The Handmade Marketplace

Brandnew. All you need to know about selling your crafts.
http://www.amazon.de

Attention!

Mara from Rose di Pietra is looking for artists and designers, who want to work in Italy for a week or two in the winter months January and February 2010.
Rose di Pietra offers accomodation and a studio where you can create your handcraft and sell it. A part of the production will be exposed in the various appartments where guests have the possibility to take a look at the creations and buy them.
In the past they have already worked with other artists, for example Arianna Carossa and Tamara Repetto, who left their works to decorate the apartments.
Rose di Pietra is a new kind of agriturismo. Part art gallery and atelier, part farm and family home, it sits on a sunny hilltop overlooking the broad blue Mediterranean, amid a flourishing rose plantation. The original works of major avant-garde artists grace its rooms, and appear throughout the grounds, growing up spontaneously from the soil like strange new plants among the roses and the age-old olive trees.
If you are interested in this offer and collaboration, please contact Mara (benvenuti/at/rosedipietra.com) or myself (Sophie contact/at/jodii.de).

Designers’ Open

The international design festival Designers’ Open will take place in Leipzig the 5th time this year. More than 150 exhibitors will show their work from October 23-25 in the fields of interior, fashion, communication and industry design. Come and visit!
www.designersopen.de

I´m on Facebook now!

Feel free and contact me (Sophie Pester, Germany) via Facebook! I´m looking forward to hear from you!

HULGER

HULGER's chunkiest handset designed for talking and walking - for mobile / cell / Mac / PC.
www.hulger.com

MADE-BY

MADE-BY is an independent consumer label for fashion companies who continuously improve and are transparent about the social, economic and ecological conditions throughout the whole supply chain of their collections. The mission of MADE-BY is to make sustainable fashion common practice.

“Wouldn’t it be great if you could buy your favourite brand made in a sustainable manner?”

www.made-by.org

Material ConneXion®

The materials library Material ConneXion® that was built by George Beylerian in New York
in 1997 nowadays counts as a worldwide renowned information resource for new, trendsetting materials and converting processes. The library contains over 3,000 material samples divided into eight categories: polymers, glass, ceramics, carbon-based materials, cement-based materials, metals, natural materials and natural material derivatives. With offices in New York, Bangkok, Cologne, Daegu and Milan.

www.materialconnexion.com

Marke Eigenbau

Revolt of the masses against mass production. A book about the revolution of handcrafting and how everything changes - work, production, consumption, marketing...

On their website, they collect ideas and products...
http://marke-eigenbau.org

Exhibition - Handwerk und Design

The idea behind this exhibition is to bring together outstanding work in the craft trades, fine arts and design under one roof and thus create an exciting overview of the latest trends in these fields.

11 to 17 March 2009
Wednesday till Tuesday
New Munich Trade Fair Centre
Hall A1

New book!

Erfolgreich als Designer II - Designrechte international schützen und managen
Kobuss, Joachim, Bretz, Alexander
Erscheinungstermin: Mai 19, 2009

unfortunately in german...

Dieses Thema wird von Kobuss und Bretz erstmals umfassend und praxisbezogen bearbeitet - mit spannenden Strategien und nachvollziehbaren Vorgehensweisen. Aus der Sicht alltäglicher Rechtsfragen werden unkonventionelle, aber wirkungsvolle Lösungen und Ansätze für die eigene Nutzung, Gestaltung und Formulierung vermittelt. Ein besonderes Gewicht liegt auf den Fragestellungen in internationaler Hinsicht, die durch die Globalisierung auch im Design immer relevanter werden. Die Darbietung gliedert sich in drei Hauptteile: Rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen und Nutzung von Designrechten (NUTZEN); Designrechte (GESTALTEN); Vertragsrecht (FORMULIEREN).