Mario Botta did visit Belgium for a lecture and a meeting with “12 (Belgian) apostles of the good taste”… One of the 12 was Raymond van het Groenewoud, prince of the Flemish song.
Mister Raymonds performance was pure beauty, was 100% Vlaemsch()… Some things never change… And I’m still enjoying…
On the 24th of November, Casimir the founder of Vlaemsch() will join a lecture/discussion with Mario Botta in Leuven Belgium together with a lot of other “famous” belgian architects and artists like Paul Robberecht, Hilde Deam, Piet Stockmans and others.
For details, see the invitation below, sorry it is in Dutch only, but the lecture will be translated I guess. I can’t imagine Mario Botta to speak Dutch…
We are proud to announce that we’ were selected and nominated by Design Flanders to take part in the Design Management Award 2008.
Design Management Europe is an European initiative to demonstrate and promote to businesses the commercial benefits that can be gained with good design management practices.
The DME Award 2008 Ceremony will be on 13 October 2008, so it’s still some time before we’ll know if we actually win or not. But anyway, we’ll keep you posted on the results!
www.designmanagementeurope.com
UPDATE:
And… we made it: we got a Honourable mention in the category “micro companies”: see all results here
It could have been a baseline for many Vlaemsch()-products, but it isn’t…
“Design Today, Forms with a Smile” is a book by Moniek Bucquoye and Dieter Van Den Storm about today’s design surrealism. It also features a few Vlaemsch()-products, f.i. the Bootbag.
If you’re interested, this is the way to go: Stichting Kunstboek (publisher)
or “Design Today, Forms with a Smile”, published by Stichting kunstboek
ISBN 978-90-5856-235-7, for only € 29,90
We would like to know what happens with our products. How do you use or mis-use it, does it pimp your living-room or is it banned to the toilet-room. Please send us your photos and stories and we’ll post them on our Flickr-pages for the world to see.
Here are a few photos to whet your appetite:
photo credits: top left: BlingThing, top right: BushBazar
bottom left: Hameväki, bottom right: Nivoo
Take a look at this hilarious video from the dutch designer Marijn van der Poll, who’s forging himself a chair.
But I doubt he’ll be producing much more chairs like this.
Together with the launch of our brand new blog, we started a YouTube-channel to post videos related to our brand. No, no, we’re not talking about dull commercial videos showing off our products but things happening with or products, designers, Vlaemsch-friends.
For the moment we’ve only uploaded an old video from the Belgian Television. When our King was recovering from a fall, he got a visit from the Prime Minister of the Walon-area (the french part of Belgium) Elio di Rupo. And he gave the King a Vlaemsch()-deer as a present. Take a look:
But one remark here about the explanation of Mr. Di Rupo in the video: he says the Deer is designed by Elric Petit, which isn’t exactly true to be honest. Elric is part of the design studio Big-Game, but the inital designer of the deer is Augustin Scott de Martinville (what a name!)
Linde Hermans, the designer of the Jigsaw, recently got awarded by Design Vlaanderen with the “Young Talent Award 2007″. You can get more info on the award here:
- Vlao (in Dutch only)
