Tuesday, 8 July 2014
Tetra - Sculptures Jeux
Coffee table with solid wood structure and four reversible tops. The upper part consists of a solid wood grating top. The top support side is laminate finished, with a solid wood frame on the edge, and an inner part that can be used as a tray. Tops can be customized with the range of Sculptures Jeux finishes.
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Anti Fly Sphere - José de la O
The use of a plastic bag full of water
hanging from the ceiling of several taco kiosks on the streets, is a
traditional way to scare flies away in most of the food markets on urban
Mexico. The refraction of the water, amplifies the colors and movements
for the sensible eyes of a fly reflected on this sphere, scaring it
away, making it the perfect sustainable pesticide, on a way that the
insect remains harmless and the food is free of flies.
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Friday, 21 March 2014
Foldigon - Rami Tareef
Turns from a coffee table into a sofa in one simple action.
The concept stems from the need for store textiles in outdoor conditions and consider
weather hazards such as UV radiation and rain. We created a furniture that is able
to store its upholstery and protect it when closed. When open, it allows soft & comfortable
sitting with high-end textile, creating the feeling of an indoor furniture. The upholstery
is divided into polygons to create living hinges and allow the folding and fitting
of the upholstery to different sitting positions.
Victorinox - Cologne
At Wallrafplatz 2 in Cologne's city center,
visitors will be presented with the entire Victorinox product range
spanning two floors with a total area of 193 square meters. The items
are displayed to highlight their specific features and showcase their
contemporary, innovative designs. In addition to the Swiss Army Knives,
this also includes household cutlery, timepieces, travel gear, the
fashion line and in-house fragrances...
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Wednesday, 19 March 2014
Flow(t) - Nao Tamura
The reflections of the Venetian cityscape glistening on the evening water hints at an imaginary city below the moving surface. There is a border between the world under and the land above. In the city of Venice, where the real world and fantasy coexists, this chandelier is the embodiment of the beauty of dual worlds.
“Flow(t)” is a contemporary chandelier inspired by the colors of the Venetian lagoon and customized to the desires of each owner. Each piece enjoys its own shape, and in multiples, they create a sculptural display of lighting.
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Monday, 17 March 2014
3D Printed BrandingIron - Shapeways
The Shapeways 3D printed Stainless Steel BrandingIron Co-Creator is one of the more creative and insane things we've ever done.
You type in your text or send us a link to a logo and we model and 3D print a mini branding iron for you. The branding iron clicks onto standard disposable lighters. You simply turn the lighter on for 30 seconds until the branding iron is hot and then brand away. A text branding iron costs $25 including shipping . A logo BrandingIron costs $25, also including shipping.
The branding irons work well on many surfaces such as wood and we are currently looking at testing out skin but have not been able to find a volunteer with nice enough arms...
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Wasbar Ghent - Pinkeye
Sometimes a solution is so obvious that it makes you wonder how on earth nobody came up with it before. Wasbar, a brand-new launderette/meeting place, is a fine example: while their dirty laundry spins, the people of Ghent can enjoy a drink with friends or get a new hairdo in one of the two hairdresser’s chairs. The all-in-one concept was elaborated by Pinkeye.
The property that Wasbar occupies was formerly a bookshop. Its worn-out parquet floor was given a fresh coat of lacquer, while the ceiling with its decorative mouldings was left intact. The technical aspect presented the biggest challenge. ‘A launderette primarily requires plenty of brainwork and preparatory work: you need extra power to keep everything running and we wanted to hide the pipes and wiring from view,’ Pinkeye’s creative director Ruud Belmans explains. The pipes and wiring are ensconced in the cellar, leaving just the rows of sleek machines in the space above. ‘There’s nothing about a washing machine which says it has to stand in an unpleasant space.’
Wasbar is perfectly suited to the student or young professional who is cramped for space – something that is not unknown in this Flemish city of students. ‘What does the student want?’ wondered the young, ambitious proprietors, Dries Henau and Yuri Vandenbogaerde. To spend their time more usefully, I mean more enjoyably, than sitting in a cheerless, bare space with garish strip-lighting in the midst of a ‘soundcloud’ din of whirring machines.
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Saturday, 15 March 2014
Phare No. 1-9 - Studio Simon Heijdens
General concept: Nature is becoming rare in daily life. In the way the urbanising world is generally built and planned, our everyday surroundings are increasingly perpetual and static through conditioned climates and 24 hour lighting. When unpredictable natural elements such as a lifting breeze, a sudden shower, or a setting sun are planned out of our surroundings, the timeline of our everyday is lost.
Nine hand-blown glass vessels that use the dimensional characteristics of water and the way it holds and refracts light, to create a new way of dimensionally drawing in mid-water..
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Viewing Tower - Ateliereen
In the Netherlands over 50 spots are marked on the map as starting points for recreational use of the rural landscape. People are encouraged to park their cars at these locations instead of other, more preserved, areas. From here they can explore nature by foot, mountain-bike, horse etc. In the small town Reusel, the nomination motivated a local sports merchant to found an outdoor sports park at one of these sites.
A tower, 25 meters high, with sport facilities like climbing and abseiling is the main attraction. It consists of six cubes, hanging on a core of steel columns. Straight flight staircases raise in between and cross the cubes several times in different positions. Two of the six cubes are accessible. The third one is the starting platform for a rope-slide and a high-rope track. In the top cube people can enjoy a panoramic view of the surroundings and there is a starting platform for abseiling. The athletes on the 13 meters high climbing wall are observed by visitors of the adjacent bistro...
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Adventure Tower - Ateliereen
For our client in the Betuwe -Holland Evenementen Groep- Ateliereen designed an adventure tower at Beldert Beach, which is a recreational lake. The tower can be used for climbing and other group activities and there is a small kiosk included in the building. There is a viewing platform at a height of nineteen meters, which offers a view over the water, the wide area and the Holland Evenementen Groep.
Functionality and visibility are the basic principles for this design. We choose a clear shape, which is formed by the stairs, going inside and outside of the structure. The stairs have a prominent, bright yellow colour. This way the route up is marked and the building has a cheerful and sunny appearance.
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RSA Chandeliers - Troika
These chandeliers by London designers Troika use large fresnel lenses to shape the light from LEDs suspended below them into overlapping geometric patterns on the ceiling of the Royal Society of Arts' headquarters in London...
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Tuesday, 4 March 2014
String Prototype - Numen/For Use
Prototype of a self supporting inhabitable social sculpture.
The installation is based on production system of large geometric inflated objects. Since the physical behavior of fluids tend to make all inflates spherical, thin parallel ropes are tied on opposite sides of the volume, keeping them parallel to one another. Filigree interiors of this technically invented system are never exposed to public.
When the volume deflates, the ropes get loose and lay on the ground enabling compression of the installation. When the object inflates, the ropes tense to a perfect line again, strained enough to carry the weight of a human being. Bodies entrapped in 3D grid, flying in unnatural positions throughout superficial white space, resemble Dadaist collages...
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