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Louisa Carmona’s intention was to reorientate the hair dryer towards more simplicity and practicality. The different research around power cord storage led her to define the shape.
Louisa Carmona’s intention was to reorientate the hair dryer towards more simplicity and practicality. The different research around power cord storage led her to define the shape.
What is a vase? How does it work? Those were simple questions Decha Archjananun asked herself for this historical object which was created since Neolithic period. She found that, all the vases in the world have a same basic principle to hold flowers.
For her graduation project at the Royal College of Art, Fiona O’Leary developed a tool she calls Spector that captures typefaces and colors in the real world, and then transfers them directly to your computer.
Developed at ECAL, this project explore the traditional techniques usually used for crystal glass like cutting, engraving, gilding
The Frame Chair is a personalized furniture system designed by Char Kennedy in Emily Carr University as a graduation project in 2014 to engage users in the process of making, wear and repair.
When wicker is produced, craftsman has wove one by one manually along the mold. Kunikazu Hamanishi thought if we can create different kinds of molds, craftsman would be able to weave various shaped wickers.
They invented a new manufacturing process that involves steaming polystyrene beads inside fabric moulds. They used the process, called NSEPS (Not So Expanded Polystyrene), to create this range of furniture. Steaming causes the beads to melt, expand and fuse together, distorting their moulds.
Industrially-produced, but naturally biodegradable. Revisiting traditional methods using an industrially produced “natural” material suggests a new relationship between industry and craft; a marriage of industrial chemistry and traditional knowledge that allows for a more flexible system of production and design.
The lamps consist of plant fibre and mushroom-mycelium. The lamps are grown into the shape during a period of 2 weeks, where the mushroom eats and grows together the plant fibres into a flexible and soft living textile.
Diario is a social, cultural, curatorial and design project of Mexican objects. Moisés Hernándes traveling around Mexico looking and understanding the stories behind those objects and at the same time he rediscover places, people, materials, techniques, textures and colors.
“Olla” is the diploma project of Cesare Bizzotto, a young italian designer recently graduated in the Master program at ECAL.
Graft is a series of disposable tableware made of bioplastic PLA revealing its sources materials – the plants.
A five-piece cavity nesting box for new build instillation; designed for the conservation of House Sparrows, and manufactured using a traditional brick-making process.
Sets of textured and tactile cutlery that have been inspired by the investigation into investment casting and an understanding that any organic material such as leather and cork can be burned out the same way wax can be.
The Iceland Whale Bone Project” offers experimental research based on bones of beached whales collected by ECAL Product Design Master students. This work was initiated on the occasion of a workshop in Iceland with designer Brynjar Sigurðarson.
Else is a project dealing with the gaps between craft and design. The aim of this project was to create different and authentic ceramic surfaces. By creating a different working technique that does not require molds she was able to design free forms that are not restricted by parting lines and pouring points, she was also able to get different and diverse surfaces. By using sponge models and dipping them into especially composed porcelain mix the mold was eliminated from the process and a new kind of surface was created.
“Schwarzes Gold” wants to make people think. It wants to remind customers that an energy-efficient light bulb is not enough to make a lamp eco-friendly. The dark coal material wants people to think about whether their energy comes from coal or renewable resources, since this is also a vital part of the eco-friendliness of a lamp.
In observation of traces, the work “THE PRESENCE OF ABSENCE” by graduate Milena Kling emphasizes the potential of the invisible, which stimulates our imagination. The project present new haptic and visual qualities by reinterpreting common production strategies of mouth-blown glass.
Hatching from the egg, the birth and awakening of a chicken ready to face the real hard life after a formation and maturation process . A similar process as a student designer, for this reason the Award Ei! has born.
Steven Visser is a recent graduate from the Artez academy in Arnhem. He created the collection ‘A Gentleman’s Thing’ because he felt that today’s street wear in certain ways mirrors the efforts for self presentation of the gentleman from back in the days.
Ou pack project by Jonas Feliu Rodriguez was born from the idea of a closer packaging to the consumer, which is not limited to package the product itself: it must project a set of values that have often been forgotten or disused when packaging design: the ritual, the stimulation and pleasure, reconciliation of body and mind, animism and food as primary need. It is a new way to understand the packaging and how it interacts with food and the consumer.
