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Ray | 2 Nov 2012
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Alexandra Baker is one half of Asheville, NC-based studio DNA Illustrations, specializing in medical graphics for editorial and commercial clients. Along with partner David Baker, she has some "20 years of experience working with images dealing with surgery, anatomy, disease process, patient education and immunology."
Baker's been on track to be a medical illustrator—a highly specialized niche which requires an eye for detail and a steady hand, not unlike medical practitioners themselves—since her undergrad days at UGA, and her work has garnered many accolades over the years.
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Kai Perez | 31 Oct 2012
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Although it's currently just a concept, Veronika's website indicates that it will be available in the near future.
Monsters aren't born in swamps or in Middle Earth—they manifest themselves in the dark crevices of your childhood bedroom. Veronika Paluchova, a recent graduate from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, has creatively captured this notion with the Bat Hanger. Her remarkably consistent portfolio includes both experimental furniture designs and clever takes on existing products, and the Bat Hanger is an example of the latter, an age-old product with a new twist.
The conformity of dozens of hangers might satisfy those who crave organization, but can also bore those who need a little irregularity in their lives. The bat hanger transforms your closet into the cozy and low-lit environmseent that makes the perfect home for the flying. Furthermore, the simple design involves very few parts which means it can be produced easily and relatively cheaply.
Have a Happy Halloween!
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Ray | 29 Oct 2012
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Industrial designer Jean-Marc Sheitoyan is currently a Project Manager at Quebec's Mawashi Protective Clothing, Inc., where he's designed several 'personal equipment' products since he started working there over five years ago. In keeping with the company's commitment to developing "new solutions and made significant enhancements to existing products for law enforcement, corrections, military and industrial personnel," Sheitoyan's portfolio includes protective gear as well as apparel for industrial applications.
The Tactical Knee and Elbow Protection is perhaps the most explicitly biomimetic of Sheitoyan's designs: in order to improve the flexibility and range of motion of knee and elbow pads for tactical situations, he started by 3D scanning a lobster tail and refining the model for manufacturing.
Similarly, the Blunt Trauma Protective Suit, for which Sheitoyan was responsible for product management and marketing, took "inspiration from an Armadillidium Vulgare to develop articulated rigid armor plates to enhance the mobility and flexibility of protective suits."
The Industrial Load Transfer Belt, on the other hand (or torso, as it were), is an adjustable, one-size-fits-all belt that is designed to "transfer the load of a wireless crane controller onto the body's musculoskeletal center axis." Specifically, Mawashi created the belt for an industrial aluminum client—"molten metal transfer crucibles" were the cargo in the original brief. "The system features two telescopic arms with adjustable angle, and a quick-release mechanism."
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Ray | 25 Oct 2012
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Seeing as our sister site Coroflot hosts portfolios from the world over, It's always interesting to see where members hail from. Karl Mynhardt is a perfect example: he's one half of Cape Town, South Africa's K&i Design Studio, which he and his wife Ida (hence "K" and "I") launched last year. They've since won a Design Indaba Emerging Creative award alongside a growing list of local clients, as well as campaigns for international brands.
The photography highlights the tactile qualities of Mynhardt's work, as in the art direction for Wawa Wooden Surfboards and the Open publication, which won a Sappi Think Ahead Award.
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Kai Perez | 22 Oct 2012
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The sculpting of ice for most New Yorkers involves rainbow-colored shaved iced cones in the summers or yellow snow in the winter. Fortunately for the natives of Tannforsen, Sweden, they can enjoy winter the way nature intended. One such person is Susan Christianen who recently completed this interior design project for the Tannforsen Igloos. A graduate of Design Academy Eindhoven, Netherlands, Christianen has worked with several ice hotels. Several of these projects and others can be seen here on coroflot.
The Tannforsen Igloos are located on the slope of the Tannforsen waterfall which freezes every winter. Among these cold months construction begins on these igloos, usually finished around Christmas time. The constructors of the space realized that similarly to a solidified interior, this ice igloo would require decoration. In collaboration with Anna Ohlund, Susan Christianen produced these stunning, sculptural facades that bring multiple elements of nature into this visceral space. Inspired by the tree of life Anna utilizes the root work of the tree to harmonize two different spaces, or contain a given room.
