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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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What is your dream project?
I'd love to design the mascot for the London
Olympics! (D&L: Yeah, you should!)
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What kind of music do you like? Any favorite band
or singer?
All sorts, from loud to quiet, from happy to sad.
Recently I've been listening to Deerhoof, the Fall,
Modest Mouse, Hot Chip, Grizzly Bear, Gruff Rhys
and lots of Battles.
Based on your style, we think it might be
interested if you design figures that can connect
each other somehow, like LEGO!
What do you think? :D
Oh yes please, that would be great - does anyone
want to assist me on designing some?!
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What does Design & Life mean to you??
Both sound like nice ideas; good design, good life.
What is the difference between design and art?
Design has a function and if it's good you probably
wont even notice it. Art wants to make you notice it.
Any words for your friend Mark? He introduced
you to us! :D
yes, Spurs will finish above Liverpool next season!
Thanks for the interview! This chapter is
designers' circle, and we hope you can introduce
one of your friends(designers, photographers,
architects ), and will be interviewed in the next
issue! Who will be your choice? :D
That's a tough one, there's so many great people I
could introduce you to. Hmmm
Maybe you should say hello to the talented and funny
Bren B, http://www.brenb.net/
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