Bart Hess

Liquify performance @ Exit Festival

admin — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:52:15 +0000

During the Exit festival in Paris , Hess is presenting a performance inspired by the Photoshop filter that allows you to “liquify” images. Liquified is a post-digital still life in which everything is liquid and transforming.

Vote for Bart Hess

admin — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:16:58 +0000

Bart Hess is nominated for de Rotterdam Design Prise. The Rotterdam Design Prize believes its duty is to stimulate thought and debate on design’s role in the cultural and social field. Since its founding in 1993, this biennial prize has served as a barometer of what is currently considered important. The nomination committees and jurors set the parameters, and the design field and the public respond. The Rotterdam Design Prize is the award that brings views and opinions on design into focus

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More slime-art

admin — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:36:47 +0000

Lady Gaga has unveiled the official cover art for her upcoming releases Born This Way – The Remix and The Collection, both in stores on Monday, November 21st.

SHOWstudio: Extraordinary Gentlemen – Nick Knight / LucyandBart

admin — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 19:53:01 +0000

A collaboration with stylist Alister Mackie and artist duo LucyandBart, Nick Knight’s latest fashion film captures a series of hand-crafted handicraft homages to the extreme volumes and textures that characterise the best of twenty-first century menswear as featured in AnOther Man magazine. Witness a phantasmagorical fusion of craft, fashion and installation art in this utterly one-off film.

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ModeBelofte 2011 video by Bart Hess

admin — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 17:10:59 +0000

published in: Fashion, V.O.W By David John, 27 October 2011 for yatzer.com

For the fifth year in a row, Modebelofte 2011 is showcasing the future of fashion’s talents. When Yatzer first received Bart Hess‘ latest video for Modebelofte 2011, we were speechless and in total awe of the slow fluidity and biomorphic approach to presenting this year’s most promising Dutch fashion graduates. In this video, Hess has created soft-focused, blurred human forms that serve to illuminate and unify the designs of these up and coming fashion designers. The futuristic and yet tranquil movements combined with the cutting-edge fashion design is nothing short of completely captivating.

The Designers included for Modebelofte 2011:
Laura de Wit // Yona van Mansfeld // Amos Tranque // Esther Boskaljon // Natalie de Koning // Anne Kathrin Bannier // Nicolaas Hein // Latte Mostert // Mattia Akkermans // Nanda van den Hoek // ZhengZheng Li // Linda de Jong

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The MINI Young Designer Award went to Bart Hess.

admin — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:58:53 +0000

Bart Hess is the winner of the Dutch Design Award (DDA) 2011, presented on Saturday, October 22 by Jan-Christian Koenders,Managing Director BMW Group Netherlands, during the Award Show in Muziekgebouw Eindhoven.
The artist shows a very personal and recognisable signature. With his designs, he applies new and existing materials to create innovative designs and seems to tap into new worlds. A perfect presentation in which the tactility of the materials that are used, is transferred in an extraordinary way. His work is sensational, almost dramatic through the use of modern techniques and materials. He creates his own stage and international collaborations with high-profile names such as Lady Gaga, Palais de Tokyo, Iris van Herpen and Nick Knight.

DEFINE/DIVINE/FILM/DESIGN!

admin — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 18:54:05 +0000

DEFINE/DIVINE/FILM/DESIGN! An exhibition at Designhuis Eindhoven exploring the Dutch blend of disciplines in film + design

Technology and emotion blend in a mix of free expression and the digital age. CICADA Studio presents top Dutch artists exploring the blend of film and design, working towards new visual standards. The featured artists are Lernert & Sander, Bart Hess, Levi van Veluw, Bas Kosters and Champagne Valentine. All pioneers in their own right, these artists have risen to international acclaim with a clear signature style. DEFINE/DIVINE/FILM/DESIGN! presents the larger than life and the preciously small, overwhelming perfection and gritty experimentation: film as design with a bang…

Nominated for the Dutch Designer Award

admin — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:21:25 +0000

EINDHOVEN, July 7, 2011 ‒ Today is the announcement of the 45 finalists in the Dutch Design Awards 2011 (DDA). These designers can win the ‘Golden Eye’ title as well as a cash prize of 20,000. In addition to the finalists in the main categories of Communication, Spatial, and Product, the three finalists for the Young Designer Award (YDA) were announced. The YDA wnner receives a prize worth 10,000 ( 7,500 professional coaching & 2,500 prize money). The winners are appointed by an international jury and announced during the festive Award Show on October 22, along with the winners of the prizes in the Special Categories i.e. Best Client Award and BNO ‒ Piet Zwart Award ‒ Life Time Achievement Award of the DDA. Following the Award show, the designs of all finalists and winners will be exhibited in Glass House on the Stadhuisplein in Eindhoven during the Dutch Design Week.

Why?
Bart has a very individual and recognisable signature. With his designs, he uses new and existing materials to create innovative things and seems to tap into new worlds. His work is of international stature; he ‘finds’ and creates his own platform and enters into international collaborations with prestigious names such as Lady Gaga, Palais de Tokyo, Iris van Herpen and Lucy McRae. His work has acquired an independent position in the (fashion) world.