Design P*rn_ ‘CANVAS’ By YOY Design Studio

Posted on April 25, 2013 by CuratedFutures • Leave a comment

Presented at Salone Satellite during Milan Design Week 2013, Japanese design studio YOY have developed ‘Canvas’, a series of two-dimensional hanging furniture pieces. Constructed out of wood and and aluminum, the volume is covered by an elastic fabric – screen-printed with drawings of different types of furniture. The piece works when the frame is leaned … Continue reading →

Street Seen

Cheeky Brit Invasion In The ‘Dam

Posted on April 23, 2013 by CuratedFutures • Leave a comment

Anyone else spot these, scattered all over the city promoting the new Marks & Spencer store which opened in Kalverstraat last week? Cheeky little bit of contextualized promo-ing going on… indeed! Continue reading →

*Community / *Living / Curated Spaces_

A Catalogue Of Dreams And Designs For Life

Posted on April 23, 2013 by CuratedFutures • Leave a comment

The Dutch city of Nijmegen has launched affordable, architect-designed, state of the art, sustainable housing for mid-income buyers available to order through a catalogue. Flicking through the catalogue there are 29 designs to choose from, created together with several architectural firms, offering catchy names such as ‘Hooi een Huis’, ‘Our House in the Middle of … Continue reading →

Monday Musing

Stretching Limits

Posted on April 22, 2013 by CuratedFutures • Leave a comment

Great designers can stretch us towards the limits of our comfort & then create a new comfortable place where we didn’t expect to find one. – John Maeda, ‘Design is both the insanely radical and the passionately incremental‘ for GigaOM – 6/10/12 Continue reading →

*Retailing / Curated Spaces_ / The Word On The Street

The Word On The Street_ Raw Materials Home Store, Amsterdam

Posted on April 19, 2013 by CuratedFutures • Leave a comment

‘The Word On The Street_’ is a new feature where we get out and about in our local neighbourhood(s) and explore the spaces and places, be it here and now or in the making, that we want to hang out in, whether for work or play, eating and drinking, shopping, resting and thinking… This week … Continue reading →

Street Seen

Albert Heijnstein + Equation = Every Little Helps… NOT!

Posted on April 17, 2013 by CuratedFutures • Leave a comment

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*Playing / Curated Spaces_ / Interiors

Room Service, Please?

Posted on April 17, 2013 by CuratedFutures • Leave a comment

It has snowed. And snowed. And snowed. Five days and nights now. Big, heavy flakes, a constant dump of deep powder and miles of deserted slopes. We feel cut off, a long way from home. And we’ve paid good money, for this? Oh yes, yes we have! And you know? Being a bit crazy-in-love with … Continue reading →

*Showcasing / Art / Curated Spaces_ / So This Just Happened

So This Just Happened_ The Opening Of The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Posted on April 14, 2013 by CuratedFutures • Leave a comment

After queuing in the rain on this cold April night, we made our way inside the Rijksmuseum just before midnight, along with several hundred or so other art lovers. Celebrating the opening of this national monument after it had been closed for 10 years for renovation, we were happy to be part of this … Continue reading →

Monday Musing

Learning To See… A Blessing And A Curse

Posted on April 8, 2013 by CuratedFutures • Leave a comment

Learning to design is, first of all, learning to see. Designers see more, and more precisely. This is a blessing and a curse — once we have learned to see design, both good and bad, we cannot un-see. The downside is that the more you learn to see, the more you lose your ‘common’ eye, … Continue reading →

Design P*rn

Design P*rn_ ‘TINA’ Armchair From Expormin

Posted on April 3, 2013 by CuratedFutures • Leave a comment

A new feature, where we get our fix of sexy design… Today it’s the ‘Tina armchair’ conceived with a clear intention: “The ‘Tina’ armchair is the result of our collaboration with the industry. With a design featuring both innovation and tradition, it is built with the painstaking care and attention to detail characteristic of artisanal … Continue reading →