Bless cancelled its participation because of inacceptable working conditions.
The shop was planned to be located in a specially constructed
glasscube ( 2,5 x 2,5 m ).
Only 5 days before the opening, the curators informed Bless
that they decided not to build the cube because of financial
problems. The alternatively offered spaces were entirely
unconvenient for the developed shop concept. It was planned
to cover the windows completely with products, so, while visiting the cube, the visitor would be totally surrounded by them.
A view inside the cube would have been only possible, if a visitor on the inside would have asked to try on one of the products.

good ideas as ideas
Following the original idea of the not happened Bless shop 4, the entire window of the space was covered with products.
Also there was a big printed banner with the real dimensions of the parallel installed wall, covered as well with Bless products, at Raw Management in Berlin.

BLESS

<3 Dolores Park, SF

Travis Meinolf

By natzz.

Cloud, Elspeth Diederix

The Internet Gives the Possibility of Being Alone with Other People, Aug 2008
11 pages, full color
11 X 17 inches

A simple collection of my summer internet-community activity formatted as a calendar and bound with butterfly screws for the possibility of supplementation.

"Permanent Vacation is a Clan. A clan to feel safe, warm and comforted by. Our clan has, just like the Irish clans of the Aran Islands; its own jumper. It is knitted by hand in Ireland by the same skilled knitters that make the Aran sweaters. The unique pattern of the PV Clan Sweater is designed in collaboration with the Irish craftswomen. The PV pattern stands for beauty, friendship and comfort. Our jumper is long and big. It is cool when needed and warm when its wearer needs warmth."

Permanent Vacation
Clan Aran Sweaters

Beautifully arranged photographs by Maurice Scheltens from her editorial work. I also love the play on commercial photography in her personal work.