Can the sound of a roaring lion or the movement of your child’s first steps be rendered in shapes? Bram Amendt has designed Life – Patterns – Objects: an interactive installation that cuts out shapes dictated by sounds or moving images. The user supplies a video that’s meaningful to them, which in turn will be transformed into a physical shape.
I grew up in Qasaba, Kabul. My family moved there when I was 5, and at the time there were several wars going on. My brother Mahmud and I we played every day on the fields surrounded with the highest mountains in our neighbourhood.
Through the use of simple hand tools, this fun worktop breaks down the production process of animal toys manufactured from expanded foam. Cutting, gluing, filling and observing the animals takes shape before your very eyes.
Using a surface transfer method known as “marbling”, the Marbelous transforms simple objects by coating them with a thin layer of marbled motifs. With a few drops of paint, surprising colour effects are transferred to metallic mirrors, giving your reflection an unexpected impression.
Swing is a giant punch that transforms pieces of stretch tarpaulin into extendable openwork sacks. The items
are produced by the weight of the user who, gyrating, executes a production movement resembling
a dance step.
Stamp is a production line that converts simple plastic trellis into portable lamps. The steps in the manufac- turing process are carried out along a rail: the plastic is heated, shaped, and finally crimped over an inexpensive bulb. The result of this ingenious production is a portable lamp complete with a graphic lightweight shade.
The “Original Stools” are produced in an unique process which is based on interaction & serendipity. The objects are manufactured with a solid hollow orb which houses a flexible silicone mould of the Stool. Resin is filled into the silicone form in the orb.
Cheap household appliances such as kettles, coffee makers or toasters, are typical of goods that are thrown away while in perfect working order. But, even when damaged, the electrical components unlike the casing are easily fixable; therefore, landfill sites are increasingly becoming sources of viable and perfectly working complex electrical and electronic components. Moreover, these same components represent a major waste problem, due to their composite and toxic nature.
For the exhibition The Machine ‘Computer Augmented Craft’ was turned from a simulation into an executable digital interface. Which recommends decisions to the designer whilst he/she works.
The Areniscos project is a perfect example of methodology as Victor Castanera embarks on a process of shaping the sand by pouring water. A simple process that creates an organic and somewhat improvised collection of plates, cups and trays that is light and beautiful in form. Areniscos demonstrates an integrated object that speaks to nature and to each one of us.
In a factory, overproduction is common. In between shifts, plastic is dripping on the floor. Instead of this, Ruben Thier created containers for under every extruder. By this, the plastic is collected as an overproduction archive.
“Respond” is an interactive coat rack, which moves when a coat is hung on it. It is an ingenious weight system, using precision carpentry and the element of surprise. After all, surprise arouses curiosity, and curiosity can lead you to the pleasure of understanding.
PulpLamp is a collection of lamps made solely of paper paste from recycled newspapers, which thus acquire a second life. They are not standard models, each new creation will have a new shape, color and texture. All the shapes are made with inflatable molds, which makes it possible to deform them and make each one unique.
Nature Aided Design Lab creates unique street furniture pieces using the power and variability of the Thames in London, one of only two tidal rivers in the UK. A flexible mould containing a concrete mixture is attached to floating buoys and shaped using the tidal forces and currents.
Sous les pavés, la plage is a Project where experimentation with process and material is a central theme in the work of Marlies van Putten. From Royal Art Academy in The Hague (The Netherlands) she presents her research into the production of organic forms by means of a special technique to cast aluminium.
Foam party is one of those projects that perfectly define our vision and brand identity. At The Method Case we usually affirm that we cannot only judge a project because of its final result. Rather, we do believe in designing the process, which will contribute to the outcome. Foam party is a project where Martijn Rigthers designed a process that is partially controlled by him, partly by the visitor.
Based on the simplicity, experimental and creating a new experience in everyday activities, young basque designer Mikel Garate, recent graduated at the School of Design ELISAVA (2010, Barcelona) presents “Haz Puff”
This new production system treats the Royal College of Art as an experimental site for demonstrating these principles. It uses waste from the various departments of the school for a local pencil factory that will supply drawing tools to present and future students.
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