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Precision Casting from the Witch’s Kitchen
When designers and leading industrial enterprises put their heads together, it usually gets exciting. While such a collaboration allows industry the possibility of demonstrating its special capabilities in a completely new context, its manufacturing processes, conversely, provide an unexpected treasure trove of new design solutions for creative minds. This is what happened in the collaboration between SCHMOLZ + BICKENBACH Guss Gruppe and the Berlin-based design studio Formfjord.
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"...with the level of quality our grandparents demanded"
"Cecilie is just like her furniture," a friend of mine who works as a designer told me when I mentioned I was going to be interviewing the Copenhagen-based designer Cecilie Manz. And, indeed, Manz exudes a calmness and composure much like her pared-down, uncomplicated work.
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Moulded Nature
For years now international materials producers have been working on sustainable alternatives and they are now ready to launch biologically degradable plastics which can be used for a range of applications...
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"It's all about the performance"
As with many other architects the design is being strongly influenced. You literally speak of architects' design.
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DMY Berlin
From 3-7 June the seventh DMY International Design Festival will be taking place in Berlin...
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Valencia Disseny Week
Thanks to an invitation to FEED, the first congress of international bloggers and digital media, received from Valencia Disseny Week and ADCV, the association of Valencia designers, Architonic had the opportunity not only to attend Habitat Valencia but to gain valuable insights into the production facilities of a number of Spanish manufacturers.
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Architonic Concept Space III
It is done: After the last modifications and a tough production phase the new Architonic Concept Space designed by Oskar Zieta (Zieta Prozessdesign) was presented at this year’s imm cologne for the first time.
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Hunting
In the course of this year's Design Days in Geneva up-market dealer Teo Jakob Tagliabue invited guests to a very special exhibition at his showrooms.
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'Gecko: Think Forward'
With a clear focus on applications within high-value architecture the Swiss textile manufacturer Création Baumann created ‘Gecko’, an adhesive textile sunblind which can easily be mounted directly onto the window.
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Interviews Milano and Euroluce 2009
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CNC carpentry: the 'selfsupportingframework'
Recently, carpentry-oriented joinery has been enjoying a renaissance thanks to the increased use of CNC-driven manufacturing techniques – even connecting parts can be produced in a number of geometric variations and cost efficiently at that.
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Blow-up Statics
Architonic Concept Space III, designed by Oskar Zieta (Zieta Prozessdesign) and the CAAD faculty at the ETH Zurich will be celebrating its premiere to coincide with the opening of this year's imm cologne on 19 January.
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Intuitive Interaction
Interaction with sensory user interfaces – computers, automats, mobile phones – has become part of our everyday life.
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"Reduction is the key word"
Meanwhile osko+deichman have impressed a number of prestigious manufacturers with their reduced and minimalist designs. We met them at their studio in Berlin.
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Selected novelties from the Salone del Mobile Milano
See our first selection of novelties from this year´s Salone del Mobile. More will follow.
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DMY 2010: Architonic reports from the Berlin design festival
Ernst Sagebiel's architectural matsterpiece Tempelhof Airport was the venue for this year's DMY design festival in Berlin. Architonic was needless to say there, ready for take-off.
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Building with air
As a successor to LAVA and Gramazio & Kohler, the Zurich architect, process designer and furniture producer Oskar Zieta is now continuing the series of Architonic Concept Spaces.
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A Concept called Fair
Rather than being a business marketplace for dealers, the 100%Design, concise exhibition of interiors has positioned itself as a rich source of inspiration for architects and interior designers.
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DMY Berlin
For five whole days the organisers of the DMY Festival invited designers and a specialist public from all over the world to a colourful design spectacle by the Spree.
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Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics
The Center was designed by the Californian firm of architects Morphosis and named after its generous sponsor Charles H. Cahill, who helped finance a large share of the 50 million dollar building...
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