Designmanifesto by the Dutch
Here a Dutch minimanifesto-example from my old schoolmates DEMAKERSVAN(Themakersof).
Archive for 2007
Gilbert & George
Ten Commendments of Gilbert & George, voila. Clear as a sugercube!
Manifesto
the future of…
Different speakers talk about different topics.
www.stockexchangeofvisions.org
All you need
Spoken Word on mp3, archive of all the artists you can imagine, realtime video art, theatre plays from way back, performance art, poetry, valuable manifesta and other statements. This is all you need:
Two different ways of using bread
Eat Me – Sharon Baker
A performance for which she had cast her body in bread and invited the audience to eat it with her.
Many themes were revealed in the pre-event discussion: it subverts religious ritual, challenges our perceptions of a mundane material like bread, explores and transgresses the boundaries of the body, and engages all the senses.
Bread Body Parts – Kittiwat Unarrom
Son of a family of bakers, Kittiwat Unarrom first began his artistic career painting portraits. He then moved to sculpting in mixed media, and then made the jump to bread. Unarrom says he hopes his lifelike baked goods will make viewers and tasters focus on the nature of appearances and the act of eating.
Better Things for Better Living…Through Chemistry
Founded in 1802, DuPont puts science to work by creating sustainable solutions essential to a better, safer, healthier life for people everywhere.
they also make napalm
What is the bottom line on corporate idealism? in shareholder review copy? if we see through this what do we see underneath our various manifesta?
What is the difference between idealism and naivety?
SIMON-PLAN OF ACTION
1 – TASK LIGHT – PROTOTYPE TO SHOW THE DESIGN – PROTOTYPE TO SHOW THE FUNCTION – PRINTED PRESENTATION WITH PRINCIPLES AND COLOUR VARIATIONS
2 – SUNDIAL – DESIGN OF THE NUMBERS – RESEARCH MATERIAL AND PRODUCTION – MOCKUP 1 TO 1 OF ONE NUMBER – VARIATION OF SPACE – FINDING SPONSOR
3 – WARP II- REDESIGN OF THE ELEMENTS – MORE DURABLE – RESEARCH MATERIAL FOR NUMBERS – SILVER PLATED OR APPLIED
4 – OPEN PROJECTS – LASER GAMES – GLASSES WITHOUT GLASSES – SCREEN CLOCK – TATTOO EXTENSIONS – IRON-ON BAG – MOVING TO
New Life for Sale!!
An auction for a New Life in the coastal town of Wollongong, Australia of a 24 year old male.
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/New-Life-for-Sale_W0QQitemZ110078904033QQihZ001QQcat
this is a test
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Tino Sehgal 2007
Tino Sehgal and interpreters at Frieze Art Fair, 2004. Photo © David Weightman 2004
29 Jan 2007 – 4 Mar 2007
Whether dancing museum guards, two people locked in a kiss, someone writhing on the floor of an empty gallery, or a conversation with a child, Tino Sehgal’s situation based pieces can be as enchanting as they are disorientating. For the final part of his trilogy of solo shows at the ICA, Sehgal will present his most recent work, a constantly changing piece, which in its inherent unpredictability can either be titled This Success or This Failure.
Tino Sehgal has been kindly supported by The Felix Trust for Art.
The longest non-technical word is floccinaucinihilipilification at 29 letters. Consisting of a series of Latin words meaning “nothing” and defined as “the act of estimating something as worthless,” its usage has been recorded as far back as 1741.[2][3][4] In recent times its usage has been recorded in the proceedings of the United States Senate by Senator Robert Byrd [5], and at the White House by Bill Clinton‘s press secretary Mike McCurry, albeit sarcastically.
La Sarah Mini-Manifesto
I would never call myself an Artist. I would much rather call myself a designer and find myself in the wrong place, or as it appeared later, suffer from the friction of being in the right place. I believe that design can never achieve the ultimately beautiful, and I have little interest in trying. I believe that true beauty lays in design that carries meaning. Good design adopts some of the qualities of good art; the way it can stimulate the undiscovered layers of our consciousness for example, or the way it can be transient, and only existing in a moment (that’s already gone). Can my design exist in a moment?