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Remember Joshua Harker? Our interwebs-trawling editor Ray spotted one of the Chicago-based multicreative's projects last year, this nifty 3D-printed skull, and posted an entry on it. It subsequently became "the #1 most funded Kickstarter Sculpture Project," reminding us that if you've got a cool object, a low target and a low price point, buyers will come.
I came across Harker's name again this morning while Coroflot hunting. Didn't realize the guy had a page with us. In any case, the guy's "industrial design" section is loaded up with beautiful renderings—and while I can't tell what the heck any of them are, as there's no descriptive text, I can't take my eyes off of them. Anyone want to take some educated guesses based on the form factors? That globe-looking thing up top, I wouldn't know where to begin. As for these:
A remote control designed to confuse my parents?
No idea, but if you were wearing some kind of space suit and pointing this at me, I'd move away from you.
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Kai Perez | 15 Oct 2012
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Within this world of rapid prototyping and sleek renderings the notion of something being created to evoke deterioration, or a worn look, seems a bit nostalgic. Every product seems to be sporting a brushed aluminum surface or otherwise a sterile finish.
The case however for Sayan Chanda's project "Fabric Construction" would suggest otherwise against this new-old look. Unlike the trend of retro products that have been sprouting up, Chandra is replicating a natural process onto a different medium—akin to the rust and patina that a vintage car wears or wooden doors constantly exposed to the elements wither and peel.
That natural chemical reaction is reproduced and controlled to create the exposed and distressed fabric you see before you. A multitude of processes were used to create this effect, almost all involving acid and basic stitching techniques.
Using skills that he learned at India's National Institute of Design, Chanda's fabric designs mimic the wear of the paint and wood. The fabrics display the weave and at times highlight the flaws of the fabric. The idea of creating the inconsistencies in a product aligns itself to making a retro product. Both are tapping into the texture of time yet these textile designs wear with time just as the wooden doors have.
As a textile design major Chanda is always seeking ways to create something new from already existing materials as reflected in his other works.
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Kai Perez | 9 Oct 2012
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Bell & Ross Diving Bell Watch Concept Sketch
Smartphones have settled into a permanent residence in our hands and our pockets. Watches similarly, have historically held a well-established place on our wrists in part to their continual development. One designer contributing to this is Baptiste Mathieu, who interned for world-renowned Bell & Ross Watch Company. Mathieu's shows us an edited and streamlined version of the design process. We are shown everything from the initial sketches, to wax and metal prototypes. We were sad to see Apple didn't produce their much anticipated Nano Watch but to fill that void take an analog approach and look through the rest of Mathieus' portfolio
The design process can at times look gritty and rough until a final clean product is produced. Throughout all these photos there is an ever present consistency to each shot. The sketches are clean and the prototypes edge onto reality, or it could be the beauty of the Bell & Ross watches. Having received a degree in Industrial Design from the International School of Design of France, Mathieu's design process is clearly indicative of his thorough schooling.
1:1 Scale wax model: case ideation
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Last time we heard from Stefan Reichert, he'd just completed a year at the University of Cincinnati's DAAP, where he worked on the "E-Motion" electric-assist bicycle. Ever ahead of the curve, he's pleased to present his thesis project for his Bachelor of Arts in Industrial Design at the University of Wuppertal, "the first desktop 3D-printer that actually fits on your desk and in your office." The XEOS 3D is a fitting Flotspotting feature to end this week of 3D printer news (besides the printers themselves, let's not forget the two vastly different yet equally brilliant 3D printed objects we've seen this week: Teague Labs' 13:30 headphones and Ben Chapman's knife sharpener).
Desktop 3D printing is becoming more and more important. With a breakthrough new printing arm XEOS 3D changes the design and size of a desktop 3D printer radically and creates an new archetype. The clean interior and transparent two window design, a 66% smaller enclosure volume compared to the smallest professional FDM 3D printer available and the thoroughgoing easy and intuitive controls—in its software and at the device—elevate XEOS 3D to a whole new category of 3D printers.
Unlike the vast majority of desktop 3D printers currently on the market, the print arm of the XEOS 3D has a single point of attachment, along the (correct me if I'm mistaken) x- and z-axes. The hinge allows for movement along the x/y axis.
