Posts Tagged ‘product’

Vy & Elle

Vinyl billboards are used nationwide as temporary banner advertisements and are usually discarded into landfills where they create toxic pollution. Upset by this wasteful practice, Nicola Freegard and Robin Janson founded Vy & Elle in 2002 in order to transform this landfill-bound material into durable...

October 5th, 2006 | plastic | Read More

PixelSkin02

PixelSkin02 explores new possibilities in media augmented surfaces by employing the mechanical properties inherent in shape memory alloys (SMA). In an attempt to bridge the gap between “lifeless” facade automation systems and highly expressive yet functionally thin media facades, Orangevoid’s Sachin...

October 1st, 2006 | feature, metals | Read More

16pxl Board

The 16PXL Board RGB is a versatile, multiple-LED panel designed for interior display applications. The board unveils its full potential when placed behind semi-translucent materials or fabrics, displaying any DMX/e:pix-input from graphics, text and medium resolution video content. The high performance...

September 21st, 2006 | light | Read More

Reckli Formliners

While fabrication of textured exposed-concrete surfaces using elastic formliners has been practiced worldwide for more than thirty-five years, Reckli Formliners offer a significant improvement. Made from an elastic polyurethane, the formliners allow the release of the formliner from the concrete without...

September 17th, 2006 | concrete | Read More

Magink Billboard

Magink Display Technologies, Inc. is the world’s first developer and provider of full color digital ink displays. Magink’s full-color digital ink is based on environmentally-friendly materials. Using proprietary technologies, magink manipulates the ink molecules to generate all colors of...

September 8th, 2006 | digital | Read More

Iconic Panels

One of the major outcomes of computer-driven fabrication technology is a renewed interest in ornament and pattern making. Products like Iconic Panels, which are carved relief panels that are typically seen at room-encompassing scales, are part ornament, part environmental graphics, and part basic building...

August 11th, 2006 | wood | Read More

X-Ray Lamp

Working long hours in the lab, cancer-immunology researcher Jahan Khalili was inspired one night to create light fixtures using x-ray film. Khalili wrapped DNA and proteomic x-ray film around a simple metal wire frame and hung the fixture from the ceiling and created the X-Ray Lamp. The typical lamp...

June 23rd, 2006 | light | Read More

Power Glass

XsunX has developed very thin translucent coatings and films that create large area monolithic solar cell structures. This semi-transparency makes their so-called Power Glass glazing desirable for placing over glass, plastics, and other see-through structures. Using patented processes, such as reel-to-reel...

May 18th, 2006 | feature, glass | Read More

Mind the Gap

Mind the Gap is an interconnected network of acrylic hexagonal boxes and strips applied in varying densities. Designer Ane Lykke uses these boxes as bricks to construct custom walls with specific depths and perspectives. The parallel layers and reflections on the acrylic surfaces create optical illusions...

May 12th, 2006 | plastic | Read More

Quiet Revolution

London-based XCO2 has developed an elegant vertical-axis wind turbine which is virtually silent and vibration free, and therefore ideally suited to both urban sites and exposed locations.The simple and robust design (patent pending) has just one moving part, maximizing reliability and minimizing maintenance...

April 21st, 2006 | metals | Read More