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ISTANBUL DESIGN WEEK 2007

By Ray Hu - September 24, 2007

Istanbul Design Week 2007: Off-Site Turkish hospitality upon arrival!
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Off-Site Swap-O-Rama-Rama is a clothing swap and series of do-it-yourself workshops in which a community explores creative reuse through the recycling of used clothing. Final steps of a catwalk climax followed up by a great party at 'The Hall' in Beyoglu.
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Off-Site Swap-O-Rama-Rama is a clothing swap and series of do-it-yourself workshops in which a community explores creative reuse through the recycling of used clothing. This is where models make their own fashion!
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Off-Site Swap-O-Rama-Rama is a clothing swap and series of do-it-yourself workshops in which a community explores creative reuse through the recycling of used clothing. A top-selection of all transformed clothes are catwalked after midnight.
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Off-Site Swap-O-Rama-Rama is a clothing swap and series of do-it-yourself workshops in which a community explores creative reuse through the recycling of used clothing. At 'The Hall' in Beyoglu, a dozen sewing machines and assorted clothing are re-worked by local fashion designers into fresh designs.
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Off-Site Swap-O-Rama-Rama is a clothing swap and series of do-it-yourself workshops in which a community explores creative reuse through the recycling of used clothing. The event is curated by fashion designer / activist Otto von Busch as part of an investigation in how fashion can be hacked, recircuited and transmutated.
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Off-Site Swap-O-Rama-Rama is a clothing swap and series of do-it-yourself workshops in which a community explores creative reuse through the recycling of used clothing. Bring a bag of your old clothes that are hiding in the back of your wardrobe and reconstruct them into something new!
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Exhibitions Weekend highlights from this year's Istanbul Design Week 2007! During a 144 hours design marathon, one of young designers presents his taxi concept at the "Istanbul Taxi 2010" project.
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Exhibitions Weekend highlights from this year's Istanbul Design Week 2007! Sevcan is a fresh graduate from Ankara's METU university in with a modular lighting concept with a bamboo designlanguage.
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Exhibitions Weekend highlights from this year's Istanbul Design Week 2007! The "Hamam" collection by Aziz Sariyer presents a new outlook for the tradition of the Turkish bath.
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Conference The "Good 50 x 70" team tells their background story about using design to create public awareness for less favored headlines. 200 thought provoking posters are exhibited at the Istanbul Design Week.
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Conference Konstantin adds some German design perspective at this year's conference talks.
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Conference Industrial designer Bilgi Karan, one of Sony Ericsson's creatives, returns home to share his experiences at this year's conference.
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Conference Weekend highlights from this year's Istanbul Design Week 2007! IKEA's designer Anna Efverlund says cheers after a lecture on how products can create more fun at home.
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Exhibitions "Narguile" has been designed by Nedda El-Asmar for the French house of Airdiem, a luxury and minimalist alternative for the traditional hookah water pipe.
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Exhibitions Weekend highlights from this year's Istanbul Design Week 2007!
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Exhibitions Weekend highlights from this year's Istanbul Design Week 2007!
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Exhibitions Weekend highlights from this year's Istanbul Design Week 2007!
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Exhibitions "Istanbul meets Berlin" as demonstrated by The Best of Designmai 2007, an exhibition featuring selected exhibits from this year's design festival in Berlin's.
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Exhibitions The "Good 50 x 70" exhibition attends this year's Istanbul Design Week to raise the public awareness and importance of social communication.
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Exhibitions Weekend highlights from this year's Istanbul Design Week 2007! The Ece Yalim Design Studio presents a brand new Lounge Seating.
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Exhibitions Weekend highlights from this year's Istanbul Design Week 2007! The Old Galata bridge enjoys six days of design traffic from all over the world.
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Exhibitions Weekend highlights from this year's Istanbul Design Week 2007! IKEA goes Turkey with a superstore in Istanbul. The price tags on each exhibit make clear that design is business!
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Exhibitions Fashion highlights from this year's Istanbul Design Week 2007!
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Exhibitions Fashion highlights from this year's Istanbul Design Week 2007!
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Exhibitions Weekend highlights from this year's Istanbul Design Week 2007! Braun goes back in time and gives a compact flashback at its 50 years of design innovation.
