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the intimate, deeply personal conversation spanned starck's early memories, to his thoughts on the design industry at large.
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fornasetti makes nearly a thousand beautifully crafted products available for the first time on a single digital shopping platform.
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with the ambition of repurposing furnishings used for the prada's shows, the set's materials will be upcycled, finding a new life after the event.
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the new P17A model includes floor integrated batteries that can store up to 12kWh of electricity.
Lucy Oct 17, 2010 dan morosoli Oct 14, 2010 manfriedmann Oct 14, 2010 Randy Oct 13, 2010 manfriedmann Oct 13, 2010 Gabriella - lolamag.com.br Oct 12, 2010 Nanoverso Oct 12, 2010
more commentsbeautiful, but to an extent, I agree with manfriedmann
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@ randy
what makes this circumstance (an obscure design competition) at all relevant? is this the best that they can do in this circumstance? the design world is not at all inclusive. it is usually relatively affluent – generally buffered from environmental desolation. THIS message is not overwhelmingly visceral (more cute). i was nudging at the idea that the effort should be from the ground-up (education, activism, community effort), less institutional. the iida competition is patently about products meant for consumption, but unlike the “the real green teabag” or the “ecooler” what is being consumed, obtained for money, is a message only, which dissipates the “…practice of vigorous action or involvement as a means of achieving political or other goals…” i’m saying that the buying and wearing of a (perhaps expensive) message, one bought with money not reserved for largess, is wholly self-indulgent. the cumulative caloric expenditure of this project (that includes time at work you expended to make the money to pay for it and fuel for the kiln(s)x?) could be put to better use
@ manfriedmann
why pearls? cause they come from the sea I guess.
Nobody here thought that a jewelry designer was going to save the world. And since montiel, prado and armella were sumbitting an entry for a design contest designing a good and communicative product was the best thing they could do for humanity in this circumstance.
Considering the fact that they are mexican and the project is about an issue that i believe is very relevant to them you should seriously think about looking at this project from a different angle.
the responses were so positive that I’m reluctant to offer counterpoint. i think the composition – the clean white and clean black – make for beautiful ‘items.’ the sense that they carry a “great message” or that it “addresses important issues while creating something beautiful,” or the like, is a shade excessive. there is a message but one that is only fit for print, the delivery is too clean; it is almost only a message, like a headline and at the same time making light of the suffering, death and turning it into a broach or “something beautiful.” do we want it to be beautiful? why are we compelled to turn serious things (by this I mean somber), AS SERIOUS AS THIS into wearable items? onemaysay,”it is a statement.” rebuttal: it is a meditation, most of all – if at all. for the artist. and where does that fit into a design/art realm? it fails prodigiously because of your treatment as a consumable item, to wit, pearls covered in oil (why pearls? so we can wear it?). blind consumption what caused the problem. consumption of a statement what keeps it going. but the statement is muted by a fully muted palette. there is no wheezing, blinded, or dead animal. there is no lesson in it. a lesson is paramount. these knick-knacks serve to assuage only, like acknowledging is some form of activism. a drop in the bucket of effete messages
It’ a fantastic ideia and conception, congrats!
Very nice idea, criticism through art concept.