Since the start of Judith as head of the product design department in ArtEZ the start of 2013 has been very focussed on the vision and forward action around design education. Later this year BoomWehmeyer will return to Jingdezhen in China to continue their work there. 

There is a lot of on the plate for 2013 but we are very glad to have several projects around education and design thinking activate in new era”s of design and society. 

Look forward meeting you in coming period in Arnhem or either China.
Please stay in touch !

Best wishes, BoomWehmeyer

We cannot stand at the sideline and hope that the governments and corporations will change the situation. They do not choose to rethink and reform the economical system in order to provide sustainable living system for us and our planet. Students from the IED (Milan, Italy) and ArtEZ (Arnhem, The Netherlands) will work in an exchange project that will bring the Dutch students to Italy and present their first results during the Salone del Mobile 2013

Together with Arend Roelink from IED a program working towards 2015 Expo in Milan.This has led to the creation of Food For Life, a workshop originating from the collaboration between the Netherlands Embassy and General Consulate, IED Milano and the Dutch Academy of Art ArtEZ, dedicated to the research and development of new design concepts on environmental themes,  with the aim of understanding what the role of design in contemporary society could be, of stimulating the development of social design and preparing future generations of designers to think and design in a different way.

For 4 days groups of students will work together on  specific topics connected to the themes of water and food. The results will be displayed inside the OCA space – Officine Creative Ansaldo during the Fuorisalone. The display will be part of Extrasmall, a design exhibition and workshop on the theme of self subsistence.
Workshop 5 – 8 April IED/ArtEZ ///// Presentation 10th April Ex Ansaldo ///// Via Tortona Milan during the Salone del Mobile 2013.

Out in December 2012, Business of Design Week Hong Kong (3-8 Dec) and Guangzhou Design Week (7-9 Dec).

Column: Richard Hutten
Articles: Why & how does NL gov. stimulate creative industry int.?
Photo reportage: Ilco Kemmere
Graphic design: Haller Brun

And much more!

From BoomWehmeyer, Judith will be participating on the saturday debate and including a short lecture on Crafting Consciousness and the work Remark that was made by glaze investigation in Jingdezhen, China.

Other participants of the manifestation are Boerenjongens, Marcel den Hollander, Deanna Herst Crosslad, Clara Vankerschaver, Rene Shiro, Jacob de Baan, Jar Geerling, Luuk Wiehink and many others.

Please come by at THINK LLINQ

Hotel New York, Balszaal

Koninginnehoofd 1, Rotterdam

Saterday 9 & Sunday February 10: 10.00 – 17.00 hrs

On show are 50 ReMark cups and 4 exclusive vazen from the Glaze Waste process. Sales directly at the gallery.

This november you can view our work at the presentation of gallery Karena Schuessler at the Cologne Fine Arts fair. The gallery will present the work of artists such as Bas van Raay, Robert Hoffman and Oscar Zieta. Schuessler gallery will show a big group of our new collection Vitrified Variables that was made exclusive for Schuessler gallery. The collection exists out of unique colored porcelain stools made by processes of folding the porcelain clay.

The Cologne Fine Art and Antiques fair is a bridge that links the past with the here and now. With its range of ancient art, modern art and applied art and design, the traditional trade fair is unique to Germany: a crossover of styles and eras, with works of the highest quality.

You can visit the show from 21 to 25 november, we will also be present on few of the days.

Look forward seeing you there! Greetings, BoomWehmeyer

Cologne Fine Art &Antiques 21-25november 2012

Karena Schuessler Gallery   Hall 11.2  Stand E-039

Design(ing) is an act, we scrub, filter, deeper, cut up and reconnect new perspectives together and not only it material but also in the stories we send into the world. It goes beyond material. Design becomes an behavior that doesn’t always end up in a material form but in the activation of a new way of living and working together, design is about taking action and encounter new relations. As designer we are obliged to take action, to act out of, to act for or act on behalf of. We represent the bridges, the toolbox, the laboratory and dream kit in todays living, its environment and ways of living. Designers can active and build new dimensions and different consciousness that inspire new ideas and solutions on how we live our lives.

