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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.
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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 ... “For new materials and techniques, you’re better off seeking alliances with big industrial companies."
Ivan Kasner "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
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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 ...
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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 ... "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
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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
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Industrialized Wood, Jeroen Verhoeven/Demakersvan
Jeroen Verhoeven of Demakersvan used drawings of seventeenth-century furniture to make his Industrialized Wood table. He converted different ...
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Fleurons of Hope, Max Kisman et al.
Max Kisman, Jim Richardson and Tamye Riggs invited designers around the world to create digital flowers in remembrance of the tsunami disaster. ... “I wondered how to represent our economic relationship with the landscape, and realised I could use new technology."
Esther Polak
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Bringing the World Home
Max Kisman and 229 others, Fleurons of Hope
Even in a time when it seems as if everything has already been invented, innovation remains possible. After all, every new era calls for new ... "In the 1970s we strongly believed that good design is socially conscious design. I'm still convinced of that."
Friso Kramer "It’s best to start as small and as close to home as you can. That worldwide aura comes naturally if your work is good."
Max Kisman