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The impact of a product starts way before the extraction of raw materials. It is during the design process that their designers choose materials to use, their quantity, their quality and their performance.
The impact of a product starts way before the extraction of raw materials. It is during the design process that their designers choose materials to use, their quantity, their quality and their performance.
Recently, a new chapter of industrialisation has begun at Kvadrat. By investing in Wooltex, Gaudium and Innvik, three significant European textile suppliers, they have become directly involved in the manufacturing processes of their textiles.
The Avanti Sails consist of a custom 100% Technora fiber loadpath membrane, weighing in 15% under anything else in the marketplace.
In weaving terminology, a ply is two or more strands combined in one thread. The colours are mixed within the 6-ply weft in the rug, instead of in the woven structure, creating a vibrant and sophisticated appearance. Ply rug by Margrethe Odgaard for Muuto.
By re-thinking cushioning techniques, the project uses conventional rubber foam mats which, with the help of elastic bands, come out as an ornamental form. The rectangular foam mat remains at a stretch and is only changed by layering and gathering it. Compared to common upholstery technics Zieharsofika achives the same result by compressing the foam. The gathering causes a strong and stiff core while the surface is still flexible and soft.
What makes Japanese denim special is not only the materials, machinery, and techniques, but also the people and ideas behind the process. This film reveals the intense passion and insight behind Japanese denim, but also poses the question; what is the future of these garments that are so deeply rooted in the past?
As most brands move toward what’s fast, cheap, and easy, Knickerbocker Manufacturing Co. reminds us the value of the opposite — away from speed, away from mass, away from thoughtless consumption.
The Bigun coffee table embodies research carried out with Retegui into the challenge of imparting warmth and softness to marble. The Bigun coffee table unites two apparently contradictory states: the hard and the soft. A marble top is set on a moulded foam base covered with padded fabric.
“Plaid sets a new standard for the divider and absorber category.The family consists of the standard application; freestanding, but then we have added hanging versions and the spectacular Plaid House!” says Form Us With Love.
The very beginning of the slow chair was the fascination for knitted textile. Ronan & Erwan were expecting a lot from this material, many performances in terms of stretching and maintain at the same time. They had this intuition that this precise textile would be able to carry a body while taking its shape with a certain subtlety. Here, form and material are very much interrelated.
Montebelluna (Italy), inside one of Nike’s workshops where innovation and modern craftsmanship come together in the design of Nike Football’s most advanced boots, Mercurial, Magista, Hypervenom and Tiempo.
THINKK Studio’s Lanna Factory machine produces customisable lampshades. Bangkok-based studio has constructed a low-tech machine that lets users customise the shape and colour of their own thread lamps.
Roof tiles is a lamp inspired by the Portuguese roofs. The metal sheet is bend and covered with Burel felt worked in order to make reference to the roof tiles, recreating the comfort and protection roofs offers to buildings.
Meeing roofs, a project comissioned by Kvadrat, proposes a new look into personal space, the notion of shelter, and the idea of a meeting.
‘Pallas Athena’ juxtaposes the setting of a Greek pre-antique pottery workshop with the modern techniques of the felt coiling used in Siba’s objects.
A wall clock which is originated from all the tools to cross stitch. Just a quartz machine was added. The process itself becomes the object of contemplation where the tool to fix the embroidering canvas, becomes the frame for the clock and the embroidered motifs becomes the reference numbers.
Ostrich Pillow is a revolutionary power-napping device designed by Kawamura-Ganjavian. It has been designed to allow you to catch some sleep whilst on the go, it is filled with special silent silicon micro-beads to enhance sound reduction whilst remaining light-weight. Its smart adjustable elastic ring allows power-nappers of different sizes to use it comfortably. The carefully sourced fabric is extremely soft, making you feel cosy enough to literally drift away anywhere.
The new footwear which will perfectly match with your foot by “dipping” your own foot. Satsuki Ohata has named it “Fondue Slipper” because the production process is similar to cheese fondue. It’s very easy to make. You just dip your foot and dry it. That’s all.
The exclusive Greenwich rug collection designed by PearsonLloyd is produced by Nanimarquina, a Barcelona based company that has been working with textiles since the 1980s.
