& Design Drift

xFragile Future is about the amalgamation of nature and technology. In the distant future these two extremes have made a pact to survive. Fragile Future combines an electronical system with real dandelions in a lightsculpture that is predestined to overgrow a surface. Electronics are driven by the natural survival instincts.

The Ghost Chair is a futuristic concept of a chair, 3-dimensionally captured within the boundaries of reality.  The inner Ghost is made up out of millions of little air bubbles, you see the image of the ghost when light reflects on them.

We designed futuristic concepts of chairs that can not exist yet. By doing this we captured the Future ghosts of our imagination. Combining two new production techniques, we are able to design every possible shape the human brain can imagine.

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& Honeycomb Morphologies

The Honeycomb Morphologies Project is based on the desire to form an integrated and generative design strategy using a biomimetic approach to architectural design and fabrication

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& emily ann nachison

"used netting, camouflage netting, latex paint, spray paint, crystals, zip ties, and string to create this seriously heavenly installation."

& Noriko Ambe

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& Radiation Invasion Collection

london ENGLAND
dazed DIGITAL: what was the main inspiration for the s/s 10 collection?
iris VAN HERPEN: my “radiation invasion” collection is about all the invisible radiation waves around us. are we going to be able to see them in the future, and what do they do with our bodies? will beauty change then? in the collection i answer these question with my imagination and translate them into 11 looks to show different impacts on our body and our beauty.

dD: as always, your clothes were beautifully intricate – is craftsmanship your main driving force?
i V H: they were all one-off pieces. for me the ultimate challenge within a collection is to make opposites fit well together and to create a futuristic elegance, but at the same time a craft look.
dD: there was a strong futuristic feeling about the collection – is that an accurate description of your work in general?
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i V H: yes, there is always some futurism in my work. i like unanswered questions in my concepts, which you can find in future. futurism gives spaceto my imagination and doubts. so, together with craftsmanship and special materials, i create my own personal world.
dD: does practicability and functionality not interest you?
i V H: for me, beauty is a function as well!

& Outdoor Fireplace

Outdoor Fireplace by Haugen/Zohar Architects

Posted: 05 Jan 2010 02:48 PM PST

Haugen/Zohar Architects have designed an outdoor fireplace in Trondheim, Norway.
Full description after the photos….

Photography by Grethe Fredriksen & Jason Havneraas

Outdoor Fireplace by Haugen/Zohar Architects

Together with the standard playground facilities we wished to combine an enclosed space for fire, storytelling and playing.

Given a very limited budget, reusing leftover materials (from a nearby construction site) was a starting point that led the design to be based on short wooden pieces. Inspired by the Norwegian turf huts and old log construction, a 5,2×4,5 meters wooden construction was built and mounted on a lighted and brushed concrete base. The structure is made of 80-layered circles. The circles have varied radiuses and relative centre point in relation to each other. Every circle is made out of 28 pieces of naturally impregnated core of pine that are placed with varied spaces to assure chimney effect and natural  light.
Oak separators differentiate vertically between the pine pieces to assure airflow allowing easy drying of the pine pieces.
A double curved sliding door was designed for locking the structure.

Visit the website of Haugen/Zohar Architects – here.

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& Crocheted Lamps

Young Designer Ka-Lai Chan, a 2009 graduate from the School of Arts in Utrecht, The Netherlands, has sent us photos of her ‘In de knoop’ lights.
Ka-Lai says:

The idea is brought up by designing a lamp with the basic materials of a bulb connector and an electric cable. This lamp has been created by using a single electric cable, the lamp shade itself is created by incorporating a combined crochet and knitting techniques. Each lamp is unique and handmade.

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& Frost Inspired Chair

Korean designer HwaSung Yoo of Mars has designed a table and chair made of extruded aluminium with a cross-section inspired by frost patterns.

"HwaSung Yoo (Mars) – Frost
Our fraught world of mass-production proves innovation is not always an invention of something new. HwaSung Yoo takes an artistic approach to re-innovate the common, existing technology of mass-production with a poetic twist. Through today’s technological precision of extrusion moulding, frostlike patterns are created as cogs for constructing furniture with an added ability to adjust parts and create different variations.I humbly believe that project ‘Frost’ was challenge for creation. It would be challenge of machine-made to hand-made. I hoped to show that common industrial mass production ways are possible to be an artistic creation as well, depend on how we control and use them. Of course, they still involved their own functional strength as parts of machine.
Pattern of the Frost
This frost pattern is inspired from the phenomenon of freezing.
It is a modernizing of ancient patterns, which mostly decorate ancient wooden furniture itself. In other words, Frost pattern is presenting how modernize ancient decoration of furniture with the common technology of mass-production. Through this modernizing, a pattern has gotten a function, which is combining each other.
A pattern of the Frost is expressing emotional aesthetic and providing fulfilled function for constructing furniture.
Repeated patterns extend space and purpose.
Approaching to innovation and creating with a poetic twist connecting between modern and ancient, decoration and function and artistic and engineering."
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