HANS BOODT. CREATING CHARACTERS EDITION 3#
DESIGN WEEK EINDHOVEN 2011 SHOPPING
LONDON CASUAL VINTAGE COLLECTION
WITH EXCLUSIVE
BEAT UNION MAGAZINE
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CONTENT ISSUE 3
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SUPER FUTURE HANS BOODT Super immortal contest Hans Boodt and Superfuture.
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DESIGN WEEK EINDHOVEN
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Report from the graduation show Design Academy Eindhoven
CASUAL VINTAGE COLLECTION Hans Boodt presents the Casual Vintage collection
BEAT UNION COLLECTION Hans Boodt presents the Beat Union collection
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SHOPPING LONDON
A little inside into what we take away from windowshopping London
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With great pride we present the third edition of the Hans Boodt Magazine. With great pride we present the third edition of the Hans Boodt Magazine. Over the last year we received hundreds of enthusiastic reactions from our loyal readers, who are obviously quite curious about what’s going on in the lives of our mannequins. A boost that - of course - took our magazine to the next level! Because believe us or not; a LOT is going on. For starters, this edition offers the opportunity to immortalize yourself! Want to know how? Browse to page 4 and find out! Maybe you’ll be forever immortalized in shop windows all over the world. And speaking of that... In this edition we also take you window shopping in London, one of the world’s most fashionable cities, just to share our inspiration with you. We also give a sneak preview on our Casual Vintage Collection, so you can meet our new male mannequin. Believe us if we say he’s slim, pliable and sexy! For the creative readers among us, we made an extensive report from the Graduation Show Design Academy Eindhoven, where 150 young and upcoming designers showed their conceptual artwork and ideas. We were impressed with all the amazing talents. We hope you are too... Oh, and you may have noticed a Part 2 of this third edition? That’s right. We took the opportunity to put Beat Union in the limelight and show you a glimpse into their hectic lives as members of a popular rock band. So you know exactly what’s going on in the lives of our mannequins! Enjoy reading! Hans Boodt
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Super immortal contest Hans Boodt and Superfuture.com. Immortalize yourself! At Hans Boodt mannequins, we’re always looking for fresh poses for our mannequins and the good news is: now is your chance to immortalize yourself! All you have to do is send in an image of your best look and our panel of judges will select one guy and one girl to become an official window mannequin. In other words: your name and pose will be forever immortalized in shop windows all over the world! Definitely a good story to tell... And that’s not all. Your pose will also be used on the popular fashion forum What Are You Wearing Today (WAYWT) on www.superfuture.com, where users post their outfits 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The WAYWT thread chronicles the daily outfits in a variety of poses, brands and general attire. Your pose can be one of them! Here’s what you should do: upload your best picture on superfuture.com > supertalk > WAYWT and get rated by our panel of judges consisting of supertalk users, mods and Hans Boodt execs. The action goes from mid-January and runs to mid-February. So seriously, upload your best picture and get immortalized!! www.superfuture.com www.hansboodt.com
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INVENTIONS FOR A NOMADIC LIFESTYLE “Go out for a ride in your bathtub, catch the birds with your umbrella. Expand your trolley into a scooter or become a walking theather. Han g your coat on your suspenders and listen to sea – radio. Screw on your sunglasses and take a nap on your neck-pac” A collection of extraordinary inventions for a colourful crowd of travelling characters. Peripatetic Paraplernalia is a series of assembled products made of discared objects aimed at seven flamboyant characters. Artist: Maaike Fransen
GRADUATION SHOW DESIGN ACADEMY EINDHOVEN Last October the Dutch city of Eindhoven was host the 10th edition of the Dutch Design Week. During this week visitors can experience design from different perspectives. Four selected areas in Eindhoven hosted different programs, with lectures, expo’s and studio’s where you can indulge yourself with everything related to Dutch design. The real must-see is the graduation show of the Design Academy Eindhoven where a 150 young and upcoming designers showed their conceptual artwork and ideas. Another inspiring part is the grande exhibition in the ‘Klokgebouw’ (one of DDW’s hotspots), with work by both established and new designers and manufacturing companies.
DESIGNERS WATCH OUT
What is a teapot when you no longer knoe what a teapot is? How does a person suffering from dementia experience his or her surroundings? In Jetske Visser’s film Forgotten Memory the viewer is submerged in the world of dementia. From a desire to understand the world of people suffering from the condition, Visser created an image of their hazy, fragile and precarious existence. As a metaphor for the condition she has transformed a series of everyday objects to demonstrate that things are not always what you expect.