Everything you buy us rubbish is about the out of sight and out of mind legacy of the modern consumer. Taking the shoe as a prime example: What used to be a hand crafted item made to last and designed to be repairable, now spends an almost insignificant amount of time on the ground doing what it was made for.
While sport shoes are usually made from many separate pieces, the Primeknit method digitally knits the entire upper in just one piece. Knitting fused yarn allows us to fine-tune the exact amount of flexibility and support needed in every part of the shoe. This means lightweight comfort that wraps seamlessly around your foot, whilst fewer materials produce less waste.
It is an experimental system focused on illustrating the possibility of a transparent, open and collaborative production line for shoe making and design. Don’t Run – Beta is intent on highlighting a possible alternative to mass production through small scale on demand digital fabrication.
Hardened Leather Chair is made with an old technique for hardening leather in a 100% natural way. The technique has been used for corsets and armours, and is now being used as self-supported upholstery for a dining chair. The shape of the chair, which is commonly seen in plastic, gets a Nordic materiality by the use of leather and the frame of wood. Natural treated leather and ash wood for the structure.
Muro.exe is a new brand of sneakers, whose mission was to create a hybrid sneaker, a mix between a shoe and a sneaker, thus raising the technical quality of urban footwear.
The project uses digital practices and processes to blur the lines between photography, data visualization, textile design, and computer science.
Today we present the first film of series based on hand made items within the Yorkshire region in the United Kingdom. The Series will explore the personal lives of the people and families that bring these items to life either for a hobby or profession.
Tony Slinger, a bespoke shoe maker spares his time to speak about his career history and the traditional methods used for producing some of Yorkshires finest leather shoes.
The “B vs. U Collection” is a series of objects that are handcrafted out of soft materials like neoprene and latex.
Pack is a modular textile system. The components are assembled to create a range of bags and baskets, using quick assembling techniques: folding and weaving.
Dominic Wilcox has created a fully functional prototype pair of shoes that will guide you home no matter where you are in the world…
Dark Senses is an evolutionary exploration of magnetic fluid through epochs of human and environmental interaction.
Inner Fashion questions the codes, rules and production technic of fashion. The human body is seen as a fluid, inflatable and mobile structure in which the tension of fabric remplace muscles.
Where normally there is a pattern in this project is a balloon. Where normally sewn with thread, in this project we use glue. New rules to produce clothing.
Documentary video that unveils the development of the collection Estudos MMXI, where the camera approachs the manual techniques used as a platforms by designer Helen Rödel, as well as her creative process and the context of her conception. The video also reveal the designer’s thoughts about the paradox of the time between weaving and thinking.
John makes canvas and bamboo bags. His creative process defines the objects he creates. With a craftsman’s respect for his materials, John returns to the essentials of design with his beautifully handmade bamboo and canvas bags.
Júlia Esqué is a young designer from Barcelona who has worked for the re-interpretation of the 1988 Delta Prize , the “Coqueta” Chair by Pete Sans. The main attractive feature of the chair is the use of a belt that supports the tension generated by the weight of the user and prevents the arch opening of the legs. Thus, Júlia’s work has been inspired by the belt. Most importantly, because this part is the meeting point between the chair and the new proposal. It is mandatory for the proper use of the object by conceptualising about the tension that occurs in the chair use. Therefore, the aim of Envolta (which in catalan means “to wrap”) is to create something that serves to transport these items linking the subject with a belt. Turning one extreme inside the belt buckle get tense and holding the object.
The N12 bikini is the world’s first ready-to-wear, completely 3D-printed article of clothing. All of the pieces, closures included, are made directly by 3D printing and snap together without any sewing. N12 represents the beginning of what is possible for the near future.
Brian Frandsen made Face to Face from carpets with the coorporation from egecarpets.
The history of Vialis shoes is an authentic Spanish tale.The quality of the materials, comfort, originality and authentic styling also play their part… Vialis shoes are made primarily from Italian leather and rely on an environmentally friendly vegetable tanning process. Sarenza is committed to offering you Vialis creations.
Phat Knits created by Dutch designer Bauke Knottnerus is a series of brilliantly over scaled furniture pieces. Despite the fact that the designer claims that he doesn’t really see himself as a furniture designer. “I’m more like a material designer,” he explains. “These things I make could end up as furniture or as textiles, it’s more like creating media that can be used to construct a coat or a carpet or a curtain.
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