2009年3月19日 星期四

Design Indaba videos: 5.5 designers


About 5.5 designers:

Since 2003, 5.5 designers have established an enviable reputation, being awarded the Grand Prix de la Création by the Paris City Council after just three years of business. Far from focusing only on shaping objects, 5.5 designers enforce a conceptual rigour that sees them permanently question their design status. As such, they continually seek to create honest and accessible consumption alternatives that sublimate the ordinary.

Using this approach – together with humour and simplicity – their work has been sought out by a host of brands and editors, be it for luxury or mass production. The team comprises Vincent Baranger, Anthony Lebossé, Claire Renard and Jean-Sébastien Blanc.

http://www.dezeen.com

2009年3月14日 星期六

Concrete disk redsign


Concrete disk redsign
我在Core77網站所舉辦的Greener Gadgets Design Competition同樣地也找到了類似的水泥產品:Harddrive,這位美國的設計師強調,用混凝土之類的天然材料能夠取代破壞環境的ABS等塑料,事實上混凝土在凝固的過程會釋放二氧化碳、甲烷等溫室氣體,在某種條件之下不符合Green Design的標準,這倒也無所謂,許多人也肯定新材料的作法,甚至這位設計師還真的做了模子翻出精美的Harddrive模型。
我不擔心自己的破爛Concrete disk概念與harddrive強碰,concrete disk強調透過實體的量感來詮釋抽象讀數位資料,同時將類比的memory記憶在水泥的表面上,像個考古學家一般解讀這支隨身碟一生的遭遇。


參考網頁:

http://www.core77.com/greenergadgets/index.php

Hvnsight

就從這裡開始吧