
28/06/2009
18/06/2009
Freestyle.Berlin

The Swiss are not only exporting tasty cheese, yummy chocolate and well working pocket knives. No, they are now bringing the freestyle.ch event to Berlin. YEAH!! Been to the press conference today and it is going to be a sweet as event. The plan is to set up a mega high take-of-platform of 40 meters that is 300 tonnes of steal!!! As well as a good looking skateboard, fmx and party area. Its all going to be happening at the old Airport Tempelhof right in the centre of Germans capital City Berlin from the 9th to the 11 of October 2009.
16/06/2009
Run for Zimbabwe

Longboarding trough Ireland to race awareness for the people of Zimbabwe. A group of four friends doing exactly that right now. They have got a daily travel update with photos and videos on their blog. Please look at their website.
04/06/2009
DMY Youngsters at the Arena Berlin 2009

When I arrived, there was a long queue of people trying to get into the doors and I was pleased to see, that design, even with the economic crisis is still of interest. Once I got in I was positively surprised about the originality and quality of the work shown. I have to admit that when I first found out, that the focus of this years exhibition is on Dutch design I was secretly thinking "oh no! not again!" but the work shown was of high standard full of wit and convincing in a creative as well as a social level.




Footy in pink! A project by Cleo Ruchon student from the ESAD Strasbourg called Barbie foot. Horrible colour but a fun idea.

Cardboard toy from Latvia. The in Riga based Agency; Design Drive is a platform for creative thinking and ideas exchange in Latvia. The toys can be illustrated by the children themself and the Designer plans to produce them out of water proof material so that they can be used as floaters. Nice!

Henry Schmidt and Mathias Dietz presented a wall full of "my favourite object" They had asked their friends to take pictures of their most loved things and it was interesting to see them all posted up there. Some of them where even my favourites.

Limited Moth by Thomas Traxler points out the limitations in reality. The lamp portraits a type of rare Austrian moth (only 800 left). The copper swarm is numbered and flays towards the light bulb. Thomas donates some money towards a environmental organisation that trys to conserve the moth. Once there are more moth again Thomas can create more lamps.
The Colo Dishwasher concept breaks the old-fashioned handling habits of existing washing methods. The user can place the dishes on the tray in the sink, it gets washed and dried and later, the tray can be but back onto the wall without the need of sorting out the dishes first. The concept comes from Peter Schwartz and Helene Steiner both students from Bauhaus Universitaet Weimar. Its a reduction of the machine to its essentials and of course colour orientated, pure Bauhaus style!.
03/06/2009
DMY International Design Festival Berlin

Berlins DMY Design Festival is kicking of today. The DMY Festival Team has had several hard working weeks behind them and can now finally present the Design Festival 2009 in the Arena tonight. 550 Designers from all over the World will be showcasing their creations over a 18.000sqm areal during the four day festival period. The Youngsters Show will be held close to the DMY´s head headquarter, near Treptower Park whereas the DMY Allstars Show has its premier in a new location: the IMA Design Village. Spread across Berlins hip city locations are the DMY Extended shows.
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