D&A Lab, Brussels is a young gallery that commissions contemporary artists to create innovative design objects. By doing so they aim to unify the unique, rigid and non-functional aspect of art with the recognizable character of the design-object functionality.
For the Total Table Design project, which premiered at Object Rotterdam, Dutch designers Kiki van Eijk and studio Scholten & Baijings present their visions for the art of dining.
As they describe it, ‘In contemporary dining culture one encounters worlds of difference.
Cruise Terminal Rotterdam
Rotterdam, Netherlands
The mood was high at the opening of Object Rotterdam on Wednesday the 3rd of February, with many at the private view remarking that it is as good, or even better than some of the major fairs like Miami.
Royal College of Art
Kensington Gore, London
On Wednesday the 3rd of February, the Royal College of Art will open an interim show of work from half of the design departments, including pieces from the innovative program Design Interactions.
Last week at the New York City launch party for the Roy Lichtenstein exhibition now on view at the Triennale Design Museum in Milan, the Triennale announced its plans to open a New York satellite space this spring called Triennale NYC.
In this recent article for the FT, renowned architectural critic Edwin Heathcote turns his attention to design and offers an evaluation of the intellectual criticism available on the subject (which he seems to find pretty grim).
Recently, famed Dutch trendspotter Lidewij Edelkoort (Li) shocked the design community when she issued an open letter of resignation from the Designhuis and Eindhoven, in which she blamed the vision of the city’s governance for her departure.
In this article for Design.nl, Gabriella Kennedy speaks with designers, members of the local government, educators and other affected parties about their reactions to the news and the conflict between bureaucracy and autonomous design.
Musée des Arts Contemporains
Grand-Hornu Site, Belgium
On the 7th of February, the Musée des Arts Contemporains (MAC) will open its first joint exhibition with the Grand-Hornu site. The exhibition entitled “Le Fabuleux Destin du Quotidien” (“The Fabulous Destiny of the Quotidian”) is curated by Veerie Wenes and François Foulon, and it focuses on the complex relationship between artists and designers.
On 27th January Apple Inc.’s Steve Jobs held a press conference in San Francisco, California to announce ‘a major new product that we’re really excited about,’ which we could only assume was the widely hyped Apple Tablet computer.
In February David Gill Galleries in London will show a selection of new works from renowned ceramic artist Barnaby Barford. The pieces on display were made in correlation with the production of Barford’s first animated film ‘Damaged Goods’.
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