On Friday 12, 2013 took place the cocktail party where the Portuguese designer João Abreu Valente was granted with the 1st prize of the 2013 Homeless Design Competition for his piece Teapot´set.

The process of his piece Teapot’set  captivated us, because is a single teapot mold that produces a whole tea set. By using a fixed amount of liquid clay, the production of each object leaves less material to make the next one. The coloring of tha clay is a visual translation of this process, where the first casting reveals the initial mixing of two different colors that eventually start to blend into a single color as the clay is poured in and out of the mold, continuing the process.

João is a product designer based in Lisboa He studies product design at Lisbon Fine Arts University. He starts a studio in Lisboa during 2008 and since then he has been working in collaboration with other designers, artists and architects. In 2010 he move to the Netherlands to do his master degree at the Design Academy Eindhoven, graduating during 2012 in contextual design with the thesis – Process, The performance of matter.

Congratulations to all participants and to winner!

Remember to never stop creating, we would love to show it to the world.

Agustin Garcia y María Kim
Christian J. Altherr, Ana Rangel & Irene Düring
Gudrún Theodóra Alfredsdóttir
João Abreu Valente
Juan Ruiz Rivas
Juan Soriano
Micomoler
Oriol Barri
Raúl Laurí
Sputnik Estudio

Congratulations!!! You will receive an email with further instructions very soon.

Thank you all for participating!

| PRESS RELEASE | Homeless Design Exhibition – Salone 2013

As you might already know, this past February, Homeless Design Café opened its doors in downtown Madrid as a meeting point for design lovers. It is a coffee house as showroom, a physical space in downtown Madrid displaying objects looking for a home, pieces from designers of the ‘Homeless Design Family’.

It is a place where you can chat with friends, bring your laptop, have an informal business meeting, have drinks after-work and be inspired to design great things! We all work better on a full stomach!

 ‘Future under construction’ aims to rebuild the world and reinvent it through out design. And what better place to start brainstorming than in a pop up design café! People will not only see your designs but use them as they would in a real coffee place or at home.

We are looking for special pieces to create an ephemeral coffee place based on our philosophy. Chairs, tables, lights, carpets, tableware… any object that can contribute to create a nice atmosphere to have a good time and inspire creativity!

Oh wait, did we not say..? FIRST PRIZE is awarded with 1,000€ !!!!!

Download more info HERE 

Good luck!

 — COMPETITION IS CLOSED —

Pieces on display curated by Homeless Design at hand in hand exhibition merging with Antonio Serrano’s new collection.

Brunches by La Mamba

Dalton by La Mamba

Paralells by La Mamba

Mamut by La Mamba

Alika by Raúl Laurí

elBotijo by WOW

Arca de ballet by David Pérez Medina

Teafortwo by Blanca Ortiz

Wooden Tray by Blanca Ortiz

Hanglass by Idoia Mendiola

GIFU by Paulina Stephens and Maria del Pilar Velasco

Flux by Natalia Figueroa

La Manga-Napoli by Chichinabo inc.

Teapots by Gaetano di Gregorio

Untitled by Blanca Ortiz

With the collaboration of Beatriz Hernández de Frutos with the skirt Nina.

‘hand in hand’ exhibition is open until January 22^nd, 2013.

hand in hand exhibition
16^th November,2012 – 22^nd January, 2013
Monday – Friday. 11am to 2pm – 4pm to 8pm
Mad Gallery calle Abtao 25, interior nave B. Madrid

Curated and organized by Homeless Design and Mad Lab.

 
We have already presented Antonio Serrano to you, he was one of the designers selected to display at the Homeless Design Exhibition at the Biennale di Venezia – collateral event.

1.          Tell us a little bit about yourself, how did your career as a designer begin?

I think it started when I was 7 years old, I remember my mother making me a sandwich at seven in the morning, everyday before leaving to school. I took carpentry classes for an hour and a half, at our teacher’s workshop in elementary school, before my regular classes began. That definitely left a mark in my passion for wood. But as the man often insists on ignoring his heart, I distract myself by pursuing a law career before enrolling at the School of Applied Arts to major in industrial design from 1979 to 1982. Since then, everything has been a long adventure filled with endless details.

2.          We see that you have a great workshop at your studio, what is your work method?

The area of inspiration always comes when I’ve been working for a while, I use first models made ​​with anything I can find, I prefer paper and cardboard, wires too. There is a lot of experimentation with models before starting to parameterize with Rhino that is done at the same time as prototypes are made in the atelier. The time it takes me to create a chair, for example, is not less than year and about seven or eight scale prototypes. There is a magic moment where you just have to listen to what the object tells you and implement the solution that is giving you, which is usually always the best one.

3.         Your work often reminds us to a puzzle.  What is going on inside Antonio Serrano’s mind when he is designing?

A lot of things are going on, I remember all my loved ones, those who are still here and of those who have left. I think of how to transcend my universe giving my best and trying to get my designs to excite people. This crisis is proving to be crucial for many things we understood as right and were not true. As a result, we have to question them again and make it a habit, not to relax our minds and get stuck on the comfort zone that stop us from growing.

Wood and puzzles are a very attractive challenge, which is why occasionally my work gives brainteasers a wink.

4.          How was the idea LivingBlock born?

To be honest, the beginning is always a sketch and a motto that I proposed to overcome my own crisis, “what can I do with what I have” and it turns out that there is much more than I expected. I went into my workshop and chose a pine finger joint board and thought that it would be a great contribution to the market, to reuse and recycle. The finger joint board itself is already a sophisticated product in its ecological value, it uses waste material to form a new board and provides a way to reuse it.

