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Design & Life | non-fat minizine | issue 05 Jun.13 Have a lovely, inspiring life. www.designandlife.com D&L News We provide the news that you don't want to miss. This is your basic protein. Designers’ Circle From A to B, from B to C; it is the world of designers; it’s designers’ circle. The Moment There are a lot of moments in one's life. We treasure each precious moment. D&L Lifestyle We are surrounding by brands. D&L tells you the stories behind your lifestyle. 1/2 Recipe Cooking is Art. There are no rules. 1/2 recipe shows you the smartest way to cook. Contents | Design & Life minizine 6 10 28 32 40 D&L News | Design & Life minizine D&L News We provide the news that you don't want to miss. This is your basic protein. 7 01. New Plusminuszero Collection Plusminuszero, the design brand set up by Naoto Fukasawa, has launched a new collection. The new series has tried some new colors for the products. The colors are stronger and deeper. It includes a coffee and tea maker, a toaster, a mug, a sliced bread dish, container, 2 sizes calculators, a humidifier, and a heater. It is interesting to see the variation of the design. www.plusminuszero.jp/special/07new.html 6 © PLUSMINUSZERO CO., LTD. 8 D&L News | Design & Life minizine 9 02. When Fashion meets Photography What would happen when a fashion director collaborate with a photographer? Few years ago, when Ivana Omazic, the creative director of Celine, met Mika Ninagawa, the famous female photographer, in Japan, their friendship has stimulated the collaboration. In March 2007, Ivana invited Mika to join the fashion show of Celine in Paris Fashion Week, Mika has photographed the scenes of backstage and published a book named "Mika for Ivana." And now, Ivana uses Mika's photographs of flowers as a pattern for her new designs for Celine. The series is called "Ivana for Mika." It is the story of the friendship, between 2 talented women, from 2 different countries. www.celine.com/mika ninamika.com © Mika Ninagawa 8 03. CONRAN restaurants @ Tokyo Tokyo is a city that varies from minute to minute, full of surprises. Early this year, D&D London (formerly Conran Restaurants) has developed their first 3 restaurants in Tokyo in partnership with Japanese restaurant group, Hiramatsu. The Botanic and Noodle Workshop located within the brand new Tokyo Midtown building while Iconic is situated on the 9th floor of a building at the busy Ginza district. Botanic offers a contemporary European menu; Noodle Workshop serves a variety of noodles in a stylish, bright surroundings. Iconic was just opened on April 19th. Situated on the top floor, guests will be able to enjoy the elegant restaurant where a distinctive banquette designed by Sir Terence Conran himself, lies in the center of the dining room. www.conran-restaurants.jp/top_e.php © CONRAN LIMITED 2006 10 Burgerman Jon Designers' Circle | Design & Life minizine 11 issue 05 Designers’ Circle From A to B, from B to C; it is the world of designers; it’s designers’ circle. OK! For thie issue, we have invited “Mr. Contours” - Jon Burgerman! We have seen people doodling everywhere, but we’ve never seen works as complex as his! Let’s find out more about this distinctive illustrator, designer through the interview! www.jonburgerman.com 12 Designers' Circle | Design & Life minizine 13 Hi Jon! Please introduce yourself to our friends! Hello! My name is Jon Burgerman and I live in the UK and for a living make doodles and characters and colourful pictures. 14 Your style is very unique & amazing! It looks like all the characters are connected and piled up! How did this style develop? I have a love of characters / character design and a love for flowing, swooping, curling, continuous lines and contours. It was never intentional but somewhere in my brain these two loves must of got muddled up together. Over the years I've worked more and more in this way. The more I've worked like this the more it's developed. Designers' Circle | Design & Life minizine 15 We found you have collaborated with TADO at Dadawan+MadTurnip. The art works are brilliant! How did you guys originate this idea? We're both fans of collaborating with other artists so when MadTurnip offered us a show we thought rather than showing our separate artworks we should make everything together - so that the whole show would be a true collaboration. It was really great fun. The thing about working with other people is that you're never 100% sure what they're going to do next, so the process of making the work feels new and exciting. Mike and Katie were brilliant to work with, we were really pleased with how the artworks, drawings, plushes and hand- made toys came out. What inspires you the most? Other people, other artists, movies, music, food, packaging, books, stories, teas, flowers, trees, gardens, nice smells, funny sounds . loads of different things! We LOVE your project "On the wall" so much! It's awesome! Do you always plan before the show like this? Or it is just improvisation? Sometimes planning is necessary but for a project like On The Wall, it would only stunt it. The whole premise and challenge for me is to draw and keep drawing without anything in my mind, with nothing pre-planned and then to see where I'm taken by the drawing. I react to things as I draw, think about what I'll draw next, access how the whole room is working and just keep going. In the end, pieces like this show you a thought process, an improvised experiment in drawing and non-thought. It can be scary working in this way, what if there's a mistake etc but then the rewards and excitement of doing it are much higher. 16 Designers' Circle | Design & Life minizine 17 It seems you love food very much! Do you cook? After a hard working day, what do you want to eat the most? I try and cook, I still find it an exciting novelty to make something myself (even though I've been cooking for over ten years). When I finish from a hard working day I'm happy to eat most things, especially if it's been made by someone else (I'm lazy). I do get excited when I'm eating something really nice or something with lots of vegetables and salad, there's something really cool about those things, they taste good, look good and are really well designed. A quick meal I enjoy making when I'm tired is pasta with pesto, broccoli and peas, I like to call it Pasta Vert. It is very interesting to see that you sometimes invite people to help out painting! Why? I've only just started to get people to help me as sometimes there's just not enough time to finish a piece on my own. They help me paint in areas of my drawing and in turn help me achieve larger projects. I think as I continue to do installation pieces, and more and more projects in general, I will continue to need people to help me, then I can become like Warhol and have a whole factory setup! 18 Designers' Circle | Design & Life minizine 19 Tell us a little bit of your life. : ) Where do you live? Where is your favorite restaurant in the city? Why? I live in Nottingham, it's in the East Midlands of the UK. It's not the biggest city in England, maybe the 5th or 6th. I ended up living here after being a student at Nottingham Trent University. I have a studio space near the train station for making big messy works, though when I'm really busy I find that I don't get to go there as often as I like. I like going to Wagamama for noodles and to Shebab Nan-Kebab for wonderful curries and naan breads. What do you do in your leisure time? I like going to the cinema and watching whatever is on. The last thing I saw was Zodiac which was good but too long. I like snoozing, computer games, milling about aimlessly, drinking tea with friends, watching football, vacuuming, buying vegetables, reading books, checking out art galleries general stuff I guess. The funny thing is my main hobby is doodling, so I never really escape from doing that. . on designing some?! Designers' Circle | Design & Life minizine 25 24 Designers' Circle | Design & Life minizine 27 What does Design &. Jon Designers' Circle | Design & Life minizine 11 issue 05 Designers’ Circle From A to B, from B to C; it is the world of designers; it’s designers’