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Marti Guixé, Open-End
The work of self-proclaimed ex-designer Martí Guixé (°1964) can aptly be described as ‘beyond design’. Creating new objects he finds rather ‘superfluous’ and ‘boring’; he prefers to concentrate on ideas, systems and living matter such as food and human behaviour. As a ‘global designer’, Guixé constantly travels back and forth between Berlin and his native Barcelona, analyses situations, rituals and movements and proposes radical solutions with a minimum of ergonomics – simple, immaterial, humorous and often iconoclastic.
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al(l) Projects in Aluminium by Michael Young
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This book appears on the occasion of the exhibition al(l) in Grand-Hornu (31 January – 29 May 2016).
Dirk Wynants. Designer – ‘I’ve always been attached to the globe’
€45.00Dirk Wynants (°1964) is the founder and owner of the innovative Belgian furniture brand Extremis. He is also the main designer of the brand and the creator of the brilliant branding concept “Tools for Togetherness”.
Serial Eater – Food Design Stories
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What type of consumers are we, how do we assess our impact in today’s system and what do we accept on our plates?
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Fibre-Fixed Composites in Design
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