Think "BLOCKY" by PA-RI

I have special honor to announce Furniture Exhibition Opening "Think Blocky" by my friend and classmate Vladimir Paripovic, that will be held on15th and 16th of December 2010 @ "GRAD" cultural center.

Think blocky - exhibition furniture

PA-RI is the interior furniture collection designed by Vladimir Paripovic.
Furniture collection will be expose for first time to public at the KC GRAD on15th and 16.12.2010, in cooperation with the firm PINOLES (friend of the project and technical supporter, and leading the company to import high quality sheet material made of wood) and DELIGHT (Office Solutions).

Prototypes will be a multi-functional furniture pieces, and this time will be made of new EUROLIGHT plate (applicable in the interior) and the "OSB" wooden sheets. Furniture is flexible with strong accent on 3 in 1 and 4 in 1, intended to be used in small rooms and limited spaces. Intelligent design will offer change to the way we use standard furniture, bringing new logic to daily activities. Users are free to change, rotate the furniture based on their needs, measure or moods ...

Media Partners are ARHITEKTON (magazine) ENTERIJER (magazine) and online magazine MINISTUDIO.

Mikser Young BALKAN Designers Competition

Young Serbian Designers (2010), photo by Mikser

Last year it was "Young Serbian Designers", now it is going to cover more of region and become "Young Balkan Designers".

Are you ready to participate and become part of 2011 Team?

Competition 2011 for young designers&new products are announced. Being part of team and being branded as country or regional success is much easier than struggling on your own. OK, most of us wonnabe "I did all alone and by myself", but for those not able to win a battle, join the Young Balkan Designers growing team and start lobbying for design.

As a part of First Belgrade Design Week 2006 I was able (with members of very creative progressive group of talented architects - Studio Symbiosis) to bring design of Generator to public scape and check it in reality. So give it a try!!!

Here are details:

Entering Young Balkan Winning Team means promoting prototypes at:

• Milan Furniture Fair 2011
• Dan D in Zagreb (Croatia),
• Mikser festival in Belgrade (Serbia),
• Skopje Design Week (Macedonia),
• Weekend Media Festival in Rovinj (Croatia),
• Vienna Design Week (Austria),
• Month of Design in Ljubljana (Slovenia),

Mikser is organizer of Competition 2011 where calling for designers to take part with their unique, original, never before published or exhibited products (furniture, lighting, accessories etc) that can be categorized as industrial design. Please be sure you are under 35 years of age.

Mikser will promote the award winner(s) for one year with intense promotional activities and an international exhibition tour.

Ana Kras - Bonbon lamp (my favorite from 2010), photo by Sandra Draskovic

Prizes

Mikser will promote the award winner(s) for one year with intense promotional activities and an international exhibition tour, the world premiere of which will take place at the acclaimed Milan Furniture Fair 2011, within the scope of Salone Satellite – the largest international talent show for young designers.

Jury

Konstantin Grcic, Industrial Designer, KGID – President of the Jury
Jelena Matic, Furniture Designer – Docent at University of Belgrade
Maja Lalic, Architect – Creative Director, Mikser Festival

How to enter?

Applicants will be able to register and submit their projects by filling in a Young Balkan Designers form online, starting from 15 November until 20 December 2010.

Read more here.
Good luck to all.
(I'm still under 35 :-))

wOOw for ZOOLOO

UNIQUE & FEMININE & SCULPTURAL.

Any similarity with Le Corbusier Open Hand?

Few weeks ago I got friend request on social network facebook (fastest growing mass-media network) from a very creative, pleasant and cheerful lady Larisa Zupanjevac Nikolic, with a inspiring message that she found my blog and find it interesting. At once I felt ashamed of how long I didn't share anything and affection to find out more about this lady.

And here we go. Architect, Painter, Designer - all in one. THE mix-use DESIGNER. Her bags (signature, handheld, shoulder, crossbody, clutch) left me astonished. Between the lines of the leather, wire-handles, metal buckles, chains and detail, embossed and textured stripes, one can read the passion for combining different materials, media and disciplines.

ZOOLOO design studio was founded in 1999, in Belgrade. And If you go on her website, you will be welcomed by note "made in Serbia". I'm so proud of being able to promote and support her collections of leather bags. Go, Larisa, go.

