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Oooga Booga at The Swiss Institute
Ooga Booga is an independent book/art store in LA’s Chinatown, which has been championing artists and small pulishers since its opening in 2004. For two and a half months they will be taking up residence in The Reading Room at The Swiss Institute in Soho NYC with a selection of 300 + titles from self to professionally published.
Until Feb 13, 2010
Friends With You
Art collective Friends With You unveiled their new flagship boutique to coincide with Art Basel Miami, located at 3930 NE 2nd Avenue Suite 202, Miami. There you’ll find a host of brand new limited edition products, including clothes, toys, prints, and fine art in their whimsical and inimitable style.
Geneviève Gauckler — Digitally Isolated
Paris-based illustrator and designer Geneviève Gauckler embarks on her first London exhibition. On display is a series of limited edition silkscreen prints and acrylic paintings of her signature loveable characters. The show which opened at the Kemistry Gallery will run until December 19th, 2009.
apartamento 4
Taking a completely new approach in the interior design magazine market, apartamento features real people in real environments, with interiors we can all aspire to rather than over-styled, over-glossy, catalogue-like spreads. The 4th issue is now available in all good magazine stores, and in our opinion is definitely worth picking up.
StudioThompson and B Store
StudioThomson is celebrating its fifth birthday with a pop-up exhibition at London’s oh-so-cool B Store on Savile Row. For those not in the know, StudioThomson is a design and art direction agency that has worked across all media from fashion, to music, to art and interiors. The exhibition showcases a selection of their work for key clients including Pringle, Aquascutum and Preen. You can also pick up one of their notebooks displayed in the windows as a memento, which retail for only ten pounds and come come in 40 different shades.
Lubalin Now
The pioneering designer Herb Lubalin (1918-1981) is famed for wildly expressive typography and groundbreaking work for the magazines Avant Garde, Eros and Fact.
On view in Cooper Union’s new gallery, this installation includes recent posters, publications, and motion graphics by internationally recognized graphic designers that illuminate Lubalin’s continuing influence in contemporary design.
The exhibition will also mark the debut of newly relocated The Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design & Typography, situated in the college’s new state-of-the-art academic building at 41 Cooper Square.
Exhibition dates: November 5- December 8, 2009
41 Cooper Gallery
Super Contemporary at the Design Museum
Fans of ultra modern design can check out a host of specially commissioned works at the Super Contemporary exhibition London event, which is being held at the Design Museum between June and October 2009. The show aims to explore what makes the UK capital a magnet for world class creatives. Paul Smith, Thomas Heatherwick and Ron Arad are just some of the designers whose work will be featured in the show, designing something that improves life in the city, inspired by the city.
3rd June - 4th October 2009
Design Museum, 28 Butlers Wharf, Shad Thames, London, SE1 2YD
Martin Margiela to launch homewear
Martin Margiela has decided to broaden his horizons and bring his unique style to the decor world. The designer presented prototypes from his first collection at Italy´s Salone del Mobile. The collection features everything from wallpapers, bookcases and rugs to tables and small pieces that emulate the style of his stores, with various white colour palettes. The project is still a work-in-progress and will likely range from the design of objects and furniture in a self-produced collection or in the development of one-off partnerships, according to Pungetti. The company will also do commissions for individuals or public interior design and architecture.
Prada ‘Waist Down’ Exhibition
Miuccia Prada’s travelling exhibition, Waist Down - The Skirt by Miuccia Prada, arrives in Korea on April 25, taking up residence in the malleable Transformer building in Seoul for the next month. The Transformer, designed by Rem Koolhaas, is a single structure with multiple purposes. Designed to be moved with each incarnation the building is covered with a soft outer skin and has four shapes inside, each of which will become the floor as the building moves and its uses evolve over the course of its five-month existence.
Six Scents Series
Six Scents Series will feature fragrance collaboration between fashion designers and perfumers; Alexandre Herchcovilch and Joachim Correll, Bernhard Willhelm and Lucas Sieuzac, COSMIC WONDER Light Source and Philippe Paparella-Paris, Gareth Pugh and Emilie Coppermann, Jeremy Scott and Philippe Roques, Preen by Thornton Bregazzi and Mark Buxton. Individually numbered with custom packaging each designer fragrance will be offered as a limited edition. A percentage of the proceeds with go towards awareness and funding for the Designers Against Aids charity. (DAA).
Acne Bianchi
Swedish lifestyle brand ACNE has created its very own racing bicycle with a helping hand from Italian masters Bianchi. Available with dropped handle bars or a classic cross bar, the ACNE/Bianchi racing bike continues from the ACNE women’s NEW STANDARD’s range and is now available for men who want to get in on the action. The frame, based on Bianchi’s Pista model, incorporates a seat finished in brown suede and stamped with the ACNE logo. ACNE has also customized the Pista in three unique colors (originally available in chrome and green); yellow, orange, and pink; exclusive to the collaboration.
The bike is available in select ACNE studios and online at www.acnestudios.com