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Pickwick innovatie via RedesignMe

Pickwick nodigt designers en theedrinkers uit om mee te denken over het kopje thee van morgen. De thee-expert gaat inzichten en ideeën van consumenten en ontwerpers verzamelen via het online Open Innovation Platform van RedesignMe. Dit platform is voor Pickwick een nieuwe manier om te zoeken naar inzichten over thee en het bekende theemerk.

Innovatie is belangrijk voor een succesvol merk als Pickwick. De introductie van Fruit Wellness, de 100% natuurlijke fruitthee is hier een mooi voorbeeld van en kwalitatief onderzoek via online platforms, ook wel co-creatie genoemd, past goed bij het merk. Consumenten en ontwerpers kunnen hun wensen en ideeën delen, waardoor er producten ontstaan die nog beter aansluiten bij de wensen en behoeften van theedrinkers. Via Pickwick Challenge kunnen consumenten en designers al hun ideeën en wensen kwijt voor het kopje thee van morgen.

Pickwick is een van de grote merken van Sara Lee en is sinds jaar en dag marktleider in Nederland met thee. Het merk werd in 1937 in Nederland opgericht en is nu te vinden in vele landen over de hele wereld. Het merk staat bekend om zijn vele verschillende soorten thee voor consument, kantoor, instelling, hotel, restaurant en café.

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Sabin+Jones: LabStudio

In 2007 Jenny E. Sabin and Peter Lloyd Jones initiated LabStudio, a hybrid research and design unit based within the Institute for Medicine & Engineering, the School of Design and the Nonlinear Systems Organization at The University of Pennsylvania.

Within the Sabin+Jones LabStudio, architects, mathematicians, materials scientists and cell biologists are actively collaborating to develop, analyze and abstract dynamic, biological systems through the generation and design of new tools. These new approaches for modeling complexity and visualizing large datasets are subsequently applied to both architectural and biomedical research and design. The real and virtual world that LabStudio occupies has already offered radical new insights into generative and ecological design within architecture, and it is providing new ways of seeing and measuring how dynamic living systems are formed and operate during development and in disease.

Overall, the Mission of LabStudio is to produce new modes of thinking, working and creating in design and biomedicine through the modeling of dynamic, multi-dimensional systems with experiments in biology, applied mathematics, fabrication and material construction.

Source: Sabin+Jones

Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec: Clouds for Kvadrat

The ground-breaking textile company Kvadrat is introducing another new design that revolutionises the use of textiles. Clouds is not about furniture or curtains. It is an innovation in interior design: a new typology developed by the brothers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec.

Anders Byriel, CEO of Kvadrat, says that the soft textiles are making a comeback in the public space and in private homes. For many years there has been a trend of using fewer and fewer textiles. Curtains and carpets have vanished, and even our chairs have wicker seats and backs. Interior design has focused on glass, concrete, stone and wood, all of which are attractive yet hard materials. But this trend is turning now as more and more people discover that the soft materials are not just soft to the touch, but also have an aesthetic beauty and significant impact on sound in our rooms. In fact, we have realised in recent years how important the sound level is to our everyday well-being, says Anders Byriel.

See also Wallpaper Magazine January 2009

Source: Dezeen

Resurrecting Leonardo’s Great Lady: A Collaboration

Sculptor Marilène Oliver and cardiothoracic surgeon Francis Wells collaborated to deconstruct Leonardo da Vinci’s drawing The Great Lady in order to reconstruct it as a three-dimensional sculpture. Employing lessons learned from contemporary radiology, they simulated cross sections of The Great Lady that were drawn in pen and ink onto a stack of acrylic sheets.

Here Oliver and Wells give independent accounts of the project, not only sharing how their relationship with Leonardo’s drawing evolved over the course of the project but also exposing the differences in approach by the scientist and the artist to a science-art project.

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• See also Wikipedia Leonardo da Vinci

Marilène Oliver: Exhausted Figure (Engraved acrylic and fishing wire. 170 x 55 x 35cm)

Source: Leonardo Magazine

Ilona Huvenaars en Willem Derks: Knitted Vase

Finally a vase you can leave on the table. The Knitted Vase will adapt to the single beautiful rose or the bunch of wildflowers instead of the other way around. The flowers determine the shape and the flexible neck will seamlessly wrap itself around them. Just like the snug fit of a finely knitted sweater. Thanks to the Rapid Manufacturing technique this vase will not drop a single stitch.

Source: Ilona Huvenaars

(Knitted vase, Ilona Huvenaars en Willem Derks)

Lars Spuybroek: Mylight

The mylight’ lamp – limited edition of 24 unique pieces. We can now print an object directly from digital information – molds will just disappear. People have no idea yet what an incredible change in technology that is. And what that means for design. All design will become meta-design: objects can now be a range-of-objects like in a family or a species. Not one is the same, but they are similar enough to be recognised. They can be big on top, big in the middle, or big below. They can have many holes or just a few. But they will always be private, each lamp you buy is different from the other, it’s unique. – Lars Spuybroek

Lars Spuybroek has won several prizes and has exhibited all over the world, among them presentations at several Venice Biennales, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Victoria & Albert in London and the Guggenheim Bilbao. He is a professor and the ventulett distinguished chair in architectural design at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta USA.

Source: Unicahome

Sander Mulder: Eureka Light

Sander Mulder (Veldhoven) did the Eureka Light, a flat pack light bulb, though not quite credit card sized. Made from a laser cut sheet of aluminum, in combination with a high power led, this clever designed lamp operates on 2 button cells. As a design object in traditional postcard format, it can be shipped by regular mail to your family, friends and relations. Made from off-the-shelves parts, combined with a sheet of aluminum in a clever way, it transforms with one single twist into an ambient lighting fixture.

