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Here’s some more nautical design from London designers PostlerFerguson (see their buoy-shaped lamps in our earlier story), this time a set of wooden toy ships.
Top: Container Ship
Above: Oil Tanker
Called Wooden Giants, the three toy boats are based on the three largest cargo ships in the world.
Above: Liquid Gas Tanker
The toys were shown as part of the London Design Festival show Translations in September.
Translations was curated by Oscar Diaz and presented each designer’s latest project alongside the object or image that originally inspired them – in this case a photograph of the world’s largest container ship.
Here’s some information from the designers:
Wooden Toy Ships by Postlerferguson
The Emma Maersk, Arctic Princess and TI Asia are three of the largest cargo ships in the world transporting goods over thousands of miles from continent to continent. From the crude oil pumped into the belly of the tanker in the south Chinese sea to the refinery which produces the main synthetic raw materials to be delivered to factories and manufacturers around the globe, these giant machines are an overlooked but integral part of our daily lives.
Behind the sheer gigantic complexity and abstraction of the global logistic system hides an intriguing beauty of radical functionality and almost organic, nerve-like organisation. We aim to translate its machine protagonists into a very familiar format of classic wooden toys and objects. Wooden toys were on the height of success in the middle of the last century and quickly got pushed aside by a tsunami of cheap plastic toys and now barely occupy a niche segment.
The Wooden Toy Ship mini-series is about reintroducing a sense of the grandeur of current technological feats to the wooden toy. The quality of the materials, reduced aesthetic and sense of technological optimism draw on the classic language of wood toys, while the updated subject matter introduces essential aspects of global modernism into the home.
‘Translations’ acknowledge the fact that objects are just a link on a chain of objects, and cannot be understood in isolation. The exhibition showcases new work by a group of young designers, which use a mix of intuition and observation as a primary tool to generate their ideas. What do they have in common a shovel and a range of outdoor lighting? You may ask. What about a pencil sharpener and an ashtray?
The link could be just a particular shape, a similar way of using them, or simply how the different materials are connected. The designers involved in ‘ Translations’ found inspiration for they projects on dented cars, a shovel, an ashtray, mailing envelopes, the world’s largest container ship, or a lab funnel, for example. In order to explain the designer’s thinking path, each prototype will be displayed alongside to the images or objects that inspired them. Translations’ intends to demystify the creative process by giving a rare insight into what inspire designers, and how they translate ideas into products.
Dimensions:
Container Ship:
800mm * 110mm
Birch
Liquid Gas Tanker:
590mm * 98mm
Ash
Oil Tanker:
750mm * 140mm
Maple
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London designers PostlerFerguson have created a collection of lamps shaped like nautical buoys.
Called Buoy Lamps, the pieces comprise wooden ribs bound together with rope.
PostlerFerguson presented the project at Mint shop as part of the London Design Festival in September.
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The following details are from the designers:
The Buoy Lamps are part of an ongoing investigation to the aesthetics of industrial technology. The most specific, highly engineered objects take functionality to an extreme which is no longer recognizable to the layperson. The odd shapes and brilliant colours of navigational buoys could just as well be from children’s’ toys, Christmas ornaments or giant jewellery.
Underneath the bizarre appearance, however, remains a pleasing materiality that is still comprehensible to the non-engineer upon inspection. There is a logic of balance, construction and materials that is curiously pleasurable, rewarding in its simplicity and inevitability.
The Buoy Lamps draw on these qualities, referencing various aspects of marine culture in their design and performance. Wooden ribs bound together by rope support central lights, balanced so that they can be jostled into different angles.
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French designer Nelly Ben Hayoun wants volunteers to live with a volcano in their lounge.
Called The Other Volcano, the project comprises a porcelain model of a volcano filled with explosives. Volunteers would plug the device into the mains and wait, knowing it could erupt at any time.
The volcano is currently on show in the windows of the Wellcome Trust in London.
Ben Hayoun developed the project in collaboration with volcano expert Carina Fearnley and explosives were created by designer Austin Houldsworth (more about his work here).
It was first presented at Sunbury Workshops during the London Design Festival last month. See all our stories about the festival in our special category.
The information that follows is from Nelly Ben Hayoun:
THE OTHER VOLCANO by Nelly Ben Hayoun
Do you want your everyday life to go with a BANG? Is being in the centre of one of the nature biggest spectacle of smoke, dust and lava will blow you up?
How would you deal with a live volcano in the middle of your living room? Would you ignore it? Would you wrap it up?
Come and experience a first ceramic version of my new project “The other volcano” developed in collaboration with with Austin Houlsdworth (explosive designer) and Carina Fearnley (volcanologist) a 1000 times scale down revival of the Mount St Helen’s explosion in the heart of Shoreditch, East London. It will be part of ‘Sunbury workshops Open studios’ during London Design Week from 18th to 26th September.
“The Other Volcano” aims to build a series of semi-domesticated volcanoes, to be housed for a couple of weeks in the living spaces of volunteers. These designed supra-natural objects will be large, reaching almost to the ceiling, imposing, and extremely inconvenient – erupting dust and gloop into the living rooms of volunteers seemingly at random.
