We are officially back! It’s been refreshing to take a step back from the blog, to reassess priorities, and to take a look at what’s happening in the field of design in China and its neighbouring geographies with more of a critical eye: I’m happy to be back and to continue offering news and updates, hopefully for a while to come. And what better way to start than with news from the now-opened Design Society in Shekou, Shenzhen - specifically, the museum’s latest venture, an exhibition called “Craft: The Reset”.
Opening early next month, and taking place until March 2019, this exhibition showcases the work of more than 50 designers and studios, including PINWU, ffixxed, Shao Fan, Benwu Studio, Sally Lin and Zhang Junjie, to investigate “the widening possibilities of crafts as an equally important creative impulse for China’s future innovation”. Of the exhibition, Director of Design Society Ole Bouman states:
“It’s a new narrative, coming from the most pioneering minds in society and the design field. It’s a narrative not as a regression, falling back into the trap of nostalgia, but as a future oriented design, based [on] new ways of living, on new business models, new application of digital technologies and, yes, a new cultural sensitivity of the need to save the planet and cultivate vibrant communities to ensure its future stewardship. That’s why we call this exhibition Craft: the Reset, to showcase how craft is being re-energised by attracting the strongest talents for its act of rebirthing.”
Further details about the exhibition can be found on the Design Society website.
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— by Yoko Choy: When Mario Tsai travelled to his family’s home in Hubei province for Chinese New Year on 21 January, he little suspected that he would be quarantined for 61 days. A spike in Covid-19 cases would soon prompt a prolonged lockdown of the province, starting with the capitol of Wuhan, disrupting the lives of 57 million people…
En la naturaleza podemos encontrarnos con plantas cuyas hojas, ramas o frutos se parezcan a una cuchara o un pocillo, esta coincidencia fue la fuente de inspiración para que la gente del multidisciplinario estudio de diseño Benwu Studio decidiera crear “Graft”, una colección de cubiertos, pocillos y copas.
Cucharas con forma de pétalos de alcachofa, tenedores que parecen ramas de apio y pocillos con forma naranjas conforman esta colección de utensilio que ademas de inspirase en su forma esta fabricados con plantas, esto porque están hechos con PLA, un bioplástico elaborado a partir de ácido láctico. Por esto estos hermosos cubiertos además de ser biodegradables son desechables, haciendo que nos cuestionemos si debemos votar estos lindos utensilios luego de usarlos un par de veces. Más información sobre esta colección acá.
Benwu Studio is a design studio based in Shanghai and Beijing, and created in New York. Their elegant and clever series Graft is an assortment of cutlery inspired directly by the form of vegetables and of flowers petals, which form was molded to transpose it on this collection of biodegradable bioplastic utensils. So, a celery stem becomes handle of fork, a petal of artichoke becomes the bowl of…
Beautiful fruit and vegetable shape cutlery Benwu Studio, Shanghai and Beijing based, but founded in New York design firm, redrawn the natural shape of fruit and vegetable to the new creative cutlery set titled “Graft”. A celery is now a handle for the fork, a petal of artichoke becomes a bowl spoon, half of lemon molded into a
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