sunday newsletter
a designboom.com publication
October 2011, 02
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every sunday we choose a topic from the vast archive of designboom
today: beijing design week 2011 (part 1)
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beijing design week highlights
published 10.01.11
designboom offers a quick tour of the exhibitions and events scattered throughout the historic streets, former industrial parks, and museums and universities of beijing, for the city's design week and first international design triennial.
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nicholas hanna: water calligraphy device at beijing design week 2011
published 09.30.11
combining the traditional and the technical, the canadian-born artist transforms one of the flat-bead tricycles ubiquitous to beijing's streets into a vehicle that writes poetry in water droplets on the ground as it travels.
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beijing design week - silent heroes : zhou xun
published 09.30.11
the exhibition curated by aric chen brings to mind the narratives and life stories contained within the artifacts of our everyday life, featuring the recontextualized childhood objects of chinese actress zhou xun as well as pieces chosen by residents of beijing's historic dashilar district.
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contemporary chinese architecture at design week beijing
published 09.25.11
to celebrate the first birthday of designboom's chinese site, we invite you to join the designboom architecture conversation with fang zhenning, ma yansong (MAD), zhu pei, liu jiakun, wang yun and liu xiaodu (urbanus).
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johnson banks: what design can do banners
published 09.24.11
'what design can do' is a series of six large-scale banners by johnson banks, which were commissioned for beijing design week 2011.
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yung ho chang of atelier FCJZ: hulu serveware
published 09.17.11
these plates, bowls and eating utensils are reminiscent of the past use of dried gourds to scoop water and wash rice in northern china.
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creative director aric chen on beijing design week 2011
published 09.16.11
'it is really about creating not just a platform but a mechanism that will act as a catalyst for design in beijing.' - aric chen, creative director of BJDW 2011, talks with designboom about how the festival is meant to actively transform the city, and what it means to be a chinese designer today.
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paul cocksedge studio: manuscript (seats of poetry) for beijing design week 2011
published 09.07.11
visitors can sit to rest or wander amidst huge steel 'pages' of inscribed chinese poetry, in an installation for beijing design week that represents the exchange between chinese and british cultures.
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rethinking bamboo at the first beijing international design triennial
published 09.06.11
one of five themed exhibitions of the first annual beijing design triennial during beijing design week, 'rethinking bamboo' presents unconventional uses of the natural material in products ranging from clothing to bicycles to motor vehicles to handbags to edifices.
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