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A pictorial review | 30.12.2015

smow blog 2015. A pictorial review: September

The end of design's summer hibernation is traditionally marked by the opening of the Vitra Design Museum's winter exhibition, which for 2015/16 is the fulminate The Bauhaus #itsalldesign Elsewhere September 2015 saw us discuss photographing Le Corbusier with Margret Hoppe, the challenges as young designer in Berlin with Gunnar Søren Petersen, how design can be used for social change with Pepe Heykoop ...... and become completely obsessed with a steel horse from Prague. Vitra Design Museum:

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Pepe Heykoop for Tiny Miracles Paper Vase Cover
Designer | 04.09.2015

Pepe Heykoop for Tiny Miracles - It is extremely satisfying to see what can be achieved with little more than a piece of folded paper.

Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Pepe Heykoop first reached an international audience when his flexible chair project, A Restless Chairacter, won the D3 award at IMM Cologne 2009, since then Pepe has gone on to achieve critical acclaim with projects such as the Chaos Chandelier, the Brick Series and the Skin Collection. And through his work for the Tiny Miracles Foundation. Established in 2010 by Pepe's cousin Laurien Meuter, the Tiny Miracles Foundation works with an impoverished inner-city

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Accidental Carpet Tejo Remy René Veenhuizen Unter Zwischen im Ampelhaus Oranienbaum
Designer | 23.07.2014

Unter Zwischen im Ampelhaus, Oranienbaum

In 2011 a group of Dutch artists and designers established the Orangemann Trust and set about converting an old, abandoned house in the centre of Oranienbaum into a gallery for contemporary art and design. That Oranienbaum is a village of some 3000 inhabitants situated 150 kilometres south of Berlin, 80 kilometres north of Leipzig and 4 light years from the next railway station, the location could appear somewhat questionable. Could. Were it not for the fact that modern Oranienbaum was

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Berlin Design Week Pepe Heykoop Tiny Miracles Foundation at DAD Galerie Berlin Photos
Designer | 27.05.2014

(smow) blog compact Berlin Design Week Special: Pepe Heykoop & Tiny Miracles Foundation at DAD Galerie Berlin

Very much in keeping with the DMY Berlin 2014 focus on "Social Design" the DAD Galerie Berlin is currently presenting an exhibition devoted to works by the Dutch designer Pepe Heykoop created in context of the Mumbai, India, based Tiny Miracles Foundation. Founded in 2010 by Laurien Meuter the Tiny Miracles Foundation works with the Pardeshi community, a community of some 700 individuals who live rough in Mumbai's red light district, on a range of projects with the aim of helping them move

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