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Exhibitions Weekend highlights from this year's Istanbul Design Week 2007! "turn" an unusual bookshelf by Ertunc Vatanperver, presented at the "pure beginning" exhibit.
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Exhibitions Weekend highlights from this year's Istanbul Design Week 2007! Ertunc Vatanperver presents a series of coffee cups at the "pure beginning" exhibit. This design plays with the Turkish tradition of coffee cup reading, accordingly people's favorite.
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Exhibitions Weekend highlights from this year's Istanbul Design Week 2007! The Electrolux Design Lab presents last year's winners including "Nevale", a new concept for a multistoried food carrier by Metin Kaplan.
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Exhibitions Weekend highlights from this year's Istanbul Design Week 2007!
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Exhibitions Weekend highlights from this year's Istanbul Design Week 2007!
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Exhibitions Weekend highlights from this year's Istanbul Design Week 2007!
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Exhibitions Weekend highlights from this year's Istanbul Design Week 2007! Aykut Erol enjoying his sofa out of metal pins with a truly surprising comfort/acupuncture.
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Exhibitions Weekend highlights from this year's Istanbul Design Week 2007! Aykut Erol's magic carpet can be transformed into a comfortable sofa with multiple seats.
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Exhibitions Weekend highlights from this year's Istanbul Design Week 2007!
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Exhibitions Cut, stick, fold, crush - the design week is about seeing and doing! EFES, Turkey's national beer, is hosting a workshop on designing beer cans into crafted sculptures and objects.
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Exhibitions Weekend highlights from this year's Istanbul Design Week 2007!
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Designers Weekend highlights from this year's Istanbul Design Week 2007!
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Designers Architect Serhan Guerkan explored historical forms and mathematical rules used in architecture. With an eye for detail he transforms architectural principles into everyday products such as these furniture pieces.
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Designers The industrial designers at Omlet Istanbul present an inspiring series of 'bird driven design'.
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Designers The industrial designers at Omlet Istanbul present an inspiring series of 'bird driven design'.
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Designers Weekend highlights from this year's Istanbul Design Week 2007!
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Designers Weekend highlights from this year's Istanbul Design Week 2007, with probably the biggest plastic fish ever!
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Designers Weekend highlights from this year's Istanbul Design Week 2007! Yeonju Yang worked with Cladio Ripol on laser cutted product concepts.
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Designers Weekend highlights from this year's Istanbul Design Week 2007! Yeonju Yang worked with Cladio Ripol on these "Spiral Series", a laser cutted concept for reversible grips.
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Designers Weekend highlights from this year's Istanbul Design Week 2007! Foldable seat made out of fabric.
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Designers With almost 9 years young, Can Demirel is the youngest designer we meet. Can wants to become a car designer and presents his first LEGO-based concept cars at the design week.
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Designers Weekend highlights from this year's Istanbul Design Week 2007! A very first exhibition by Deck Istanbul with "urban", a modular storage system that doesn't have to be straight but can be built up in many ways.
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Designers The designers from the 389g design collective enjoy transforming raw materials, unfinished products or even junk into furniture, lighting and other products. Unlike a lot of recycling works, their products are finished so well, they have the looks of a brand new object.
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Designers The designers from the 389g design collective enjoy transforming raw materials, unfinished products or even junk into furniture, lighting and other products. Here, an unusual approach to coffee with Yonca Akcay's Galata Cups.
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Designers Visitors clearly enjoyed the 'XXX exhibition' edited by Erdem Akan, featuring some 30 projects by Turkish designers inspired by "sex" as universal theme. The exhibition reaches out to a world where social taboo is high and design consciousness is low.
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Futuro Textiles The French Futurotextiles exhibition was one of the visitor's favorites and added a lot of square meters of inspiration at this year's Istanbul Design Week.
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: Futuro Textiles Weekend highlights from this year's Istanbul Design Week 2007!
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Istanbul Design Week 2007: 5 Senses of Istanbul '5 Senses of Istanbul' is an experimental design project directed by Aziz Sariyer and the staff of ITU Dept. of Industrial Product Design. Visit the project website to see the results of a five month project by 22 design students.
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This year's bigger than ever Istanbul Design Week transforms the historical Galata bridge into a six-day design panorama featuring local design works with lectures, workshops and exhibitions from all over the world (4-10 September 2007).