Source: Ponoko Blog

Jeth Koh: Lamp Chop

Jeth Koh set out to design a contemporary mood light that requires a minimum of material and easy production. Koh stripped back the design, chopping off unnecessary parts of a traditional lamp and redefining the functions of the different parts of the lamp. 

Lamp Chop is laser cut from a single piece of sheet metal and folded to form a wall hanging lamp. While it resembles the silhouette of a traditional lamp the stand and base is re-functioned into the bulb holder. I like the efficiency of this design, the minimal material use and a minimum number of cuts and the way it reminds me of pop-up books. It’s the kind of design you look at and think to yourself why didn’t I think of that?

Source: Ponoko Blog

Matthew Ritchie: The Evening Line

The Evening Line is the result of a three year collaboration between artist Matthew Ritchie, architects Benjamin Aranda et Chris Lasch and engineers at Arup AGU. It is both an autonomous and site-specific structure conceived for the Venice Biennial 2008 and a fragment of a much larger structure - potentially the size of the universe, through the application of fractal geometry: The Morning Line currently on view at the Contemporary Art Biennial of Seville. Both constructions are infinitely modular, they are built from a single shape called the bit that derives from a truncated tetrahedron.

Made of laser-cut aluminum modules, the architectural structure reflects Ritchie’s attempts to reflect the vastness of the universe. The Evening Line has no single way in or out, no beginning or end, no single narrative, only movements around multiple centers. Its modular units can increase or decrease around a fixed ratio, they can also expand or contract in any size or direction. See also this video in which Matthew Ritchie makes it almost crystal-clear.

The Evening Line is on view at the Arsenale, Venice Biennale until November 23rd, 2008.

Source: We make money not art

Studio OOOMS: Neck-lace

Commisioned by De Hub, and in cooperation with TNO, Studio OOOMS is working on a product manufactured by rapid manufacturing. The design is based on the idea that using RM is still a relatively expensive technique. In order to get the most out of this, Studio OOOMS  designed something that can be made when its small, but can be a lot bigger when in use. Inspired by a ordinary paper party banner, the result became a necklace made in one piece.

Source: Studio OOOMS

Thomas Linssen: Hypernurbs

Selective  Laser Sintering (SLS) maakt het voor Thomas Linssen van Studio Thol mogelijk om van een computertekening een tastbaar product te maken. Met Hypernurbs is het niet bij het uitprinten van de computertekening gebleven, ook het gevoel van de computerwereld is tastbaar gemaakt.

Lonneke Gordijn & Ralph Nauta: The Ghost

The Ghost is a futuristic concept of a chair, 3-dimensionally captured within the boundaries of reality. It gives you a bit of a dramatic feeling: unbelievable, high-tech, but beautiful. The ghost is designed by Lonneke Gordijn en Ralph Nauta. Together they run a studio called Design Drift.

The material shape is kept very uniform to remain a big contrast with the organic shapes inside. We sketched a futuristic concept of a chair that can not exist yet. By doing this we deliberate our design from the trend of stereotypical baroque forms. Nowadays anything is possible with 3D computerprograms (you can even draw the impossible) so why fall back on the awkward design language of your grandma’s furniture? With the Ghost Chair we want to make clear that it is time to free ourselves of old styles and trends and to start designing our own future.

It is a very new and exclusive product using the latest production techniques. The chairs are handmade with the best materials and specialists from Europe, therefore they will be very suitable for high end purposes. We can make every chair unique on the inside! There are also possibilities to customize the design of the inside ghost in consultation with the designers. The Salone del Mobile Milan 2008 was the kick off the ghost collection. The collection will excist of eight different (table)chairs, two different armchairs and a stools.

Source: Dezeen

Wouter Scheublin: Printed Toy Cars

Selectieve Laser Sintering techniek maakt het mogelijk om een compleet mechaniek in een keer te vervaardigen. Het laagje voor laagje aan elkaar gesmolten nylon poeder omvat tandwielen, assen en een spiraalveer die na wegblazen van het losse poeder direct in actie kunnen komen. Het nietsverhullende ontwerp van Wouter Scheublin toont de fascinerende techniek van het opwindmechaniek. 

Royal College of Art: Ontwerp het onmogelijke

Studenten van het Royal College of Art in Londen kregen de gelegenheid om hun ideeën met 3D printing om te zetten naar daadwerkelijke objecten. De opzet van het project: creëer geen prototypes maar objecten die je op geen enkele andere manier kunt maken.

De resultaten varieerden van een prachtige afbreekkalender, een werkend pistool tot en met een 3D-spelletje. Je laat een kogel in de mond van een speelgoedfiguurtje glijden en probeert deze via tunneltjes weer uit het oog te laten rollen.

Bron: Bright

Lux Merx: Damned

This lampshade appears as a hovering mass of ornaments, opulent and bombastic. when viewed more closely it dissolves into single bodies, which are twisted in fear and seem to be frozen in mid-fall. their rhythmic order becomes slightly perplexing and finally renders the bodies an ornament. softly, the fleshy parts of the bodies, legs and stomachs reflect the light. because of the shadows the bodies cast on themselves, only parts of them appear in the foreground. only fragments of the lit interior of the lamp are distinguishable. the aspects of the lit core change dramatically whenever the observer changes his position. these movements of the observer transform the stiff bodies into dynamic objects. the association with the fall of the damned - a metaphor for guilt and punishment - gives the lamp a certain amount of ambivalence: is it a moralistic message, an act of formalism or both? the design of this lamp undermines several taboos imposed on design in the 20th century: it is figurative, ornamental and narrative.

Source: Unicahome