ANDER, HOW OLD R U?

ANDER LIZASO, product designer How is your bed? I have to share my bedroom with my older brother, so mine is the little one. Still a nice simple bed with some really nice wooden parts. Which is the meal you do not like at all? I eat all kinds of food except for carrots. I tell my mom I'm not a rabbit. Your favourite meal? I love grandma's croquettes, there's nothing like them. Your favourite book? I really like the Teo collection. My favourite book would be "Teo goes to the zoo". Have you got an imaginary friend? I don't have any but a friend of mine says he does, so I'm eager to know them...

BULL!

Bull created by the industrial designer Ander Lizaso makes a perfect furniture piece for children between 3 and 6 years old. In essence it´s a tiny chair with the backrest being a "giant" spinning wheel. That allows it to be used as a basket or a trolley, and given the kid´s imaginary and Bull´s evocative shapes it may easily become a toy itself.

GREAT!

Magic pencils !

These are fantastic and unique pencils reated by Ariane Prin.

Read their story and the interesting project conceived by Ariane.

"Designers are best suited to methods of making that apply to specific and localized contexts. I believe design is about exploring the social and natural opportunities around us, taking advantage of every situation by connecting human activities with environmental principles. The “From Here For Here” project include two main issues: 1. Create useful products specific to a site from the waste generated there. 2. The legitimacy of creating new objects by keeping the enjoyment of making without the guilt. This new production system treats the Royal College of Art as an experimental site for demonstrating these principles. It uses waste from the various departments of the school for a local pencil factory that will supply drawing tools to present and future students".

Double carousel...

Carsten Höller, Double Carousel with Zöllner StripesMACRO, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Rome Courtesy: Enel Contemporanea

The winner of Enel Contemporanea Award 2011. Bravo! Have fun!

ANDREA, HOW OLD R U?

ANDREA MASTROVITO, artistHow is your bed? My bed is built in a big ’70s wardrobe. Between the wardrobe and my bed there are some shelves at 30cm from the matress. I love to squeeze myself in between, to feel myself safe and cuddled during the night. I love blue sheets with white spots. When I wake up for a bad nightmare, I switch on the light and I open my Topolino: just watching the images! Which is the meal you do not like at all? I hate carrots. I had to eat kilos of carrots when I had gastroenteritis. for this reason they are crap! Your favorite meal? I love the omelette that mum prepares. I image to eat it with beans and sauces like Bud Spencer and Terence Hill in Lo chiamavano Trinità western movie. Your favourite book? I do not read because I cannot. I watch the images from Topolino and I wonder what are those black signs into the white ballons. Have you got an imaginary friend? No I haven’t. Only imaginary enemies from whom I have to fight to save the world!

MARTIN, HOW OLD R U?

MARTIN PRICE, product designer

How is your bed? My bed is very simple and made from pine. It is a high bed with a small set of stairs at the end so I can climb up, underneath I have a little desk and a comfy seating area. My duvet cover is dark blue with stars on like the night sky. Which kind of meal you do not like? Anything with celery in, I don’t like celery!! And your favourite? I really like bananas,  and sometimes have them in a sandwich. Your favorite book to read? My favorite book is Bear goes to town: Bear has all sorts of strange adventures and is able to draw what he thinks... when running away from a baddie in a car he draws a banana skin to make the car skid! Have you got an imaginary friend? I don’t have an imaginary friend but I am friends with lots of animals in our garden, we have a beautiful pond which is home to lots of creatures. Their are big crested newts with colourful bellies and dragon fly larvae with hard spiky bodies. I love it when all the baby tadpoles grow little legs and turn into baby frogs and hop around the grass.

JANTIEN, HOW OLD RU?

JANTIEN BAAS, designer, Tas-ka

How is your bed? I’v got a wooden bedframe, painted in white and my sister pasted a lot of stickers on it. Which kind of meal you do not like? Peanut butter and sprouts. 
And your favourite? Semolina pudding and mushroom soup made by my mother. Your favorite book to read? Floddertje, by Annie MG Schmidt. Have you got an imaginary friend? Sometimes I told my sister and brother that I’ve got an imaginary boyfriend named Ruud. Haha!

Wood for little ones

  WOOD, by the Italian artist Nicola Gobbetto, is a little art work for children bedroom. WOOD is a room divider, a magic screen able to trasform the bedroom in a fantastic real wood of the fairytales.

WOOD is conceived for the unduetrestella project.

NICOLA, HOW OLD R U?

NICOLA GOBBETTO, artist

How is your bed? My bed is the most comfortable in the all world! It has a yellow soft blanket, clouds printed on my pillow and a comic bubble painted by my baby sitter on the wall behind my head with the “Zzzzz…” of sleeping. Which kind of meal you do not like? I don’t like fish because of the smell… yuk… disgusting! And your favourite? My favorite meal is ice cream! Your favorite book to read? All the most popular fairy tales. Have you got an imaginary friend? All my toys are alive, they discuss a lot during the night.

AGNIESZKA, HOW OLD R U?

AGNIESZKA Zielinska-Chmura, architect, designer, mukaki

How is your bed? I have a large bed, a double and I don’t like going to sleep... and in kindergarten instead of sleep, I like to pull out the feathers from the pillow and blow is so that does not fall as long as possible ... Which kind of meal you do not like? I do not like milk, especially boiled milk. I don’t like even the smell of it! A milk soup is a nightmare! Even cocoa is mostly milk, so I don’t like it… And your  favourite? Hm... I do not like eat at all… the air? Your favorite book to read? I do not like books to much, there are more interesting things to do ... ok, maybe a little Pinocchio… and The Snow Queen although it is kind of a scary... Have you got an imaginary friend? No, I do not have an imaginary friend but I would love to fly with Peter Pan. I could swear that scattering small silver papers from chocolate enable me to fly a few centimeters above the ground for a moment… why adults do not see it?