TAZE TASARIM - Fresh Design - ISTANBUL DESIGN WEEK

TAZE TASARIM - Fresh Design - ISTANBUL DESIGN WEEK

Curated by the Dutch designer Jacob de Baan

The TAZE TASARIM project aims to bring Turkish designers together with the international creative industry and design world. 
The selected Turkey based designers use design in a fresh new way. They do not communicate the ego of the designer but focus on the end user. Their designs are as fresh as crispy “simit” bread (typical bread in a ring shape) that Turkish people buy everyday from the simit street vendor cars. These iconic cars are taken as a metaphor to communicate the fresh Turkish design approach and vision. In the exhibition the cars do not contain fresh simit bread but fresh Turkish design objects! 

Designers: Alev Ebüzziya, Aykut Erol, Ayşe Ören, Beritan Fırat Arık, Bora Çakılkaya, Çiğdem Dayıoğlugil, Demet Bilici, Emel Şahin, Emrah Son, Fulya Damgacı, Gamze Yalçın,  Meriç Kara, Münir Keleşoğlu.

SAFIR lamps will be also on display in the main exhibition area of Istanbul Design Week.

Date: 5-9 November 2014
Jacob de Baan in collaboration with Dream Design Factory

Location: Istanbul Design Week: İspark TRT Önü Açık Otopark Tepebaşı, Pera, Istanbul.

ABOUT JACOB DE BAAN

Jacob de Baan is a Dutch creative professional with more than 25 years of experience in design and art direction, for clients like Van Gogh Museum, Philips and New Duivendrecht. His designs are exhibited around the world and have been purchased by Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. 

Jacob de Baan is coordinator at Royal Academy of Arts The Hague at Industrial Design Department. Jacob de Baan is passionate about light and lighting. Over the years he designed many lighting fixtures, often for clients, but also independently. All lights are developed out of a fascination for the experience of light and sustainability. SAFIR (sapphire) is his latest design and it is highly inspired by Istanbul.