The Squid stories: My Interieur 2012 impressions Part 1-a life inspiration story

Interieur Kortrijk 2012.

Always been a strange mix of professional and consumer design interest, but on the other hand always open for innovation, strong head designers and 'incontournable' in Belgium.

This year, for the first time the Biennale opened towards a city parcours. No, we don't compare with the Interni circuit in Milano yet, but hey Rome wasn't built in a day either.

Besides the traditional fair ground, the organisation was present at the Buda site in the center. Because I was so curious about the new venue, I first visited the city.

Shuttle shelter, heavy sponsored by Audi with 45 (!!) cars. Great stunt, fantastic service.
Pink blinded car windows, drivers in a matching suit with posh scarf. Swell!

Tattoo-ish color full containers, because I like these.

Design students gather in Buda building for lectures and some group projects.

Green eco typo

Love the color, love the placement of the object, the unfinished state. Yep.

A quote at the co-working table of the schools.

Pure poetry setting.

Recycling carpet leftovers: a contest by one of the big carpet producers. Good initiative.

The morphing home: push furniture and functions in and out of teh walls. Stuff inside, is pushed outside to make place, and so the shape of the building shifts. Start counting the 'house shaped' installations #1

3D printing, all over the fair, everyone is experimenting with this technique, but not everyone in an intersting way.

Ross Lovegrove talking with a Dutch designer working with 3 D printing techniques. Ross his installation was next to this set. Neighbor talk, so to speak.

Nice photographs, jewelry was ok but not as strong as the pictures.

3D Printed insects. Like.

Interesting case: ask designers what they would pack in a wooden crate, if they would leave for another planet?
This beautiful project initiated for the IN Residence exhibition curated by Barbara Brondi & Marco Rainò posits the situation where if we have to leave Earth for another hospitable planet, what would be our “minimal hand luggage”? Another Terra- Homle away from home.

Handgepäck by Studio Besau-Marguerre Another Terra- Homle away from home.The resulting items are exhibited in a series of suitcases that range from Thomas Alonso's functional box of hand tools to more sentimental pieces that serve as a memory of home, such as Formafantasma's vase made from natural polymers.

MARKED: an brand new project in which up-and-coming talents will be coached throughout the development process so they can eventually present their products in a pop-up shop. The ten designers who are selected by a professional MARKED-jury are Laura Bergans (graphic design ontwerp), Joëlle Batens (illustration), Dorinda Bielen (fashion), Nick Ceulemans (product design), Gilberte Claes(product design), Denise Gielen (product design), Andrea Mohr (fashion), Jeroen Seré (product design), Astrid Vyt(product design) and Caroline Das and Kim Nivelle (jewellery). They present their products from the 30th of November until the 31st of March in a temporary shop based in C-mine, Genk.
http://www.c-mine.be

DENISE GIELEN (TRANS)FORMATION Sculptural design

Typical event designer seat, XL and nice to have a quick e-mailcheck.

The designs of British designer and visionary Ross Lovegrove scan the crossings between technology, materials science and intelligent organic form. Lovegrove uses computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and informs the software to define the ideal streamlined shape of his optimal streamlined vehicle, to arrive in aesthetics whereby technology delivers a new fantastic level of seamless precision in modern pristine materials. His thought provoking installation is that human nature and intuition can override the digital process to arrive at fantastic forms.

Ordinary Kortrijk citizens in a non aware confrontation with a design-art piece behind him.

Entrance of the Buda Tower where Hay and Piet Hein Eek had an exhibition.
Atmosphere a bit like a small 'Ventura Lambrata zone in Milano'

Installation based on human presence: the net vibrated and waved over the heads of visitors.

Outfit of the Biennale staff: always surprising, always a bit space I think. This one I liked.
The geometric uniforms by Norwegian designer Damien Frederiksen Ravn were inspired by the event’s logo. The staff uniforms at Interieur were part of wider idea that this event should be better designed that other design fairs dixit curator Lowie Vermeersch.