Friends of Campaign//Todd Bracher Studio

Todd Bracher Studio A good friend of Campaign this month launched his updated website, Todd's work has always been sky high, it is good to see that his great work continues in his native land of of New York.

Todd takes his BOOM tables to Milan for '09.

New Website

www.toddbracher.net

BOOM

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Campaign Research:Out of Milan//Friday so far we love

Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola has designed a modular sofa for Moroso upholstered in fabrics inspired by traditional patterns from Uzbekistan.

Brazilian designers Fernando and Humberto Campanahave designed Cipria, a fake fur-covered sofa, for Italian brand Edra.

Konstantin Grcic opens the Extrusions collection which he has designed for Bd Barcelona design with this table, baptised as Table B. Its name is as simple and technical as the design itself. Grcic has been inspired by classic Bd pieces, such as the Hypóstila shelf unit (in production since 1979), in developing a tabletop of extruded aluminium with a minimal profile and for lengths of up to 360 cm. It is offered in various finishes and with three models of legs. Suitable for indoor and outdoor areas. Its apparent simplicity hides a complex technical development in which senior engineers have been involved. In counterpoint, the production also includes several manual processes. The result is a highly crafted piece with all the character of the German designer.

a large, rusty, cast-iron dinner service by Belgian designers Studio Job is on show in Milan this week.

Lena from the studio is set to report back more treats for us throughout the week.

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Campaign Research:Out of Milan//Diesel Furniture with Moroso & Foscarini

Diesel are do nothing but impressing the Campaign studio, what with the success of the Black Gold collection, the FIAT 500 collaboration & now their own furniture range. Designed by Wilbert Das and the Diesel Creative Team, the collection will include lighting produced under licence by Italian brand Foscarini, while furniture will be manufactured by Moroso.

A preview of the Diesel furniture, lighting & textiles collection to be launched during the Salone Internazionale Del Mobile Milano, 2009. The collections are they are presenting are designed by the Diesel Creative Team, together with Moroso and Foscarini and will be presented during the Salone Del Mobile at the Diesel Penthouse. Diesel Penthouse Milan between 22nd - 26th.

Looking forward to seeing this collection which can be viewed here___

fuorisalone.it

diesel.com/furniturefair

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Trekstock comes to town......

Trekstock a good friend of Campaign

Brings one if it's biggest ever nights to the proud galleries Camden Rown on may 13th. Mark Ronson will be headlining the gig which is worth the entry fee alone, all proceeds go to teenage cancer trust.

Go Sophie, we will be seeing you there

www.twitter.com/trekstock

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Campaign/Fresh and Dr Martens

Campaign studio is currently hard at work in collaboration with Fresh on a new concept for Dr Martens, we will keep you up to date with the developments.

In the interim check out the new dipped colours and Raf Simmons offerings for the label....

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Campaign Stamps//

Campaign has produced a range of stamps as part of the studios stationary collection, taking inspiration from traditional ink stamping methods.

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Burberry HQ featured in Wallpaper//

Philip Handford's recent work with Christopher Bailey, Creative Director of Burberry is featured in April's edition of Wallpaper Magazine.

Signature furniture designed by Bailey with Handford is used throughout the stunning new Burberry global headquarters in London as well as the Burberry head office in New York and newly rennovated Burberry stores.

Of the furniture Bailey says: 'We really started the same way we do everything - you know prototyping, little models .. just the same way you might build a jacket.' he goes on, design is instinctive I think you feel when a proportion isn't right.'

Philip Handford with his new studio Campaign, will continue to work with Burberry.

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The Alchemy Table//MILAN FURNITURE FAIR

The Alchemy Table is flying to Italy to feature in this years Milan Furniture fair, more details to follow.....

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The Art Fund Pavilion//Campaign Approach

Campaign recently submitted their application to TENT London to design a Summer pavilion. The Pavilion sets out to become a lantern; a lantern for the Lightbox Museum by day & night.

TENT LONDON BLURB//

Applicants were asked to design a semi-permanent pavilion, which will serve as additional gallery space for The Lightbox. The museum and gallery, which is already housed in a RIBA Award-winning building by Marks Barfield Architects, have decided to mark their award of the £100,000 Art Fund Prize by investing in architecture again by initiating and financing this competition.

The entries were reviewed by an elite panel of judges that included the Director of The Architecture Foundation, Sarah Ichioka and the Turner-Prize nominated artist, Richard Wilson. Above and below: Feix&Merlin Architects with Martin Stockley Associates.

The winning entry will be engineered and constructed by Facit and shown as part of Tent London during the London Design Festival 2009, before taking up residence at The Lightbox.

ALCHEMY TABLE

The creation......

PostSecret//

PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people
mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard.

check out the rest, it gets a little dark at times!

http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

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Lomography Galley Store NYC//Opening

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Our friends at Lomo opened their new shop in NYC on the 26th January 2009!
a super launch for a super brand!

Enjoy and please visit when next in the big apple. Check out the images from the evening, the whole interior is plastered in images & with Lomo lovers alike!

Diana & Holger will be there soon....

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Press release from Lomo__


January 2009 was a huge month for Lomography in New York City. The first month of ’09 saw the grand opening of the ultimate Big Apple Lomography destination, the Lomography Gallery Store NYC! There is finally a place in New York where Lomographers can pick up any Lomographic product, or haul away rucksacks full of film before exploring our photogenic city.

On the evening of January 26th, Lomography USA threw a grand-opening shindig of skyscraping proportions. The party was the place to be in NYC that evening, with a long line of LomoLovers stretching down 8th street eager to get in. With the drinks flowing, the music thumping (sorry new neighbors), and hundreds of bodies grinding up against each other, Lomography was here to rock New York. Oh, and to the people taking pictures in our bathroom... we're still waiting for our copies!