Additional features, verbatim from this slide:
- The uplifting door gives easy access to the printed parts and the cartridge bays
- The integrated fisheye camera helps to control the printing process from everywhere
- Over 80% of design firm print jobs fit into the 5”times;5”×5” build envelope
- Two material cartridge bays hold the ABS filament and water-resolvable support
- The LED status bar displays the printjob progress and is easy to see even across the room
- At 19” wide, 17.5” high and 11” deep, its volume is 66% (100 L / 26.5 gal) smaller than the smallest FDM 3D printer with the same build envelope (Stratsys Mojo)
- The Stop/Open button is the only hardware button on the outside to stop and open the door
Hit the jump to see it in action:
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Ray | 3 Oct 2012
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As "an artist and designer who encourages us to reconsider our ideas of beauty and aesthetic value," Sander Wassink is more concerned with concepts than saleable products. Thus, his statement reads like that of an artist than a designer:
How can we reconsider what is important and what is desirable to include notions of history, memory and the preservation of a past which is slipping away. Amid new construction, new production, and constant proliferation of new forms and facades, Wassink turns his attention to the discarded, the abandoned, the left over and attempts to reimagine what can be done with the already partially formed. What new possibilities exist in the surfaces and materials that are half-built or half-destroyed. Whether his object is the partly demolished façade of an abandoned building, or the everyday detritus from our over productive culture, Wassink asks what new forms and new visions of beauty already exist to be discovered and appreciated.
Yet there is a distinctly designerly quality to "State of Transience," a series of large-scale photographs of hypothetical chairs that the Wassink has created in a semi-arbitrary iterative sequence. The chairs themselves are compellingly vibrant yet somewhat grotesque, mutants whose existence is justified by duly non-teleological process of evolution:
The ongoing project, State of Transience, is a responsive design process, which is continuously shifting over time. Using the relatively simple design archetype of a chair, Wassink repurposes materials, making additions, subtractions and mutations, to suggest the impossibility of a final or fixed form. Each new version of this chair, documented in incremental stages, shows evidence of it's past constructions and glimpses into it's future potential. Every new state is a testament to ingenuity of human production and the fragility of supposedly rigid constructions. In this way the project maintains a lineage of its arrangements, preserving both it's past iterations and suggesting future possible developments simultaneously. The goal is not a finished product, but instead a material history of combinations and constructions.
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Ray | 21 Sep 2012
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Earlier this year, we saw Tyson Atwell's work in Milan, as one of the nine RISD Furniture Design students in "Transformations" at Ventura Lambrate. At a total of 75 lbs—the steel skeleton surrounded by 190 teacup-sized flower pots—the "Terra Lamp" might not be a particularly practical lighting fixture, but that wasn't the point: the designer elegantly responded to the brief to reimagine the banal.
Upon earning his MFA in May, Atwell set up shop in Los Angeles, which might explain why his latest work reflects a laid back, distinctly West Coast vibe. Constrained only by technology, the "Ocean's Edge" table is a striking combination of form and materials: the undulating center of the tapered sugar maple tabletop contrasts nicely with the hard lines of the black maple legs.
The 'Ocean's Edge' dining table is part of an ongoing body of work utilizing a CNC router to digitally sculpt oceanic waveforms moving across planar wood surfaces. The undulating surface that rises out of and dips into the center of the table was developed in CAD by 'lofting' a sequence of tide curves sourced from the entrance of the San Francisco Bay.
As with Brooke Davis's "Tablescape No. 1," the "Ocean's Edge" table is an uncannily organic application of the digitally-enhanced fabrication process.
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These pockets will not be accessible from the outside, and cannot be detached. This represents the permanence emphasized in structuralism.
Compartmentalized buildings such as the "Nakagin Capsule Tower" and Aldo Van Eyck's "Amsterdam Orphanage" are just some of the structures that influenced Lilian Kong in her design. A junior industrial and user experience designer at Carnegie Mellon, Kong has a strong design style that resonates throughout this project and several others on her site. With her understanding of structuralist architecture she designed a bag that creates juxtaposition between space and form. Much like the dichotomies expressed in buildings of this style, Kong's "Archet Bag" is "a reflection of the way objects live within the bag."
Some photos from Lilian Kong's Coroflot page show the clean and clever magnetic latch to enclose the bag.
