It would not set limits to Saddam HusseinThe unions are for the time being hostileJust as a one man cannot replace an orchestra3 billion has some similarities with EurotunnelThe acquisition of Tele2 France by SFR was confirmed yesterdayYou have closed your year end tax of AprilAvéo is a network of 27 concessions created in 2008The Mayor and Pascal Viné Bruno no longer exitA very juicy system and obviously leads to swelling of the coststhe use of public funds for priority spendingA wheel of bicycle on a kitchen stool. In 1913, needed no further to Marcel Duchamp to invent the work of art "ready made". The approach is to promote a mundane object manufactured to the rank of artwork by the mere fact of the will of the artist. Years later, in 1961, the Pope of Surrealism wrote: "there is one point that I want to make clear, is that the choice of these"readymades"was never dictated me by some aesthetic delight." The choice was based on a reaction of Visual indifference with at the same time a total absence of good or in bad taste. "From art to design, there was only a tower of screws when, in 1933, Alfonso Bialetti was inspired form and the functioning of the washing machines to draw his coffee mocha, remained to this day one of the icons of Italian design. In 1980, the architect Gae Aulenti designs a rolling low table asking Sekurit glass on four wheels of industrial truck plate. And a variant with bicycle wheels, tribute to... Duchamp.
It is the Milano - Strasbourg Antonio Cos, passed by the studio of creation of Denis Santachiara and Fiorucci, who speaks the first, in 2002, these GMOs or genetically modified objects. Antonio Cos reinvents the rolling pin by diverting their original function two bottles of bordeaux which it pastes the "ass to ass" Fund. Kitchen and household utensils, but also tools, old food packaging or toys abandoned: in fact any Drawer bottom can lend themselves to these creations of GMOs. The Dutch Droog Design and Moooi or French Sismo and Base are specialists of the genre. Just as the English Shay Alkaly with his BinBagBear, Teddy bears in garbage bags, and Sebastian Denver Hejna with its Get Well Soon vase consists of a medical plaster of broken forearm. Promoted by the British Council, the Welsh Kieren Jones turns a lot of mundane hangers in wood Ikea hunting deer head trophy or rifle-toy for children.
Créativo-trivial common object
The exercise can be practiced by all designers beginners and/or mowed. It invites us to question the place of design in our consumer societies. The London Publisher Thorsten van Elten is also in the object common "créativo-derisory" with its Pigeon Light of Ed Carpenter mounted on linen wooden clip. Another find, the cup fruit of MosleyMeetsWilcox made with small figurines of soldiers melted plastic, the same that are sold by the kilo in the bazaars or found in the packets of cereal and rusks. The toy chest is decidedly an inexhaustible source of inspiration, as evidenced by the Blond Chair massage to Anna Monichi for FibuDesign. Be a banal metal Chair which the different components, feet, base and file, are "dressed" in various parts of the body of Barbie dolls. The being set in motion to provide a "therapeutic well-being", promise its creators.
Very sharp the Cutting Up Knives invented by the Italian collective Pervisioni and designer Jim Hannon-Tan. It is to graft a can opener or a bottle opener on old sleeves of disparate knives. But signed Alessi, Rosenthal, Driade, Christofle or Georg Jensen..., all machined by the Austrian firm Seiwald. Even a mundane plant pot can become a GMO. Example, the MultiPot imagined by Donegani & Lauda for Rotaliana Italian lighting manufacturer. An object in translucent glass particularly successful because it fills both functions of lamp and pockets. Placed on cell phones and other PDAs than multiple outlets (hidden inside) allow to reload! The end of the wires which roam around.
In France, this design-GMO made this summer the subject of an exhibition, "Design Parade", at the international Festival design of the Villa Noailles in Hyères. To the poster, pink headquarters in inflatable fun socks claiming to imitate the famous Chair black, metallic and tubular Mallet-Stevens reissued by gap International. This new event sets the objective of uncovering new talent. Could see, for example, seats outside GM as the Rocking Chair of Rebecca Ahlstedt designed from a Chair in plastic stackable Grofillex and Ralph Ball/Maxine Naylor duo proposes even "goldfingeriser". Because design GMOs, all the pleasing hybrids have freedom of the city. Well as in bad taste.
