November 4, 2011

D'SIGN's Weekly Dose: Inside Interior Festival Awards Barcelona

Overview Inside award winners

The Inside Awards - World Festival of Interiors which is held in Barcelona, Spain on the third floor of the Centro de Convenciones Internacionales de Barcelona until the 4th of November. Last Sunday  on the 2th of November the winners of the In Inside awards held in Barcelona, Spain are announced. And for this inaugural year, a stellar line-up of judges, Andre Fu, Ilse Crawford, Jaime Hayon, and Paul Priestman. Going true hundreds of entries to a diverse shortlist of 44 completed projects. Those who entered the shortlist will be then pitched against each other, during live presentations.


Inside is the only global interiors awards event where designers present their work live to an expert panel of judges — including Ilse Crawford, Andre Fu, Ross Lovegrove, Eva Jiricna, David Collins and more— as well as an audience of clients, press and peers. Enter the Inside awards and you could have the opportunity to showcase your work to the most influential figures in the industry today.

Wellington International Airport
Inside 2011: The Rock, the newest terminal at Wellington International Airport by Warren & Mahoney and Studio Pacific has just been announced as the winner of the transport category at the inaugural Inside awards in Barcelona.
Bar Code Office
Inside 2011: Bar Code Office by Singapore studio Ministry of Design has just been announced as the winner of the offices category at the inaugural Inside awards in Barcelona.
Ian Moore Architects Strelein Warehouse
Inside 2011: in our next round of Inside awards in Barcelona, Strelein Warehouse by Ian Moore Architects has just been announced as the winner of the residential category.The project involved converting a former grocery warehouse in Sydney into a two-storey home.
Ian Moore Architects Strelein Warehouse
Inside 2011: the hotels category award at the inaugural Inside awards in Barcelona goes to NHDRO for The Waterhouse at South Bund.
The Waterhouse at South Bund by NHDRO
NHDRO transformed the disused Japanese army headquarters in Shanghai into a hotel, maintaining the building’s stripped concrete and brick walls.
Hostem by JamesPlumb 
Inside 2011: Hostem by JamesPlumb has just been announced as the winner of the retail category at the inaugural Inside awards in Barcelona.
Football Training Centre/Soweto 
Inside 2011: Football Training Centre/Soweto by RUFproject is the winner of the culture and civic category at the inaugural Inside awards in Barcelona.
Inside award winner: St Barbara Bastions by Architecture Project
Inside 2011: St Barbara Bastions in Malta by Architecture Project has won the creative reuse category at the Inside awards in Barcelona.
Table No.1 by NHDRO
Inside 2011: finally, Table No.1 by NHDRO wins the bars and restaurants category at the Inside awards in Barcelona.
Table No.1 by NHDRO
See all our stories about restaurants and bars here.
V&A Ceramics Study Galleries 
Inside 2011: the Ceramics Study Galleries at the Victoria & Albert museum in London by OPERA Amsterdam have just been announced as the winner of the display category at the inaugural Inside awards in Barcelona.
Photos: Courtesy of Dezeen
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Publiced by Gabrielle Voogt on 11/04/2011
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D'SIGN's Weekly Dose: IDSwest Canada 2011

Best picks from IDSwest 2011

DSwest is an annual four-day event that has earned its place as one of Canada’s top design shows, with its focus on local West Coast talent. More than over 200 exhibitors display their products and services to high class industrial professionals from all over the world. Organized at Vancouver Convention Centre, Canada, USA, the IDSwest is introducing different variety of space concepts and feature areas which focus on pushing various national and international design and architecture


The show featured the best of interior, industrial, furniture and lighting designers as well as showcasing work by students and recent graduates. Professionals working in the field of Decoration, Home & Office Design, Furniture, Lightning, Handicraft Products, Gifts & Souvenirs, Home Exhibitions, Kitchen & Bathroom accessories & other related products are the target visitors. For those who missed it. Here is a overview from the best of the best showing during IDSwest. Enjoy!

Top Picks from IDSwest 2011
Emily Carr student Sarah Péloquin and an IDSwest Future Master focuses on blending art and function and her mathematics-inspired Geodesic Ceramics shows her excellent potential.
Top Picks from IDSwest 2011
StudioPombo‘s Bookmark Lamp is fun & functional!
Top Picks from IDSwest 2011
The Frame Light Chandelier from Seattle-based Iacoli & McAllister is available in almost any color.
Top Picks from IDSwest 2011
Tree Rings by Judson Beaumont of Straight Line Designs are made from normally undesirable Pine Beetle Wood and are transformed into illuminated, playful, colorful side tables.
Top Picks from IDSwest 2011
Loved the organic shape of Zoe Garred‘s porcelain shell lamps.
Top Picks from IDSwest 2011
The Re-Fab project is a partnership between Canada Place and Vancouver Architecture for Humanity Society which repurposes the fabric from the old Canada Place sails for new uses. From LED lighting to a Canoe, this was definitely one of the highlights of IDSwest.
Top Picks from IDSwest 2011
Tables from the Bloom collection designed by Michael Thomas Host and Tanje Hinder of MTH Woodworks are made from an eco-friendly resin and locally salvaged cedar.
Top Picks from IDSwest 2011
Collaboration presented its debut collection the PL series of giant handmade concrete landscape sculptures.
Top Picks from IDSwest 2011
Top Picks from IDSwest 2011
David Catta finds his inspiration from aeronautics and his Aviation Chair which took over 3,000 hours to concept, prototype and develop is part of a limited edition set of 5.
Top Picks from IDSwest 2011
Niels Bendtsen‘s new chair was on display, but what was really interesting was also seeing the actual prototypes of the chair.
Top Picks from IDSwest 2011
Editor favorite Christian Woo‘s kitchen on display was beautiful – his minimalistic aesthetic and craftsmanship were unmistakable.
Photos: Courtesy Design Milk
Publiced by Gabrielle Voogt on 11/04/2011
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D'SIGN's Weekly Dose: Art Biennale Istanbul Eylem Aladogan

