Designer Today

The new Adidas Brand Center located in Sanlitun Village Shopping Center in Beijing’s Chaoyang District of Beijing, was inaugurated with an exhibition that establishes the marriage between the brand and oriental culture. The classical Eastern iconography and graphics and colors typical of the Adidas brand, are the mix that characterizes the collection of furniture created for the occasion by the Hong Kong Dorophy Tang. Furniture design classic, contemporary and artistic made by striking cultural contamination between East and West.

Heidi Bridget Coleman is a young graphic designer English, who attended the Chelsea College of Art Summer Show, after some experience working for clients such as Lynx, Designers Are Wankers, Nokia, Momiji and Hawaii Design. A multi-disciplinary approach characterizes his graphic design making them tactile and aesthetically beautiful, just as they refer to the use of typographical characters in relief, the technique of folding origami paper and that three-dimensional pop-ups, as in the case of projects for the Study London Hawaii Design.

Gattinoni Always at the center of controversy, this AltaRoma makes itself heard, for the most heated discussions for walkways. It is an organization of Italian fifth category. It is shameful that the Italian designers are treated in this manner, made off in a place of m… and without air conditioning. A sauna but without paying the ticket. And we also had to pay six thousand euros. This is as stated by the designer Raffella Curiel who also added that will be the last parade that will take in walkway for AltaRoma.

The collection is decidedly Curiel bon-ton, with rich and pomposi clothing, draperies, embroidery and large volumes. Singolari plastic boots worn with socks embroidered.

Mysticism Gattinoni collection that is inspired by the gods. Sfila the black dress with the eye, same eye that is the background to the fashion show. East and West blending in with watermarks, fabrics and decorated plissé. Great research craft but also clothes that at around 6000 euro against the approximately 20,000, prices that normally characterize the High Fashion.

Lorenzo Riva instead defends Rome Italian Fashion el’Alta and brings in the’30s catwalk with clothes Charleston, bordati camel coats with fur for a Josephine Baker in a modern way.

Geoffrey Lilge Industrial Designer is a Canadian known for having co-founded and directed Pure Design, a Canadian who boasts collaborations with designers like Richard Hutten, Karim Rashid, Constantin Boym, Scot Laughton, Shin & Tomoko Azumi, Stephen Burks. At dell’ICFF 2008 in New York, Lilge presented to preview its new prototypes Session L40 and L41. Guests also Neocon Chicago, Chair 71 × 61×55 and Lounge Chair 86 × 75×84, comfortable seats are characterized by an eclectic, contemporary design, designed with facilities maple wood and components in solid but flexible Bendywood.

The young Colombian designer Danilo Calvache has designed three new prototype modular shelving. The three models exploit the potential of individual modules assembled indefinitely, to fit with inspiration and functionality to any wall or to build new panels dividers. You can choose between the linear structure of Number Bookshelf, the diagonal of Reticula Bookshelf or cubic Dcube storage unit.

Three practical solutions to place in order or disorder creative all our objects, visible from 29 July to 1 August to DISENO en Palermo 2008, the third edition of Meetings with Latin America organised by the faculty of Design and Communication in Palermo, offer a point of meeting, training and exchange between professionals, academics, students and businesses of the two countries.

At the Milan Furniture Fair 2008, the company Alias has opened its first store in Milan single and new collections for exteriors, among which stands out cast iron, sitting modular system designed by Riccardo Blumer and the young designer Matthew Borghi . Frequently used nell’arredo urban starting Twentieth Century, the alloy of iron and carbon of cast iron, worked exclusively for casting, is a ductile material old and resistant, used in order to achieve a contemporary sitting for outdoor extremely flexible, consists of two modules basic raggiatura serve as the backbone and allow for change in the form of sitting straight, semicircular or sinusoidal, and two heads that serve to close the ends and projections dangerous.

Everything is held together by diagonals and asseparating steel screwed under the structure, very similar to the grating of a crane, which allows him to use a few points of support to remain stable based disconnected as the urban pavement. The profile ergonomic, along which 11 ribs tapered, with variable width gradually define seat and back, makes it a floating structure capable of proceeds serpeggiando around trees, lamps, fountains. This and the resistance of cast iron laminated dealt with by external finishes in different colors, make it ideal for a sitting furniture, and residential spaces outside.

All fans will design an important new appointment to be set on for next autumn, or the week design of Istanbul in Turkey.

After the success of past seasons, the Istanbul Design Week 2008 is proposed as one of the most important events in the Euro-Asian and obtain a consensus even wider for the first time the event will be organized and operated by Design in Turkey, a joint venture between Dream Design Factory (dDf) and DesignPartners, combining vibrant energy of Turkish culture to Italy.

Dream Design Factory (dDf) is a communications company with offices in Istanbul and London specializing in the field of design while dDf is the organizer of historic Istanbul Design Week. The joint venture aims to create a new format, which opens borders, expands, exceeds the boundaries of the territory, along the lines of ZonaTortona Design: Istanbul Design Week 2008 will be a local event with international perspective.

An opportunity for companies to present their products and activities to an international audience, in a modern country with an economy in sharp ascent. Istanbul, a meeting point between different traditions, will be European Capital of Culture in 2010.

At the Salone del Mobile 08 Bonaldo, leader of Made in Italy more innovative and appreciated, presented a preview new furnishings that interpret and renew the production philosophy of the company, which works for years with designers of the calibre of Ron Arad, Karim Rashid, Mauro Lipparini, Toshiyuki Kita, Denis Santachiara, Giuseppe Vigano, D’Urbino and Lomazzi.

Tip Toe walk on tips, is the new chair designed by Mauro Lipparini presented during the event. The name suggestive and attractive, announces forms soft and elegant of this session, covered the skin, leather or fabric that make it comfortable and pleasant to the touch. Available in two versions with and without arms, the essential design and functional Tip Toe is characterised by a strong but light, enriched by a back flexible and ergonomic features that make it perfect for any occasion or style.

If the view of banks emoziona fish there, the atmosphere inspired by the new lamp Shoal 284 of Dominic Bromley, hardly will leave you indifferent. The chandelier hanging sculptural design, is composed of a cascade of 1,672 fish ceramic translucent, illuminated by a light central ne vivacizza and dinamizza reflexes.

Shoal seems capable of projecting anywhere guizzante the size of a flock vorticante of fish. Together with Small Light Pendant Collection, Shoal is the new production of sculptures, lighting and accessories for interiors, made from Scabetti of Dominic & Frances Bromley in Booth D100 100% Design 08, to be held in London from September 18 to 21 .

Motion is the new modular system of flexible shelving, designed by sculptor and designer Elisabeth German Lux for the company Pastoe of Utrecht. Presented at the Salone del Mobile 08, Motion is a system of containers on wheels, the design simple and straightforward, offering a wealth of variations for accommodation and use.

E ‘consists of two, three or four different elements of depth and height, available in seven colors clear, selected by the artist and inspired the frescoes of Italian churches, plus the 66 colors of the collection Pastoe, with the option of contrasting colours . The archetypal form and eclectic is enriched by wheels and hinges, placed so that seem to be no feeling and the intimate and suggestive evidence that when the mobile opening unfolds so enveloping.