I’m so proud wearing an ochs und junior! My post N˚042 was about these wonderful watches and now I have my own mese tinta… and with own I really mean it because thanks to the concept it is possible to choose any Pantone color to design your tinta! Pantone 7546 c combined with a dark brown leather strap and white hands and indices – for me – the perfect combination.
The tinta collection with the mese, selene and due ore is Ludwig Oechslin’s vision of pure functionality. The concept of the mese tinta is the answer to the simple question: What does a good watch need? The time and the date! The mese tinta has both, and how! Ludwig Oechslin’s innovative date spiral with the orange dot to indicate the date, sets a new standard for legibility.
Besides these conceptual considerations it’s all about technical perfection and high end material. The 42 mm titanium case contains an ETA calibre 2824 self-winding mechanical movement. The dial is protected by a sapphire crystal and, as with all ochs und junior timepieces, the mese tinta is presented on an eco-tanned leather strap with a titanium buckle.
As I already introduced in N˚025 the CreativeMornings is a monthly breakfast lecture series originally started by swiss-miss.com in NYC. The Zurich chapter is run by Daniel Frei.
Today, my Colleague Patrick Arnecke, Head of Design at SRF, was the speaker. I was very excited when he asked me to design the location for the event in one of the TV studios. As I like to join these mornings myself, it was a great honor to be even part of it! You will find the speech about the SRF design team on Vimeo and some notes on facebook. Thanks to the helpful Tpc crew, the delicious CupCakes and the interesting speech, I think it was a great morning!
Fotos Copyright SRF/Oscar Alessio
“Sleep and dine from one to five stars” is the concept of the Lloyd Hotel in Amsterdam. All 117 rooms differ in size, interior concept and furniture, a combination of modern Dutch design and timeless classics. The Lloyd Hotel is located in the heart of the Eastern Docklands only 5 minutes by bike from Central Station, with views over the water and away from the noise of the city.
The Hotel is set in a revamped 1920s building with a vibrant story: First built as an emigrant’s hotel by Evert Breman, the German occupier converted the building 1941 into a prison. After that, it became a detention centre for juveniles in the sixties, before the city of Amsterdam rented out the Lloyd Hotel to a foundation, which turned it into workshops for artists. The plan to turn the building into a cultural embassy and a one to five star Hotel came 1997 and was realized and reopened as Lloyd Hotel in 2004.
My room 401 was all about space; with walls to fold out to change the spaciousness and create room for the bath and a cosy sleep space. I liked the atmosphere, the comfort and the friendly service at Lloyds and I appreciated the bike drive along the IJ after a long day in the city.
Stephan put my attention on another nice product manufactured and designed with care and skilled craftmanship: The Shwood Eyewear: “An experiment born from the limb of a Madrone tree, a rusty pair of cabinet hinges, and lenses from a store around the corner.” As the name says, they create with wood and play with its individuality and uniqueness- they keep the wood manipulation a minimum in order to showcase the medium’s natural and unique splendor. How nice to be inspired by nature to innovate and create such a nice thing. I’m looking forward to mine The Canby…
shwood | all pictures from the website
Video Experiment Skateboard Shades
An insight about the story and production of my favorite sneakers ilmia which were featured in yesterdays TV show Galileo on Pro7. Have a look in the manufacturing process to see with what quality and care they are made…Congrats Christian!
ilmia on prosieben
www.ilmia.com
A cultural walk from the VitraHaus with it’s impressive spaces – to the Fondation Beyeler with an exhibition about Richard Serra and Constantin Brancusi – both with a refined use of lines, proportions and material.
Sorry for the bad quality of the pics – a good reason to visit and see the places yourself..
I had the chance to attend Lidewij Edelkoorts Trend Forum under the theme “Shopping 2012/2013”. Her work has pioneered trend forecasting as a profession. She presents the concepts, colors and materials, which will be in fashion two or more years in advance. She and the Trend Union Team orientate professionals in interpreting the evolution of society and the foreshadowing signals of consumer tastes to come, without forgetting economic reality, by creating innovative trend books and audiovisual lifestyle analysis.
Trendtablet.com is a new social media platform explaining how trends grow, evolve and flow. The site is designed and curated by Li Edelkoort and is a tool accessed for free, open to comments and contributions.
The Thing I like: Even it is very hard to define and foresee “Trends” I always enjoy these seminars full of wonderful pictures, new perspectives, ideas and concepts which inspire to design and create, look at Things in a new way…
trendunion
trendtablet
Shopping 2012/2013
Catering by hin&weg
How fast a year passes… and after Paris last June I’m looking forward to OFFF Barcelona 2011 under the theme Year Zero:
“Year Zero. Year Alpha. Time to turn our back on the past. To just look forward. Upwards. Fearless of being blinded by the sun. It’s time to set up new rules, to invent new games. To forget about the “re-” and the “post-”. To become kids again and discover the world. Another one. It’s time to be revolutionary. There is no longer a present to determine us, because the present is us. We are the future. And the future will be just like we want it to be.
2011 is Offf’s Year Zero. The year the festival will voluntarily forget its past and once again reinvent itself. In a new place. With new areas. With fresh ideas and the spirit of those who start something. Something big. Different. Better.
From OFFF we stand up to the passage of time. We reject it. We have decided not to age. Our route page is blank. Our map, waiting to be drawn. Nothing ties us. Nothing is forbidden. Nothing is done. There is no limit. Year Zero. Tabula rasa. Look, the dawn is breaking. It’s a new day rising.”
barcelonayearzero a film/campaign by Ignore
www.offf.ws
A day off to explore new Things – thanks to Noemi from karpet who gave me the tip – I visited the beautiful Showroom eco design home in Zurich Binz. A really nice space with an interesting selection of products. Especially the furniture from Piet Hein Eek which Cora Ruoss imports exclusively are worth a closer look. The Dutchman designs and manufactures for many years successfully his unique products made from recycled materials. In Eindhoven where he changed an old ceramic factory into an atelier-showroom-restaurant, the furniture and accessories are Custom Made with exquisite craftsmanship. I like the scrap wood furniture, an idea as “a reaction against the prevalent craving for flawlessness” Piet Hein Eek says. This imperfection creates a new aesthetic; the uncommon materials combined with simple and equally uncommon methods became the theme running through his work.
I like the challenge to get the most out of existing circumstances, the use and development of material that is abundantly available, as a sustainable concept.
www.ecodesignhome.ch
mail@ecodesignhome.ch
www.pietheineek.nl