This morning I headed out to check out some of the events being held as part of the State of Design Festival 2009. Today I had the chance to have a second look at Design Made Trade, as well as check out the co-located Furnitex and Decoration & Design.
*a quick note: due to being disorganised and not arranging media access to this years event I am short of photos from the event (as in have none!). However as already mentioned, check out The Design Files for photos and more extensive coverage.
Design Made Trade – Thursday 16th of July
On retuning to Design Made Trade this morning (see this post for thoughts on the opening night), I found the venue to be pretty much empty (compared to the hustle and bustle of opening night). Several of the stalls that were un-manned at the opening night (like the Büro North’s stand) were now staffed and had more products and info available.
Overall there wasn’t much else that caught my eye as really unique or ground breaking. However I was reminded of two stalls that I forgot to mention in my commentary of opening night. The first is Freefold. Freefold is “a series of environmentally friendly recycled boxes within a unique geometry”. You may have seen Freefold if you attended this years DesignEx earlier in the year. The second is a display curated by RMIT’s Ian Wong – STILL09.
“STILL09 is the launch of an RMIT University project by researcher Ian Wong to comprehensively document Victorian designers work still in production. STILL09 shines a light on work by local industrial designers that has endured. Objects that are familiar in our lives here in Victoria. We recognise the products, perhaps we know the brands, but we are not likely to know the designer who designed them. In your kitchen or laundry or as you cross the road…..this work is part of the everyday. Part of who we are.”
Furnitex and Decoration & Design
If you are a furniture buyer then Furnitex and its co-located event Decoration & Design will be right up your alley. However if you are there looking for the latest and greatest pieces of design (or even some timeless old school design), I think, on the whole you are out of luck. The most interesting and unique furniture pieces that I viewed at Furnitex and Design & Decoration were the pieces on display as part of VIVID 2009.
“VIVID09 welcomes Australian based designers to showcase their latest Australian made furniture products, all things beautiful, innovative, commercial, and fun.”
Two of the pieces which caught my eye at the VIVID 2009 Display were the Loften Lounger by Corey Baker of Riva Furniture and the Dinosaur Chair by Jaime Sanchez.
The Dinosaur Chair is a childrens chair made from a single piece of 9mm water-jet cut MDF that doesn’t requires fixings or glue.
Loften Lounger by Corey Baker
{ 1 trackback }
{ 0 comments… add one now }