Speakers will search for a contemporary, practical definition of quality in Dutch fashion at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague (in Dutch).
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Premsela - Evolving Excellence
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Fri 23 Apr
Speakers will search for a contemporary, practical definition of quality in Dutch fashion at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague (in Dutch).
Speakers will search for a contemporary, practical definition of quality in Dutch fashion at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague (in Dutch).
Enabling: The Work of Minimaforms
Posted by reluct 10 hours ago (http://www.minimaforms.com)
The forthcoming exhibition Enabling: The Work of Minimaforms puts forward a series of direct questions: Can architecture facilitate new forms of communication? Can design enable? Can we construct models of interaction as forms of conversations? Using design as a mode of enquiry, the projects of experimental architecture and design studio Minimaforms explore these questions with the aim of opening up the discussion.
http://www.minimaforms.com/enabling/
http://www.minimaforms.com/enabling/
Joris Laarman Robots
Posted by reluct 10 hours ago (http://vimeo.com)
Asimov prototype chair miniature installation
Rapid manufacturing with sheet materials. Computational curved crease origami folded by robots in steel. With developments in origami mathematics, complex instructional diagrams, and technology, designs have taken on ever more sophisticated forms. One key has been the evolution of written instructions that compress hundreds of creases into a single diagram. Recently software has been developed with which curved crease origami can be folded in strong materials like aluminum or stainless steel using multiple robots. This technology allows us to create complex but elegantly shaped objects strong enough to be manufacture furniture in a matter of seconds. Our goal is to create a small production plant where the robots could fold on request at different places in the world.
http://www.jorislaarman.com
Rapid manufacturing with sheet materials. Computational curved crease origami folded by robots in steel. With developments in origami mathematics, complex instructional diagrams, and technology, designs have taken on ever more sophisticated forms. One key has been the evolution of written instructions that compress hundreds of creases into a single diagram. Recently software has been developed with which curved crease origami can be folded in strong materials like aluminum or stainless steel using multiple robots. This technology allows us to create complex but elegantly shaped objects strong enough to be manufacture furniture in a matter of seconds. Our goal is to create a small production plant where the robots could fold on request at different places in the world.
http://www.jorislaarman.com
Joris Laarman - Bookcase
Posted by reluct 11 hours ago (Editorial)
IN CASE OF A THOUSAND BOOKS:
Originally designed as a special commission for a private collector this is an example of creating objects of an uncommon scale combining the craftsmanship of an architectural model maker and structural engineers. It is a 5.6 meter high bookstaircase in glass stainless steel and poly concrete partly made in the architectural model making workshop of Vincent de Rijk. The bookcase could contain as many books as an early E-reader which visualizes the disappearance of shape, volume and material in the digital world and somehow makes it a monument for ones treasured books and their smell, material, form and feel in general.
Originally designed as a special commission for a private collector this is an example of creating objects of an uncommon scale combining the craftsmanship of an architectural model maker and structural engineers. It is a 5.6 meter high bookstaircase in glass stainless steel and poly concrete partly made in the architectural model making workshop of Vincent de Rijk. The bookcase could contain as many books as an early E-reader which visualizes the disappearance of shape, volume and material in the digital world and somehow makes it a monument for ones treasured books and their smell, material, form and feel in general.
Joris Laarman In Vitro
Posted by reluct 11 hours ago (http://vimeo.com)
HALF LIFE LAMP
And there was light...
Inspired by recent artworks on the edge of arts and genomics the motivation behind this project is to set up a larger open lab in collaboration with university of Twente and Leiden in The Netherlands to study in vitro manufacturable products open to many motivated designers. This could lead to a whole new world of objects, products and production methods with new formal languages that are unknown until now. Using the beauty and efficiency of biological growth this could revolutionize the way we manufacture objects and might find solutions to the drain of natural resources.
This lamp is half made of living organism and half made of non living material and recently died. It was born on February 23 in a Dutch tissue culture laboratory. On the video Half life radiated brightly when it was in healthy conditions. The cells responsible for the emission of light in the hood of the lamp originally stem from a Chinese hamster. In 1957 these CHO c
And there was light...
Inspired by recent artworks on the edge of arts and genomics the motivation behind this project is to set up a larger open lab in collaboration with university of Twente and Leiden in The Netherlands to study in vitro manufacturable products open to many motivated designers. This could lead to a whole new world of objects, products and production methods with new formal languages that are unknown until now. Using the beauty and efficiency of biological growth this could revolutionize the way we manufacture objects and might find solutions to the drain of natural resources.
