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Interview: Johanna Agerman-Ross at Dezeen Studio

Zena Moore — Mon, 21 May 2012 17:40:25 +0000

Milan 2012: when Johanna Agerman-Ross from Disegno magazine came into Dezeen Studio in Milan, she spoke to us about the future of print magazines and current design trends.

Disegno launched its second issue in Milan and Johanna shared her ambitions for the magazine and her thoughts on why print is still relevant.

She also discusses trends amongst young designers, who are finding alternative ways to market themselves with entrepreneurial thinking and a return to local craft, giving Hacked Lab at La Rinascente from this year and Milan Uncut from last year as examples.

We published an abridged version of this interview in our Tuesday TV show (below).

Dezeen was filming and editing all week from Dezeen Studio powered by Jambox at MOST. See all the TV shows here.

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Interview: Paola Antonelli at Dezeen Studio

Zena Moore — Fri, 11 May 2012 16:05:58 +0000

Milan 2012: when MoMA curator Paola Antonelli visited Dezeen Studio she spoke to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about shows in Milan that addressed the making process, rather than the finished products normally shown at the fair. In this movie she discusses the new focus on experimentation and performance in design as technology becomes more accessible and a new wave of creativity takes hold.

Projects discussed include Hacked Lab at La Rinascente where designers cooked up plastic in saucepans, R18 Ultra Chair Public Beta by Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram for Audi that uses technology from the car industry to test a design in public, Dirk Vander Kooij's robot that prints chairs made of recycled fridges and the open-source Arduino chip for developing electronic products.

We published an abridged version of this interview in our Wednesday TV show (below).

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Interview: Michelle Ogundehin at Dezeen Studio part 2

Rose Etherington — Wed, 09 May 2012 16:44:21 +0000

Milan 2012: in part 2 of our interview with Elle Decoration UK editor Michelle Ogundehin she talks to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about the Equal Rights for Design campaign she's spearheading to demand changes in UK copyright law that will put design on a level with literature and art.

In part 1 of this interview, Ogundehin discusses the calming influence that Japanese designers and manufacturers can have on the industry and how quality design is becoming more accessible to high street brands:

We published an abridged version of this interview in our Friday TV show:

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Interview: Michelle Ogundehin at Dezeen Studio part 1

Amy Frearson — Tue, 08 May 2012 16:59:48 +0000

Milan 2012: Elle Decoration UK editor Michelle Ogundehin tipped collaborations with Japanese designers and manufacturers as the most exciting development in Milan this year when she paid a visit to Dezeen Studio. In this first instalment of our interview with her, she discusses the calming effect this has had on the design industry and how quality design has become more accessible to high street brands.

One of the collaborations Ogundehin mentions is between Japanese furniture brand Karimoku New Standard and a selection of designers - see those projects here.

In part 2 of this interview Ogundehin talks about her Equal Rights for Design campaign to give design the same protections as art, literature and music under UK copyright laws:

We published an abridged version of this interview in our Friday TV show (below).

Dezeen was filming and editing all week from Dezeen Studio powered by Jambox at MOST. See all the TV shows here.

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Interview: Justin McGuirk at Dezeen Studio

Amy Frearson — Thu, 03 May 2012 14:41:17 +0000

Milan 2012: in this interview filmed at Dezeen Studio, Guardian critic Justin McGuirk gives us his take on the future of design criticism, as fast reactions on platforms like Twitter and Facebook are balanced by long-form analysis in e-books and online journals.

He goes on to discuss how the fetishisation of traditional crafts by mass-producers is pushing design in a new direction and agrees with previous guest journalist Joseph Grima that the arrival of hacking culture and open-source production is the big story in Milan this year, describing it as the antithesis to the luxury design industry that the city normally centres around.

We published an abridged version of this interview in our Thursday TV show (below).

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