This series will be about being in contact with the world around you and learn to design processes to craft your consciousness into products and scenarios. Consciousness is about being aware. Aware about situations and relations, with yourself, your inside and outside, your social scene, your street, community, on-line and of-line work and the culture around you. Being a designer is about being in relation with the world around you and really being conneted and inspired by what is happening in the world. A designer change materials and textures but also change perceptions and create new experiences. Designers can invent and bring ideas into hands-on relations with the world around them. This semester will is be to learn to connect and learn from the world and tranform your own design vision and consciousness.

We look forward to unwrap the coming months and see what kind of personal thinking, research, designing will be shared by design.

The porcelain exhibition pieces weave uniquely varied layers of BoomWehmeyer’s art practice into a family of functional variables juxtaposed with its delicate porcelain foldings. Judith created the first collection of seating objects named ‚Qing Zuo’ in 2007 and ‚Porcelain Topographies‘ in 2010. This series comprised stools and benches with ‚upholsteries‘ made of all-white porcelain that resembled cushions or draped blankets. She crafted these elements using an old method of pressing malleable clay slabs into moulds and filling the internal space with a structure of small cells. After applying the glaze and firing in large kilns, these seats are robust enough to sit on them.

BoomWehmeyer developed concepts of folding the material and showing the techniques that allow the porcelain to vitrify a new strength. From the ‚Square Fold‘ via the ‚Center Fold‘ to the intricate multiple folding of the ‚Big Fold‘ that was created from a five meter long slab, she created a family of variables. Before the fold, the porcelain is almost without dimension but by folding bridges new connections are created giving strength to the material. The fold allows a combination of accidental and natural processes coming together by the artists hand.
The work is exclusive made for the Gallery Schuessler. It’s been a collaboration of hard work between ourselves, our hands-on work in China & Netherlands, Karena Schuessler gallery and a great team of people and organizations who participated to realize this collection. Come and experience this amazing journey of working with the expanding possibilities in usage of this porcelain material.
Gallery Schuessler, Uhlandstraße 45,  Berlin, Germany

Seeking a chinese business / design intern starting october 2012 for one year! We are currently looking for an design/project intern who will be assigned specifically to our „Cradle education project“ and who connects to our way of working and thinking. The project Made.Create.Cradle is a one year design program starting october 2012, for young Chinese designer-makers who are building up their practices around co-design, collaboration and design consciousness in China.

The internship core activities are: working on the project program, design of workshops, interview chinese creatives, writing chinese texts (website/press), networking, establishing project contacts, traveling with us during the workshops in China and being a team player in the project. The internship will be quite mobile, based from our Arnhem or Amsterdam workplace with occasional travels to China. We do not work with a 9 – 5 mentality but take the extra step to make projects successful!

We are looking for a curious, pro-active, cross cultural and social intelligent intern, preferably a Chinese doing his/her design or business studies in the Netherlands. You are a talented entrepreneurial thinker with an eye for local awareness, people and societal needs. You are able to work independent, you speak and write fluently english/mandarin and have an natural affinity working in an multidisciplinary environment! It will be an experience where you will be part of the project from set up, production to realization working with young chinese/dutch creatives who are part of this program.

The internship will preferably run from october 2012 to october 2013 for 1 day a week including a variety of short periods in China on the project workshops. The internship is not paid but you will be involved fully into the program, you ́re included on chinese work trips and able to bring this project to a step up for your own design work. When you are the right candidate for the project we are flexible to discuss work planning according to your study obligations.

For us it’s very important that you are dedicated to the topics we work with, that you have a deep interest working and connecting dutch and chinese cultures and using this internship for your own personal character building and growth!

Are you interested, here you can read the full application

Please email your motivation letter, CV and/or portfolio to info@boomwehmeyer.com