De goedzak / The well meant bag

DOEN | Materiaalprijs 2010 introduces the designs of the future. A new work that reveals fresh approaches to a way of designing that helps to shape a better, more sustainable society.

Saturday 23 October the jury announced the two winners. Claudy Jongstra won the price of for Waste Materials. Simon Akkaya won the second price for De Goedzak (The Good Bag) a special garbage bag for usable items. You are welcome to visit the exhibition untill 31 October at the Klokgebouw in Eindhoven.

Everyone throws away items that can still be used, and useful to, someone else. Objects disposed of in the garbage bag along with the rest of the household waste. The Good Bag is a simple solution: a distinctive refuse bag with a transparent window so people can see what is inside. And if no-one wants the contents, the bag is simply collected by the garbage collection team together with the other rubbish.

And of course you can re-use The Good Bag.

Anni Albers

Anni Albers. Germany

Fashion shop or art gallery?

Résidence de la Mode
Gallery Store Le Démarrage, Lange Poten 41, The Hague

Liefhertje en De Grote Witte Reus has transformed a shop in one of the more commercial street of The Hague in a Fashion-Art gallery. Mercedes Benz Dutch Fashion Awards. Karin Mientjes design. Nadine Stijns and Krista van der Niet photographs.
Until Sunday 8th November: 11.00 - 20.00 uur

Aldo Bakker

Aldo Bakker. Doen. NL

Binckhorst, The Hague

In the times I went to the Royal Academy of The Hague we moved to an annex in Binckhorst, a section of the city that was leaving its industrial past for a new future. There were enough places to buy kitchens but not a single snack bar to get a sandwich.
Many years after it is getting somewhere, there are artists and designers ateliers, theater and hip hop centers, and even an art fair since three years ago. Arti 09 is a lot better that its luckily deceased kitsch predecessor Holland Art Fair. Arti 09 is also better than the previous years but still has a long way to go. Hopefully some of the better galleries will join and maybe a stand for Hoogtij, the alternative art circuit of the city.
The location, the Fokker Terminal is a perfect place for a fair, I wonder if the building is going to be kept.
Photos of the last week's fair:

George Monfils expensive colors-Van Gogh (€ 20000), a typical fair object.

Sara Vrugt 2x

Peter Keizer

Willy Rojas

Toyin Loye proudly presenting Willem van der Hofstede.

Fortuin O'Brien

Helmut Smits
From the Fortis Art Collection 2x

Tejo Remy and Rene Veenhuizen


As a chair with tooth pain.


The chair exhibition 4x

Until next year?
More photos: Jacko kijkt kunst

Patterns

Oceaan by Christie Van Der Haak
Installation 49 was made with artist Asmir Ademagic.
Maliebeeld, The Hague
A mainly textile show.

Close op of one of the textile patterns.
Many of them make me think of art nouveau drawings.

An Ocean of patterns.

Ceramic plates.


Art critic Phillip Peters (seated).


Between colleagues, gallery owners Maurits van der Laar and Erik Vos.

One of the gouaches.

Jung Hwa Jin

Jung Hwa Jin. via Share some Candy. South Korea

Gabriel Orozco vs design

Gabriel Orozco

Joramjojo.

Uganda. Joramjojo.

Floor designs

foto of Maria Ikonomopoulou in Greece (?) vs

Rosaana Velasco (coins)

Joep van Lieshout vs salt and pepper

Object Rotterdam

Here some late photo's of Object Rotterdam:

Tapestries

Atmosphere

Light


Wood



Porcelain