Design Talks/ Chat Shows
/3 / 4 / 5 / December 2008,
5.30pm to 6.30pm
December 3/
Fernando & Humberto Campana
Arik Levy
Tom Dixon
December 4/
Paul Cocksedge
Julia Lohmann
Ted Noten
December 5/
Aranda\Lasch
Ross Lovegrove
John Maeda
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The Design Miami/ Design Talks program has been revamped to simulate a TV chat show format. Over the course of three days, nine eminent designers, representing a range of disciplines and styles, will be interviewed one-on-one by Dezeen.com’s Marcus Fairs in front of a live audience and filmed for broadcast over the web. Each designer participating in the Design Chats will discuss with Marcus five evocative images that encapsulate the most significant concepts, attitudes, forms, and approaches that have influenced their careers or even inspired specific works.
Marcus and Rupinder run www.dezeen.com, an online architecture and design magazine regularly cited as the most influential in the world, read by over 750,000 people each month. Prior to launching Dezeen, Marcus was founding editor of icon magazine while Rupinder worked as a TV production manager, working on documentaries for the BBC and independent production companies.
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Hosted and Filmed By:
Marcus Fairs + Rupinder Bhogal of dezeen.com
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Benjamin Aranda & Chris Lasch
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Established in 2003 by Benjamin Aranda (b. 1973) and Chris Lasch (b. 1972),
Aranda/Lasch is a New York-based architectural studio using craft and computation to make discoveries in the realm of structure and space. The firm has an alter-ego practice named terraswarm, which produces urban-scaled interventions as short films and video installations. Winners of both the Young Architects Award from the Architecture League in New York and the United States Artists Fellowship in 2007, their design work – from buildings to installations and objects – has garnered international recognition. In 2008 they were commissioned by MoMA (New York) to produce a large-scale installation for the exhibition Design and the Elastic Mind. Currently they are working with artist Matthew Ritchie and arts organization T-BA21 on the first “anti-pavilion” – a large, ruined, three-dimensional drawing of the universe, partially installed first at the 2008 Venice Biennale and fully realized at the Seville Biennale in October.
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Fernando & Humberto Campana
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The Design Miami/ 2008 Designer of the Year Award winners Fernando & Humberto were born in 1953 and 1961, and trained respectively in law and architecture. They began working together in the mid-1980s, designing furniture inspired by their home city São Paolo. Combining high and low tech processes, the Campana brothers trawl the flotsam and jetsam of Brazilian city life, using ‘poor’ materials to create expressive and sumptuous objects. Their ebullient designs have been manufactured by leading Italian companies, including Edra, Alessi and Cappellini.
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Paul Cocksedge
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Born in 1978 in London, Paul escaped the city to study Industrial Design at Sheffield Hallam University but returned for his MA in Product Design at the Royal College of Art, where he studied under Ron Arad. In 2003, he founded Paul Cocksedge Studio with fellow RCA grad Joana Pinho. This internationally acclaimed design practice undertakes in-house design, accepts commissions and provides occasional consultancy work for a veritable panoply of clients and sectors, including the British Council, Conran & Partners, Droog, Swarovski and the London Design Museum. The studio’s reputation has been built on lighting designs and installations, however Paul and Joana have recently expanded their focus to include furniture designs, currently in development.
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Tom Dixon
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Born in Sfax, Tunisia in 1959 to a French/Latvian mother and an English father, Tom moved to England at age four and spent his school years in London. While attending Chelsea Art School for a brief six-month period, a motorbike accident curtailed any artistic ambition and left him in hospital for three months. Having dropped out of art school, Dixon spent two years as a musician, playing bass guitar in a disco band until another motorcycle accident left him unable to play for a period. He spent two more years in the burgeoning London nightclub and warehouse party scene. This nocturnal lifestyle left plenty of time in the day to start experimenting with welded structures. Necessary bike maintenance had required welding skills, which a friend supplied in one quick lesson. He is a self-educated maverick whose only qualification is a one-day course in plastic bumper repair.
