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Freshome (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Sometimes I just want to want to work attentively without any disturbance, and the Rewrite Desk designed by GamFratesi is an awesome place to take your productivity to another level. This desk was awarded with Denmark’s Walk the Plank Award 2009 for excellence and craftsmanship in furniture. Showcased at GamFratesi’s solo show at The Danish [...] This is a post from the Freshome Magazine...
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3rings (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Since it’s virtually impossible to make a chair float, Nendo turned to illusion. The Japanese design firm developed the Fade-Out chair, one of their four most recent designs in the ongoing exhibition “Ghost Stories: New Design from Nendo” at the Museum of Art and Design in New York. Appearing to hover in space, the [...]
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Studiopjj (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Check out Oki Sato's new show titled Ghost Stories: New Works from Nendo at New York's Museum of Art and design. Don't miss. Useful links: http://madmuseum.org www.nendo.jp
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Fast Company (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Oki Sato, who heads the firm Nendo, is one brightest talents in a new generation of Japanese minimalist designers. Just 32 years old, Newsweek had already dubbed him one of the 100 Most Respected Japanese, only four years out of grad school, in 2006. His designs have seldom been seen in the U.S.--but that changes with " ," a new show at New York's Museum of Art and design which runs through...
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Oddee (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Some of the most fascinating sculptures made of things that belong to the trash.
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woohome (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Called Rewrite, the desk is designed by GamFratesi and presented at GamFratesi’s solo show at The Danish Museum of Art and Design. The desk with a cave-like shield on top to create an intimate working places. “Rewrite is thought of as a kind of isolating working bubble, that can work as a satellite desk anywhere [...]
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PicoCool (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
If you’re the one who feels like blocking the world while working at your desk, then Copenhagen-based design team GamFratesi has something for you. A sleek dinosaur egg-like or you can say the cave-like worktable named “Rewrite" creating an intimate working environment lets you complete the assignments without any disturbance. Showed off at The Danish Museum of Art and Design, this...
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Blabber, Etcetera (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Copenhagen designers GamFratesi have designed a prototype desk with a cave-like shield on top to create an intimate working environment. Called Rewrite, the desk is presented at GamFratesi’s solo show at The Danish Museum of Art and Design .
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Fast Company (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Good designers have a way of fashioning surprises from familiar materials. Here's three new projects--all of which elevate metal into something wonderfully strange--that made us sit up. Tim Parson's zooms in on materials with a hyper-focused eye, whether it's metal, glass, ceramics, or even wicker. For these bowls , he figured out a way to drip molten pewter onto a mold, creating a piece that looks...
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Felt & Wire (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
[Laura Shore] Slash: Paper Under the Knife just opened at the Museum of Art and Design in New York. This new exhibit takes the pulse of the international art world’s renewed interest in paper. Here, paper is presented as its own creative medium and source of artistic inspiration, in a wonderfully diverse range of art [...]
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PORT (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
In the NYT's Karen Rosenberg considers cut paper as art (Tom Friedman, Olafur Elliason and a missing Yuken Teruya) at the Brad Cloepfil designed Museum of Art and Design If Terry Toedtemeier and John Laursen don't win the Frances Fuller Victor Award for General Nonfiction in the Oregon Book Awards for Wild Beauty I'd be very surprised. Even without the award the book is a legacy that cannot be underestimated....
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Fast Company (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
A virtual tour of the Museum of Art and Design's newest exhibition, dedicated to all the surprising ways artists are using paper today. In the year since the Museum of Art and Design reopened in its new digs on Columbus Circle, they've been delivering consistently compelling shows--from punk-rock lace to radical knitting experiments. The newest, "Slash: Paper Under the Knife" , opened last...
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
“Slash: Paper Under the Knife,” at the Museum of Art and Design, explores the sometimes violent, always intricate art of paper cutting.
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Women's Wear Daily (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
A mix of young designers, artists and social types hit the Paperball benefit for New York’s Museum of Art and Design on Wednesday evening
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