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Dec 2
As labour grew more and more expensive, it was filtered out of the process with automated and complicated tools.
These automated processes have been very inflexible until now. High investments in complicated moulds made it almost impossible for a designer to evaluate and refine his final object. The designer is no longer involved in the production process and the design stage is completely shifted to a pre production phase.
As Dirk van der Kooij considered this a lost chance he made a pact with the devil, because he found a solution, not in labour but in computerization.
By combining different techniques, he was able to design an automated but very flexible process. He taught a robot his new craft, drawing furniture out of one endlessly long plastic string.
This opened the possibility for Dirk van der Kooij to design in the good old-fashioned way, making a chair, evaluating, refining, making a chair, evaluating, refining and making a chair. Or developing an infinitely large collection of variations."
Recycled from Freezers
ENDLESS
"One plastic string, made out of old refrigerators, crafted by a robot, into a chair.
When the first plastic chairs were made, they began with fairly simple tools and moulds to form the plastic. The simple tools were easy to adjust and this gave the designer the chance to evaluate the final product and adjust the tools almost endlessly.
As labour grew more and more expensive, it was filtered out of the process with automated and complicated tools.
These automated processes have been very inflexible until now. High investments in complicated moulds made it almost impossible for a designer to evaluate and refine his final object. The designer is no longer involved in the production process and the design stage is completely shifted to a pre production phase.
As Dirk van der Kooij considered this a lost chance he made a pact with the devil, because he found a solution, not in labour but in computerization.
By combining different techniques, he was able to design an automated but very flexible process. He taught a robot his new craft, drawing furniture out of one endlessly long plastic string.
This opened the possibility for Dirk van der Kooij to design in the good old-fashioned way, making a chair, evaluating, refining, making a chair, evaluating, refining and making a chair. Or developing an infinitely large collection of variations."
via MAKEZINE
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Nov 8
ReMake It
Remake It is a book on a subject dear to us: hacking. Not the computer kind, though, but the make-do-and-mend kind we do every day. The book, written by design-geek and Wallpaper editor Henrietta Thompson, gives illustrated, step-by-step instructions on turning old CD spindles into bagel-holders, old Macs into aquariums and garden hoses into, well, you’ll find out.
This is the indispensable, inspirational and practical guide to being resourceful by design in your home. Save money, save the planet and stay ahead in the style stakes: if theres something going spare, theres a use for it somewhere.
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Oct 28
Já está disponível no mercado uma solução inovadora de mobiliário expositivo, desenhado para a LEVO! As primeiras unidades estão patentes na exposição temporária do Museu Marítimo de Ílhavo desde dia 23 de Outubro. PRINCIPAIS CARACTERÍSTICAS:
• Modularidade;
• Elevado grau de personalização e de reutilização;
• Montagem e armazenamento simples.
Expositores para Museus
Já está disponível no mercado uma solução inovadora de mobiliário expositivo, desenhado para a LEVO! As primeiras unidades estão patentes na exposição temporária do Museu Marítimo de Ílhavo desde dia 23 de Outubro. PRINCIPAIS CARACTERÍSTICAS:
• Modularidade;
• Elevado grau de personalização e de reutilização;
• Montagem e armazenamento simples.
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Our innovative museum displays designed for LEVO are already available! Ílhavo Maritime Museum got the first units for the temporary exhibition inaugurated last October 23rd.
MAIN FEATURES:
• Modularity;
• High customization level;
• Easy to install and store.
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Aug 8
What we would love Portuguese Industry and clients to understand!
Ok! "Times are different" and nowadays you will not spend 14 minutes to watch a design studio promo movie. Nevertheless this is all about what a Design Studio should be like.
If you do, please take a minute to reflect about what haven't changed...
Besides all the discussions about methods, processes and all other inner design problems, wouldn't you love that your clients, at least, understand the simplicity and seriousness of this profession?
Well, fortunately some of them do!
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Jul 15
Waves - Art Installation
"It's not until +40 seconds that you realise what it is you are actually looking at, but more so the size of the installation.
'Waves' utilizes a basic construction of a long piece of elastic string and two motors to visualize the presence of people close to the installation. The string between the two motorized chambers reacts to the people presence and movements, it twirls to produce a sine-wave simulation that eloquently resembles both the digitization of real-time sound waves and patterns of flow and connectivity found in natural systems.
~ Daniel Palacios
danielpalacios.info"
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Jul 15
365
365' image © designboom
"365' is a knitting clock created by german designer siren elise wilhelmsen. according towilhelmsen, time is a concept which unites us all, making it the lowest common denominator. on the one hand, time appears to be a as physical phenomenon, logical and easily divided into the past, present and future. on the other hand, time can be viewed very subjectively. how long a minute, an hour or a year takes can depend on how time is experienced in different situations. however, this does not alter the fact that a day has 24 hours, one hour has 60 minutes and one minute has 60 seconds."
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Jul 14
The meaning of play and adapting a simple idea through a complex system.
If it lets you create something unique than it is accomplished.
Better when visually and formally competently solved.
The pool
The meaning of play and adapting a simple idea through a complex system.
If it lets you create something unique than it is accomplished.
Better when visually and formally competently solved.
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Jul 14
"Rhonda", a 3D drawing tool
The hands on the screen belong to James Paterson. He is using "Rhonda", a 3D drawing tool developed by Amit Pitaru circa 2003.
The first half of the video shows James doing a drawing start to finish. In the second part James is cycling through various previous drawings, created between 2004 and 2005.
For the last several years Rhonda has been shown in galleries, museums, festivals and conferences.
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