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Only FIVE weeks left to start our big tour through Canada. We are completely excited about that.

We ask ourselves: Where are all those exciting people from Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary, Banff or Edmonton?
And by the way... how are people called who live in Calgary? Calgarians?
And however.. how´s the canadian weather in may?

YOU can help us answering all those questions. Just drop us a line with
– exciting people
– interesting locations
– important and unimportant informations about our travel cities
– your tour tips
– your suggestions, ideas or comments: gogolin (at) designspotter (dot) com

kind regards

Markus Gogolin
cmo & editor

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'Stem' for Cinna

The clean lines and basic forms of these tables and storage units appeared in 2007. Jourdan describes them as being 'Silent as a yacht's shell cutting water stem to stern'

Urban structure, Saint-Etienne station

Jourdan fans and connoisseurs will see in this fence-gate structure a logical follow-on to the designer's experiments in furniture-architecture, in particular the 'Traversants' set shown at the Peyroulet gallery in the year 2000: a series of free-standing partition pieces to mark separation in space as well as passage to another room.

It is a large openwork screen that fills two functions: channel and admit. Commenting on it, Jourdan says: 'The structure is there without being there: people have to be able to pass thru it and also feel its presence wherever they happen to be on the train station forecourt. There is also a reference to modernism in the definition of an open plan space, in the spirit of Mies van der Rohe'.

Client :: City of Saint-Etienne

Designer :: Eric Jourdan

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Since 2002, Obdesigner offers recurring news of design expressions. Through several free tools, the portal proposes a variety of services such as a business directory, a visual gallery dedicated to design products, a calendar, a forum...
It also allows users to post or consult ads.
Until March 2008, the magazine was mainly open to an French-speaking audience.

Obdesigner launches an english version
available at: http://www.obdesigner.net/blog/ so as to share its news with a larger audience.

SoPod is a piece of office furniture designed to stimulate socialising in the office. It creates a perfect space for important meetings, dinner breaks and general usage. When huddled together in its compact form, its high back creates a feeling of closure from the outside world and allows privacy and relaxation. The organic form and colour also make the space in which it sits become more enticing and vibrant!!!

The Tree Chair is designed for a public space, such as a restaurant/bar, and allows the user to hang their possesions on the hat, bag and jacket branches. Its made from recycled plastic. This chair can obvously come in a range of patterns, finishes and colours!!!

The L2 Chair is a piece designed for the home and office and is a take on the 'Tub Chair'. It has a two tone finish that allows the consumer to pick any combination they chose so that it suits its surroundings.

Designer :: David Roberts

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X-08 National Design Competition, Kitchen 10th Finalist, Turkey 2008
The aim is to add typical kitchen area into the house;

-4 sided/360 degree/rotatable usage,
- become small when it is not used,
- seperating the main kitchen prosesses/surfaces: wet(washing), hot( heating, cooking), cold(fridge), eating(table), storage

Designer :: Aslihan Yilmaz

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The space is a rare foodstuff in the inside of the big metropolises. That is why the designers rack themselves brains to create functional furniture allowing to save invaluable square meters. Where from the idea of the creative young person Stéphane Perruchon to conceive this coffee table with integrated Seat. Very practical, this system is also very design with Seat round or squared in the slightly acid colours which contrast Perfectly with the black of the coffee table.

Designer :: Stephane Perruchon

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Tall&Tiny are two Vinyl sticker-lamps, the shape of Tall remind of a large living-room lamp and the shape of Tiny of a small bedside lamp. As a decorative furniture, Tall&Tiny answers the desire/need for home furnitures while considering the problem of ever-decreasing living space. In fact the sticker allows the transformation of a 3D object into a 2D one, giving the illusion of a lamp without the encumbrance of the material.

30x20 cm for Tiny and 180x50 cm for Tall

Designer :: Alice Rosignoli

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Reppo II Is my B.A degree work. It is a continuum of a mobile music concept invented during the first years of my ID studies. Reppo II is a urban hardshell backpack with speakers and amplifier to spice up the party outside. It makes peoples heads turn around and creates a unique atmophere.

Designer :: Joonas Saaranen From Finland University of Lapland

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An introduction to the work of Ionna Vautrin and Guillaume Delvigne who from the very beginning have shared in the research of Industreal and they have dedicated a significant part of their poetry to the material of creativity, porcelain.

An Overture because in all effects, an opening, a beginning which promises new developments, new initiatives.

Opening: Wednesday April 16th, 2008 – 8pm
Exhibition: April 16th to 21st, 2008, 10am / 7pm

Industreal @ Fabbrica del Vapore
Palazzina Liberty new address
via Procaccini, 4 - Milano

www.industreal.it