I like the tool / the instrument, and the machine as design products, they are non-judgemental. They don’t criticise the outcome. They are not contaminated by a fixed idea of beauty, because they don’t have to be beautiful. They just move, go, exist. Do their function tirelessly, with dignity and without question. Processes and techniques (the action of the making) explains my interest for Performance Design and my choice for platform 8.
CHAIN REACTION II
I collaborated on a Rowan Mersh on a Chain Reaction performance. (www.sarahvangameren.com) A domino timepiece lasting 12 hours, one match igniting the next one and so on. I wondered how I could simplify this principle and make it possible to charge 3d objects with this paste so I started made a flammable paste at home and collaborated with Lucy Bean from Imperial College to optimise the paste.The possibility I will hopefully gain by inventing this paste is that I can now create transient design; I can design the moment, bring my objects in motion, and give them a time-space. That the remains results burned in the object, means that the happening will be remembered. A latent tension and enticing activity. I would like to put an example of the remains in the Show as well as a registration of the happening itself. The before, the during, the after.
Milan could be a good first test case for this project on portable scale.
CANDELABRA DIPPER
This object has to in a similar way embrace transience. Ideally this would be a machine that slowly grows design objects, candelabras, dipping and dripping like stalagmites and stalactites grow in nature.
PROJECT UNKNOWN
At this moment I’m thinking of another product for my end-exams. Probably a tool or instrument that makes the triptych of projects complete.
ARTEMIDE
Not all objects designed without actually designing anything have to be made of ready-mades. Ready-mades can also be the medium, like a sketchbook or some paint.
For Artemide I made a working 3d sketch of a lamp constructed from a collection of objects to be found on and around my desk put under tension. A styled compilation of already proven to be highly functional and successful objects of everyday life are my guideline in the design of a producible Artemide task-light.
© Sarah van Gameren
Henny’s brief
Brief 1.
Behind the geraniums.
Life is something with a start and an end. When people grow old the their age shows in their appearance, wrinkles, changing colour of the hair, etc. These are natural visible signs that go together with aging.
Many materials have the same characteristics. Many change in their appearance when they age, rust, fading colours, cracks etc. These are facts that many usually try to fight rather then except. I want to investigate in materials that change over time. Influenced by heat, light, water etc. Use these characteristics and emphasize them in products.
Goal is to come up with interior design pieces that question the perception of when a product is in the perfect state or condition (if there even is one). Is this when it’s brand new, or when it aged and shows decay?
Stage 1, material experiments and come up with product ideas. Till Tuesday 30th.
Stage 2, Turn material experiments into products.
One week.
Stage 3, develop a small series (3) pieces within this concept to working prototypes. Till the end of term 2.
Brief 2.
Personalization of products
Investigate in and create materials that can be changed by the consumer. With these produce products that do not stay in a fixed position. But design products that can be transformed by its user to their own needs.
Goal is to design objects that trigger a physical bond with the person(s) that use the object.
Investigate in materials and come up with strong products that express this idea of aging in products and are at the same time usable for consumption.
Stage 1, material experiments and sketches for interior products.
Stage 2, Turn material experiments into product ideas.
Stage 3, develop a small series (2/3) pieces within this concept to working prototypes.
Brief 3
Artemide tasklight
Finish second stage with a working model light. This light requires a physical interaction to direct the light. This physical interaction creates the shape of the object. This is brief 2.
Develop the fibre weaving experiments to a product that can be produce simply by weaving cloths of this material. Advantages are no direct exposure to a blinding lightbulb and no hot elements that you can touch.
Brief 4
Lago structure,
This is a modular seating/landscape object for interior use. I developed this during my workshop with Lago in Italy.
Find math expert that can help develop this modular system to working model. Then prototype and materialize this product. Points of consideration are; the connections, dimensions and the use of cushions.
Brief 5
Expand the magazine work into; animation, other products, different use of fashion magazines (medium)