Mysterion
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Anyone who quotes Mark Twain has to be pretty good.

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Peder Moos (1906-1991) Oval coffeetable in rosewood. Inlays, dowels and rivets of boxwood. Silver spirit level embedded in the plate and silver adjustment fittings under the table legs. One of a kind. Signed with inlaid monogram on each table leg. H. 56,5 cm. L 105 cm. W. 59 cm.

In 1956 Peder Moos designed and made this unique and perfectly crafted table for the Danish engineer Dahl – a man intent on making sure that his furniture was always perfectly level. Known for his meticulousness and extreme perfectionism, before designing the table, M oos stayed with the family for three days - sleeping on the floor - just to get the feel of the room. The result is a stunning piece of furniture marking the absolute pinnacle of Danish furniture design.

Lit: Morten Knudsen: “Peder Moos”, Teknologisk Institut, 1988, illustration p. 9.

Estimate: 200.000-250.000 Dkk.

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Breakfast
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Finnish design by Iittala:
Origo bowl (by Alfredo Häberli) and Kartio glass (by Kaj Franck)

In the bowl: Homemade müsli and rasberry yoghurt

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Link: NOKIA

NOKIA company has released on Monday the NOKIA 3250 model. This original design transform a traditional phone keypad into dedicated music keys by one twist of phone’s bottom part.

The NOKIA 3250 can carry 1 Gigabyte (750 songs) of music, it’s about 10 hours of music listening. Of course this model offer usual for latest phone models features: 2 mega-pixel camera and smartphone capabilities.

Link: www.adsoftheworld.com

I have spotted this valuable site and spent hours browsing trough it’s pages. The must for advertising designers. Recommended to bookmark it.

Ads of the World (AotW) strives to be an advertising library and community site. On the front page advertisements from around the world will be posted daily for your inspiration and enjoyment. You are encouraged to comment and rate them.

Link: News.com

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The nonprofit group going to distribute these laptops to children in developing countries. This computer has an innovative design, giving the flexible possibilities to use in various conditions, even out of power network.

The proposed design of the machines calls for a 500MHz processor, 1GB of memory and an innovative dual-mode display that can be used in full-color mode, or in a black-and-white sunlight-readable mode.

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The Center for Knowledge Societies and PikseliÄHKY present

DOORS NIGHT HELSINKI

Thursday, October 6 2005

Kulttuuritehdas Korjaamo Töölönkatu 51 B, 00250 Helsinki

Program:

7.30 pm

Presentations by

Aditya Dev Sood of CKS

and

Juha Huuskonen of PikseliÄHKY

followed by comments, questions and discussions by a special panel of experts and by the audience.

9.00 pm and onwards

VJ and DJ performances, special screenings of video artworks, drinks, dancing and discussion among the gathered community.

DOORS NIGHTS are a way for people who are interested in the Doors of Perception design conferences to connect in their own town. DOORS NIGHTS are also being planned for Tokyo (January) and Paris (April). If you think another city is ready to host one tell us about it online. www.doorsofperception.com

You could try blogging your images of the evening through the Doors of Perception group on Flickr. Try using the tag ‘doorsnighthelsinki’ and grouping your images at www.flickr.com/groups/97089260@N00

The Center for Knowledge Societies (CKS) is a research and design practice based in Bangalore and New Delhi. CKS is the author of Used in India, a multidisciplinary documentation project that captures the innovative ways in which Indians have used media and technology in the 20th century. It has produced recent editions of the acclaimed Doors of Perception design conference. Last year, CKS founded the Learning Lab Initiative to promote the creative use of mobile devices for public education in emerging economy environments. www.cks.in

PikseliÄHKY is a festival for electronic art and subcultures. PikseliÄHKY presents projects experimenting with media and technology from a broad range of disciplines: artists, engineers, designers, researchers and architects. PikseliÄHKY focuses especially in presenting activities of various international grassroot networks and communities such as VJ community, media activists, open source community and demoscene. The goal of PikseliÄHKY Festival is to act as a bridge between the traditional creative disciplines and rapidly developing electronic subcultures. www.pixelache.ac

Design icons of the world EJ 100 Oxchair

Design: Hans J. Wegner

The Ox-chair from 1960, padded, covered with oxhide and as strong and distinctive as a bull, but raised off the floor by light but strong legs in chromium-plated steel, is another chair without parentage - and one that has become an image and an archetype. Among the jobs it does, and one that lies close to Wegner’s heart, is to make it possible to sit comfortably in many different ways so that one can change position continuously. Only then can one sit really comfortably. It is Wegner’s own favorite chair at home, in his 100-square-metre living room and clearly a chair that needs space around it.

