Life and Death at Furniture Fair

26 January 2009

PRESSRELEASE FROM
HDK - School of Design and Crafts
University of Gothenburg

BEAUTIFUL DEATH

Every thing which is born eventually dies. What, then, would be a beautiful death for a product? Meet nineteen students, sculptured shuttlecocks, lightened milk packages, lamps with intravenous drip and shelves made by tires in the HDK stand at Stockholm Furniture Fair, 4- 8 February. 

Every thing which is born eventually dies. What, then, would be a beautiful death for a product?  Nineteen students from HDK- the School of Design and Crafts at the University of Gothenburg, have worked with the product’s death as an inspiration for new life. Exploring the ways to bring value to the death of a product, expanding its’ lifespan, transforming the materials for new purposes. The ambition is to see how a designer can influence the production in a responsible way.

- Everything in the every day life can be used with humour, says Lin Han, who’s sculptured abundant shuttlecocks.

- For the whole press release with contact info, please download pdf-file at the bottom of this page.

- HDK folder Stockholm Furniture Fair 09, with texts, pictures and contact info - please download pdf at this page.

- Press pictures to download on this page. Photographer: Andreas Dunsäter

- Watch slideshow of the press pictures