Aging. Objects becoming more beautiful over time; Jasper Morrison about Super Normal and Naoto Fukasawa about “Shutaku”. Eternally Yours and giving products a longer lifetime; Destroying Saving letterforms with patina; Universal Design and age as economic factor; Look inside Material Short Stories; New materials competitions and “Repairing is the new recycling!”
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Material Matters is hosting three materials lectures during this year’s Dutch Design Week. Together with Els Zijlstra (Materia) and Karin van Beurden (Saxion University), Aart will be lecturing about visions of the future of materials in design.
Saturday October 24, the lectures are English spoken, topics are “Biomimicy” and “Materials Utopia” . To reserve your seat, please send an e-mail to info@materialmatters.nl
Material Matters is an Eindhoven based materials platform for designers, architects, product developers. In collaboration with Materia, Material Matters presents a collection of 350 inspiring materials during the Dutch Design Week 2009.
You can download the invitation (pdf) here, or directly see the Dutch Design Week program.
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Impressions from team 529 this year’s MOPO Staffellauf
What are five exhausted people doing at a materials website? Well, at this year’s MOPO staffellauf fanatics from Laurich & Kollegen, PARK, and Material Stories joined their forces to do a 5 x 5000 meter relay run for the charity organization Viva con Agua de Sankt Pauli.
Viva con Agua de Sankt Pauli is a charity organisation located in St. Pauli campaigning for clean drinking water worldwide. “Materials Aart” strongly supports their motto “Water is Life!” - claiming for more awareness for the elementary role of water in the daily lives of people from all over the world where drinking water is not to be taken for granted.
Earlier, Material Stories supported Viva con Agua de Sankt Pauli by raising money during the Material & Identity exhibition. With this sportive contribution and blog post Aart hopes to create more awareness and online donations for this charity organization.
P.s. Curious about our score? Check our score here: MOPO Staffellauf results 2009 (pdf)
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Dear readers,
Now online, the second Get Inspired newsletter issue on POWER. Full of websites, books, resources, … all about materials in design! Download your free copy here:
Download: Get Inspired #02 – POWER
Enjoy reading, and enjoy your summer!
- Aart
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(photo courtesy Dyson Deutschland GmbH)
Get Inspired #2 – POWER: James Dyson about Power (Full Story)
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Dear James, what are your first three associations with the word “Power”?
“Willpower: It was a combination of sheer perseverance and the frustration from an old vacuum cleaner that quickly lost suction which drove me to develop 5,127 prototypes before I had a vacuum cleaner that did not need a bag and did not lose suction. There was lots of swearing, bangs and crashes in between but it was definitely worth it.
Power(ful) performance: Dyson vacuum cleaners have patented Root Cyclone ™ technology, which spins dirt from the airflow, so it doesn’t lose suction.
Wind power: I believe that there needs to be even more of an emphasis on developing a sustainable future for everybody starting right now. ‘Green’ energy will only be possible through engineering, and that’s exciting because science, design and engineering are the only subjects that enable you to change the future of the planet in such a meaningful and hands-on way.”
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