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Kai Perez | 17 Sep 2012
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Glancing at Adityaraj Dev's renderings of motorcycle's on his Coroflot page is a reminder to the elegance of classic, simple renderings. Educated and practicing as a product designer, Dev boasts his transportation sketching skills through this series. With the abundance of clean and glossy computer renderings its refreshing to see a clean style using "older" techniques.
The level of eye candy is not the same compared to ones we saw of Andrew McMillan's renderings. However their is a level of appreciation of conveying beauty through simple analog methods.
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Ray | 13 Sep 2012
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After completing her degree at Nottingham Trent in 2003, designer Kirsty Whyte spent some time at Sweden's Kalmar University, studying glass design, before establishing her own shop in London in 2008. She's spent the past year in Shanghai to explore the relationship between development and manufacturing, and she's glad to back in her native UK in time for next week's design festivities.
Indeed, she's exhibited work during London Design Festival in the past, with a strong showing in 2009 that included the Gordo table lamps (above), the Warp clocks and Limpet wall hooks (below).
More recent projects include the Drew tables for Modus, which consist of round glass surface atop an Eiffel-like steel rod base.
[The tables] use same design language and manufacturing process—made from one continuous piece of steel rod—meaning minimal material is wasted in production. The forms have been pared down, making an even purer form. They are smaller and lighter so it can sit with any contemporary environment.
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Taylor Welden is a Texas-based industrial designer with a lot of experience designing softgoods. Since graduating from SCAD back in '06, Welden's racked up a global and ridiculously deep client list including the likes of Tenba, Pelican, Eagle Creek, and too many others to list. He's also worked on a "classified" project for Icon 4x4 that we're dying to hear about, but it's still under wraps.
Besides his deep book, there was something not directly design-related that caught our eye on Welden's Coroflot page: He cleverly broke out his manufacturing hook-ups and listed that as a separate category, "Factory Sourcing & Liasion Services," realizing the value of these kinds of connections.
Remember Pat Calello's nightmare tale of trying to find a factory to work with overseas? Welden's got enough experience in the biz to help his clients avoid such pitfalls. And in this economy, any edge you can get is a leverageable advantage. Below are some of Welden's shots and captions.
Factory floor in Quanzhou, China - One of many factories I work with who can provide prototypes and full scale production. I can also source factories in the United States if you prefer to have your products made in the USA.
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Ray | 7 Sep 2012
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Industrial designer Christopher Terella's "E-Clips" action camera dates back to 2010, but with the continued growth of the category—led by the popular GoPro—it might make a strong contender today. The thoroughly thought-out concept—"designed for the action sports enthusiast who wants to capture the fun but also participate"—features a bluetooth wristband remote, several options for mounting hardware, and the videography capabilities that would stand up to any of its competitors.
Since the copy is embedded in the slides, we've transcribed relevant bits here:
Capturing, saving and sharing our experiences with others has always been a human desire. Today, thanks to online social networks and web sites, the transition from capture to publication is so simple anyone can do it. As a result, the video camera marketplace is expanding at a rapid pace.
Often the most difficult challenge is to make the complex simple. All facets of this design were evaluated for simplicity.
The aesthetics of this camera were inspired by the outdoor enthusiast. The fit and finish complement the objects it attaches to while maintaining its own desirable identity.
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- Waterproof, weatherproof
- Mounted or handheld
- Limited dexterity operation
- Li-Ion battery, USB connection
- 1080P HD video, MicroSD Card
- Bluetooth remote control
- Downloadable app
Exploded View: The simple design strives to keep the part count, cost and complexity to a minimum. Whenever possible, complementary parts were designed symmetrically to minimize tooling costs.
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Ray | 4 Sep 2012
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Those of us who don't have the space (or disposable income) to accommodate custom terrariums or a functional hydroponic 'island' might be interested in "Auxano," Philip Houiellebecq's concept for a more practical home hydroponic system. Like the "Volet Végétal" stowaway garden, the Cardiff-based designer's planter soaks up the excess sun that freely flows through our windows, photosynthesizing natural light into a friendly bit of greenery in the concrete jungle:
Auxano was designed to enable the ever increasing amount of city dwellers to grow their own produce effectively and efficiently within the space constraints of city living. Auxano is an innovative and practical solution which revolutionaries the current interior hydroponics market, providing very economical vegetable and herb growth rates through maximising exposure to the commonly ignored natural resource in many city flats; sunlight. This has been achieved through the growing units being window mounted. Its innovative oxygenating pump system further enhances its green credentials in that no electricity is needed for the product to operate.
