In this short article from series from Salone Satelite 07 we will focus on group of three girls (Magda Juszczak, Dorota Kabała and Maya Ober) from Poznan – Poland with name KOd – Knockout design. Here you can see some of their work and picture from stand at the fairground how people interacted with their designs.

Interaction

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About group – Their own words
Dorota and Magda got to know each other in the kindergarten waiting for their parents who were always very late. At the high school, they met Maya, and all of them started attending art classes given by Bulgarian painter Ventzislav Piriankov. In the course of design studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, they started to make projects together and that is how KOd was born. It was more a joke rather than a serious vision of a design group; we are still amazed that it worked out.

„Take away: step by step”

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Description: I like changes. I like to travel. I like to walk. I take my table. I go. I choose a place. I stop. Take off my shoes…and leave a small footprint as a memory of my trip. Easy to store and carry. materials: cardboard, shoe-lace, stickers. dimensions: table 585×585x345mm; flat 1000×1000x1,4mm. Author: Dorota Kabała 2007

Shelves “blossom” and „Coffee dress”

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Shelves “blossom” Description: Changes are important in our life. I love changes. what about you? To love changes is to love blossoming. Blossom like a bud. Open when its needed and close when there is nothing to store. dimensions: open:1000×300x300mm, closed:1000×400x10mm Author: Magda Juszczak 2007

„Coffee dress” Description: ooops!!! I did it again! I poured coffee/wine/coke etc on my dress…I don’t care. Stains are so beautiful! materials: cotton, screen print. Author: KOd, Marta Florkowska 2006/2007

In the Salone Satelite 07 preview we gave you short info about participants from eastern and central Europe and now delivering detailed view of some of them. First one is Matej Štefanac from Slovenia. So lets have a look on his designs presented in this year Salone satelite.

Tongue Lounge chair

Material: bent plywood
Short description: A very sculptural approach to designing a lounge. An overall organic shape inspired by nature, suggesting the smoothness of a leaf and a curvy front suggesting a tongue.The lounge is composed out of two pieces (in order to reduce the production and transportation costs).

Alone in Kyoto / stool

Material: recycled wood
Short description: The name »Alone in Kyoto« derives from the Kyoto protocol, agreement of reducing the amount of air pollution. It confronts its actual efficiency and boycott of some countries.
When you’re left alone in a common struggle…
Inspired by origami shapes.

Engineering Collection is a result of cooperation of Koncern Design and glassworks Rückl Crystal a. s. It is related to the tradition of Czech, hand-craft crystal glassware and moves it forward.

Czech crystal glassware has become a victim of unstable development of Czech economy in last decades. Glass industry was a major artefact of export policy of communist Czechoslovakia in years 1948 – 1989. In last seventeen years it has been facing new phenomenon – turist industry. Both have devastating impacts: It was and it is required to remain at the historicist forms. As a consequence, the minimal development was made.

Five collections from Koncern Design meet current requirements for utility and aesthetics in the field of luxurious beverage glassware. It brings new fancy features into stagnate glass work industry.

Engineering Collection is, exactly in the spirit of experiments of Koncern Design, based on the ironic concept. The matter and the shape of individual collections are elicted from the appereance of metal machine components. Quatation, roughness marks and adequate engineering standarts sand blasted into the surface of the 24% lead crystal then evoke a polemic with the character of glassware industry. The exact engineering products are not a part of symbolic language of the times of avangard any more. Nowadays, we sense it strictly aesthetically, as peculiar elegancy of former industrial epoque. This idiom , in the Engineering Collection, is apllied on the glassware products as another of possible historicist ornamentics. Koncern Design entered into the area of which others designers avoid from. Company Rückl Crystal produces, in smaller series, sets of beverage glassware for whiskey (M80×6), champagne (Morse 1:50), wine (red wine – Involute gearing, white wine – Basic Quatation) and absinth (Splined Shaft).

We have visited Salone satelite 07 at Milano Rho fairground and we found there designers form central and eastern Europe. We will provide you short preview of all of them there.

Kako design Studio – Vesna Pejovic – Belgrade – Serbia
POLJE – furniture collection – objects created to awake and temper sensation of movement and transformation

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KOd – Magda Juzcak, Dorota Kabala, Maya Ober – Poznan – Poland
Traveling, party – after party, action – interaction, being in troubles, elegant disaster,being broke, turning minuses to pluses. Our products aim at those who are familiar with these concepts.

