Chair4a

Impressive application of recycled aluminium.

Here what Young says about it:

“In recent years chairs have taken all nature of shape and form due to the use of plastics, but plastic in itself is not a pleasant material to use. Its tactility and its aging process are highly unpleasant. For the same price I can use recycled aluminium and in fact create a more sustainable chair that also creates jobs rather than having a man just pressing a button.

The tooling is complex but we created a chair that lasts a lifetime, engineered beyond plastic technology and far more sustainable”

Micheal Young – Chair 4A

Published on April 22, 2010 3:59 pm.
Filed under: Product design

Table = Chest


1995, Shin + Tomoko Azumi.
Interesting way to transform a table to a chest of drawers.

Like:
The clever way how they obtained a flush profile on the chest configuration

Don’t like:
The visible joints when it’s arranged as a table.

Shin + Tomoko Azumi – Table = Chest

Published on April 22, 2010 3:22 pm.
Filed under: Product design Tags:

Sacred geometry


Sacred Geometry

52 degrees

Published on August 16, 2009 11:11 pm.
Filed under: Inspiration

stay at my home


“Stay at my home” is a clever idea for your Christmas holiday guests.
Congratulation to Johannes Fuchs and Adrien Rovero that realised it as bachelor thesis at FHNW Gestaltung und Kunst university.

Stay At My Home

Published on December 20, 2008 2:50 pm.
Filed under: Product design Tags:

Unlimited edition

I have just seen those vessels at Fumi Gallery and I have been really impressed by their sinuous shape and simplicity of manifacturing.

“We designed various templates that we place into an extrusion machine. Thus, the machine extrudes endless tubes of clay. Because of the speed and flexibility of the clay, the tubes force themselves in maximum and almost impossible conditions and shapes. We cut the tubes of the extrusion-machine and place them onto a drying table. Because we have researched the quality and max-deformation of this clay, we have managed to develop a new product that is always unique but can be mass-produced: an Unlimited Edition.”
Designers: Pieke Bergmans & Madieke Fleuren

Unlimited Edition

Published on October 30, 2008 3:05 am.
Filed under: Product design Tags: ,

Tesselion is a built project which demonstrates a system of flat panel tessellation derived from complex surfaces to enable ease in constructability and a directly evolved spatial environment through lighting, programmatic adaptation and structural simplicity. Each panel’s uniqueness is afforded by the efficiency of digital fabrication while coded parametric relationships allow an emergent structural efficiency.

Tesselion : Adaptive Quadrilateral Flat Panelization

Published on October 20, 2008 2:01 am.
Filed under: Interior design Tags: ,


Adaptive Path shares its experience of rediscovering analog approaches.

“There’s a lot of research to support the idea that visual thinking activates different parts of our brains than language thinking. Pictures allow a holistic view of something. “Seeing is believing” holds especially true when working with a diverse group of people.

Graphic elements create stronger memory and recognition points; it’s easier to remember an image than a page of text. Illustrations communicate ideas faster than descriptions, because processing pictures requires less “translation” than written language. This means more meaning in less time. In addition, there is a tactile pleasure to hand sketching that is rich and engaging.”

Read the full article

The joy of sketching

Published on October 16, 2008 8:18 pm.
Filed under: Design methods