Ich mag Mull!
A nice write up in U-Magazine out of Germany. The translation may be a bit funny, but you'll get the idea.
The throwaway society is evil, because we are all agreed. But the design with which we hear aufhübschen ökokorrekten our everyday life, on the fun! Or is he just starting right ...
Interview: Catherine Behrendsen
Do it yourself and design have nothing to do with each other? That was then. Finally, the Selbermacherportale Dawanda Etsy and had not taken such a victory on the Web and around the world when in 2009 Supplies and DIY knitting sweaters still on moms and dads would limit fretwork. There is hardly anything that does not exist in the DIY version. And recycling of materials plays a significant role in the affair.
For example, Andreas Frotteefan Linzner has unleashed with his cute pigs and elephants colorful beach towels a trend. Also for the Frankfort Janina Meier of Label Ketchup & Majo is out of the hobby has become a real career. Use has begun with skirts of linen from the flea market, now selling her designs in select boutiques throughout Europe. If you are a piece of this or other DIY designers bring that beauty combined with a good conscience. Finally, the new something old, discarded in the landfill has retained and zero or consumed well, at least some commodities. In addition, the playful little things are often the icing on the cake for our look or our apartment. Only: wine we drink at least then no longer Senfgläsern when the last roommate moved out. And for a new shelf goes to Sweden's our confidence. When we have necessarily have to grow up, our style is to do it too kindly.
The upgrade in a few years is already factored here. Finally, things do not superteuer and in more than one move has put particleboard comrades anyway to falter. What the heck, the bad temper, which saves you if you do not set every day on ollen dining table, the relatives have ANY scrapped right, is worth it. Or is it? Can we really change with DIY something - and still have this style? U_mag asked thinkers and designers for their opinion and get interesting answers
The Englishwoman and wallpaper-author Henrietta Thompson (30) has her favorite subject DIY just devoted an entire book: "Make New From Old.
Interview: Catherine Behrendsen
U_mag: Henrietta, what brought you to the DIY design?
Henrietta Thompson: I've always found it fascinating to see things in a new and unexpected context. This brings you to take a second look - and mostly it's the bargain of humor. Design takes itself that is often so terribly serious. On the other hand, the ideas, such as Martina Bautier a bathtub stopper as a key ring and use a spout on the wall as a suitable key board, really refreshing.
U_mag: Your book will save the subtitle "world, save money to have style." If it is the subject of design as not primarily concerned with the style - or maybe even just a question?
Thompson: Oh no, not just! The fashion side of design is too boring. Function and form have to be treated equally for me and my book is not much of a guide device, which anyone says, no matter what color he should withdraw its walls. It's about ergonomics, innovation and problem-solving.
U_mag: How serious is it to save the "world"? Do you think DIY design can really change anything?
Thompson: To a certain extent, yes. We buy and consume so much and all have so much stuff. Find out how to what one already has to do with a little creativity, more useful or more beautiful, is a real alternative.
U_mag: What is more important: The raw materials savings, if you recycle things, or the character that sets you do when you recycle design contributes to the world?
Thompson: That probably depends on the degree of to-wear show-off. Personally, I see the value, especially in the warm, cozy proud to have something homemade. And the feeling's even there, even if no one looks.
U_mag: art, design or craft - you can drag objects in DIY actually still draw the line?
Influencing Thompson: Especially in the production methods, the three disciplines, although increasingly other, but they are fundamentally different, even if it should be only in their self-image. And would if I were cynical, I say, the trend towards fusion pieces is exactly that: just a trend - in which it is ultimately about money.
U_mag: do you follow your own advice?
Thompson: I do my best! I can fix things quite well, instead of throwing them away, and I carry my laptop around in a padded envelope.
U_mag: What would you tell someone who thinks that DIY would design anything for him, because it is too shabby and looks like a flea market?
Thompson: I would give him first time right. This is precisely the reputation that has DIY design. And then I would show him that it can also be super-chic and modern. Old and worked up is not tantamount to yes Schraddel
You can tell him and not his objects, but the South African Heath Nash is a passionate garbage collector.
