www.danishcrafts.org/visArtikel.uk.asp?artikelID=2504
(text below from Danish Crafts website)
Ole Jensen
Born in 1958, ceramist/designer. He graduated as a ceramic designer from the Kolding College of Danish Design in 1985 and from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1990.
Hot Water Bottle is a soft container that can be filled with hot water and placed on or near the body. It is typically used to ease stomach or muscle pain. “Or if you just feel under the weather and need some warmth,” says Ole Jensen, adding that the product is probably “particularly relevant in cold climates and difficult times.”
The product is made in natural rubber and metal by repeatedly dipping a clay shape into liquid rubber. The rubber is treated with a thin layer of silicone for durability. The stopper is handmade in gold-plated brass with a screw thread closure. The hot water bottles are made in five different shapes in brown or red.
Hot Water Bottles are produced by Latex One and Lars Glad in collaboration with Rasha Sager & Saxenfelt Natural Rubber Products.
Since then, Ole Jensen has exhibited in a number of places, including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Danish Museum of Art & Design in Copenhagen. At last year’s Mindcraft, Ole Jensen presented The Rubber Tub – an oversize version of his rubber washing-up bowl, which is manufactured by Normann Copenhagen, and which is in use in the restaurant at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, among many other places.
The long list of manufacturers that Ole has worked with over the years, in addition to Normann Copenhagen, includes Muuto and Royal Copenhagen.
The main source of inspiration for Ole Jensen’s products is his attention to everyday life and his close surroundings. This is reflected, among other things, in his preference for working with practical objects that relate to everyday life and the body. He develops these things almost as if they were craft objects: by hand, in clay and other readily available materials. Always mindful of whether the process gives rise to a rationale or a phenomenon that might later be transformed with a view to serial production.
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Situated bang in the centre of Mumbai, Dharavi is otherwise known as the largest slum in Asia. With a population estimated at over 600,000 people, the informal settlement turns over an estimated £700 million per year in it’s formal and informal industries.
The land itself is worth over US$2 billion in real estate.
The Urban Typhoon Workshop will be held in March 2008, and will focus on Dharavi’s Koliwada community as part of a global workshop on participatory design, brainstorming potential development strategies for Koliwada.
Further information regarding context, data, workshop schedules & how to participate can be found at Urban Typhoon’s website: www.urbantyphoon.com
Photos Ⓒ Antonia Halse 2007
Check out Alex’s website if you missed the exhibition: www.aalex.info
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from the GRADUAL press release:
Royal College of Art Graduate exhibition for London Design Festival 2007
In collaboration with the Brompton Design Project Martino Gamper will
select work from the last three years by graduates from the Design Products department, offering an insight into the design process of the graduates.
Grad*u*al adj.
Proceeding or developing slowly by steps or degrees; a way of changing slowly…
The emphasis of the exhibition is to reveal the process through generating and experimenting rather than finishing and polishing work.
The exhibition space, 1st floor, 5 Cromwell Place, will be transformed into a temporary laboratory for gradual development of ideas and processes, where the viewer will have the advantage of engaging with the designer in the process.
Filed under: design, education, festival/feria, talk/ lecture, wanted to go but didn't.. (or couldn't!)
The School of Art and Design Kassel had an impressive array of work at Milan, one of my favourite pieces was the ‘Grat, foldable loungechair’ although I overheard designer, Arne Amtsfeld commenting that you could ’store it, hanging up on the wall’ I think I would have preferred to see the chair as adaptable floor tiles which could be randomly resurrected… Practical? Possibly not.
Best stand has to go to SMANSK (www.smansk.com) whose business cards had been stapled to the walls of their exhibition space only to be randomly torn off by interested parties and create this scaly effect.
photo by Berai go to his flickr for more Milan pics http://www.flickr.com/photos/beirai/sets/72157600107659519/
and the business card:
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LEGGS from Spanish designers Merry Kawamura Gangavian. ‘A proesthetic element that extends the height of everyday objects to make them more accessible’
Their website introduces their idea of four products a month. The Eat With Your Fingers range is particularly inventive.. www.merry-kawamura-ganjavian.com
