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48m2 is a collaboration between product and graphic design students at Beckmans College of Design in Stockholm. The first group created a series of products and the second a tight campaign for their exhibition.
Furniture was developed by the product design students for a 48 square meter apartment, with the intent of “questioning and twisting preconceptions of home styling”. In response to this work, the advertising/graphic design students developed a killer campaign for the exhibit, creating the concept “Same but Different,” described below:
Is a chair always a chair, an apartment always an apartment? Tilt your head for awhile, and the world will emerge in a different light. Up is down, objects change appearances, the unclear becomes obvious and problems meet their solutions.
The campaign includes a two meter long exhibition catalogue (excerpted top), four promotional films (below and after the jump), and an exhibition in a reconfigured 48m2 apartment.

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Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka will exhibit a glass window made of 500 crystal prisms at MUSEUM. beyond museum in Seoul this May. Called Rainbow Church, the eight metre-high installation will create rainbows within the space as the light is refracted.
I experienced a space filled with the light of Matisse: Being bathed in the sunlight of the Provence, the stained glass with Matisse’s vibrant colors suffused the room with full of colors. Since then, I had been dreaming of designing an architecture where people can feel the light with all senses.





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“Revolving Realities” is an auto-reactive installation by
the Interpalazzo group, developed for Dornbracht Edges – an exhibition series at the interface
between architecture, design and art. Curated by Mike Meire, it was presented in the FACTORY during the Passagen of the imm International Furniture Fair in Cologne. An amazing audio-visual experience, that looked like a futurist laser show – even though it was simple white strings that reflected the black light. What a simple yet stylish way to create goose bumps of enthusiasm! Also in the show was a high-end set of deSede sofas, looking like a huge spine, snaking through the gallery.



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Design Real is the first design-focused show to be presented at the Serpentine and represents the development of the Gallery’s long-standing commitment to design through the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion programme, which celebrates its tenth year in 2010. Design Real is curated by Konstantin Grcic and designed in collaboration with Alex Rich and Jürg Lehni. The exhibition features an information space which expands on themes developed in the exhibition allowing visitors to investigate the origins and applications of the products on view. A dedicated internet site, designed by Alex Rich and Jürg Lehni, is the exhibition’s central resource and integral to its concept. Grcic says about the exhibition:
Like contemporary art, design both shapes and reflects our constantly changing society. Good design understands human behaviour, offers pragmatic solutions to problems and enhances our everyday experience. Curating the Serpentine Gallery’s first design related exhibition DESIGN REAL my concept focuses on ‘real’ items, industrially made products that have a significance in everyday life,
The exhibition is still on til 7th February. A catalogue (designed by Alex Rich) is published on the occasion of the exhibition DESIGN REAL by Serpentine Gallery and Koenig Books Ltd. featuring essays by Emily King and Jonathan Olivares.



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A PR website for New Zealand vodka brand 42 Below features this lovely video of the making of a Mountain Rainbow from Monobloc Chairs. You know, all those cheap plastic chairs that cover the globe everywhere, no matter where you go. The campaign was produced by the agency The Glue Society and this rainbow arch is one of many installations that were created under the title of “Because we can”.

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Mirror, Mirror is a light installation by Jason Bruges Studio as part of Decode: Digital Design Sensations at the Victoria & Albert Museum. The piece is on display in the John Madejski Garden from 8 December until 11 April 2010 and was commissioned by the V&A in partnership with SAP for the Decode exhibition.
Mirror, Mirror explores the concept of narcissism and the individual’s relationship with space and others. The playful nature of the work encourages you to explore the interactivity and consider the interconnected relationships.
The white dot matrix digital panels seem to float on the pond, awakening as visitors come into view. Cameras mounted within the LED dot matrices capture activity in the garden and simultaneously reflect this back to the viewer; the animated images are then mirrored once again in the surface of the water, creating multiple reflections.




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Raw Color’s first project 100%JUICE, presented during the Dutch Design Week 2007, demonstrated the power of natural color by extracting “natural ink” from vegetables. Now they have further developed the project into Raw Color No. 1, 2 and 3, which demonstrates their continued visual research on vegetables and examination of their internal structures. One of the results is a natural color map categorizing the diversity of vegetables by shades and families. Raw Color is a cooperation between designers Christoph Brach & Daniera ter Haar and demonstrates the often unnoticed beauty of our everyday veggies.




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The Great Indoors Awards 2009 honours interior projects in Sweden, Korea, USA and The Netherlands. On Saturday November 28 the international jury of The Great Indoors awarded five interior design projects during a festive ceremony in Maastricht (NL). The Great Indoors is an international, biennial award rewarding the best public interior designs in various categories every two years. By awarding prizes and hosting lectures and workshops, The Great Indoors hopes to promote a discussion on the growing importance of the interior throughout the world.

Beijing Noodle No.9 (above) in Las Vegas by Japanese studio Design Spirits is one of five winners of The Great Indoors Awards this year.

The awards were presented to the winners in five categories on Saturday 28 November. Design Spirits (top image) were winners in the category Relax and Consume.

Swedish design studio Guise were awarded Design Firm of the Year, while Prada Transformer by OMA (above two images) was awarded in the Show & Sell category.

Recycled Office for Gummo by Dutch interior architects i29 (above) won the Concentrate & Collaborate award.

The Serve and Facilitate category winners were Amsterdam designers Studio Roelof Mulder and Bureau Ira Koers for their project University Library of the University of Amsterdam.
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Designed by Zaha Hadid, the new MAXXI (National Museum of the Arts of the 21st Century) is the newest astonishing piece of architecture in Rome. With a planned opening in spring 2010, it will house collections of contemporary art and architecture. To celebrate the conclusion of construction, the museum opened its doors to the general public for the past two weekends, offering the unique chance to admire its pure structure before the art arrives. The complex covers more than 27,000 square meters in the Flaminio neighborhood and its “permeable” piazza works as a connection between two areas of the city, which were separated by former military buildings (partly recovered and literally incorporated into the new museum).
Movable walls allow the very wide and seemingly endless lleries to adjust to different configurations. Intersected by the black lines of the stairs, which crisscross across the main hall like a roller coaster rail, the absolute white of the floors and walls looks all the more stunning. The stairs also work as lighting devices, thanks to light boxes mounted underneath. An incredibly complex system, Hadid conceived the roof to give a sense of motion and the perfect light. The technology integrates the regulation of the exterior glazing with artificial lighting systems. It also hides tracks for hanging panels and works of art.
This building stands as a quintessential example of Hadid’s work, exquisitely linking the many elements of the structure through sinuous lines while creating a harmony of curves and corners. The effect, a subtle misplacement, doesn’t interrupt the understanding of Hadid’s vision, with the harmony of corners and curves linking the different areas.



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The German embassy in London has commissioned an installation of the artist duo Awst & Walther’s, commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago. The temporary piece is located outside the German Embassy on Belgrave Square. It was constructed in the early hours this morning (since today is the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall) and will be dismantled throughout the day. The piece is entitled ‘Work in Progress’ and according to the artists ‘offers a moment of hesitation and reflection upon what is the continuing process of German reunification’.
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