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Design student Matthias Brandmaier spent three days in the woods carving a replica Verner Panton chair out of a tree trunk using a chainsaw.

The chair, which weights 30 kilograms, is carved from a single piece of beechwood, but Brandmaier claims it is comfortable to sit on: “Most time was spent on carving the seat and the backrest to guarantee a comfortable chair,” he says.

Reproducing the form of the classic moulded-plastic Panton Chair in solid wood “seemed a stupid and very uneconomic idea at first,” Brandmaier admits, but he did it in order to explore what would happen when a product is reproduced in a different material.

“It was meant to be a unique piece of furniture and I planned in advance how to use the rest of the wood in other objects and sculptures,” Brandmaier says, adding that the copyright of the original chair was not a concern to him. “The translation to the material wood is of course very opposite to the thin plastic shells of the 60s and required a very different structural form, from where a new chair evolved. Therefore I did not worry about the copyright.”

“As this approach seems pretty wasteful on the material, this method of production is of course only possible in a small scale manufacturing, where the redundant wood was used for other objects and sculptures,” adds Brandmaier, who is a student of architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. “The Wooden Panton is a single object, which explores the change of forms according to different materials.”

The classic S-shaped Panton Chair, designed by Danish designer Verner Panton, went into production with Vitra in 1967. The chair, featuring a cantilevered seat and made from a single moulded component, has been made of various plastics over the years. It was originally made of fibreglass-reinforced polyester, then from polystyrene and later polyurethane. Today the chair is moulded in polypropylene.

Besides his architectural studies, Brandmaier produces unique pieces of furniture from found objects combined with wood, steel and concrete. See more of his work on his website: www.matthiasbrandmaier.de

A couple of years ago designer Peter Jakubik also used a chainsaw to carve the rough shape of the same Panton chair. See all our stories about chair design »

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Digital fashion keeps cropping up on Dezeen, so here’s a round-up of our stories about experimental technology in clothes and accessories.

A pair of dresses by Ying Gao are embedded with eye-tracking technology, so they writhe and glow in the dark in response to a viewer’s gaze. She has also created garments that unfurl in reaction to light and clothes that move as if they’re breathing.

Studio Roosegarde created a series of dresses containing electrically-sensitive foils that become opaque or transparent according to alterations in voltage, so increased heart rate makes them see through.

3D-printing is becoming more prevalent in fashion design and Iris van Herpen regularly incorporates the technology into her work, such as the dresses in her most recent collection shown earlier this year that combine hard and soft materials for the first time.

She told us about how printing and scanning technologies are transforming the fashion industry in an interview for our 3D-printing magazine Print Shift.

Accessories are also following the trend, exemplified by 3D-printed shoes with a hollow heel modelled on a bird’s skull and a range of spectacles and sunglasses by Ron Arad printed in one piece.

Spinning LEDs formed a hat in Philip Treacy’s show last September and outfits in Hussein Chalayan’s Spring Summer 2008 collection emitted laser beams, which were both created in collaboration with Moritz Waldemeyer.

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These portraits of electronic musicians and DJs by Spanish illustrator and designer Alex Trochut show one image during the day and another at night.

Alex Trochut screenprinted two different images onto the same surface using black and phosphorescent ink in a checkerboard grid of tiny squares. When seen in the light the portrait printed in black is visible, but if viewed in the dark a different image suddenly appears.

Trochut told Dezeen that he developed the technique first and then decided on a suitable subject matter: “I thought that if I could show two different images it made sense to work on the idea of there being two sides to someone’s personality.”

The portraits reflect the notion that the musicians and DJs depicted, including Four Tet, Acid Pauli and Damian Lazarus, transform and come alive at night.

Binary Prints was first shown earlier this month at Sónar+D, the innovation and technology area at the Sónar arts and music festival in Barcelona, where many of the musicians have previously played.

Trochut initially used the idea of a camouflaged image for the cover of his monograph More is More, which featured a hidden pattern printed in glow-in-the-dark ink.

A concept for glow-in-the-dark roads was presented at Design Indaba in Cape Town earlier this year and we previously featured a book with a glow-in-the-dark cover and spine that was displayed in a room where the lights turned on and off automatically.

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Recently launched at Sonar Music Festival, Binary Prints by illustrator and designer Alex Trochut, is an ingenious technique that he’s invented to allow him to illustrate two completely different images on the same surface, one visible by day the other only visible by night.

For his first series Trochut has teamed up with some of the biggest names in electronic music such as James Murphy, Four Tet, Damian Lazarus, John Talabot and many more to create a series of portraits that explore the people behind the music.

These nocturnal images wake up when the lights go out, just as DJs come alive at night, they glow in the dark to reveal a nocturnal persona, an icon of music and sound.

The inaugural exhibition of Binary Prints will present this first series of DJ portraits, which will continuously grow as more artists are added and the show continues to tour music festivals and galleries around the world.

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