Sep 29, 2010 29
///EXPO INSIDE DESIGN 2010
Amsterdam based bag designer Kim van Beek presented Buddhi bags.
1. What is your story behind your product? To design for a developing country. Nepal. I developed a new design for an old craft: felting. A craft which they master well in Nepal.
Sep 29, 2010 0
///VISUAL REPORT
Wondering where you can find these alluring designer products? Check out former posts and links participating designers/stores at the right. (credits in this report will follow asap).
Sep 25, 2010 20
///EXPO SUSTAINABLE LUXURY
Utrecht based eco-friendly store Smile Superstore is presenting some innovative products: Ecogen products designed by Hans Maier-Aichen, Paraplu Brelli and fair trade condoms.
Interview with Hans Maier-Aichen, the designer of ECOGEN.
Hans Maier-Aichen is a Stuttgart (Germany) based Designer, Curator and Professor for Product Design .
1. What is your story behind your product? Try to avoid any plastic waste for the future and designing some archetypic/longterm, super normal products for everyday life with a 100% compostable material.
2. What are your values of luxury? To do LESS but BETTER products, reading LESS BUT BETTER books, try to stay independent from most of global and Read the rest of this entry »
Sep 25, 2010 30
///EXPO SUSTAINABLE LUXURY
Entrepreneurs Marieke and Charlotte are living in Amsterdam and are the owners of Charlie+Mary a fair concept.
During INSIDE DESIGN Marieke & Charlotte present the labels:
Achemist, Beyond skin, Camilla Norrback, Charlie + Mary, Knowledge, Own me drawings, My Paper Bag, Nkuku,Satara, Skatebord bangles, Studio JUX, Veja,TOMS, Chatoui,
1. What is your story behind your product? All items in our store are hip, fair + eco friendly. All our brands have a story to tell. We communicate the brand’s philosophy, production methods and innovation in the field of sustainability through our concept.
2. What are your values of luxury? Good quality, comfort and feeling good by Read the rest of this entry »
Sep 25, 2010 0
///EXPO SUSTAINABLE LUXURY
Rob van den Dool & Stephan Zeijlemaker, two Amsterdam based entrepreneurs and owners of Yumeko are presenting sleeping products:
1. What is your story behind your product? We found out that the products people sleep on and under in bed are actually rather harmful for both environment and society; because of the way they are produced and the materials that are used. We also found out that in the market there are no brands that offer organic sleeping products that are high quality, beautiful and affordable. That is why we started Yumeko. A new brand in ecolicious bedding.
We made a quest around the world for the best organic and fairtrade materials and put together a beautiful collection of sleeping products: duvets, pillows and bedlinnen of the highest quality.
2. What are your values of luxury? Our values of luxury are high quality, beauty, tranquillity, indulgence, softness, exclusivity, honesty
3. Where do you find inspiration? We find inspiration beautiful things around us that make us happy because of the way they look and feel. We love brands that are honest and optimistic; brands that make us feel better; brands and products that create surprises Read the rest of this entry »
Sep 25, 2010 0
///EXPO SUSTAINABLE LUXURY
Join the Pipe is a 2 year old Dutch label.
1. What is your story behind your product? Jointhepipe.org is an internationally oriented foundation, making an honest effort to solve the water problem in the world. The main goal of jointhepipe is to bring water to all of those without water and to reduce the usage of disposable plastic water bottles. As part of this movement, Jointhepipe has designed a sustainable use water bottle, modeled off the shape of different segments of a water pipeline, intended to encourage and simplify the use of tap water drinking. JTP is actively working with proposals and plans to install specially designed JTP watertaps in public areas like parks and bus stops, so that with a JTP bottle you can easily fill up with water while you are out and about.
By drinking tap water from Jointhepipe.org water bottles or carafes, users can help us realize our dream: building the longest water pipeline in the world and providing everyone with clean drinking water. The donations collected through the sale of the jointhepipe.org water bottles and carafes will be used to support water projects such as the construction of water pipelines and water wells in developing countries. Read the rest of this entry »
Sep 25, 2010 0
