today and tomorrow

I’ll take one in grey.
Ondine, a sofa by Alain Berteau.

Light & seating element by Brusatto.

This is probably not really that interesting if you don’t speak Dutch or Flemish to be more precise. Ja! is a campaign for the Belgian socialist party sp.a for the upcoming elections in June. It’s all about being positive, ja means yes. So here is a TVC that aired on national TV tonight.

It’s hilarious! There are more spots on youtube. Group94 did an accompanying website www.ja-ik-doe-mee.be, where you can leave your own positive message. The agency behind it all is Mortierbrigade.

On a side note, I’ll do something illegal … I won’t vote in June, indeed voting is obligatory in Belgium. I just can’t … I registered to vote at the Belgian embassy in Berlin back in January when there wasn’t a date defined. I won’t be in Berlin on June 9th, I’ll be in Belgium on holiday. Catch me if you can, Belgium!

This is THE fashion accessory for this summer! It will be all over Paris and Milan.
Ok, not. It’s only a stuffed tattooed pig by the Belgian artist Wim Delvoye. He did tattoo some alive pigs some years ago in China where the animal rights aren’t that strict as in Europe.
found at The Clones

In my opinion this chair called Folder is a true classic in Belgian design. Designed by Stefan Schöning for Polyline.

Gaston Lagaffe turns 50 today! I actually know him as Guust Flater, one of Belgiums most famous cartoon characters. He was my idol when I was young. Guust is a true product designer, he invented hundreds of cool machines during his days at work, maybe that’s why I studied product design afterall.
He is notorious for parking where it wasn’t allowed. He tried every trick to convince the policeman that he was right to park there, the policemans catchline was “Is this a forbidden to park sign or is it a lollipop?”. One time he modified the sign into a big lollipop …
To celebrate his birthday, the city of Brussels decided that everybody can park for free today. What a nice gesture.

Last year I saw pictures of the streetart by Mark Jenkins called Meterpops. I’m not sure if he was inspired by Guust, I bet they have the same style of humour.

Ok, this is going to be the last post with Belgian design for today, we don’t want to exaggerate …
So here’s some work by Sylvain Willenz, an other young shooting star.

STUFF is just a rubber bag, yeah, sometimes it’s just that simple.

InnerTube, the shape of this lamp is defined by the circle glass tube, the black rubber is just streched around it.

Brackets Included, sold at Vlaemsch().

Yet another Belgian design, this Armchair by Marina Bautier.

Finally some excellent design from Belgium! These 2 lamps, Drop and Stella, by Nathalie Dewez just rock.