Spazio Rossana Orlandi – Designhuis – Talent exhibition. The Designhuis Talent exhibition at the Spazio Rossana Orlandi was initiated and directed by Li Edelkoort, the Designhuis in Eindhoven seeks to become a local yet international platform for design, enabling young designers to emerge and their creative talents to be recognized and encouraged. Young talent invited by Rossana Orlandi, was a selection from the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven (from October 17-25, 2009), shown during Milan’s Furniture Fair gave international audiences a taste of the quality of European design education and the level of inspiration and vision encountered in the youngest emerging generations. Design director, Li Edelkoort is one of the most renowned trend forecasters in the world. In 2003 Time Magazine called her one of the 25 most influential people in the fashion industry and in 2004 she was listed among the most important people in design in Icon Magazine.
Spazio Rossana Orlandi – Designhuis – Talent exhibition. Laurens Manders presented Hide. “Actually Hide, the house, is the setting in which one of my projects is presented. The reason why it is not straight is because the house is sinking. He's sad! Inside I'm playing a blues song and showing the pop-up book I made showing the emotion visual way. Here's what was is 'A view on color' some time ago! While my girlfriend austerely turns the pages of a narrative pop-up book illustrating their demise, this rural romantic sits playing a folk song on an acoustic guitar, drowning his sorrows away following his lover's unfaithful ways. Live and unplugged, folkloric and poetic.” Laurens Manders.
Spazio Rossana Orlandi – Designhuis – Talent exhibition. Marinke Van Zandwijk presented Airbubles - glass in its most natural blown form, on simple, everyday apple crates. - in the Designhuis Talent exhibition at the Spazio Rosanna Orlandi. “A base of apple crates, once widely used in apple transport, now lacking any real function due to industrial progress. Pure bubbles, without deformation, all of them different. The various centers of gravity in the bubble determine their position. The direction in which the opening points. The basis of my work lies in the way in which people relate to each other and to everything around them. It is not about big global issues; it remains very personal. I carry out my work myself, reason why the making process is a rather organic process. A process in which I allow the glass, which often is the subject, to expand into an individual sculpture. The glass has to be in an environment in which it belongs. In this way, it also becomes the environment for my ideas and thoughts.” Marinke Van Zandwijk.