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Arik Levy
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At the age of 27, Arik (b. Tel Aviv 1963) leaves behind his graphic design studio and surfboard shop for Europe. In 1991, he graduates with distinction in Industrial Design from the Art Center Europe in Switzerland. After winning the Seiko Epson Inc. competition, Arik begins his career as a professional designer and participates in several design exhibitions in Japan. Upon returning to Europe, Arik introduces his ideas, innovations and installations to contemporary dance and opera set design around the world. From his Paris based company L design, together with his partner Pippo Lionni and their team, Arik develops projects in industrial, interior and graphic design for the European and international market. Arik participates in many exhibitions and shows in museums, alternative spaces, galleries and fairs worldwide and several of his products can be found the permanent collections of the most prestigious museums and institutions. He works both as a scientist and a poet. Through innovation, simplicity and experimentation he to translates concepts into products, space and experience.
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Ross Lovegrove
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Ross was born in 1958 in Cardiff, Wales and graduated from Manchester Polytechnic in 1980. He received his MA from the Royal College of Art in 1983. In his early career, Ross designed for Frogdesign in West Germany, working on projects such as Sony Walkmans and Apple Computers. Later he moved to Paris to consult for Knoll International and, around the same time, he was invited to join the legendary Atelier de Nîmes along with Jean Nouvel and Phillipe Stark. Returning to London in 1986, Ross has completed projects for Airbus Industries, Kartell, Ceccotti, Cappellini, Idée, Moroso, Luceplan, Driade, Peugeot, Issey Miyake, Vitra, Motorola, LVMH, Tag Heuer, Hackman, Alias, Herman Miller, Japan Airlines and Toyo Ito Architects. Winner of numerous international awards, his work has been extensively exhibited throughout the world at venues including MoMA (New York), Guggenheim Museum (New York), Pompidou Centre (Paris) and Design Museum (London).
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Dr. John Maeda
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John is a world-renowned graphic designer, educator, artist, and computer scientist, who now adds the title Rhode Island School of Design President to his diverse credentials. His early work redefined the use of electronic media as a tool for expression by combining skilled computer programming with sensitivity to traditional artistic concerns. This work helped to develop the interactive motion graphics that are prevalent throughout the internet today.
At MIT since 1996, John was the Associate Director of Research at the MIT Media Laboratory, where he was responsible for managing research relationships with 70+ industrial organizations and has developed advanced projects for an array of major corporations including Cartier, Google, Philips, Reebok, and Samsung among others.
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He is the recipient of the highest honors for design in the USA (1999 Chrysler Design Award; 2001, National Design Award), Japan (2002, Mainichi Design Prize), and Germany (2005, Raymond Loewy Foundation Prize), and his early work in digital media design is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. John is the author of four books, including his 480-page retrospective MAEDA@MEDIA. His most recent book, The Laws of Simplicity has been published in 14 languages and has become the reference work for discussions on the highly elusive theme of “simplicity” in the complex digital world.
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Ted Noten
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Ted was born in Tegelen, The Netherlands in 1956. In his early adult life he explored various jobs, such as bricklaying and nursing, before finding his way to the Academy for Applied Arts in Maastricht in 1983 and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 1986. From there he built an international reputation for jewelry design, and since 2005, has created unique, often-controversial designs from his Amsterdam-based studio Atelier Ted Noten. Ted holds a Senior International Research Fellow position in the School of Jewellery at Birmingham City University in England, and his wry and witty work has been presented in a variety of museums and galleries around the world.
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Julia Lohmann
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Born in Hildesheim, Germany, Julia Lohmann became interested in design on childhood walks with her father, on which they collected abandoned objects to create small figurines of strange, imaginative creatures. This dual interest in both the natural world and overlooked items led her to investigate the contradictions inherent in our relationship to animals as sources of food and materials. By working with offal, leather and other meat industry waste products, she probes these contradictions while conferring value onto ‘leftovers.’ In Flock and Ruminant Bloom, sheep stomachs are used to create glowing lightingfixtures. Her recent work includes The Catch, a vast ‘ocean’ of used, empty fish boxes arranged into a towering wave of a stormy sea, which confronts the viewer with the consequences of over-fishing as well as promotes the ongoing development of kelp as a viable design material.
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