Design: PROJECTiONE

BAS Gallery Bodhi from PROJECTiONE on Vimeo.

This group from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana is creating some very interesting work. Their videos show either how a product was made or how it's put together. Very smart work.

Shanghai: The World's Fair

The Norway pavilion

The porcupinelike British pavilion — constructed of 60,000 transparent rods and called the “Seed Cathedral" by artist and designer, Thomas Heatherwick. (This one blows my mind it's so beautiful and unusual!)

Denmark’s pavilion features a bronze statue of the “Little Mermaid.”

The Netherlands Pavilion

The Expo opens today. City officials are projecting that more than 70 million people could attend the 184-day event.

Read more on NYTimes online. All images from the New York Times.

Design : Flensted Mobiles

The mobile’s life is hanging by a thread, But there is still life.

You can prove it: If one day you should think its heart is dead,
A friendly whispering will move it.
E.F.

I just returned from a really lovely visit with Ole and Aase Flensted of Flensted Mobiles. They couldn't have been more hospitable and inspiring. Ole's father, Christian, and his wife Grethe created the first mobile in 1954. Ole and Aase have continued the family business developing new designs and working with new materials to continue the legacy of creating floating poetry.

A beautiful old Heidelberg die cuts and scores the paper and plastic. This sweet gentleman showed me how it all worked.

Design Week 09, Copenhagen: part 1

In late August, I went to Copenhagen for Design Week 09. The weather was warm and sunny and there were exhibits all over the city. The focus was sustainability and the projects ranged from hand carved bowls made in Ghana to a cell phone ad campaign working to revolutionize the fight against HIV.

The INDEX award exhibition was also on display that week. The recurring, world-touring exhibition presented the finalist for the INDEX: AWARD – visionary solutions created by designers to improve life for people around the world.

Design Week 09 : Throughout the week there were presentations by companies such as IKEA, Interface FLOR, and Frog Design sharing sustainability practices, new products and discussing the many challenges. While I was unimpressed by IKEA (in fact, I found their sustainability practices dated and lacking innovativion), I thought InterfaceFLOR and Frog Design to be inspiring and felt they had the true nature of sustainability at the core of their projects.

InterfaceFLOR, a carpet tile manufacturer, is not only working to reclaim their carpets and re-manufacture them into new high quality carpet tiles, they have started an ambitious project titled "Fairworks." Their commitment to environmental and social sustainability shines through in this line of flooring. Working with local craftspeople in India, they are integrating the designs of the area and implementing local manufacturing. The tiles are made from locally-available natural products: banana bark, river grass and cotton. I was very impressed with the beautiful designs.

Another project I was taken back by was Project Masiluleke, a collaborative effort between iTeach, the Praekelt Foundation, frog design, MTN South Africa, Nokia Siemens Networks and the National Geographic Society.

Project Masiluleke harnesses the mobile phone as a high-impact, low-cost tool in the fight against HIV/AIDS and TB. Nearly 100% of South Africans have access to a mobile device and the project touches virtually every one of them. Conservative estimates indicate Project Masiluleke has the potential to mobilize hundreds of thousands to get tested. IMPRESSIVE!

You can read more on DesignMind.

Part 2 with more pictures coming soon.

I got in!

Hello friends! I'm thrilled to share my great news with you. I was accepted into the graduate program for textile design at the Design School in Kolding, Denmark. I just found out yesterday in my interview with the school. Classes start August 31st so I'm a bit overwhelmed with everything I need to do in 2 1/2 short months but I'm waaayyyyyy excited! In the next few months I will be selling all my jewelry, paintings and textiles on my etsy site so keep checking my site for sweet deals.

And lastly, but most importantly, thank you to all my dear friends who have witnessed my (few) freak-out moments, supported me through the process and for being such awesome and inspiring people. And to my sweet online friends, you inspire me and warm my heart with your comments and your wonderful blogs.

I'll keep you posted on the moving progress and of course all the great work I will be creating while in school!

BEST! *angie

Design: sleevage

Erin Loechner of Design for Mankind posted this today and I couldn't resist reposting. Sleevage, a showcase of album covers. Enjoy!

Design for Mankind: new mag!

The new Design for Mankind magazine is fantastic! I especially liked the interview with Kate Moross, London based illustrator and designer. It's been out for a while now but if you've been busy like me and haven't had a moment to go over and get it, well, go now, because it's worth it! Off you go then! Enjoy *a

get your sharpie out!

A brilliant ad campaign by Sharpie®. Located at bus stops in large cities these interactive e-cast billboards have a cast that asks individuals to make their mark. Thanks thecoolhunter.net.

Book Cover Design

I awoke to a sunny morning, the first in what feels like a very long time, so I headed out for a quick run before plopping myself down in front of my two computers to work. The first thing I saw was a link to The Book Cover Archive, a site that features a well curated selection of book cover design. You can search by title, author, art director, designer, photographer, illustrator, publisher, genre or publication date… too much goodness!