Awardwinning artist Eylem Aladogan 

Dutch Designer, Eylem Aladogan is the winner of the Volkskrant Art Prize 2009. She received the award Sunday from jury president Hedy d'Ancona for its "varied, though highly professional work of sculptures, installations and drawings." Aladogan’s sculptures and installations evoke the tension of reaching for something or bracing for flight, turning moments of spiritual and psychological conflict into grand gestures of dark, offbeat beauty. Birds, rifles, daggers, Native American culture, and Moorish architectural patterns are all recurring motifs.


Eylem Aladogan based in Amsterdam, born in Tiel, in 1975 and studied at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam and the State Academy in Amsterdam. A view of Eylem Aladogan earlyer work was shown at the Boijmans Van Beuningen museum in 2010. Now her most recent work, 'listen to your soul, my blood is singing iron triggers that could be released', is displayed at the Istanbul art biennale 2011 The sculptures of Eylem Aladogan examines the generation of willpower and re formed by her curiosity with the concept of power both in its origin within a person or organization as well as the interaction of power with an individual. Enjoy!

More awards achiefment are; In 2004  Encouragement subsidy visual Arts, Amsterdam, Fund for the Arts, Amsterdam
Publiced by Gabrielle Voogt on 11/04/2011
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D'SIGN's Weekly Dose: Beijing Design Week Paul Cocksedge

Beijing Design Week 2011

Paul Cocksedge Studio has been selected by 2011 Beijing Design Week and the First Beijing International Design Triennial to exhibit a major installation entitled ‘Manuscript (Seats of Poetry)’set to be a key highlight of the festival which this year features London as its guest city.
Paul Cocksedge Studio’s sculptural design celebrates a wonderful Chinese invention, manuscript paper, the foundation of global literature and communication.


At 20 metres long by 6.7 metres high, the sculpture’s impressive scale also presents itself as a monument to the industrial capability of China. Upon closer inspection the piece is made up of rolled steel pages inscribed with poems carefully curated from Chinese and English sources. ‘Manuscript’ is about the exchange of words, poetry and knowledge between Beijing and London. This temporary piece has been designed to be explored visually and physically by visitors to the China Millennium Monument, a cultural and events complex built to celebrate the turn of the millennium. Enjoy!

London designer Paul Cocksedge installed giant pages of poetry made from rolled steel sheets outside the China Millennium Monument during Beijing Design Week.
 Both Chinese and English poems were inscribed onto the curled sheets of the 20 metre-wide sculpture, entitled Manuscript.
Visitors could relax where they like on the individual pages.
Publiced by Gabrielle Voogt on 11/04/2011
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D'SIGN's Weekly Dose: Beijing Design Week Heng Zhi

Water table object

At the 1st Beijing International Design Triennial: Vienna based Chinese designer Heng Zhi contributed an object installation called “Water Table Object”. The Water Table Object is made of corian with four pairs of golden tableware sunken in water. The project was created based on a one-year research that questions whether using knives and forks or chopsticks is more civilised than eating with one’s hands. By doing so, raise the question or better the questions for Heng Zhi; “Why do we need a fork? Why is it ‘barbarian’ and ‘uncivilized’ to eat with hands from your own plate? Because it feels embarrassing to be seen with dirty and oily finger in company.” Are we!! Chinese designer Heng Zhi produced Water Table Object following a research project


Not easily answered and this resulted in the exploring ways to combine theory and practice in tangible objects. The theoretical output is an essay called “Stäbchen oder Besteck? – Entstehung, Formwandlung, und die ‘zivilisierten’ Esser”. The essay tells you abouth the Poetry that happens during the process of serving the table and the force of the fragility of the whole setting. Watching the downfall of the eating implements that we are used to, we start to question why certain patterns of behaviour and certain everyday objects make up the relationships within social groups and lives. Enjoy!

Golden plates and cutlery become slowly submerged underwater when this table is set.
The top of the table by Chinese designer Heng Zhi sits on a tank of water that’s concealed inside the Corian frame.
The weight of the metal plates and cutlery forces the floating tabletop to sink below the surface of the water.
Once water has flooded the surface, diners are forced to either let their food get wet or to eat with only their hands.

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Publiced by Gabrielle Voogt on 11/04/2011
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