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People Portraits
ROADSPOTTER in Edmonton: Geoffrey Lilge
Geoffrey Lilge who is probably best known in Canada and the US for the ground breaking work he did as founding partner and design director of Pure Design, a Canadian manufacturer of furniture and accessories, strikes out on his own at ICFF New York 2008.
He introduced his new design consultancy, a number of table top items and several seating
prototypes including a chair and lounge chair featuring solid maple
frames with bendywood components, plus bent plywood and fiberglass
seats and backs.
Lilge studied Industrial Design at the University of Alberta, where he teaches furniture design and is currently enrolled in the Masters program.He was a founding partner and design & marketing director of Pure Design a manufacturer of furniture and home accessories from 1994 to 2003.
Pure opened with partners, Lilge,
Randy McCoy and Daniel Hlus as the only employees, but after three
successful years they employed 30 people, had a product line of 75
different accessories that won numerous design awards.
He has worked closely with numerous designers; Richard Hutten, Karim
Rashid, Constantin Boym, Scot Laughton, Shin & Tomoko Azumi,
Stephen Burks, and many others.
Geoffrey Lilge Design
11311-71 Street
Edmonton AB
T +1 780 10 0100
geoff@geoffreylilge.com
for further informations take a look at his website
ROADSPOTTER is a project of DESIGNSPOTTER: www.designspotter.com
producer: Ioanna Paraskeva, ioanna@designspotter.com
People Portraits
Sagmeister 08
"Things I have learned in my life", Stefan Sagmeister Show in SOHO/New York.
Watch out for the video, realized by HillmanCurtis film and video.
City + Country Portraits
GreenPix Documentary
GreenPix: 2,200 sqm LED media wall powered by solar panels. Alexandra Lerman published a documentary about the GreenPix on which Simon Giostra, founder of Simone Giostra & Partners, explains the challenge to design and build this gigantic media wall, with the help of engineering experts ARUP.
People Portraits
Design + Emotion: Manfred Gotta
Twingo, Megaperls an Smart - Manfred Gotta is Germany´s name inventor number one.
See the interview (in german) in the course of the Design + Emotion exhibition of the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe.
Event Reports
maeve
At the Venice Biennale, the mæve installation connects the entries of the EveryVille student competition and puts them into the larger context of MACE content and metadata. By placing physical project cards on an interactive surface, the visitors can explore an organic network of projects, people and media.
City + Country Portraits
Bombay Sapphire Gallery Berlin
Bombay Sapphire opened a temporary gallery this June to showcase an exhibition of design objects commissioned by the premium gin. The 450 sqm exhibition space displayed timelessly elegant designs by major design industry names such as Tom Dixon, Karim Rashid and Eva Zeisel.
People Portraits
DS TV meets Prof. Michael Erlhoff
On this years´ graduation party of the Koeln International School of Design we met Prof. Dr. Michael Erlhoff. He told us some very interesting things about the brand new "Kölner Design Preis" which will be awarded on 6 November 2008.
© DS TV 2008, producer: Ioanna Paraskeva
People Portraits
Invader - Binary Code Street Art
The street artist Invader came from France to L.A. recently and took a minute to explain his new Binary Code street art. This new media utilizes hi-tech Binary Code technology combined with his trademark lo-tech ceramic tile work as seen in urban centers all around the world.
City + Country Portraits
Tree of Death
Nice project from our friends from slashthree.com. Directed, designed, composed and animated by myaka, with music by NEO.
People Portraits
L´homme 100 tetes
For the contest « Transformation : Live-React » Julien Lassort and Matthieu Burlot explored the human face, the most exposed and personal part of the human body. Their dynamic portrayal of “1000 and one faces” is a mosaic of portraits and emotions that plays off of the power of faces seen close up.
City + Country Portraits
ROADSPOTTER in Calgary: Axis Art Gallery
Our first stop over in Alberta/Canada was in Calgary. In the Art Central we found the AXIS art gallery where owner Rob showed us some really cool contemporary pieces of canadian and international art.
