Anyone can be free.
It's been awhile since we've talked about design.
- Paris-based designer/artist Arik Levy gave a lecture at the MCA last night, and it turns out he coincidentally has a show opening at Wright this Friday, entitled "Absent Nature". As well as a Martino Gamper (?!!?!!) exhibition in May. Very nice to see global design talent being exhibited in Chicago galleries. Up next: the Bouroullecs at Monique Meloche gallery?
- Chen & Karlsson's "trash can" is one of those products that's so simple, so obvious and so painfully smart that it makes me want to quit. Fucking brilliant.
- Maarten Baas: Plastic Chair in Wood. I'm so glad Maarten is able to take his crazy furniture dreams and make them a reality. I'm just happy his pieces can exist.
- Parisian hipsters 5.5 Designers made a broom from a branch. (detail view) Nice.
- Sawed-off USB key. Brilliant. The USB key is the new designer-staple-- everyone is designing one and formal and conceptual possibilities are most likely endless.
- Wästberg. A new Swedish lighting company with a great opening 'manifesto' on how man overilluminates his spaces, as well as 4 remarkable new lamps. Sublime minimal forms from James Irvine and Claesson Koivisto Rune, but an especially notable lamp from Ilse Crawford... oddly awkward and strangely beautiful.
- Twine Table by Wis Design. Cute as a button. (Sorry)
4/23/2008
