Skipping through old sketchbooks, I found this project: back in the days, studying in Vienna; our teacher had the idea to let us (photography and graphicdesign students) play for three days “landscape artists” in a small village in the west of Austria. With all the “Green”DesignHype* right at the moment, I may post it… Mirando proyectos antiguos, me he encontrado con ese pequeño tesoro… Cuando estudiaba en Viena, mis profesores tenían la “gran” idea de que por tres días todos (estudiantes de diseñadores grafico y/o fotografia) nos pongamos el papel de artistas…

And that’s the whole project: Eso era mi proyecto:

Bottle & picnicblanket braided with (uncutted) grass, I just found there growing. Botella & manta trenzado de hierba.

It was autumn, soon thanksgiving… I was alone with Mother Nature. I looked around and there were some apples to eat, a brook with potable water, something with a little bit of work could have covered my feet and my body (In the end I decided to stick to my “pumas” and let the cow alive…)… More or less everything, we eat, wear, use comes out of and goes back to nature. Most of the times, especially living in a city, it’s easy to loose the connection between the end-product and the row material; even now studying product design I often get lost. I wanted to represent that relationship- or call it -life circle of man and nature with that woven picnic scene. It’s a pity that we only stayed there for three days; would have been nice observing the process of decomposition. Muchas veces especialmente viviendo en ciudades grandes, perdemos el contacto con la naturaleza; pero no solamente el contacto fisico; tambien el conocimiento del origen de las cosas de día día… Que pasó con la oveja, que nos regaló el jersey, que llevamos? De que tierra sacarón la arcilla de nuestro taza de té preferida? Querría enseñar de que dependemos mucho más que algunas veces pensamos de la naturaleza y por eso hay que tratarla con respeto y cariño.

*And hey: Don’t get me wrong; Green Design is ok! I just don’t understand the hype. Good design should always think twice, before going into production; even if it’s black, blue or chromed. By the way; anyone knows in which kind of garbage pin I may drop the new corn starch plasticbags?