DESIGN IS SIMPLY COMPLEX
The Blueprint editorial office and design studio will be part of an exhibition at the Wapping Project in east London. For the show, Design Is Simply Complex, Blueprint will be creating its November issue in public. There will also be a chance to read archive copies, buy the magazine and peek at an advance issue. Blueprint is one of four design studios that makes up the live installation. Other are: Tracey Neuls; Ally Capellino; and van der Meersch and Weston.
Greenhouse Talk
Vicky Richardson, editor of Blueprint will talk about the ups and downs of putting together the magazine
7.30pm, 21 September. Tickets cost £5 from Lydia.fulton@mac.com
Design is Simply Complex will be at The Wapping Project, 4-27 September
The Blueprint Stand with Claystation
Blueprint has joined forces with Claystation to create an interactive event for 100% Design London featuring the new One-Piece-Chair. Visitors are invited to create their own chairs from a template included in the October issue. The template of the One-Piece-Chair is printed on some rather special paper. Unlike most ordinary lined or gridded paper being grey line on white, the company Whitelines is providing the reverse to this. The paper creates a surface that has no glare and, more importantly can be scanned, faxed and copied without the lines interfering with the drawing.
The stand will be constructed from structural, eco-friendly cardboard, and the best design will win a full-scale version of their chair made from the same material. Designed by Ben Hughes, the One-Piece-Chair, will be on show for the first time at 100% Design, is made from an innovative Swedish material called Reboard. The chair is manufactured in one in one go, including printing and cutting of joints and details and delivered flat-pack ready to be folded into three dimensions. The competition will be judged by Matthew Hilton, design; Ben Hughes, director of the Industrial Design MA at Central St Martins; and Blueprint editor Vicky Richardson.
Sponsored by Whitelines and Sign Patrol
Blueprint Awards
The best products in the show will be awarded a Blueprint Badge. Winners in four categories will be announced at 6.30pm, Thursday 24 September.
100% Design will be at Earls Court, London, 24-27 September \
DISCOVERING WOMEN IN POLISH DESIGN: BOOK LAUNCH
Join Blueprint for coffee and Polish cakes, and the launch of product editor Gian Luca Amadei’s new book: Discovering Women in Polish Design. The book launch will take place at 10.30am on Wednesday 23 September at the Young Creative Poland exhibition at the Brompton Design District. It will be accompanied by a panel discussion at 11am.
Discovering Polish Design: Panel Discussion
• Chair: Vicky Richardson – editor of Blueprint
• Gian Luca Amadei – author and book concept, and product editor of Blueprint
• Ewa Gołębiowska – director of the Silesian Castle of Art and Enterprise in Cieszyn
• Zuzanna Skalska – senior consultant on design trends and insights
• Maja Ganszyniec – product designer
Discovering Women in Polish Design: Interviews and Conversations was initiated by Gian Luca Amadei and Anna Pietrzyk-Simone and is published by the Adam Mickiewicz Insitute. The book is free to Blueprint subscribers with the October issue and will be on sale at the exhibition at the special price of £15.
PLUS MINUS ZERO: UK LAUNCH
Blueprint is media partner for the launch of Naoto Fukasawa’s sought-after Plus Minus Zero collection of household products. The launch is accompanied by an exhibition of Fukusawa’s design work for a range of other companies, which takes place at TwentyTwentyOne’s London showroom during the design festival.
PMZ and Fukusawa exhibition, 22-27 September, Twentytwentyone showroom, 18c River Street, London EC1R 1XN
020 7837 1900
VITRA AND BLUEPRINT DESIGN WORKSHOP
Audile Interpretation Workshop: An exploration into Sound and environment
During the London Design Festival the spirit of the Boisbuchet workshops will be recreated at Vitra’s base in Clerkenwell. Architect ODA in association with sound artist Craig Vear and designer Andrew Lock will explore the world of the sonic experience with groups of students and professionals. How much of the world do you experience through sound? If you closed your eyes what do you ‘see’? Notice that you can ‘see’ behind you, that your environment is changing far more rapidly than your visual one. Two one-day workshops we will focus on how the experience of space through sound; what kind of shapes enhance or restrict, what kind of textures absorb or reflect? Participants will create listening devices that capture, re-interpret and re-imagine the environment, perhaps generating their own sound in response.
10am to 5pm, 24-25 September 2009. To book a place call 020 7608 6200 or write to andrew.lock@vitra.com
PAPER CITY: URBAN UTOPIAS
This exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts Architecture Space showcases a selection of extraordinary drawings, collages and photomontages that have been produced for Blueprint as part of their ‘Paper City’ commissions over the past three years. Works by architects, designers, artists and illustrators will be on display including Alfredo Haberli, Domenic Lippa, Joep van Lieshot, Yves Behar, Paul Williams, Ian Ritchie, Peter Cook and many others. The display, designed by graphics firm Bibliotheque, includes a series of pads, featuring Paper City images that can be torn off and kept. The final ‘pad’ of paper will be left blank for visitors to draw their own Paper City; designs can then be submitted to a competition which will be judged at the end of the exhibition.
Paper City: Urban Utopias is a Royal Academy exhibition in association with Blueprint. Admission is free of charge. The exhibition opening times are 10am – 6pm daily (until 10pm Friday). Exhibition runs until 27 October.
TENT LONDON
With Blueprint as media partner, Tent London takes place in the capital’s most exciting venue, the Truman Brewery, a vast reclaimed industrial site in Brick Lane, Tent London is the most comprehensive and diverse design exhibition of the year during the London Design Festival. Tent London consists of a collection of shows, competitions and installations covering art and architecture, vintage and contemporary design by emerging and established designers, dealers, retailers, manufacturers and brands from around the world.
Tent London will be at the Truman Brewary, London, 24 – 27 September 2009.
