RED DOT AWARD: PRODUCT DESIGN 2010 for PLATOON KUNSTHALLE

PLATOON KUNSTHALLE is one of the happy winners of this year's red dot design award!

from the press release:

in the “red dot award: product design 2010” PLATOON KUNSTHALLE was awarded the “red dot” quality label for high design quality by the jury consisting of top-class experts. the festive awards presentation with more than 1,000 guests will take place in the essen opera house, the aalto-theater, on 5 july 2010. in essen, germany, the 2010 European Capital of Culture, the product will then be presented in a four-week special exhibition at the red dot design museum on the premises of the zollverein colliery.

“all products that have won an award in the red dot design award had to convince an international expert jury of their quality. the products stand out from the masses with their excellent design and innovative approaches and proved their quality in one of the toughest design competitions worldwide,” explains design expert professor dr. peter zec, initiator of the red dot design award. this year, designers and companies from 57 nations with a total of 4,252 products took part in the “red dot award: product design”.

together with the other award-winning products, PLATOON KUNSTHALLE will be on display from 6 july to 1 august 2010 in the exhibition “design on stage – winners red dot award: product design 2010” at the red dot design museum on the premises of the ‘zeche zollverein’ world cultural heritage site in essen. after that it will be presented in the red dot design museum’s permanent exhibition for at least one year. with approximately 1,500 products on more than 4,000 square metres, the red dot design museum houses the largest permanent exhibition of contemporary design worldwide.

SHOWCASE REBOOT VOL.10

SEOUL · thu 25 march 2010 7pm.
four new artist will present their works in the showcases.

hez comes from a street art background. his installation "facade" deals with the relation between his past activities as a street artist and his new working environment in an interior design office.
http://hez370.com

johannes p osterhoff is an interface artist, whose works explore users' and companies' communication with popular operating systems. for "7 windows" he dug deeply in windows 7's system folders and presents his findings.
http://blog.defence-project.org
http://johannes-p-osterhoff.com

son min chul is a painter whose works deal with the double-faced nature of religion and wars motivated by religion. the sexual and violent images provoked heated discussions at former exhibtions.

vakki's approaches visual motives of korean pop-culture in a unique way. "making images" is an investigation of confrontational relation between the production and reception of such cultural visual icons.
www.playvakki.com



special sound performance by ivo bol:

ivo bol is an audio artist from the netherlands who works with theatre makers, choreographers, filmmakers and visual artists from all around the world. from computer programming, sound design, live performances up to sound installations ivo's work shows a wide range of audio art. more information: http://www.ivobol.nl

Toilet Queue

Try to open peoples eyes, and make them see that there are places in the world with no sanitation facilities... and what a better place to do that than Berlin in Brandenburg gate, Monday 22.03.2010 14:00
Lets show the world how things are done in this city... and build the longest Toilet Queue in the world !!!

neuer PLATOONIE macht einen Hofknicks

My name is Sophie and I've recently decided to join in the madness that is PLATOON Berlin.
After having spent the last 3 years in Melbourne in the kingdom of OZ, studying professional communication at RMIT, which differs from the amateur kind by definition only (PR, journalism, media studies and Asian culture and media), I've decided that it was time to come back to the fatherland.

I wrote my bachelor thesis on political activism online and have been focusing on online interaction anywhere from interactive videos to alternate reality games, as my main field of interest. (translates into: how to get people to care and participate)

As the course came to an end and reality knocked at my door, I was jubilant for having been given the opportunity to start with PLATOON. So, here I am now, working at Berlin headquarters as a project developer (I believe that's what the FORCES network calls it).

So long!

impressed

yesterday in tv-news, I looked all the bad political informations and than -I saw this: a short moment by opening the paralympics in vancouver.

it burns into my memory.

lightwriting exposed

Exposure is an exhibition of Lightwriting as well as live demonstrations.
See the art of temporary graffiti using only camera functionality.

So come along and get inspired!

artists: Miam and Tofa
music: weremonster, kurtz & budd, sqim, rainer rettschlag, mr roro and shit asteroid

friday 12.03.2010 / Gerichtstr. 65 / Berlin

We Make Stuff Good Gallery / Stattbad Wedding

start 7 pm til late. Live performance at 10.

KOREAN MUSIC AWARDS press conference at PLATOON KUNSTHALLE

SEOUL · today the press conference for the korean music awards 2010 was held at PLATOON KUNSTHALLE with members of the jury introducing the nominees and explaining criterias.


head of the jury chang nam kim stated that nominations and winners for the korean music award are judged and based on musical accomplishment and value, not album sales or popularity.


the awarding ceremony will take place on tuesday, 30 march 7pm at PLATOON KUNSTHALLE. for more infos:
http://www.kmusicawards.com/

p.s. the site is only in korean, article in english:
http://seoulbeats.com/2010/02/korean-music-awards-saving-music/

REVIEW:NIGHT FLEAMARKET VOL.7

last saturday, our 7th night fleamarket took place at PLATOON KUNSTHALLE. from 7:30 pm people were standing in long line outside already. as soon as we opened the door, people surged into the building!








it was a quite hard to walk around among the sellers and the crowd, but people didn't stop to shop and finally discovered stuff they were into.














this time it was nice to find some more handmade stuff like prints, t-shirts, hair band etc. and even travel photos by a photographer!
















these two girls in pink uniform were a true eye catcher.














we appreciate handmade goods like these and hope there will be more at our next fleamarket.































spring is back, so we started our tasty bbq again!















this time live performance was contributed by "atom returns" aka tae yeon the editor with bling.