Glad to announce the participation of the Ihui earrings and bookmarks as part of the MoMA Destination: Mexico. Now you can purchase them at the MoMA store and in their online shop. They will be also very soon for sale in MoMA Store Japan.

My assignment in short is to design the whole service system around the technology that the TU Delft is developing in such a way that it creates value for the people that don’t have access to proper sanitation and a sustainable business for the people that need to implement it.

As part of my assignment I spent a month in Delhi, India visiting the slums in this area and collaborating with different NGOs. I was lucky enough to be hosted by the Quicksand Social Innovation team.

There will be more to come… a lot more.

Don´t miss the updates and discussions at www.designthenewbusiness.com

Enjoy!

Design the New Business is a film that documents the relationship between design and business and the way they are interacting and changing each other.

Erik Roscam from Zilver Innovation came up with the idea (shall I say challenge?) of gathering a group of students from the Strategic Product Design master program at TU Delft to do a documentary. The goal was to do a film in short period of time, with a very limited amount of resources and with people (designers) that didn’t have any idea of how to do a film. And we did it.

The project was done together with Erik van Bergen, Esra Gokgoz, Gunjan Singh, Juan David Martin and Marta Ferreira de Sá. An extremely diverse and international group. My personal role in the project was equally diverse, I was the social media manager, webpage administrator and designer, interviewer, editor and director of the movie. Most of these responsibilities were shared with different team members in different moments and degrees.

The movie was fully released in March 2012 and was showcased  in film festivals such as: A design film festival, Film + Design Festival and more.

You can watch the full film with english, spanish and portuguese. For more information about this project please visit designthenewbusiness.com

Enjoy!

My friends Esra Gokgoz and Marta Ferreira de Sá interviewed Theo Jansen for a research article that they recently published about the suspension of disbelief in the creative process. Afterwards Theo asked them to bring “two strong friends” to help carrying parts of his latest strandbeest to the beach. And well, though I am not particularly strong I ended up joining them.

It was a great experience to see how this beasts actually work and an honor to get to know Theo Jansen, an incredibly kind and dedicated human being. I never expected him to be so modest and caring. Work hard and be nice to people, that’s what they say.

That day I also got to know Sandy (Ian Frazier) who was at that moment writing a piece about Theo Jansen for The New Yorker. I remember that we chatted a bit about the illustrations of the magazine, his personal work and the current situation in Mexico. Amazingly enough he decided to mention us on his article.

Great times, beautiful experience.

Find videos of that day and Sandy’s article in The New Yorker below:

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You can download the article here.

Axixa was recently published in 1,000 Product Designs book by Eric Chan from ECCO Design.

The Urbanfarm project was published in The Tote Bag Book by Jitesh Patel in the UK.