by Melina Prado Ferreira
by Eva Neirynck
by Fleur Sabbe
by Alexandra Georgescu
New work from Piet Zwart Institute Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam University, Rotterdam

New textiles from Design Academy Eindhoven

All Matter has Life

Entering this world was a real pleasure, I saw some videos online before but feeling this beautiful creature reacting to human moves was really fascinating. Designed by canadian architect Philip Beesley, the installation is an intricate system of transparent acrylic pieces, covered with a network of interactive mechanisms.
'hylozoism' is an ancient saying wich believes all matter has life :)
Seen@Architecture Binnale, Venice

Aladin Chair

Brilliant seat at the central library in Rotterdam! Like sitting on a floating home carpet :)

CoolStaring@theSun

Series Mykita designed in collaboration for Alexandre Herchcovitch for his SS 2011 show.
The series was initially inspired by couple of classic frame shapes Herchcovitch always loved, as worn by the iconic architect Le Corbusier himself.

Kenya Hara, 'White'

Just bought this book at NIA (Nederlands Architectuurinstituut)in Rotterdam by Japanese graphic designer and curator Kenya Hara. Hara is art director of Muji since 2001. Through a sophisticated beauty of simplicity, Kenya Hara is giving insight into the process of elimination of all extra elements to understand the essential nature of things which is closely connected to the origin of Japanese aesthetics, symbols simplicity and subtlety.

PechaKuchaNightTokyo

Cherry Blossom Soap