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Tag: Events
These items have all been tagged with the tag "Events", You can see other tags in the Tag Cloud| Sand In Your Campers |
| 2008-06-13 00:30:01 |
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In 1877, Antonio Fluxá went all the way from the island of Majorca to England to learn about shoemaking. Whatever he learned there, he put into action immediately and founded a shoe company that his grandson Lorenzo turned into Camper Shoes in 1975. Today, the family's fourth generation is at the helm, the company is still based in Majorca and its shoes are sold worldwide. If you were lucky, you received an invite to this fun-and-games Campy party held in Germany recently, to celebrate the launch of the Spring/Summer 08 collection. AstroTurf, retro gear, great music and sand in your sandals. We're in. By Tuija Seipell |
| Rotor Group |
| 2008-05-13 06:45:02 |
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The work of Belgium’s Rotor Group is popping up in more and more visible places. Rotor covers a wide range of projects, from basic design, branding and packaging, to events, lighting planning, interiors, showrooms, products, trade shows and art. We especially like the work they have done with Belgian lighting firm Modular Lighting Instruments creating events, showrooms and surroundings that defy definition. A great example is Rotor Designer Toon Stockman’s retro-futuristic showroom for Modular that pays homage to Modular’s Beam Squad and consists of six enormous cages supported by a skeleton of fluorescent tubing. The wild narrative for this installation — a typical Rotor tale — tells of life-destroying peril but luckily, all will be well and in about 2069, lighting will be manufactured in peace again. By Tuija Seipell |
| Google Makes An Impression |
| 2008-05-08 14:40:42 |
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It is tough to make an impression in New York, but Google is not afraid to try. To celebrate the official launch (finally!) of its new artist themes for iGoogle, it held a candle-lit media bash at One Little West 12 (a club located at 1 Little W 12th St. in the Meatpacking District) and then let San Francisco’s Obscura Digital loose outside with a three-night illumination gallery. At the hub of the district, the intersection of Little West 12th, Ninth Avenue and Gansevoort, Obscura projected moving images of the iGoogle artwork onto the facades of buildings for three nights from 10 pm to 2 am. The facades of St. Hotel Gansevoort, Pastis, Theory and Inn LW12 were the canvases for work by Jeff Koons, Michael Graves, Yves Behar and others. At a white tent sporting a Google logo at Gansevoort Square, passers-by could play with the images a battery of computer stations. At the media bash, a panel of the iGoogle contributors consisting of architect Michael Graves, photographer Anne Geddes, artist Jeff Koons, Marc Ecko, and New Yorker cartoon editor Robert Mankoff discussed their views of how the Internet is changing their industry. Other luminaries whose designs are available at iGoogle include Dolce & Cabbana, Diane von Furstenberg, Philippe Starck,Oscar de la Renta, Tory Burch and Ivana Helsinki. By Tuija Seipell |
| Myhab - Recyclable Tent For Music Festivals |
| 2008-05-08 13:14:49 |
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Camping out a music festival need no longer be a boggy, muddy affair thanks to this smart-as-a-whip innovation dubbed Myhab. Essentially it's a temporary, waterproof, completely recyclable tent made from durable recycled plastic and and waterproof cardboard. The tent is fixed on a raised platform to stop it from slipping into a muddy bog in the case of rain. Myhab was created by a student and there are plans to for "myhab" villages at all of the UK's major music festivals. by Lisa Evanns (via Springwise) |
| It's All In Your Head |
| 2008-05-07 07:06:08 |
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Berlin’s Magma Architecture won several awards for its entry in the JETZT | NOW series of temporary installations at the Berlinische Galerie, Museum for Contemporary Art, Photography and Architecture. Magma’s installation, 11th in the series, was called fittingly “head-in | im kopf” and its concept is based on exploring the properties of materials, form, color and light. The main feature of the installation is an alarmingly orange flexible fabric (polyamide-elastan mix) stretched between the walls, ceiling and floor. The fabric is the most visible part of the exhibit, yet it is also the tool with which the viewers can focus on smaller details. Visitors bend down under the fabric into which openings were cut. Through these holes, visitors pop their heads up into the orange space to view drawings, models and photographs suspended from wires. These items are from Magma’s work and include representations of the revitalization of the former GDR Radio Centre (Berlin, Nalepastrasse, 2007), a bridge over the Landwehrkanal river in Berlin (competition entry in 2006), the new Nexus Productions headquarters in London, and the exhibition Trial & Error in London (2003). Luckily, we have images to show how it all worked as the full effect of the experience is quite impossible to describe in mere words. The project team for head-in | im kopf included Anke Noske, Hendrik Bohle, Dominik Jörg, Lena Kleinheine, Ksenia Kagler, Yohko Mizushima, Lena Kleinheinz, Martin Ostermann and Ben Reynolds. Magma was established in 2003 by Martin Ostermann and Lena Kleinheinz. The Ohio native Ostermann is a former senior architect at Studio Daniel Libeskind. The Denmark-born Kleinheinz is an exhibition designer. Magma is known for its inventive, experimental and experiential approaches to architectural work. By Tuija Seipell |
