Now and each day is a great time to start anything and everything. Though this isn’t the best time (I need to be up at seven), now is when i’m choosing to start blogging… Finally! This is something I’ve been trying to do since early summer as a way to find and shuffle through the many facets of art.

Yesterday, I was helping a friend out on some chair designs-THIS GETS ME SO EXCITED-feverishly cutting cardboard to form some models. He studies design at SAIC, and it was refreshing to converse with him on various topics within design, as I currently have little knowledge on such things. Since I knew I was working with him this week I began browsing the interwebs, just cruising for sweet designs to sort of dwelve into his world, and I came across this young french designer Chloé Ruchon.

Chloe exhibited a sweet foosball table at the DMY Berlin Design Festival 09.  Her piece titled ‘Barbiefoot’ is a foosball table designed with an feminist critique, the usual blue and red figures are replaced by the pink world of Barbie Mattel, creating an interesting dialogue between the male dominated world of football/soccer and the false representation of femininity that Barbie is.

Interestingly, the selection of Barbies from the images I’ve seen are all white females -But there are seven/nine tables available limited edition for 10,000 Euros so maybe each edition has varying doll choice. Doubt it… Either way I think this is as earnest a foosball table can get, I think I’d rather “mix the references”, as Chloe says her piece does, than play.  Sweet Design!  I hope to see more intuitive urban pieces form her, like the S-shaped seats below that serve to bring the man and mob together, all the while keeping them just enough apart.

Photo Cred// Julien Buitrago