If I would like to have my unique wardrobe in apartment, I would definitely call this lady - It would be mix of leather sensation, sophisticated use of colors and playful yet elegant shapes . Carrie Bradshaw, who lives for fashion, would instantly be amazed of having wardrobe wrapped by stylistic touch. Hell yeah, I can imagine extravagant, opulent and contradictory symbiosis of wired handles and leather cupboards front for precious and unique clothes.

WHAT IS NEXT? FURNITURE COLLECTION?

Do you still have doubts if I have one of Zooloo bag in my wardrobe? Cross-body sculpture, ode to art and design, texture and sophistication. Simply ME.

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Words from Designer.

Today ZOOLOO is small but well organized manufacture dedicated to designing and manufacturing unique, handmade leather handbags and accessories. Our main goal is to create prime quality bags which will be not only a fashionable accessories but objects of unique, urban, contemporary design that are at the same time comfortable and fun to wear.
Their versatility and uniqueness are combined with geometric, clean forms and wholeness of a sculpture, moulded and painted by nature and history meeting the modern..

"They inseparably combined my eternal female love of fashion, essential need for an ideal sculptural form which I owe to my architectural education and colors and textures to which we are irreversible addicted in childhood. They became a reflection of my homage to the unique ethnic expression of my origin and the owe that is evoked in me by the diversity and perfection of nature that surrounds me."

ZooLoo bags @ Eurocentar (Belgrade) or ishop

SERBIAN ARCHITECTURAL BLOOD

NEW ITALIAN BLOOD listed SINESTEZIA as one of the TOP 10 Serbian emerging practice under 40.

The Italian organization NEW ITALIAN BLOOD deals with the monitoring architecture, design and Landscape Design in Europe and the organization of various competitions.
From time to time they elect top 10 architectural offices with leading architects under 40 years or the selection of Emerging Practices.

The list for Serbia appeared on site last week.
More about each of studio in next posts.

TOP10 ARCHITECTS UNDER 40 - NEW SERBIAN BLOOD

01 PRO ASPECT
02 RE: A.C.T.
03 SINESTEZIA
04 STUDIO PLUS TWO
05 IM.ARCHITEKTUR
06 3A Belgrade
07 SPRING STUDIO
08 FROM-TO ARCHITECTS
09 Antipode
10 RAUMA

Branding and rebranding of Majic

NEW

Karim Rashid-designed Majik Café that was opened in 2008 in Belgrade, become sinonimous for fusion of food, digipop neon LED light effects and futuristic atmosphere with explosion of bright bold colours and dynamic patterns. Exciting new restaurant and lounge replaced well known bohemian Serbian "kafana". It was weak background for starting complete new concept on it's place. It seems Serbian people don't forgive.

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photo by Nebojsa Babic

Design concept in short
The restaurant is brought into the 21st technocentury with a scrolling LED message board above that displays customer’s text messages. Cutout faces frame the entrance to the DJ booth lounge area. Profile mirrors reflect patrons in the restrooms with data resonating form the eyes. A full-length nude photo marks the bathroom door. The exterior is finished in polished, stainless steel, and mosaic tile. Icon shaped windows and decorative ancient Serbian patterns are updated to create a kaleidoscopic, engaging and inspiring fulgent space for lounging, dining and drinking.

Project Name: Majik Cafe Designer: Karim Rashid Client: Veselin Jevrosimovic Location: Belgrade, Serbia Year of Completion: January 2008 Project Area: 180 square meters Front of House

RENEW
After a while someone took decision to change something. Either design didn't work or place desperately need a reborn that will clear it from bad karma. Restaurant got new owner (Serbian acter Mima Karadzic), and interior suffered from partly interior redesign. Place turned into "half this-half that" space with hard-core remains from Karim Rashid with touch of romantic soft-core sensibility seen in repainting the walls into warm and dark colors (no more zig-zag patterns), putting framed backlit classical paintings on the walls, lighting space with ambient lighting and warm candles.

Photo by sanDRAskovic

I will not judge. I had great time few weeks ago there.
You can compare it by yourself.