With Now! Le Off, a space open to young design and the avant-garde, Paris Design Week will make 1200 m2 of the Docks en Seine available to designers, to provide a 180 degree overview of the new French and international generation.

Bina Baitel 'Operio'
The young Parisian designer, associated with the Next Level gallery, will present a series of new furniture pieces. The Operio sideboard is a piece where the material’s fluidity draws on a solid an functional form.

Lamp by Jean Couvreur

In all, more than 60 designers will present their vision of the domestic world, from the most arty-ficial of Frederique Morel’s scenic incarnations, to the realism of free art projects, such as Pauline Deltour’s office accessories, the chinese designer Chenzu Sun’s seating system, lights by Jean Couvreur, Pool discovered at the Nouvelle Vague exhibition in Milan, or the surprising geometric Bistable shelves by Charles Kalpakian, who plays around with our blurred vision.

eliumstudio table 'Do it Yourself'
Initially conceived for L’Express magazine at the request of Marion Vignal, this series of simple tables will finally meet its public after having been put on hold. A table-top, lampshade support and colored cord to unify the whole, it can all be put together yourself! Eliumstudio, too often labelled as "designers of industrial products", demonstrates here a talent and sensitivity towards furniture with elegance and humour.

Glitch Fiction
A collective founded at the Royal College of Art, Glitch Fiction proposes scenery objects for an activist design. It is a border between fiction and reality as enjoyable as it is experimental, which enables the designers to explore fields such as genetic manipulation, biopolitics and the artificiality of nature. During Paris Design Week, Glitch will exhibit all their new projects by Austin Houldsworth, David Benque, Nicolas Myers, Facet, Thomas Thwaites, Nitipak Samsen, The Workers, Nelly Ben Hayoun et Good Wives and Warriors.

Pauline Deltour office accessories in aluminium
A young designer who went through the studios of Konstantin Grcic, Pauline Deltour is currently working with extruded aluminium to create a range of office accessories. Extrusion is the thermo-mechanical fabrication process through which a compressed material is forced through a mold of the piece being created. One can continuously produce a product of uniform shape, with no limitation of length or signs of deformity. She uses this process to obtain different elements from one form. Once the shape is extruded, it is cut on specific angles producing objects with very distinct silhouettes and configurations.

Paris Design Week
Now! Le Off
Docks on the Seine - 34 quai d’Austerlitz - 75013 Paris
September 12 to 18 2011

Core77 and Greener Gadgets invited designers to explore the concept of "Greener Gadgets.
The top 50 entries are published online for voting and commenting, and from these the judges will pick the Top 10 to be judged live at the Greener Gadgets Conference in New York City on February 27th.
Voting ends February 20th. Click, get inspired, and vote!

'VE09 Blister Radio' by Klaus Rosburg (United States) The VE09 Blister Radio is made from PLA, a biodegradable, thermoplastic, aliphatic polyester derived from renewable resources such as cornstarch (in the U.S.) or sugarcanes. The solar panel in the back of the clear blister pack recharges the batteries allowing the user to operate the radio without ever opening the clamshell package.
'Blight' by Vincent Gerkens (Belgium) This solar blind creates a link between indoor and outdoor, taking the daylight during the day and giving it back at night. The advantage of the Venetian blind is to have a large surface exposed to sunlight in a small, cumbersome object. With the revolving blades we can follow the course of the sun in order to catch a maximum of energy. Moreover we can adjust the position of the lamp to obtain various lighting effects. The produced energy can be used to supply a computer or other devices, by means of an inverter.
'Power-Hog' by Mathieu Zastawny, Mansour Ourasanah, Tom Dooley, Peter Byar, Elysa Soffer, Mathieu Turpault (United States) Power-Hog is a power consumption metering piggy bank designed to sensitize kids to energy cost associated with running electronics devices. Plug the tail into the outlet and the device into the snout; feed a coin to meter 30 minutes of use.
'eMetric' by Jason Deperro (United States) eMetric is an office power management system that allows teams of conscientious workers to control and learn about their electronics' energy consumption - saving energy and money.

A few pictures from the 21st International Biennale Interieur 08 that ended on October 26 in Kortrijk, Belgium.