Jasna Mujkic – Sarajevo – Bosnia and Herzegovina
A small, light, armchair has ability to transform into an easy chair. Inside our fixed home environment it is a fragment of remaining freedom.

Linda Lakstina Lakstigala – Riga – Latvia
Mobilis furniture system is for space arranging. System consists of modules from which is possible to create many different variations.

MishMash Project – Moscow – Russia
The floor torch consists of 3 mildly radiant segments connected with flexible joints on a round base. With help of stiff and flexible connections one can bend the torch to create a variety of shining curves.

Murmur – Zane Homka / Juris Krumis – Riga – Latvia
Lelle chair construction and shape are based are based on clear continuous line as a functional and ergonomic value.

Matej Stefanac – Podplat – Slovenia
Tongue Chair: An overall organic shape inspired by nature, suggesting the smoothness of leaf and curvy front suggestion a tongue. The chair is composed out of two pieces screwed together.

Square One – Bucharest – Romania
“Ninja” is polyurethane massive seating system that can be modulate to occupy any area available. It borrows its name from the fluid movement that it describe and the white lighten openings between the armrests backrest.

Nika Zupanc – Ljubljana – Slovenia
La femme et la Maison: Ordinary life, distributed by Nika Zupanc

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We will contact designers for more information and images of their
designs and hopefully you will find interesting works in future posts.

Warszawa 17th of April – 3rd of June 2007

I recomend to everyone visiting Warszawa to see the exhibition in ZACHĘTA gallery. It is a very interesting event showing polish and british subjectivity in design. At the exhibition there are presented the works of the most interesting British designers. It demonstrates how, in the last decade, the boundary between art, industrial design and artistic design has eroded. On the one hand, a design product is now regarded as simultaneously having certain features of a product of craftwork and, on the other, also is construed as being a work of art. My World is an international exhibition for Experimenta 2005, the Lisbon Design Biennale. This time there are added projects by polish leading studios and designers and also some project of young designers and students who were mentioned in the associated competition.

more info:
http://www.britishcouncil.org
http://www.zacheta.art.pl 

We are in Milan Design Week for couple days and we will provide you informations form events and interesting stuff in there. Also will provide you photo reports from salone satelite and evens in the city as is Zona Tortona because we have met there designers from eastern europe. In few days we will publish articles so just look forward dear readers.

On 26-th of April there will be and opening day of the Czech Studio Qubus in the shop MAGAZYN PRAGA in Warszawa. The projects of Qubus show the philosophy of the two designers Maxim Velcovsky and Jakub Berdych, who look back at their time in comunist Czechoslovakia. They keep irony and joke in porcelain and glass objects. The jugglering with socialist motives or with icons of todays consumerism is worth seeing.

The exhibition:
Opening day: 26 April 2007, 6 p.m. exhib. until 21.05.2007
Magazyn Praga
ul. Ząbkowska 27/31 Warszawa

Wired blog network did an interview with Branko Lukic designer from Belgrade, Serbia who in the past was working as a lead designer in Frog Design and IDEO. He is cofounder and partner of design consultancy Non objects. Branko is also author of nonobject: The book.

The non·object book is the first of its kind – the first of a new genre we call Design Fiction. In the same way that sci-fi movies and fictional tales stretch your imagination, our hope is to take you on a journey into the future of design and inspiration. We will share stories and concepts that offer a new point of view, a new way of thinking, a new way forward. Of course, as with all fiction, some of our ideas may seem improbable – even impossible. Don’t worry, we bought the tickets. All you have to do is enjoy the ride.

Interested in this book? So wait for its release in the third quarter of 2007.

source:
Core77

Wired blog network

nonobjectbook.com

Couple weeks ago we have visited furniture trade fair in Slovakia, specially part of it with name Design Forum 07 (originally Forum dizajnu 07) organized by Slovak design center and Agrokoplex – vystavnicrvo Nitra. Now we are delivering to you small photoreport from this event.
Link to photoreport.

Link to photoreport.
Photos by Julia Dologova.

This year in Milan during design week from will be shown a project by a polish student from Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. The “infinite fun” project is one of 7 mentions selected by Judges of the “Playing Design” competition. The prototype will be realised by a group of Progetto Lissone companies. The projects were selected because of the great image and graphics, use of new materials, environment respect adn creativity.

We invite you to prize-giving and to the opening of the exhibition of projects ans some prototypes that will take place at the Museo d´Arte Contemporanea of Lissone on Sunday 18 March 2007 at 11.00 am.

INFINITE DESIGN – Alicja Bieda
see at: www.playingdesign.com