The party was packed with so many great friends, including guest photographers, and past Lomo Amigos, Nicky Digital, Gavin Thomas, Keren Fedida, and Dave Ortiz – as well as future Lomo Amigos Amber Tamblyn and Alexis Bledel, who invited their buddy America Ferrera. With nearly 500 guests, a mind-blowing performance by A Hawk and A Hacksaw, a river of Austrian beer and piles of delicious snacks, and the unveiling of “the tower” – a 3-story 360-degree LomoWall comprised of a whopping 35,000 photos submitted by Lomographers from around the world, Lomography had arrived in New York City with style!

Yours to keep…or is it?

Being a 28-year-old designer now experiencing his first “recession” I have found myself asking a few questions about longevity in an idea, quality in design but more so what makes us hang on to that thing.

I look at my ipod touch daily, it is there for me whenever I call on it, music to satisfy my mood, emails to check and reply to & even the occasional bit of web browsing, a great product of its time. However, ask me the same question in one year’s time. I bet you it is tucked away in my iPod cemetery bottom drawer, along with 4 other generations. I keep the older ipods, they all work fine, play music and serve their purpose, but they are not as slim or intelligent as the new Pod on the block, all black & glossy. I am one to horde but perhaps it is the romantic in me urging me to keep this piece of technology along with the 1999 winkle pickers that these items can be passed on to my children.

Who knows would they even be interested its Dads vintage pieces?

“We can't afford to keep changing taste so fast. Let's hope fashion in design will disappear” Philippe Stark,2009

Indeed with the current world financial melt down, it will be natural for a bit of a lock down on spending, but have people now become more educated about their homes and ecological issues?

Arne Jacobsen Model 3107 chair

The arrival or a Arne Jacobsen chair in a family home in Copenhagen was and is often celebrated with a welcome party, that chair will stay in family for many lifetimes and hold a tremendous amount of value.
It won’t be replaced by the latest offering by Ikea, it may sit alongside it, becoming a classic back bone to the room, but it will stand the test of time and will always be returned too.

Although the Jacobsen 1950’s design is not seen as antique just yet, there appears to be an apparent uprising in the iconic classicalness of the past.
Furniture, Architecture & fashion can represent ourselves, the way we fit out our homes the way in which we live and how we dress living our lives.

We’ve made things cheaper, cheaper, cheaper. Now we don’t care about things any more, which is terrible. Marcel Wanders, 2009

The notion of antiques can be seen as buying a piece of someone else’s history, the piece lives on but has either been replaced or has served its purpose.
Where as the classic piece will keep living, a cheap piece of fashionable furniture will not, it is not designed too.
It could almost be classed as seasonal furniture changed like a room set in a show room.
Will it survive 50 years and be passed down through generation like an Eames fibreglass rocker? No.
Short-term solution? Yes.
It is cheap and fits the purpose and will be deposited rather quickly, not even as firewood, it probably will not burn so good.

Ikea Karlstad Chair

Indeed Marcel Wanders himself has given credit to the antiques pieces he mimics in his design. On creating “New Antiques”. The Antiques range he gives a nod to the French industrial period with the playful romantic artisian approach of the Belgium’s. The creation of something new but perversely classic looking is quite a strange concept, especially with a 20th century price tag, but it can be understood what character the piece of furniture is trying to convey. Although flamboyant, the furniture will be designed with perfection in mind, a classic in appearance but with no age, no history, no markings of time.
Is this a new modernism one which will stay with us for years to come? Perhaps not, but it may well reappear in the future as a portrait of an original antique. Almost, like a picture of how things used to be.

Marcel Wanders - New Antique Collection Cappellini

It takes individuality to break from the pack, every World of Interiors; Style Magazine & Sunday supplement illustrates this as a growing breed. The VW Camper van driver knows the machine is not built to travel forever but a love forms and forgiveness comes with this. A piece of iconic motor engineering does not come cheap, but illustrates a character of its owner a desire to get out, travel and be seen in such an illustrious character.

VW Camper Van

A home takes on infinite styles throughout its life; shaping the character of the interior fit out, others offer nothing more than a white backdrop. Houses themselves can almost be quick fixes, suited for their purpose, a place for living. Products do this to; a chair is for sitting in, no matter where it is from or when it was conceived.
However, to see people become more educated in design, understanding that a piece of furniture will stand the test of time, stand up to all of the wallpapers and paint colours placed around it.
It will live in the home as much as the home will become a place to live.
Items won’t be so fast changing in current climate, spending will reduce but the need to find something special will live on. Some of the best houses are an amalgamation of furniture, art and fittings brought together through inheriting, antiques markets and high street furniture shops, fused to become a place to live in.

Chloe Sevigny House, New York City

It works, but will it work for the next generation, will they use our old white ipods because they will somehow be collectable, forming the new retro? Perhaps, but technology of the 20th Century has already killed off the cassette, video and mini-disk, with DVD sure to follow. It becomes apparent that we must stop becoming a throw away generation, with a need for design to carry the tag longevity within its thought process.

What of the non-classic pieces; old school desks, coffee & occasional tables, wooden chairs of an era but not classics? They live on, collected in warehouses, under viaducts in clearance company’s storage spaces. These pieces can take on a new lease of life; I may like too take this opportunity to introduce to you the Alchemy Table [Campaign #1].

www.campaigndesign.co.uk

Campaign is currently having its website constructed by the brilliant M&C Saatchi in Hong Kong,
we can't wait to reveal it to the world.
For a progress update, please keep checking the website, the holding page is a blast from the past OLD SKOOL MAC stylie.

www.campaigndesign.co.uk