The small self-contained planters are designed as an ultra-low maintenance home hydroponic system, a soil-free source of hyperlocal produce for aspiring urban gardeners. Although I personally enjoy the simple pleasure of handling soil from time to time, the Auxano's one-touch nutrient mechanism is a clever solution for the constraints of the modern (read: undersized) apartment.
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Ray | 31 Aug 2012
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With a decade and a half of experience under his proverbial belt, Japanese industrial designer Jun Katsumata boasts "expertise in creating a wide range of products from domestic appliances, mobile communication devices and audio-visual consumer electronics for market leading brands names, such as Sony Ericsson and Sony." This is a showing of his work for the latter.
The designer, who is currently based in Singapore, doesn't offer much in the way of description, so it's a good thing that the work speaks for itself.
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Ray | 29 Aug 2012
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In contrast to the FLIZ bicycle we saw yesterday, designer Andrew Mitchell's Ultra Long Distance Wheelchair concept is an as-yet-unrealized mobility solution for exactly what it sounds like: "Touring bicycles aren't as stripped back as their race equivalent. Grand Touring cars exist to make race cars for the road. This wheelchair follows those principles, make a race wheelchair for ultra long distance use."
In order to "take advantage of the research that goes into weight reduction and performance" in the high-end bicycle category, Mitchell has incorporated components such as disc brakes and the design language of cycling. He also acknowledges this reference point imparts "highly visible cues to the performance nature of the design."
Indeed, Mitchell notes that the distinctive form has a psychological advantage in addition to the physical one: not only does the aggressive inverted teardrop shape—characterized by its hummingbird-like proboscis—extend the wheelbase for stability, it looks fast.
Much work has been done on the psychological performance that can be gained from having equipment and kit that looks like it is meant to perform. That is why many of the performance components on the design have attention drawn to them through colour and placement in a prominent position.
Of course, these features aren't just for show—Mitchell has done his homework in terms of ergonomics, and physiological considerations are paramount:
The positioning of the rider is very important to ensure maximum efficiency. By keeping the shoulders over the front edge of the driving wheels, the whole body position can be engaged by the rider to provide maximum power. The body and legs are in a more open position, giving good breathing potential, and placing less strain on the lower limbs.
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Ray | 27 Aug 2012
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Just as digital rendering is the evolution of drafting, CG animation might be considered as the next step up. Tom Murray of Columbus, OH, a Senior PRoduct Designer at Design Central, also publishes his rendering and animation work on his portfolio site, StudioClues. He's in the enviable position of designing the very products that makers are most familiar with: tools. I'm not familiar with Bunkspeed Move myself, but the results add a bit of dimension (pun intended) to the renderings.
Exploded views are great; an exploding view is even better...
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Ray | 24 Aug 2012
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The clever rEvolution wineglass (above) is exactly the sort of potentially-iconic design that might be distinctive enough for Martin Jakobsen to make his name... but in case it's not, the Czech designer has some glasswares to show for Danish houseware brand Mojoo.
Kkis—the name a twist on the romantic gesture—is billed as the "first ice cream canapé." It's literally an extension of the original idea behind the rEvolution wineglass, albeit the final form is rather less intuitive, something like an abstracted flower turned into a glass lollipop.
Meanwhile, the KarPPi pitcher and Himo stemless glass are also part of the rEvolution collection. The "attractive organic design resembles the shape of a fish and a water drop," respectively, alluding to the fact that just as "a fish needs water to live, a man needs to drink."
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Ray | 22 Aug 2012
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Since we're probably long-overdue for one of these posts, we were glad to see that Andrew McMillan recently uploaded several images to his Coroflot portfolio. The young designer just completed his BFA in Industrial Design at the Cleveland Institute for Art and he's now looking to make the leap into the real world. Of course, given his internship experience at Chrysler, it might be a small step into the world of automobile design.
Although he's spent the last two years knee-deep in cars, he's also tried his hand at a couple slick racing bicycles, fit for a futuristic velodrome.
