You are invited to join the DESIGNR.RDV event tonight at THEWHITEHOTEL in Brussels, come and catch us at room 43! Champaign is on us!

Thewhitehotel [map]
Avenue Louise 212
1050 Brussels
+32 (0) 2644 2929

September ends, summer is over…but as each year, September in Brussels also shouts DESIGN!!! And what better way to get a hold of what is going on in Brussels’ design world than to literally enter the creative space of its designers?

Julien De Smedt opens his doors on Saturday 26 & Sunday 27 September 11:00 till 18:00 hours

Rue des Fabriques 1B, 1000 Brussels. Number 34 on the Design September map

Read more at www.designseptember.be

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from ArchDaily’s blog

A great part of our day is spent browsing architects websites looking for new works to share with our readers, and we have noticed that some are very good, while others were such a pain to navigate… So we decided to go and ask our community about this.

Last week, we asked our Facebook Fans for the best architecture office website they knew. We checked them out and decided the top 10, with no particular order. We looked for the best ones in terms of looks, navigation (is is easy to navigate? Is it fast? Can you go back without reloading the menu? Can you link directly to a specific project?), presentation quality, does it look up to date?, projects (can you sort them by location? by year?).

Also, you will notice that no flash website made the list. That’s because we think flash websites have some dificulties. For example, you can’t link a specific project and Google can´t index most of the contents. So we decided to create a ‘honorable mention’ list with all the flash websites we thought deserve it.

Read the entire article + see the results HERE.

Copenhagen Design Week by the Danish Design Center is an international event that presents new ideas, knowledge and products – design that generates possibilities for a changing world. For one week, established and new design events are brought together and strengthened to provoke, excite and inspire. As a prelude to COP15 (the UN Climate conference that will be held later in the year), the theme will be sustainable design. Copenhagen Design Week takes place for the first time from 27 August to 6 September 2009.

Visit the CDW webpage for a full list of events here

We are pleased to announce the beginning of our collaboration with EWO (Cortaccia, Italy), a developer and producer of high quality lighting systems for public spaces.  More on the collaboration between JDS and EWO will be posted very soon.

In the meantime, click here to see more about their work.

The ‘Recycled World’ graphic that JDS designed for Social Designer was featured on today’s Flavorpill Daily Dose feature on Social Designer, thanks Flavorpill!

DAMn° has invited an eclectic mix of more than 30 designers to participate in the exhibition Prophets & Penitents: Confessions of a Chair at the Oratorio della Passione at Sant’Ambrogio – Milan’s archetypal church – to express their personal confessions on chair prototyping, with many of the pieces seen in public for the first time.

AN INITIATIVE OF

DAMn° magazine, www.damnmagazine.net
Galleria Blanchaert, www.galeriablanchaert.it
Elena Agudio & Alexandra Waldburg-Wolfegg

CURATORIAL CONCEPT

Walter Bettens and Siegrid Demyttenaere, DAMn° magazine

VENUE: Oratorio Della Passione, Sant’Ambrogio,
Piazza Sant’Ambrogio, Milano
OPENING & COCKTAIL: Tuesday 21 April, 7.30 pm
EXHIBITION: 22-27 April, 11 am – 7 pm

www.prophetsandpenitents.com

JDS proposes ‘Collapse’, a collapsable chair that folds into a wafer thin plate. Its mechanism is simple and robust, its design frank and timeless. It doesn’t try to appear as something new or hopelessly claim another style, but instead proposes an efficient and effortless way to store, ship and sit on a chair.

all night art around Paris. Some of us will be there to bring you the best…

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don’ miss the Dynamo Award Ceremony on Saturday evening. Details follow.

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The latest edition to the JDS design family is a brand new selection of shelves produced by the Danish firm MUUTO.

Their aim is to be specific and generic at the same time.

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