If it was up to us, all the best design in the world would be posted within the Parfois Portfolio. But it's not up to us. Stumbling the web we often bump into things worth sharing. The world wide web is so full off great things that will never end up in our portfolio, but which we want the world to see. For this we created our blog. At this moment there are 4 of us blogging on a regular basis. Work, studies and social life makes that there are weeks with a lot of posts, and weeks without. But we'll do our best in bringing you the nicest shit on a acceptable basis.
The German Design Council curated – at this year’s Milan Fair for the second time – an exhibition focused on outstanding contemporary German design. Alongside with products of namable German brands there will be prototypes created by young German designers, such as Mark Braun, llot llov and Formfjord. Design Deutschland 2011 will be on show at Carrozzeria in Via Tortona 32. >> Read more
Follow thursday (March 24th, 2011), the famous Swedish school Hyper Island will host a meetup in Amsterdam at the offices of Sid Lee. The school added some new programs since last year, which they now promote around the world. The meetup covers an introduction to Hyper Island and which programs they offer and how you should apply. It will give you a sense how students work, and what kind of methodology they follow, and of course there will be plenty of time to asks questions to Hyper students and alumni.
So if you’re interested in Hyper Island, and want to learn more about the school, make sure you RSVP. The event is no recruitment event, so there’s no need for a portfolio or interviews. It’s more an introduction of Hyper Island to you.
Apart from Amsterdam, the tour will also pay a visit to São Paulo, Singapore, Malmö and Karlskrona (which includes a guided tour). For all necessary info on the school or programs, you can visit http://hyperisland.se/ and http://programs.hyperisland.se/
A great series by Argentinian photographer Irina Werning. Back to the future presents remakes of old pictures next to its original. Really interesting to see how people change, get older or are still so similar to the day the picture was taken. And who knows maybe in 10 years a 3rd photo completes the series. A lot more images from this series at read more.
Designed for the Tropique house, Potence, a swivelling wall light is considered one of Jean Prouvé’s purist masterpieces. In particular, it is its sparing use of materials and austere design that make the luminaire fascinating.
It’s in production at Vitra, but I think I’m going to make one myself …
I have really enjoyed this video series” Ikea-the art of cooking” from Carl Kleiner. Click more to see more of those as well as an older collaboration of Carl Kleiner and IKEA, the IKEA Cookbook “Hembakat är Bäst”. >> Read more
Some nice graphical work from Astronaut design. There is not much information to be found about him, but from what we can read on his website, his name is Slava and he is based in Almaty, Kazakhstan. He makes some nice and clean graphics and his work was published in “The Modernist” by gestalten. I took some random work from his website at read more
Apart from recipe design which is what we used to know so far, here comes recipe re-design, which is what you get when you visualize standart recipes in a more creative, graphical way. Why didn’t we do that earlier? GOOD followed this upcoming trend and organized a competition about this topic. Results are in and you can vote for your favorite one here. Click more to see a comic-like udon, an ikea-like pho bo, a data visualization-like lasagna and more. >> Read more
MIT Media Lab has a new logo based on an algorithm that can create 40,000 logo shapes in 12 different color combinations. The logo is designed by Brooklyn-based designers E Roon Kang and Richard The for MIT’s 25th anniversary. Each logo is made up of 3 spotlights, each symbolizing a single individual. “People come from many different backgrounds—they’re engineers, scientists, artists, designers— and have very different ways of thinking, seeing, and working,” The says. “At the lab these people cross paths, collaborate, and inspire each other, and that’s the magic of this place.”
This gives MIT enough personalized business cards to cover its personal for the following 25 years. They even developed a web-based platform where an MIT employee can choose their own logo for their personal business card.
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