Interview: Catherine Behrendsen
The material for Heath Nash's flowery lights is cut from discarded plastic - and then worked for so long, pinned to his customers no longer know that her design pieces used to be a milk bottle or an ice bucket. Beautiful and quite valuable is the material through the long hours he reinsteckt finds Nash - and is unfortunately no longer affordable for everyone, even if it was the plastic's for free. Environmental protection was not the idea, as a sculptor who studied ventured on the experiment, but aesthetics. Still, he finds in the vast and still largely unexplored field of recycling of litter he would like to get a lot of support: "Recycling is simply a necessity, and it's about how everyone can play his role in the big picture."
Faced sustainability: they were taken to the Dutch industrial designer Jorre van Ast (29), the jar tops in the permanent collection of MoMA, with this slogan, he comes to philosophizing.
Interview: Catherine Behrendsen
"My things start at the function, or even earlier: on the principle of a function. Sustainability is now as important as form and function, these three elements must be properly balanced. This is sustainability, but an integral part of the design, nothing Separate what is somehow on top. something functional, for example, always sustained, and what decade will be used is better than what is used only five years. This is most sustainable in the jar tops, for example, not that everybody's old recycled jars with lids can be different, but that the owner enters into a relationship with the product - would prevent him from trying to get rid of it quickly. Everyone still keeps in jars to store anything in it, and so the jar tops also work on an emotional level. In addition, changing the look through different glasses, which are screwed: you get, despite the mass production of something very individual. That, rescued 'me to the object itself is actually not so important, that was never my starting point, and most projects that take this approach, seem to me even more as craft or manual work. I am talking more about developing all types, as for example in my series, Clampology ', based on the principle staple. A bracket is that of an parasite, it needs something, to be clamped, and goes as a link to existing objects book.
Tom Ballhatchet has developed a new variant of two-in-one: Its packaging is gleichzeitg furniture.
Interview: Catherine Behrendsen
Designer Tom Ballhatchet from London has developed a packaging for flat panel displays, which change the function a few simple steps to a TV cabinet. The 30-year-old has let his TV Packaging Stand patented even, but is skeptical about whether the design could really sell. In addition to the parsimony of the TV manufacturers, when it comes to packaging, namely, there is still a much bigger problem: the poor image of styrofoam. "The utility scores, the material that can be produced in one piece without glue, manages staples, rivets, or nails, and is 90 percent air," says Ballhatchet. "But the perception of the people plays a big role. And no matter what plastics or foams make sure they are on the emotional level with a substance such as wood can never compete. How environmentally friendly but is actually a product depends on many factors. The is going on in the production and processing, and only stop at the disposal again. The most important aspect, however, is our ever-shortening attention span and the increasing speed with which things for us, through 'are. "
Thomas Wold (42) from California is the DIY furniture designer par excellence. Whatever comes in the fingers, is sawed, painted, stacked - and proves that good design is more than the sum of its parts.
Interview: Catherine Behrendsen
U_mag: Thomas, where does your fascination for DIY design?
Thomas Wold: I don’t think I’ve ever been fascinated with DIY design specifically. I like art and design. Since I’m a custom designer/builder of furniture, I “do it myself” as a business. My back round is in painting and sculpture, so I’ve always looked at found items as raw material to use in new designs or art. Objects and furniture contain sentiments and notions from the time periods they were created. I like to look at them like characters that can be brought back together to create a new story or play. It’s a lot like sampling music, musicians take pieces of sound from many time periods and styles and with thoughtful arranging and editing, and something new and beautiful appears.
U_mag: Smart purchasing is as important as reusing things. I’m very concerned with cheap mass produced furniture flooding the market. Furniture is not supposed to be a temporary item tossed to the curb in a few years like shoes. Traditionally, purchasing furniture was an investment, you paid more, but you could use the furniture your whole life and even give it to your children or sell again. Even when I reuse old furniture, I use only quality materials and leave particleboard for the landfill.
U_mag: Yea who wants to live with crappy looking stuff? A lot of contemporary DIY is kind of lazy. A coat of paint and some drawn on flowers is just lame. I might be at the extreme end of what is possible with reusing items, but it’s all boils down to the design, composition and finish. So it will take some imagination, detailing and editing to make something old and ugly, new and exciting.
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