Design for Asia Award
Design for Asia Award has an enormous amount of entrants and is widely known for its eye on new innovative products available throughout Asia. We are proud to have a received a merit award for our Grow range of Kitset Bamboo light shades that are part of the Seed System. Read more about DFA here.
Open Day for New Premises
The new David Trubridge Premises is now open to the public Monday-Friday 10am-4pm and is having a special open day where one Coral or Floral light will be given away on the day by draw. Please come and have a look around if you are in the area.
Move to New Premises
David Trubridge Design has at last moved into its own brand new premises. The building was designed by David to incorporate our workshop, design studio and, most exciting of all, a showroom. We have never had this public space up until now, nor has there been a place where all our lights could be seen in one place, particularly the big showpiece ones. In fact, there can be very few similar venues in the world where you can meet the designer and his team in their studio, see a display of the actual designs themselves, and watch the fabrication happening out the back through a glass window.
National Wood Innovation Showcase
We are involved with the 'Winning With Wood' The National Wood Innovation Showcase 5th September - 22nd October 2011. Special locations are organized for viewing our designs and artworks. These are Essenze in Auckland (www.essenze.co.nz) and Scion Research in Rotorua (www.scionresearch.com). See here for more info
Macef International Home Show - Milan
Our Italian Distributor, BMorone is exhibiting David Trubridge Designs at this years Macef International Home Show. In pride of place will be the Seed System kitset bamboo lightshade range, Wing Light, and Giant Koura.
Collaboration in Experimental Design Research Symposium
David will be traveling to Sydney to be a keynote speaker at the Collaboration in Experimental Design Research Symposium. The symposium will explore notions of collaboration in terms of local, regional and international partnerships in design practices that negotiate craft, visual art and emergent design trajectories. Symposium papers will address a range of aspects of collaboration between designers and makers, designers and artisans, between groups of designers, and artists who explore design in collaboration with design fabricators in terms of technologies and materials.
Why Milan - Objectspace, Auckland
Why Milan? New Zealand designers reflect is a collaborative exhibition project and magazine feature presented by Objectspace and Urbis magazine. The exhibition is an opportunity to see a selection of works that seven leading New Zealand designers have chosen to take to the prestigious Milan design week - arguably the biggest design fair in the world - over the last seven years, to showcase their work to an international audience...to read more click here
Dwell on Design - Los Angeles
In June David Trubridge will show at the Dwell on Design Design Show in Los Angeles presented by his American distributor, WakaNINE. Dwell on Design exhibition features the latest modern design ideas and materials from a range of product categories from designers around the world. David is showing his new Seed System kitset light shades. June 24th - 26th
Wanted Design Show
In May David Trubridge will show at the Wanted Design Show in New York presented by his American distributor, WakaNINE. "Wanted Design NYC is a creative platform bringing together international designers, architects, interior designers, craftsmen, editors, manufacturers, curators and communication specialists to showcase, discuss and share exciting, inspiring and innovative design, and elaborate new projects and new collaborations." On show will be the new Seed System encompassing Grow Range, and the new Giant 2400mm Koura. Also on show will be mini Coral and Floral which are now being made in 400mm diameter.
Hawke's Bay Invitational
Tipu is the Maori word for sprout, grow, increase, develop. Here we are expressing our spreading awareness of, and connection to, Nature. This 2 metre convex light is built with an organic, irregular pattern which reflects Nature's growth. It was designed by David Trubridge and signals an exciting new direction in his design development. The material has been specially developed in conjunction with Scion Laboratory and the Bio Polymer Network in New Zealand using plant based plastic and local flax fibre. It is assembled using only a heat gun to fuse the pieces together.