“Is design the exclusive domain of designers? ”That’s what Chia – Pin Yang wondered. And so, he asked over 100 fellow Taiwanese urbanites for their on-the–spot design ideas. Yang was surprised to discover that these amateurs could give professional designers a rum for their money. Their unique and insightful ideas included: a picnic table complete with built-in-tree-guaranteeing a spot in the shade, a flowershaped wind turbine to give this form of eco-energy a friendlier look, and a housing complex in the form of a cruise ship. Yang compiled the best ideas in a book, Created in Taiwan, also including his interviewees’ original sketches. Designers watch out!
Artist: Jetske Vissr
Artist: Chia-Pin Yang
A REFLECTION ON DEMENTIA
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COAT RACK WITH A MIND OF HIS OWN Today, more and more products are simple on the outside and complicated on the inside. people cannot understand the products anymore and they lose the control over them. concerning this development, the desire of understanding a product while using it decreases. with this project, I have taken the opposite tack, to ensure that people can see how a product works, so that they can enjoy understanding how technology works. it is my aim to set people thinking, so that they really perceive the world with the help of their eyes and their hands. “respond” is an interactive coat rack, which moves when a coat is hung on it. it is an ingenious weight system, using precision carpentry and the element of surprise. after all, surprise arouses curiosity, and curiosity can lead you to the pleasure of understanding.
Our generation places great demands upon itself- a striving for perfection is widely observable. But is that actually typical of our time? Boudewien van den Berg observed that, whilst the competitive spirit is an intrinsic part of being human, a new situation has resulted from the fact that, due to modern communications, we are now in contact with a greater number of people with whom to compare ourselves. Further, notions of how our lives can be ‘designed’ also raise the bar extra-high.The illusion of perfection is easy to create, but designable does not necessarily mean real. In My Interpretation of a Generation, Boudewien recorded her fellow students’take on their own generation by photo shopping their faces until their proportions were ‘perfect’, thus enabling them to continue to zeitgeist without doing anything! Artist: Jetske Vissr
Artist: Nicole schindelholz
OLD RAGS NEW FRIENDS
NATURAL PIGMENTS ENCHANCE WOOD How can you increase consumer awareness of a produc’s origins? Yannic’s solution is called The Synergy of colour. His bare, elm wood cabinet is designed to be decorated using natural pigments people collect themselves. Think of stinging nettles for a deep green colour or wild heather for purple and mixed with transparent paint. This is fed into a flexible tube connected to a needle embedded in the soft wood of the wardrobe. Slowly, the natural pigment seeps into the wood, returning some of the forest to the tree. Artist: Yannic Alidarso
What to do with that cherished Tshirt you wore on your first date? Send it to Kevin Caboor for a new lease of life as a one-of-a-kind puppet. There are four designs to choose from: Show-it, Share–it, Takeit, and Huge-it. Together they are called Pop-its. Made to give to someone special, each has its own character and qualities. Hug-it has enormously long arms, perfect for hugging and is filled with seeds which stay nice and warm after stint on a radiator. Takeit’s small size on the other hand, is perfect to travel. Caboor crafts each puppet himself, selecting which parts of the material provided best suit each creation. Artist: Kevin Caboo
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CASUAL VINTAGE COLLECTION Hans Boodt presents the Casual vintage collection. A collection which is based on our current Casual collection with an authentic performance. The result is a new mannequin with a smaller fit and a new abstract image with new hot poses.
Slim, pliable and sexy ladies and gentleman in their twenties. This vintage collection is a special edition from the male casual positions. The bust and head are covered with vintage fabric, the arms and legs are standard painted in black matt finish. For more information. Go to www.hansboodt.com
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MALE POSITIONS
FEMALE POSITIONS
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Harvey Nichols
SHOPPING LONDON So here again a little insight into what we take away from window shopping in London during the fashion week. Usually we just count on our brains for remembering all the ideas and take some pictures, but now we always take the most inspiring pictures specially for you. It turned into a fun experiment. So welcome, let’s go shopping and find out our latest trends and developments in fashion.
Harvey Nichols
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Harvey Nichols
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BEAT UNION STYLED.
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BEAT UNION STYLED ‘Say What ?’ Attitude ! Shy, vulnerable or just plain bursting of arrogance and self-assurance? Both can be read from these poses. It’s an attitude that fits the age of 18-23. They have a self-willed/pertness taste in style & trends. Cosmopolitan people that live in New York, London or Tokyo to be part of the heart of music and fashion and to whatever makes that world go round. The new dynamics of these poses radiate a new era of a next generation that creates the world for today and tomorrow. Quite aware of the history of fashion and it’s peaks during the centuries. They can wear outrageous outfits but do definitely fit into a totally classic look with a 3 pieces pinstriped suit, combined with feminine long socks and sling backs for female or sneakers with a matching ‘Mods’ tie or turtleneck for the male. But also eco-wear in basic natural colours fits the profile. Available in 3 version. Styled heads, abstract heads and realistic which will come with a complete new range of matching wigs.
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