| Chanel Mobile Art Container By Zaha Hadid |
| 2008-03-12 11:51:24 |
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Creativity has always been at the heart of CHANEL since its very beginnings; it is the thread that unites Mademoiselle Chanel to Karl Lagerfeld, a visionary spirit known for his skill in anticipating the future of his times. A modern brand, constantly moving forward, cultivating the extraordinary and its innate sense of the moment, CHANEL is resolutely open to the world and turning towards the future. It is this propulsion that incites CHANEL to perpetually create surprise, from one continent to the next, and to so deeply impact on our collective imaginary consciousness. A travelling project, with entry free to all, Mobile Art will circulate for two years throughout Asia, the United States and Europe.In a futuristic pavilion created by the architect Zaha Hadid at the request of Karl Lagerfeld, some twenty international artists will exhibit work that was inspired by the elements that give the CHANEL bag its identity. Through this collaboration, resulting from their singular points of view - poetic, audacious and as yet unseen - the multiple facets of this mythical bag and its universe are revealed. Mobile Art is a revolutionary event, uniting one of the greatest architects of our time, some of our most innovative artists, and an icon of the fashion world: the quilted bag. Mobile Art is founded in the continuity of Gabrielle Chanel's strong relationship with the arts, and reaffirms once more our devotion to creativity and to the avant-garde. |
| Event Producers - We want to hear from you |
| 2008-03-11 06:19:58 |
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If it is creative and cool and has an edge that others don’t, we want to know about it. This time, we are particularly interested in hearing from the event industry. Although we now can experience all sorts of “reality” just sitting down in our own environments, nothing beats a real live experience of an awesome party. One of our all-time favorites is the breathtakingly cool Prada VIP do at the Central Market in Valencia, Spain, to celebrate the America’s Cup. Talk about awakening all of your senses in one lavish event! If you design/produce/create events that are talked about years afterwards, let us know. - send images/info to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it |
| A Museum Opening - L.A |
| 2008-02-27 11:03:13 |
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The opening of a museum is just about as much fun as ... what? The closing of a museum? We can quit this sort of kidding now that we’ve seen the star-studded opening gala of Lacma — the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Tom Cruise, Christina Aguilera, Katie Homes and Tony Bennett were just a few of the luminaries enjoying the lavish Wolfgang Puck-catered, Lionel Ritchie-entertained dinner as a prelude to the opening of the new Broad Contemporary Art Museum building of Lacma. Urban Light, a fantastic forest of vintage lampposts by Chris Burden, lit up the entry to the cocktail reception where life-size ice-sculpture waiters served champagne. Event virtuoso Ben Bourgeois of J. Ben Bourgeois Productions called the party itself a contemporary art installation and he knows what that means. Just to create the “wrapper” for the dinner party, he brought in a 22,000-square-foot steel frame and covered the interior walls, tables, chairs and 12 massive light cubes with white Ultrasuede. All of the surfaces served as screens for the evening’s entertainment. The 72,000-square-foot Broad Contemporary Art Museum building was designed by Renzo Piano whose work includes Paris’s Pompidou Centre and the New York Times headquarters. The initial 160-piece exhibition includes works by Andy Warhol and Jeff Koons. By Tuija Seipell |
| Money, Money, Money |
| 2008-02-13 06:14:22 |
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Even if the movie bombs at the box office, the premiere party can still rock. This was proven recently at the fantastic do for Overture Films' first film, Mad Money, starring Diane Keaton, Katie Holmes and Queen Latifah. The screening took place at the venerable Mann's Village Theatre in Westwood. Built in 1930 in the Spanish Mission Revival style and remodeled numerous times since, the Village is part of the 18-house Mann Theatres chain that includes Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood. And the not-so-surprising theme of the party? Money! At the Theatre, guests were handed Mad Money-themed California Lottery tickets at entrance. After the film, guests shuttled to the party at the storied Royce Hall (completed in 1929 in Italian Romanesque Revival style) on the UCLA campus. Fake metal detectors, flat-screen monitors, money carts as food trolleys, images of money on just about everything (walls, trays, napkins) and genuine legally shredded bills and stacks of cash as decor ensured that nobody forgot which film they were celebrating. By Tuija Seipell |
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