This lamp is half made of living organism and half made of non living material and recently died. It was born on February 23 in a Dutch tissue culture laboratory. On the video Half life radiated brightly when it was in healthy conditions. The cells responsible for the emission of light in the hood of the lamp originally stem from a Chinese hamster. In 1957 these CHO c
Joris Laarman Paper Starlings
Posted by reluct 11 hours ago (http://vimeo.com)
PAPER STARLINGS:
Originally proposed to the Guggenheim for the Contemplating the Void exhibition, starlings is an interactive installation containing 2000 architypical paper planes autonomously flying in a gracious organic ballet remotely guided by a high tech indoor gps system. These planes can either fly as an interactive swarm that reacts on inteference with the public or be guided in a pre- determined choreography. The planes are motorized as micro robotics with radio transmitters and carry a tiny battery. When a battery is empty the plane lands on a large ground platform and is charged automatically. When the battery is re-charged the plane lifts off to join the rest of the swarm again.
Imagine controlling your own swarm of paper planes...
This collaboration was made possible by a company called United states of entertainment and asctec in Germany. This project has been proposed to the Guggneheim for the Contemplating the Void exhibition.
http://www.jorislaarman.com
Originally proposed to the Guggenheim for the Contemplating the Void exhibition, starlings is an interactive installation containing 2000 architypical paper planes autonomously flying in a gracious organic ballet remotely guided by a high tech indoor gps system. These planes can either fly as an interactive swarm that reacts on inteference with the public or be guided in a pre- determined choreography. The planes are motorized as micro robotics with radio transmitters and carry a tiny battery. When a battery is empty the plane lands on a large ground platform and is charged automatically. When the battery is re-charged the plane lifts off to join the rest of the swarm again.
Imagine controlling your own swarm of paper planes...
This collaboration was made possible by a company called United states of entertainment and asctec in Germany. This project has been proposed to the Guggneheim for the Contemplating the Void exhibition.
http://www.jorislaarman.com
Joris Laarman Particles
Posted by reluct 11 hours ago (http://vimeo.com)
STARLINGS AND CUMULUS TABLES
Inspired by the beauty of Dutch skies with its famous dramatic cloud formations, and ballets of starlings and light this project is focussing on creating self supporting sculptural objects based on particle behavior. Using 3D animation software of the film industry particle behavior can be simulated and stopped at any given moment in time after which it is generated into a self supporting structure of unpredictable shape and porosity.
http://www.jorislaarman.com
Inspired by the beauty of Dutch skies with its famous dramatic cloud formations, and ballets of starlings and light this project is focussing on creating self supporting sculptural objects based on particle behavior. Using 3D animation software of the film industry particle behavior can be simulated and stopped at any given moment in time after which it is generated into a self supporting structure of unpredictable shape and porosity.
http://www.jorislaarman.com
Joris Laarman Bone Furniture
Posted by reluct 11 hours ago (Editorial)
If evolution could create a chair... Generating constructions using the exact same principle as bone growth first developed by Claus Mattheck and further developed by Opel in Germany. The optimization video shows the concept that started in 2004 in colaboration with droog and friedman benda. For the first time the completed body of work is presented all together. The series contain the first aluminum chair, rubber chaise, marble/ resin armchair, marble/ resin rocker, tungsten/ aluminum table and bronze bookshelf.
http://www.jorislaarman.com
http://www.jorislaarman.com
Moulding Traditions by Formafantasm
Posted by reluct 12 hours ago (http://vimeo.com)
Formafantasma: Moulding Tradition.
http://www.formafantasma.com
Video by http://www.designguide.tv
http://www.formafantasma.com
Video by http://www.designguide.tv
Yves saint Laurent
Posted by Marly 13 hours ago (http://letthemeatcupcakes2.blogspot.com)
Yves saint Laurent cruise 2010
link http://letthemeatcupcakes2.blogspot.com/2009/10/ysl-cruise-2010.html
link http://letthemeatcupcakes2.blogspot.com/2009/10/ysl-cruise-2010.html
Where the wild things are
Posted by reluct 15 hours ago (http://www.openingceremony.us)
Where the wild things are collection at Opening Ceremony. Great stuff! And on sale right now. http://bit.ly/dvEvMt
SWATCH How we wear it
Posted by reluct 16 hours ago (http://www.vmagazine.com)
Battle of the glossies. Another Magazine, Nylon, Dazed, Wallpaper, V, I-D and Pop made an editorial with SWATCH 80s inspired Colour Codes Collection. Vote for your favorite magazine (V!!). http://www.vmagazine.com/page.php?pn=SWATCH
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