Milan 2009

Went out to Milan last weekend for the end of design week. Was a really enjoyable weekend, and saw alot of great stuff, and alot of not so great stuff. I think the credit crunch had maybe hit, as there was alot of companies who wernt showing anything new. I have listed my highlights below, and will hopefully get some pics up soon. Great time, great food, great wine and free beer. Met loads of cool people aswell- first major chance to network which was quite fun.

1) Cinq Cinq (5.5) Exhibit
2) Established and Sons show- Insane!
3) Panasonic lighting- Naoto Fukasawa/ patricia urquiola energy efficient lighting
4) Superstudio- in paticular Phillips installation by RANDOM INTERNATIONAL

Loads more but cant remember. Heres Tsuyoshi at Established and Sons, on Sam hechts new BENCH/ TABLE

icube by ideo.

Amazing 3D immersion technology from IDEO Labs on Vimeo.

Amazing 3D immersion technology by ideo

One of the most insane video parts I have seen. Danny Macaskill

Inspired. Danny MacAskill from dave on Vimeo.

great song too- band of horses I think. Saw this on fixed gear londons weblog.

just back

just back from Australia and had an amazing time and met some truely amazing people. loved it so much and think as soon as im set thats where ill be setting up camp. love so much about it i cannot describe it- i will try post what i loved at a later date. in the meantime saw this today off fixed gear london weblog- entry for the competition for the vans bike. really beautiful setting, really beautiful riding, and really brilliantly filmed. enjoy!


- FIXED GEAR - The invaders from Androsky Knauer on Vimeo.

Sydney

Arrived after the flight from hell. 33 hours- 7 hour delay. Longting!
although well worth man 28 degrees

Long time, No speak.

Sorry, long time since last post been really busy working on a project with my designer friend Martin Charlier. Has been a really interesting process, and we are getting some great results and some really good feedback. Ill post up some stuff once the project is complete.

Also going to Singapore and Australia on Saturday so has been really manic getting things sorted, that along with trying to secure placements has lead to huge stress. still no luck on the placement front but over my break I will rejuvenate and come back strong after Easter ready to pester people to death.

The reason for the post was I wanted to share a few things I have been interested in recently. Firstly, Theres a really great website from a guy called Rory Hamilton. He works at Live/ work, a service/ interaction based company who do really interesting things and are really forward thinking. Anyway, he has a website where he puts his opinions and tips for designers ect. The website is www.everythingiknow.co.uk. Its really worth a read.

Secondly a friend of mine from college; Miguel Dolton, has been working on a door handle and it is lovely. So here's a few pictures.

David kelley article.

really interesting article on design thinking.

http://www.ideo.com/images/uploads/news/pdfs/FastCompany_Feb09.pdf