Weapons of design destruction
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I can't say that i've been extremely excited by what i saw at Designmai this week (except the very nice UDK's Sacral Design exhibition on Karl Marx Allee - images). Actually maybe i should only blog about awful things i see in Berlin so designers and artists from other cities would stop writing me everyday to ask if i can help them find a job here. Just (half) joking of course, i love this place too much. Today, i went to DesignMai Youngster in Kreuzberg and finally remembered why i find this festival so fresh and charming. Just two examples of what i've discovered today:
Franziska Dierschke, student at the Bauhaus Academy in Weimar was letting people play with Aimat, some toy-like guns that hide a camera inside. No display, no focus, no screen, no fuss with buttons, no restricted field of vision. Just look at what you want to photograph as if it were a target. What matters is not the quality of the picture but the simple, playful act of taking it. The images shooted were displayed on a big screen in the exhibition space.
There is also an impossible to ignore real-size inflatable tank with pink flowers sprouting from its barrel. Designed by Yuji Tokuda and Junya Ishikawa, it is part of the retired weapons project that uses graphic design, videos, badges and other items to spread a message of peace around the world. Whatever... More images of the tank and the guns. |
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I am not quite sure whether that tank is much of a promotion for peace but it is certainly an fantastic artwork with a presence that is sure to have an effect on those that view it
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Hmm, the camera thingy I like. The tank not so much. It is pretty much 'been there done that' for most artists. Anyway, the gun camera remindeed me of something I saw here>.
Of course that's way more professional and it loses it's charm as something simple, as you wrote above.
...maybe i should only blog about awful things i see in Berlin...
Absolutely!
Regine, bless you for your nasty (but then sooo true) comment on art+design made in Berlin ...
:)
Hello Régine, Susanna, et al,
what is so bad or sad about the Designers you saw in Berlin?
Their lack of creativity, professionalism or else?
I would love to hear some of your critics more detailed.
Oli
omg! what did i say!? i mentioned that "i should write about the awful things blabla" just as a kind of joke. I don't see that many awful things in berlin and all the great pieces i see certainly outbalance anything else. now about designmai: just not my cup of tea, a bit less edgy than usual, that's it, now keep cool, ok?