Posts Tagged ‘product’

Airtecture

Building with air, the most natural of all materials, is a special challenge because air-inflated components are used in place of the usual load-bearing components. The idea behind Airtecture is based on mechanically pre tensioned membrane constructions that have been used for several interesting buildings...

September 17th, 2009 | textile | Read More

City Servings

City Servings are bowls made from metal washers and discs reclaimed from former industrial uses. Artist Tammy Roy crafts each bowl by hand, welding collections of the flat metal objects together to form graceful, shallow vessels. In her careful repurposing of common industrial materials bound for disposal,...

September 15th, 2009 | metals | Read More

spOre

Tom Gordon and Ted Pierson designed the spOre buttons for their own homes, intending to make a positive first impression on visitors. spOre doorbell buttons are unusual in their use of energy-efficient LEDs as a light source. The transparent resin button provides soft tactile feedback, and the button...

September 9th, 2009 | light | Read More

Lighttex

When used as a window and skylight covering, the polyester-based Lighttex panel blocks and redistributes direct sunlight more effectively than vertical or horizontal blinds and creates diffused interior daylight with improved uniformity. Lighttex walls and space partitions enable daylight penetration...

September 8th, 2009 | textile | Read More

Papton

Papton is a lightweight chair that emerges like origami from a folded composite panel. For their design of the chair, Fuchs + Funke sought to obtain maximum stability with minimum weight as well as unlimited functionality and sculptural form. The chair is therefore the result of a simple polygonal pattern,...

September 7th, 2009 | paper | Read More

Temporal Light

Rachel Wingfield’s Temporal Light is a tiling system designed to illuminate public and private spaces. The system utilizes knitted electroluminescent wire cast in resin with electronics. Each tile forms a pixel that responds to a moving shadow being cast upon it, mapping a physical pathway with an...

September 2nd, 2009 | light | Read More

Elumin8

Elumin8 technology consists of applying electricity to copper dipped in zinc sulfate ink, which then emits light. This is applied using a silkscreen process to an indium tin oxide–splattered substrate. In essence, a LEC, or light emitting capacitor, is created. The light emitted is cold, since the...

August 23rd, 2009 | feature, light | Read More

Interactive Shop Window

Designed by Sensing Places’s Flavia Sparacino, the Interactive Shop Window is an installation driven by the movement of people walking in the street. The setup includes a large and bright LCD (or LED) display placed inside the shop window facing outside towards the street. A wide-angle video camera...

August 22nd, 2009 | interactive | Read More

Texlon

Foiltec’s Texlon foil system offers designers new opportunities in the development of climatic and transparent envelopes. The system can be engineered to virtually any size or shape and can incorporate variable solar and thermal controls, enabling the envelope to be tuned to the ideal climatic or programmatic...

August 19th, 2009 | feature, plastic | Read More

Membrane

Membrane is a steel chaise longue that is virtually transparent. A single thread of stainless steel is wound in a continuous spiral, and then a force of twenty-eight tons is applied slowly and strategically to create its simple supine form. Surface and structure are one: there is no chassis; it is a...

August 18th, 2009 | feature, metals | Read More