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  • Milan Design Week: Experience Design

    Milan Design Week: Experience Design

    27th May 2009 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this

    Touch is the first sense developed in the womb, and sight the last. But it's primarily our eyes through which we interpret the world. So where were the sensual interfaces at Milan Design Week? We want to explore design through all our senses, not just at half capacity. Music is a mood shifter and scent a mood enhancer but rarely were these senses fully capitalised in any of the exhibitions....

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  • Milan Design Week: Food and drink

    Milan Design Week: Food and drink

    27th May 2009 | 1 comments | 1 person likes this

    It's not so much the design that whets the appetite in Milan, but the food. You do literally eat your way through the week, with a little bit of design thrown in on the side. To eat for pure pleasure is a true joy. Everyday can be a deadening force and food offers sanctuary, gives pleasure and can ease the pain of day-to-day living. Food is physically and emotionally nourishing...

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  • Milan Design Week 2009: Overview

    Milan Design Week 2009: Overview

    26th May 2009 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this

    Even before the recession hit, luxury was being redefined. It was not to be found in a designer chair, but lived as experiences that deepen one's understanding and appreciation of life. So where were these meaningful experiences at Milan Design Week? Sadly there weren't many. It was all about the product, and very quickly, I and others, reached the stage where a chair is a chair is a chair.

    In the...

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