Are products manufactured with the right amount of energy and materials? What would happen if that amount would be reduced 20%? This is what the Japanese company Muji proposes after observing the devastation of personal belongings turning in waste in a few hours on the ground after the...
March 2012
16 March 2012
WISE APPROACH
16 March 2012
LEARNING FROM THE PAST
Arflex is one of those Italian companies whose catalog is actually a prodigious book on the history of design. The work of Marco Zanuso, above all, is a masterful lesson on the industrialization of a product, on ergonomics and on new technologies. Indeed it was him, along with a few engineers of...
16 March 2012
USB FOR OFFECCT
We loved the one designed by Eero Kovisto, Ola Rune and Marten Claeson. We after were bringing everywhere the one by Luca Nichetto. So, when Kurt Tingdal and Anders Englund asked us to design the new USB for the press during the design fair in Stockholm this year, they made us very happy. It had...
02 March 2012
BELIEVE TO CREATE
We missed to be seated at a table of El Bulli restaurant. For that reason it has been a double pleasure to approach the genius of Adria in the exhibition "Ferran Adrià and elBulli. Risk, freedom and creativity" in the halls of the Palau Robert in Barcelona. An impeccable exhibition that will be...
02 March 2012
ARCO 2012
This year the guest country has been the Netherlands. ARCO is an exciting space to feed the gaze, to learn, to find a stimulus not found anywhere else with this depth. An appointment indispensable and nearby. In Madrid, each February.
(In the photo, Pello Irazu’s mural at the stand of the...
02 March 2012
CONSTRUCTIVE SPIRIT. STOCKHOLM FURNITURE FAIR 2012
We like the North and all the lessons that it gives us in the field of design, ecology, good architecture, materials, the use of the objects. In February we were lucky, once again, to be there thanks to the faith in our work of Kurt Tingdal, Anders Englund and Eero Koivisto. We are so grateful...
02 March 2012
ICED BEAUTY IN PARIS
We were in Paris, at the trade fair Maison Objet. Tokujin Yoshioka was the Creator of the Year, at "Now, design a vivre". Subtle, refined exhibition, poetry in crystallized objects, sculptures of icy roses, the transformation of the object through the material and upon the rythm of the music....
02 March 2012
THANKS INEKE!
We knew her work and we admired it. We met her personally in Stockholm, during the presentation of the work of both at the Offecct’s stand. Back in the studio in Barcelona, we found this magnificent book about her career which she had sent to us once back in Arnhem. Thanks Ineke!......
02 March 2012
LEARNING FROM THE ARTISTS
We listen to her as if we were reading a book. We love her and we admire her very much. We feel lucky to have her so close. This article published in the magazine Yo Dona during the ARCO week is a special portrait about her life and her personality......