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Ray | 20 Aug 2012
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We've (flot)spotted some of NZ-based Richard Clarkson's work before and we're always curious to see what he's working on. His latest project, the f(x) Chair, has more in common with his more cerebral Rotary Smartphone concept than his rather more straightforward, papasan-like Cradle.
The f(x) chair is an exploration of mixing and mashing different seating contexts. At its core is an application created through Processing & Grasshopper, a powerful generative 3D modelling plugin for Rhino. The app allows a user to mix and match any standard context with any standard "seating task." For instance if a user wants a seat in the kitchen with which to also work in the outcome would look somewhat like a stool—office chair hybrid. The power of the app then comes from the ability to adjust the percentages of the mix, i.e 20% kitchen / 80% work.
Where his fellow Kiwis' "Sketchchair" was based on a similarly digital concept, Clarkson's f(x) Chair generates results that might be considered as the polar opposite of the SketchChair: both programs allow for customization, but Clarkson's application suggests the drawbacks of a pseudo-scientific approach to furniture design.
Ironically this mixing of contexts often creates a hybrid which rather than suiting both contexts actually doesn't suit either, but I argue that this is the beauty of this system. These hybrids allow users to interpret seating in new ways, derived away from the conventional seat to customizable "body support systems."
Although the final product—doughy globs slapped onto a wire frame—looks like a fascinating experiment in itself, it would be difficult to deduce the design process from any given prototype.
The location, size and fluidity of the blobs are predefined within the app by the user and can be adjusted to suit the users desired comfort levels. The base frame is exported out and CNC bent into sections which are welded together. A nylon web like mesh is then 'spun' on the frame. Expanding Polyurethane foam is then robotically blobbed onto points of the web. This manufacturing technique allows for true customization by doing away with moulds or wasteful subtraction manufacturing processes. The intermingling of these elements, rod frame (structure), web (sub-structure) and blobs (comfort) form a relationship in which each element enhances the qualities of the other, for instance the blobs strengthen the web and in return the web gives extra flexibility and thus comfort to the blobs.
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Ray | 17 Aug 2012
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In this special "flatpacking" edition of Flotspotting, we're pleased to present designer Craig Foster's "Kurk," a desk lamp "that requires no screws or glues to assemble."
Focusing on the life cycle of the product, each part of Kurk can be recycled or reused individually when it is no longer needed as a light. The sustainability and visual properties of cork make Kurk a unique, environmentally friendly alternative to standard desk lights. Kurk was chosen as the winning design for the 2012 BDC New Designer of the Year award. Kurk won 2nd place at the 2012 Lighting Association's Student Lighting Design Awards.
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From Milan via Coroflot: the "Teka" OLED lamp, a sculptural lighting object "inspired by Vienna museum displays, first microscopes and scientific instruments in brass." Industrial designer Alessandro Squatrito spent the eight months leading up to this year's Salone working for Aldo Cibic and Tommaso Corà of Italy's CibicWorkshop, the designers behind the piece and three others for the Wonderoled exhibition at the Triennale.
The 15 OLED discs—the "result of the latest advances in nanotechnology"—are arrayed on a brass chassis, set within an aquarium-like vitrine. It's like a vaguely steampunk-y version of Humans Since 1982's artier "Collection of Light" or People People's Invisible Speaker, a design object that's entirely at home in a museum setting.
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We were so impressed with the three stories' worth of work—set in a repurposed school, no less—at Paradise that simply couldn't cover all of the excellent work that the RCA presented at the Salone this year... which is why we were glad to come across ceramist Larisa Daiga's "Interactive Modular Set" on the new Coroflot:
This modular tableware set provides pieces for the user to reach their potential for full self-expression and imagination, prompting the individual to create their ideal world for eating or entertaining. Made of an earthenware clay body, the outside surface is sprayed with a coloured ceramic slip that provides a smooth matte finish. This also allows the individual to write or draw on the outside of the dish with chalk, each piece providing a blank canvas of creativity and customisation. It is up to the individual to decide what they want to create. Then erase, reconfigure, and start again.
Simple yet undeniably beautiful; eyecatching and entirely functional. I'm not sure whether smudged chalkdust would be an issue but it's nice to have the option, and it's a charmingly anachronistic alternative to the ever-ubiquitous touchscreen.
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