'Swing' stool - Axis 71	'Memory' lamps - Axis 71

'3237' by Børge Mogensen - Fredericia Furniture

The guest of Honour of this year was Jaime Hayon

Jaime Hayon

'Steelwood' Chair by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec - Magis

'Paper' Wardrobe by Studio Job - 'Clip' Chair by Blasius Osko & Oliver Deichmann - Moooi	One silly armchair - Moroso

Jurgen Bey for Proof	Tubular sledge by Thonet

Jurgen Bey for Proof

Stefan Schöning : designer of the year 2008

Konstantin Grcic, Liliana Bonomi and Tapio Wirkkala for Serafino Zani

Dark	Nelson clocks at the Vitra booth

Alexander Girard wooden dolls - Vitra

The Danish Architecture Centre and CEBRA architects have created the exhibition 'ecotopedia - walk the talk', the official Danish contribution to the 11th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia 2008, as a platform for debate and the exchange of knowledge within sustainable planning.

 'ecotopedia - walk the talk' reflects the overall theme and poses the question: “How can we inhabit this world in a dignified and sustainable way?” It is an invitation to the international community to debate and exchange knowledge about how cities can contribute to adapting to and dealing with global climate challenges.

Climate change is a global problem and it affects us all. Cities play a particular role as they are responsible for more than half the combined co2 emission and for the first time in history, the majority of the world population lives in cities. One of the greatest challenges we are faced with is the development of sustainable urban planning. Paradoxically, it is also cities that possess the potential to create a global framework for the 21st century’s most sustainable lifestyles. The exhibition presents a wide range of initiatives from businesses, projects and experts on how to do so.

The exhibition is built up around 7 principal themes and presents 7 global initiatives with Danish participation that present concrete proposals on how we can create a sustainable future.

WORLD – infinite futures
CLIMATE ZONES – natural beauty in transformation
CONTINENTS – diversity of human settlements
CITIES – challenge and potential
EXPERTS – in dialogue with the world
NETWORKS – generating collective action
GLOBAL INITIATIVES – that walk the talk.

What is ecotopedia?
ecotopedia is a combination of three words. ’eco’ is the english abbreviation for ecological and also refers to economy. ’topedia’ refers both to place (topos) and knowledge (pedia). Walk the talk expresses the exhibition’s call for active participation. ecotopedia – walk the talk shows how words can be converted into actions; how ’talk the talk’ becomes ’walk the talk’.

La Biennale di Venezia will take place from September 14 to November 23 2008.

Louise Campbell is the featured designer on dkVogue.com, a large source for Danish design that introduces modern, authentic Danish furnishings, lighting and accessories to North America.

Bille goes Zen - Cabinet maker Lars Bille Christensen (2003/2006)

Louise Campbell’s work is playful and experimental, and is increasingly gaining a reputation for gently twisting not only every day objects and situations, but also materials and manufacturing processes in new directions. The combination of Scandinavian rationalism and femininity, and perhaps her dual nationality (Danish and British), give the works of Louise Campbell an unusual edge. Illustrating contrasts seem to be an issue, that keeps returning in her work.

'Spiderwoman' - HAY (2008)                                  'Retreat' (1998)                           

'Seesaw' and 'Entertainment' - Erik Jørgensens Møbelfabrik (2002)       

'Veryround' - Zanotta (2006)                               'Prince Chair' - HAY (2005)                

Casual Cupboards (1999)                                'Tub' - Hansen & Sørensen (2005)

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After successful international premiere in Talent Zone, Copenhagen Furniture Fair, last year, Wood Processing & Furniture Design students have demonstrated their sustainable design work - furniture prototypes and interior elements, at Salone Satellite 2008, Milan Furniture Fair, held from 16th-21 April.

Exhibition showed fresh, multi functional elements, new construction principles, as well as projects from REST WOOD DESIGN sustainable design workshop by mentor MA Jelena Matic, held every year at the Center for Tools and Machinery, at Faculty of Forestry, University of Belgrade.

Organized annually, the workshop operates as an extracurricular activity at the University promoting sustainable creativity through innovative use of industrial wood waste in student furniture and interior design concepts, which often results in real student prototypes, first time experiences, valuable knowledge, and rewards to young designers.

Harmonica by Aleksandar Stamenovic

Miesrolo by Uros Vitas

Cage by Emir Beciragic

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