“In order to make myself recognized by the Other, I must risk my own life” said Sartre. The Other Volcano imagines a love-hate relationship, a ’sleeping giant’ in the corner of your domestic environment, with the power to provoke excitement with its rumblings, and also perhaps fear (if not for one’s life in this case, then at least for the soft furnishings of one’s clean and neat ‘living’ room). It is a project that domesticates the most violent of natural processes, addressing and reinterpreting different natures. With The Other Volcano I will try to question the domestication of nature for entertainment purposes.
How would you deal with a live volcano in the middle of your living room? Would you try to destroy it? Would you just disconnect it from the mains? Would you be more popular because you share your life with a volcano? Would you invite people to see it, and switch it on at the end of the meal to create a ‘surprising’ effect? How will you feel when you will climb on top of it?
The Other Volcano relates very much to my preoccupation with the juxtaposition of the epic with banal details, the extreme with domestic.
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London Design Festival 2010: here are some photos and a video featuring designers including Richard Woods, Tord Boontje, Committee and artist Gavin Turk, who each created an installation in one day at the Established & Sons gallery during the London Design Festival last month.
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This movie by Gestalten TV documents the processes that unfolded each day and features interviews with each of the designers.
Photographs are by Nick Ballon.
Above: Richard Woods
The information that follows is from Established & Sons:
Established & Sons LIMITED
Established & Sons LIMITED presents ‘Design Against The Clock’ a series of live design performances at the Mayfair gallery.
Above: Tord Boontje and RCA students
A selection of key design figures, reflective of London’s creativity including artist Richard Woods, design duo Committee and sculpture and artist Gavin Turk will work onsite to produce works reflective of their individual design practices.
Above: Gavin Turk
Each finished piece will be exhibited daily at Established & Sons LIMITED. Established & Sons LIMITED will also act as a Design Café for the duration of the Festival, where food and drink will be served and guests can enjoy browsing a Gestalten bookstore.
Above: Gavin Turk
A variety of pieces from Established & Sons Collections, including Estd by Established & Sons, will be showcased and limited edition posters will be on sale.
Above and top: Committee
Above: Committee
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London designer Samuel Wilkinson created these mouth-blown glass lamps specifically to house the Plumen 001 low-energy light bulbs released by Hulger last month (see our earlier story).
Called Vessel Series 01-03, the designs produced by British brand Decode feature three different cuts, allowing them to be suspended or laid on a table.
The product was launched at The Tramshed and 100% Design during the London Design Festival last month.
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The text that follows is from Wilkinson:
Vessel Series 01-03 by Samuel Wilkinson for Decode
Samuel Wilkinson presents his new Vessel series under Decode’s ‘Exclusive’ label. The series consists of three mouth blown forms cut across individual angles. Each looks to celebrate the bulb from a different perspective. The designs were produced specifically to complement the flowing forms of the recently launched Plumen 001, which Wilkinson designed with Hulger.
When illuminated the glass tint mutes the light without hiding the form and produces an unexpected irregular reflection that appears holographic.
The outer wall of the Vessels is pierced by a fluid machined aluminium form which holds the bulb in the centre of the volumes. Every piece is totally unique as they are all mouth blown by eye, without a mould, by a local master craftsman.
Of the three variations two can be either hung as a pendant or placed on a flat surface as a floor or table light. The angle cut form references the traditional type of ‘impossible bottle’ (ship in a bottle).
The series was previewed at 100% design and the Tramshed 2010. One variant has been donated to the Shoreditch Ball’s charity auction on October 15th conducted by Sotheby’s auctioneer Adrian Biddell. The design has been nominated for Best British Design 2010.
Samuel Wilkinson is an Industrial designer based in London. He has worked for several leading consultancies before setting up his own studio in 2007 where he continues to develop new projects. In 2008 Wilkinson completed his largest work, co- designing L’arbre de Flonville in Lausanne, Switzerland. It was the first of a few large projects to be completed as part of re- generation of an old industrial area, Le Flon. The work consists of a 16m sculptural metal tree surrounded by root benches.
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English furniture company Another Country launched their inaugural collection at The Tramshed as part of the London Design Festival last month.
The first series features ten wooden items, including stools, tables and benches, made at the firm’s workshop in Dorset, UK.
Designs are inspired by a mixture of British vernacular, Shaker, Scandinavian and Japanese woodwork.
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The information below is from Another Country:
A New Furniture Brand
Another Country makes contemporary craft furniture. Our designs are archetypal, calling on the familiar and unpretentious forms of British Country kitchen style, Shaker, traditional Scandinavian and Japanese woodwork. It is the spirit and functionality of these honest forms of furniture that Another Country endeavours to re-interpret for a modern customer.
Another Country aims to deliver quality and longevity at fair prices – our products are built to last, both in terms of construction and style, and are sold direct to the consumer via its website.
Another Country’s products are made from solid wood and produced by hand in a small workshop in Dorset, England.
Series One
This first collection from Another Country is as clear and simple an interpretation of our intention as we could manage. We have taken familiar forms of craft furniture and pared them back to their most basic elements and made them using the most efficient workshop techniques and the best quality wood. This is our Series 1.
Collection
The launch collection is made up of ten pieces: a stool, a bar stool, a bench, a coffee table, a console, a dining table, a daybed and a kids’ stool, step and table. In addition we produce a limited edition ash stool and bench for Monocle Magazine and an accessory peg rail.
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