Sofia Design Week 2012: Design and Happiness*Design articles on interior design trends, latest design events, new furniture, design marketing

Sofia Design Week 2012: Design and Happiness*

"Can happiness be manipulated?" was my natural question after the lecture of Stefan Sagmeister, one of the most interesting guest speakers at the Sofia Design Week 2012 Professional Forum. "Yes!" Sagmeister answered, "Happiness can be trained like we do with fitness training."

The forum - Stefan Sagmeister and his scale of happiness photo Michail Novakov

Austrian by birth, based in New York, the designer has had his own agency, Sagmeister Inc., since 1993. Last month, all of this changed when Sagmeister Inc. relaunched as Sagmeister & Walsh with an eye-catching announcement (warning, NSFW) to prove that "we'd do anything for design." Using his own body to make a design statement is not new for Sagmeister—he also employed this tactic with his famous AIGA poster from 1999 advertising a speaking engagement at Cranbrook by carving the details onto his torso.

*Това е началото на публикацията ми в CORE77 за лекцията на 'рок-звездата' сред графиците, Stefan Sagmeister, както го наричат в TED, на професионалния форум на Sofia Design Week 2012

My home is my fortress, my office, my gym ...*

Undoubtedly, 2020 will go down in history as the year in which (almost) we all moved our workplace home. The world we live in, and with it the world of design, is changing at a dizzying rate. And all together we are trying to catch up with the changes, each one in his own way. We learn to live mostly online, while rediscovering some abandoned ways of communicating, such as walking and long phone conversations or communicating in a very small circle. In recent months, we had also to get used to an unexpected development of one of the major global trends - from living in a globalized to living in a local, microworld. With periods of forced closure, our home has become a refuge from the uncertain world outside and a stage for all activities in everyday life. It is no longer a place to cross, but a "base camp". We have learned to appreciate again the importance of the home environment, the yard, the balcony and the garden. And we quickly had to think about what we like in our ho...

My Interview for Interior Deluxe

INTERVIEW TEMENOUZHKA ZAHARIEVA By Ingo Schaer Interior Deluxe talked to Temenouzhka Zaharieva, an Interior Designer from Sofia, about Living Room Lighting and How to create a good mood in your living space by using great lighting. Interior-Deluxe: What’s important to keep in mind when lighting a living room ? TZ: Lighting is one of the most exciting elements of interior design, and yet one that can still be neglected. Especially by clients, mostly because they are not aware of the many possibilities that lighting can bring to the overall impact of a room – both, during the day when not switched on, but it can be a great accent piece with its design, and in the darkness of the night when we can create different moods just with the help of lighting. The old days of the single pendant light in the middle of the room are becoming a distant memory, a g ood living room lighting today means a good mix of lighti...

Впечатленията на К. Грчич от Sofia Design Week

Това е интервюто,което г-н Грчич беше така любезен да ми даде по време на Sofia Design Week миналия юни, публикувано в августовския брой на сп. "Наш дом". Мисля, че би било интересно да се види каква е оценката му, какво предлага на организаторите за в бъдеще и какви са съветите му за младите дизайнери в България: And this is my inteview with K. Grcic included in the latest issue of magazine Nash dom and its first new format - INTERIORS QUATERLY, which starts with a short history. 2011 is presented with my interview: Share

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