designboom news 6/08

weblog | cut ‘n’ paste
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DESIGN RELATED NEWS REVIEWS AND PREVIEWS
from BMW GINA light visionary model concept car to ‘the chicago spire’ skyscraper by santiago calatrava the world’s longest sofa record broken in norway the latest celebrity cum designer: pharrell williams and the ezri tarazi’s recent exhibition, to the avant garde of hair design and many more…

interview | bruce sterling
http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/brucesterling.html what advice would you give to the young? I hate to say this absolute bullshit design professor stuff, but really – follow your bliss! I mean try and do something that you don’t mind doing. if you get into some line of work that’s like a pain in the ass but it pays a lot, it’s not really going to be worth it and you won’t do a very good job.

snapshots | art basel 2008: galleries
http://www.designboom.com/snapshot/cat/17/art-basel-2008-galleries.html
the world’s premier international art show for modern and contemporary works, art basel features nearly 300 leading galleries and 2000 artists from north america, latin america, europe, asia, australia and africa. the exhibition includes the highest-quality paintings, sculptures, drawings, installations, photographs, video and editioned works.

snapshots | art basel 2008: art unlimited / public art projects
http://www.designboom.com/snapshot/cat/14/art-unlimited-art-basel-2008.html
launched the first time in 2000, art unlimited is art basel’s pioneering exhibition platform for projects that transcend the classical art-show stand – including video projections, large-scale installations, massive sculptures and live performances. this year there were shown 70 artists from 27 countries worldwide.
contemporary | dubai next – face of 21st century culture
http://www.designboom.com/contemporary/dubainext.html
vitra design museum (fire station), weil am rhein, germany. the exhibition ‘dubai next – face of 21st century culture’ was conceived in collaboration with and on behalf of the dubai culture & arts authority. and curated by rem koolhaas and jack persekian. it shows the dynamism with which dubai is evolving and taking shape over the next decades in architectural, urbanistic and cultural projects.

history | karacho’s karakami – woodblock-printed paper
http://www.designboom.com/history/karachokarakami.html
established in kyoto in 1624, karacho is japan’s only ‘karakami’ maker (woodblock-printed paper). still in operation today, the karacho workshop has been directed by members of the senda family for 12 generations, preserving a japanese tradition. the sendas are the
custodians of 650 hand-carved wooden blocks, made over the centuries and they still use them to produce the karakami paper for which karacho is world famous.

snapshots designboom mart ICFF new york 2008
http://www.designboom.com/snapshot/cat/13/icff-designboom-mart-2008.html
bring a designsouvenir^TM back from new york!
2008 was the fourth consecutive year that designboom has held the designboom mart at the ICFF new york. as part of the cultural program of the ICFF, designboom hosted a group exhibition of international design professionals, some that you are already acquainted with and others that deserve to be noticed.

contemporary | belgrade design week 2008
http://www.designboom.com/contemporary/belgrade_design_week_2008.html
‘the belgrade design week is at once the most eastern and the most southern european design festival, the most western design festival of the balkans, the only design festival in the former yugoslavia and globally unique in that it takes place in a country with no tradition in design whatsoever.’ jovan jelovac, chairman of the belgrade design week.