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|Preview Salone del Mobile: Driade

April 3, 2006 _events

There are many good reasons for me to love this original magazine rack that Driade will present for the first time this week at Milan. Designed by Francisco Gomez Paz, Omero is made of modular injected aluminium cones and steel legs, the result is a stunning simple and sophisticated object I completely fell in love with.

| Preview Salone del Mobile: Domodinamica

Among the new projects the italian company Domodinamica will display the Mist Table by Milan based designer Rodrigo Torres. Characterised by the tense and fluid surfaces, the table was conceived as the perfect companion for the Mist armchair presented last year. Made of steel tubes and aluminium injected joints is available in black, white and chrome finish and in different sizes, ranging from coffee table to meeting table.

| Preview Fuori Salone: Design da Minha Terra

March 31, 2006 _events

Next week Milan will wake up again for the best period of the year, the Design Week. More than 400 off site events will keep us walking around the city. At the Flying Circus the exhibit Design da Minha Terra will show the latest projects of brasilian designer Rafael Simoes Miranda: the flatpack cardboard coffee table Doca and the new lamp Sfogliata made of multiple layers of acryl.

Photo: Patrick Kier & Sheila Zedda

|Design Takes On Risk

October 17, 2005 _events

MOMA presents more than 300 contemporary products and prototypes designed to protect body and mind from dangerous or stressful circumstances, respond to emergencies, ensure clarity of information, and provide a sense of comfort and security.
Core 77 has a a nice gallery on the Design Takes On Risk exhibition. Check it out here.

|DESIGNMAI 2005

May 10, 2005 _events

From May 5 to 16, Berlin-based festival DESIGNMAI host multiple events, offering insights into the contemporary design scene.
The program includes several large exhibitions at a central location and many satellite events throughout Berlin including award ceremonies, parties and happenings.

The exhibition JUNG+DEUTSCH (YOUNG+GERMAN) features the work of emerging german designers from the fields of furniture, product, graphic, fashion and media design. On the spotlight recent projects by Konstantin Grcic, Werner Aisslinger, Stefan Diez, Kram/Weisshaar (in the photo their Breeding Table), Vogt + Weizenegger, Sisi Wasabi and many others.

|D-Day

February 20, 2004 _events

February 27 is South Africa's first-ever National Design Day. D-Day. A day to celebrate, support, buy, use and wear South African design. Don't miss it.

|SOCIAL DESIGN

July 28, 2003 _events

Design for the World is an international humanitarian organisation that represents a large number of designers (graphic, product, architectural, etc.) who want to use their experience and creativity to help people in need. They want to make available their skills to those who most need them, beyond the confines of the consumer market.
Design for the World believes that people disadvantaged by poverty, war, disability, age or environmental conditions deserve equal access to practical design solutions that will improve their day-to-day lives.
From May to September 2004, Barcelona will host the Universal Forum of Cultures - first edition of a new large-scale international event that will bring together people from all over the world around three core themes: cultural diversity, sustainable development and conditions for peace.
They will show ideas, inventions and objects that contribute to a diverse, equitable, sustainable world. If you wish to participate helping to choose the projects that will be exhibited please send those objects that (already being used or under development) have improved, are improving or will improve the lives of people in need: refugees, people in developing countries, disabled people, marginalized groups, etc.
Send us your ideas from this site, or by e-mail to dw@designfortheworld.org.