Today Oxchair stands as a sculptural manifestation of the very best which Danish furniture has to offer. The result is an organic upholstered piece of furniture that presents itself to the beholder as if formed from one single block. The prolonged back has clear references to living creatures and gives Oxchair the masculinity and suppleness of an ox. Combined with the elegant steel frame and the soft surface it makes a good and balanced expression. With its slightly reclined back Oxchair is the ideal furniture for relaxation and absorption.

Because of Hans J. Wegner’s inspiration by Picasso a.o. the design of this sculptural and masculin chair has placed it among the classics in Danish Furniture design. First produced in 1960 the chair was, however, too advanced for the early 60’s and production was stopped in 1962. The chair was not produced again until 1985 when Erik Jørgensen Møbelfabrik A/S took up the chair in their collection. The Oxchair has won many prestigious awards and has been exhibited all over the world.

PixelACHE Festival & katastro.fi & Generator.x & Media Centre Lume are happy to present two lectures about generative art and design

CASEY REAS & MARIUS WATZ

Media Centre Lume, Tuesday 27 September @ 6-8 pm Lectures are in english Free entrance!

MARIUS WATZ

• www.unlekker.net
• www.evolutionzone.com

The work of Marius Watz is concerned with the algorithmic generation of form, whether still, animated or interactive. His work has appeared in international festivals and exhibitions, most recently in Sonar (Barcelona), Virtual Frame (Wien) and Manyfacture (Reykjavik). Marius has also done work for commercial clients such as Nike, Nokia and the mobile company “3�. Marius currently lives in Berlin, where he works and teaches Computational Design at Universität der Künste.

Marius is the director of Generator.x, a project exploring the role of software and generative strategies in current digital art and design. Generator.x brings together some of the most interesting creators in this field to Oslo for a conference and exhibition which opens on 23rd of September.

“True literacy means being able to both read and write. If to use pre-existing software is to “readâ€? digital media, then programming is the equivalent to writing. The Generator.x project focuses on artists and designers who embrace this new literacy not as a technical obstacle, but as a way to redefine the tools and the media they work in.”

Marius Watz will present his own work and give an overview of the Generator.x event.

• www.generatorx.no

CASEY REAS

• www.reas.com
• www.processing.org

Casey Reas is an internationally acclaimed artist, known for his software generated artwork which can be described as ‘organic’ or even ‘beautiful’. Casey studied at the Aesthetics and Computation department of MIT media lab, was one of the founding professors of Interaction Institute IVREA and is currently working as an assistant professor in the department of Design | Media Arts at UCLA.

Casey is the co-author of Processing programming environment which has been designed to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook. Processing software is used by students, artists, designers, architects, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and professional production. Processing software developers were granted the Ars Electronica Golden Nica award in September 2005.

Casey Reas is one of the artists featured in the Generator.x exhibition and conference.

The lectures of Casey Reas and Marius Watz in Helsinki are organised by PixelACHE festival and katastro.fi in collaboration with Generator.x and Media Centre Lume. Thanks for support: NIFCA - Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art.

• www.pixelache.ac
• www.katastro.fi
• www.generatorx.no
• www.lume.fi
• www.nifca.org

Helsingin Sanomat - International Edition - Culture

Slovenian expert studies modernism of 1950s and ‘60s By Anu Uimonen “Finnish architecture was promoted in foreign countries in the 1950s and 1960s deliberately and very efficiently”, says Petra Ceferin, an architect and researcher from Slovenia. “This is not very extensively known, because Finnish architects have a reputation for ‘not talking’. In fact, these ‘silent men’ were quite successful in promoting their work.”

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