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Glass Elephant – interplay of industrial robots and fragile glass

Design installation on the verge of industrial design, craftsmanship and performance – Glass Elephant – is created with the purpose to vitalize Stockholm Design Week’s image as an innovative and dynamic meeting place. The exhibition explores the properties of glass as material and muse, and tells a story about the meeting of contrasts.

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29/1 2013
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Designing narratives of 20 Italian museums

Despite some of the most significant treasures in international art preserved in the most notable Italian museums – these institutions couldn’t draw the economic benefits out of this potential. Project Museums of Paper aimed to articulate the museum merchandising by matching 20 designers with 20 different museums. Their task was to create products that would relate with their collections of art – stimulating the future sales in museum’s shops.

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25/1 2013
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Extraordinary Stories about Ordinary Things

Design Museum is opening its permanent collection on January 30th, offering a diverse investigation into the impact of design on our everyday lives. The exhibition presents six key stories through hundreds of items – National Identity, Plastics, Modernism, Iconic Design, A Designer in the Spotlight and Fashion Through The Decades.

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24/1 2013
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Autoban on Design Approach

In this film by Juriaan Booij, Autoban’s designers – Seyhan Ozdemir and Sefer Caglar – describe their evolution as designers and the unique approach of their Istanbul-based multi-disciplinarian studio that has realised more than 300 projects from retail design for upscale department stores to cinemas, cafes, restaurants and hotels.

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23/1 2013
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The frame of rhythm – MOE III installation

Inspired by the glowsticks, fluorescent tubes and similar elements related to identity of RAVE culture, designers Simon M. Pipercic and Vedran Kolac have designed installation MOE III. The highlight is on extruded PVC profiles connected in a dynamic structure merged with animation in a real-time generated video and graphics.

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18/1 2013
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Nominations for The Designs of the Year

The Design Museum announced the contenders for the sixth annual Designs of the Year. They include the best designs from around the world in the last 12 months across seven categories: Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Furniture, Graphics, Product and Transport.

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16/1 2013
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Mangas Space by Patricia Urquiola for GAN

Patricia Urquiola has expanded the Mangas collection that revolutionized the rug industry. Therefore GAN – Gandia Blasco’s carpet and textile brand – will showcase Mangas Spaces at the Masion&Objet 2013 in Paris, taking place from January 18th until January 22nd.

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