Posts under MA Design Studies/Applied Imagination Category
25Aug
Living Products: Funktionide Part II
In: Freelance designer London, MA Design Studies/Applied Imagination, Product Design
Funktionide Part II from eltopo on Vimeo. “Based on EAP-technology “Funktionide” is a concept for an emotional robot that substitutes human contact. In a future where technology will play a huge part in our lifes it is very likely that some day it will shift from satisfiying our basic funtional needs to include our emotional needs as well.” This is… Read more »
25Aug
Identity is how you define someone or something from other people or thing – otherwise it would be identical. Masahiko Sato explores this idea of identity in his exhibition ‘the definition of self’ exhibition at 21_21 design sight. There are many ways that Masahiko explores the idea of identity: A fingerprint table, where users scan in their fingerprint and see their unique fingerprint… Read more »
24Aug
What role will textile design play in the creation of biological products of the future?
In: Fashion, Freelance designer London, MA Design Studies/Applied Imagination
I believe biotechnology and biological products will be very important in the future and necessary to develop towards a world which works with, rather than works from the world around it. Amy Congdon’s project ‘Biological Atelier’ has produced some beautiful designs which allow the fashion industry to keep it’s ivory and fur, by growing alternatives. “Biological Atelier considers the changing… Read more »
24Aug
Can you imagine how many diners would pay more attention to this table than normal? Just adding the idea of heat sensor plastic to a table which experiences heat from plates, arms, hands, candles etc would make a lovely pattern and make people more aware of the products around them. See more details of this table here: Mood Table I… Read more »
24Aug
Sonja Bäumel (IN)VISIBLE MEMBRANE
In: Fashion, Freelance designer London, MA Design Studies/Applied Imagination, Product Design
Sonja Bäumel has envisioned a world where the skins bacteria can be used to ‘grow’ materials unique and specially formed to the body. Ideally the skin would grow thicker material in the area where it is least hot – the areas which need protecting by clothing the most… “…representing a design language in-between science and fashion design.” Sonja’s invisible project to… Read more »
24Aug
Bone rings exchanged by couples
In: Fashion, Freelance designer London, MA Design Studies/Applied Imagination, Product Design
“Using bioglass, a special bioactive ceramic which mimics the structure of bone material, researchers are growing rings made out of the couples’ bone.” BBC Perhaps the process of transposing or transmuting identity or presence into a product can be avoided using this new technique of using BioGlass™ which mimics the bone structure, allowing the bone to grow into the glass…. Read more »
24Aug
Animals taking the designing role
In: Freelance designer London, MA Design Studies/Applied Imagination
“We asked the animals to help us” Front This is a great project by Front - enabling animals to design products, creating truly unique products. And this isn’t a quick process either – to an extent the products change over their production period and the products are ‘crafted’ naturally by animals. In the same way Hubert Duprat has created beautiful metal sculptures using gold… Read more »
24Aug
Suzanne Lee grows clothes from a mixture of bacteria, yeast and sweetened green tea. “Designed for life by life, this pulsating concoction brings forth fibers that will sprout and propagate, eventually resulting in thin, wet sheets of bacterial cellulose that can be molded into a dress form. What’s left is a canvas that can be bleached or even stained with fruit and… Read more »
23Aug
“Right now i would say we are entering into the crisis of interactivity. We have to have art which mirrors how we interact with the real world.” George Fifield Art React is one of the many art shows which include interaction with art and design as a fun and gimmicky element – however beautiful the piece of work is. How can… Read more »
23Aug
Marie Ilse Bourlanges is a firm believer in slow design – namely slow textiles and a lot of her work has been inspirational to my MA Applied Imagination project. “FOR ME, TEXTILE HAS AN INTRINSIC MATERIAL AND NARRATIVE QUALITY. IT IS BOTH A STRUCTURE AND A CONSTRUCTION METHOD. IN THAT SENSE, I AM PARTIAL TO KNITTING: A SINGLE CONTINUOUS THREAD… Read more »
