This Christmas TheFrameworks /London descended on the Blueprint Café located at the Design Museum for some much needed merriment to end off a hard year’s work.
A happy Christmas from all at TheFrameworks.
TheFrameworks features in a latest ‘news analysis’ by Design Week, where its pro-bono work for the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, Rights & Humanity and Startup is featured.
View the article: News Analysis: Straight from the heart
TheFrameworks was treated to a slightly unconventional Friday lunch last week as everyone had to make their own food!
Under the instruction of the effervescent Teresa Le from Ladudu (Papaya leaf in Vietnamese) we were put through our paces at rolling our own sushi and Vietnamese summer rolls.
Everyone had a great time and took pride in showing off and eating their new edible pieces of art.
Teresa provides fun, instructional sessions for businesses wanting a break from the conventional sandwich platter fare so often found in board rooms. All ingredients are pre-prepared, fresh and authentic.
Teresa is available for both corporate and home cooking hands-on sessions.
More info can be found at her website ladudu.com (which will be up late August).
Teresa can be contacted via email or by phone at: 0796 3992865.
Yesterday I came across a very interesting interview with Rob Janoff, designer of the Apple logo.
In the interview Rob reveals his influences, how the coloured bars came about, and the real significance of the ‘bite’. You can find the full article here.
The new exhibition at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art is ‘Workshop Missoni: Daring to be Different’.
Missoni is one of the leading and most distinctive fashion houses in the world. The Missoni style has evolved out of a long-standing collaboration between the husband and wife team of Ottavio and Rosita Missoni. In the late 1940s, Ottavio Missoni established a workshop producing jersey tracksuits that were sported by the Italian Athletic Team at the 1948 London Olympics, where Ottavio himself qualified for the final of the 400m hurdle race.
While in London he met Rosita Jelmini, the granddaughter of a family of shawl and ladieswear manufacturers from Varese, in northern Italy. After marrying in 1953 they began making items of knitwear in a small workshop in the basement of their first home in Gallarate before moving, in the late 1960s, to the company’s present site in Sumirago with its magnificent views of the Monte Rosa mountains. Through the years, Ottavio and Rosita’s path has been followed by their children Vittorio, Angela and Luca, who today continue to keep alive the spirit of the Missoni style all over the world.
The Missonis’ designs were inspired both by the natural environment and by their own collection of art from Europe’s Modernist era including the work of Tancredi, Sonia Delaunay, Giacomo Balla and Gino Severini, whose dynamic images of dancers reveal close parallels with the geometric patterns of Missoni fabrics. This is clearly illustrated in their designs for the catwalk – the exhibition includes over twenty outfits spanning the first forty years of their fashion output – and their ‘extra-curricular’ creative activities such as Ottavio’s works of collage and patchwork, examples of which are also on view.
Workshop Missoni runs from 1 July to 20 September 2009. All exhibition materials have been created by TheFrameworks.
