Project:
Petrifying, Ivan Kasner
For his graduation project at Eindhoven’s Design Academy, Ivan Kasner turned ten natural objects to stone. To do so, he sought the assistance of the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany, whose vacuum oven he used to fossilise these contemporary everyday objects.
Interview:
Fast Forward
Ivan Kasner, Petrifying
Starting off your design career with objects that can last tens of thousands of years: that was Ivan Kasner's daring choice for his graduation ... person: Ivan Kasner
Ivan Kasner turned ten natural objects to stone for his design-school graduation project, Petrifying. “You never know whether your design will ... "The vacuum oven is a kind of time machine: in two weeks, objects undergo an ageing process that would normally take millions of years."
Ivan Kasner "You never know whether your design will survive even a generation. With these objects, I at least know that they could."
Ivan Kasner “For new materials and techniques, you’re better off seeking alliances with big industrial companies."
Ivan Kasner "We have to see to it that machines start working for us again, instead of allowing ourselves to be led by them."
Jeroen Verhoeven, Demakersvan
Project:
Herinneringsbank (Memory Bench), Ineke Hans
Ineke Hans built a bench with a hole cut into it for a new tree to grow through, replacing the one used to manufacture the bench. The concept of ... "We want to aesthetically educate the average person. That’s why we’re looking at producing in India."
Jeroen Verhoeven, Demakersvan
Project:
Industrialized Wood, Jeroen Verhoeven/Demakersvan
Jeroen Verhoeven of Demakersvan used drawings of seventeenth-century furniture to make his Industrialized Wood table. He converted different ...
Interview:
Making It as a Team
Jeroen Verhoeven/Demakersvan, Industrialized Wood
Imagine being fresh out of art school and selling your work to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, a firm of architects in Los Angeles, a ...
Project:
Boomstoel (Tree Chair), Friso Kramer
It took Friso Kramer, the doyen of functional design, twelve days – two of which he spent in bed from exhaustion – to make a chair out of a ...
Project:
Milk Project, Esther Polak & Ieva Auzina with RIXC, Riga Centre for New Media Culture
When artist Esther Polak and researcher Ieva Auzina discovered that much Latvian milk is transported to the Netherlands, they decided to follow ... "A designer makes something because the time or the object demands it."
Friso Kramer
about us:
Behind the Scene #01
This website was launched in conjunction with the exhibition Behind the Scene #01, held 5-10 April 2006, during the 2006 Salone Internazionale ... "You must always take account of your own limitations, and not allow yourself to be led by machines."
Max Kisman
Interview:
The Long Road from the Farm
Esther Polak & Ieva Auzina with RIXC, Riga Centre for New Media Culture, Milk
For two years, artist Esther Polak carried a compass to help her find her way around in Amsterdam. Since then, spatial awareness has been the ...