The evolution of the idea is a collection of sixteen pieces based on the same design principle “a box and four sticks”. The final step is to make the furniture a product to use, and that usually takes longer.

5.          If you could chat over coffee with any designer, alive or dead, who would it be?

I would like to chat with the “very much alive” designer Konstantin Grcic, I like his rigorous job and also if I could, with Tappio Wirkala, one of the fathers of design. I have always admired his career.

The project LEFTOVER by studio427, exhibiting at the Collateral Event of the Biennale di Venezia,  recycles crates and scaffoldings to make indoor and outdoor furniture. Every piece comes in a simple design, sudden change in colours and some imperfections that make them slightly different as if were tailor made. The pieces were selected to be exhibited at the 2012 Homeless Design Exhibition for this past Salone del Mobile in Brera, Milan.

Leftover by Alfred von Escher  – studio427
Alfred von Escher, born in Zurich, living in Sicily since years, opened studio427 in 2010. The preview of LEFTOVER project was unveiled in the TRL day about Made in Italy in July 2011 at Triennale Milano. In 2012 was presented on the occasion of Fuorisalone in Brera Design District and he also conceived the exhibition design in the Collateral Event A Better World at Biennale Architettura 2012, showing a polyvalent nature hosting a series of shows, lectures, and workshops on Design Architecture, Cinema, Botanic and more. Former Technical Director of the Migrosmuseum in Zurich, von Escher promotes the idea of the travelling carpentry with How to Recycle and Screenprinting Public workshops included.”

The furniture for the cafeteria at Serra dei Giardini is signed by studio427.

The studio organized one MOLESKINE Workshop SOMETHINGING at Serra dei Giardini during the collateral event “A Better World” of the 2012 Biennale di Architettura.

Meet the Designer Week – Biennale di Venezia

Monday: Antonio Serrano

Tuesday: Cristiano Mino

Wednesday: Ignacio Hornillos

Thursday: Beril Cicek

Her Project ULL is a is a collection of mobile cabinets that works as luggage, to provide a sense of ease for one to transfer their home into different spaces and places. They are made of wool and wood and everything is hand knitted. She gets her inspiration from Icelandic traditional pieces, “Ullarpteysa” the sweater and “Saudskinnskor” the shoe. ULL has been featured in the VOGUE PORTUGAL magazine on the November Issue.

ULL by Beril Cicek

Beril Cicek is a young designer from Turkey who builds most of her design ideas around textures, forms and harmony that exits within the generous nature. Her focal point is all sorts of handmade products with naturally chosen materials, combined with innovative and creative form. She approaches her craft as an art form, which will make her ideas last longer.

Experiencing different mediums of art, including fashion, has increased her creativity. After her graduation from Bilkent University, Interior Design & Environmental Design Department, she finishes her master’s degree on “Industrial Design” in “Scuola Politecnica Di Design” in Milano. For two years, she lives in Milan and is experiencing the art of “Installation Design” while she works with an Italian designer Jacopo Foggini. Recently she moves back to Turkey and continues to produce new ideas-design to fulfill her lifelong dream and open her own gallery-based studio.

Meet the Designer Week – Biennale di Venezia

Monday: Antonio Serrano

Tuesday: Cristiano Mino

Wednesday: Ignacio Hornillos

Apil lamp aims to flip the concept of the traditional lamp, the light radiates from below and from the top of the cable. Metal, cork and glass; three materials stacked together as a harmonious shape.

Apil lamp by Ignacio Hornillos

Ignacio Hornillos Cárdenas was born in Madrid, Spain in 1985. Architect and designer, founded in 2010 the collective WOW Studio. Winner of several design competitions among which are the award in 2011 of Art and Law Foundation and the grant received for a stay at the Domus Academy in Milan. Published in magazines of the Spanish and European panorama, has exhibited in Matadero Madrid, Casa Pasarela Madrid, Nude Valencia and Salone Satellite in Milan in 2012 where he won the 2nd prize.

Meet the Designer Week – Biennale di Venezia

Monday: Antonio Serrano

Tuesday: Cristiano Mino

For today we want you to meet Cristiano Mino. You probably already heard about him. He was selected by Fernando and Humberto Campana, the jury of the competition, as the winner of the 2012 Homeless Design – Salone del Mobile competition for Milan. Since then, he is been featured in many magazines and blogs, and he is currently developing other interesting projects.

Micol Lamp by Cristiano Mino

In 2010 Cristiano Mino starts self-producyng lamps and home accessories. Another work that adds up to this numerous other activities that involve development and consultancy in many different design areas like car interiors, medical and sport equipment, packaging, interface and communication design, for enterprise such as Fiat, Lamborghini, danese. In 2004 he receives the Compasso d’Oro ADI award thanks to his product Run Excite for Technogym. In 2011 his series of products Sweet Spa and Sweet Sauna 90, designed for Starpool, are awarded with the Reddot Design Award Best of the Best.

This year his work Micol Lamps was selected to be exhibited at Homeless Design Exhibition during the 2012 Milan Design Week and was awarded with the 2012 Homeless Design Competition selected by the Campana brothers.

Micol Lamps – floor and desk version.

Cristiano with Micol Lamp at the Homeless Design Exhibition in Milan.

LivingBlock Coat rack by Antonio Serrano

Antonio Serrano Bulnes lives and works in Madrid. His work is timeless, durable and heritable,seeking solutions that provide a natural touch in the selection of materials and handling solutions, with a blend of technology and craftsmanship and a high ecological value. Part of his philosophy as a designer is the thought of that “to design is to discern and know how to choose from the solutions that objects propose to us”.

Models of the LivingBlock collection

Models of other projects

You will be hearing more about him in the following weeks. Homeless Design is preparing something special for the launching of his new collection LivingBlock.