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Fiet by Studio Toer

by pleatfarmer on April 17, 2013

Castor Bours and Wouter Widdershoven of Studio Toer recently announced their new interactive piece. Called Fiet, the responsive sculpture visualizes the emotional impact of movement on its surface which is made up of hundreds of cones. The points of the cones expands and contracts as the skin moves, which occurs when the object responds to [...]

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Flipfood Lunchbox

by pleatfarmer on April 14, 2013

Flipfood is a lunch box with a twist, designed by Ilias Markolefas and Nathalia Martinez Saavedra, and recently displayed as part of the  ALTERED APPLIANCES exhibition by Piet Zwart Institute students during this year’s Salon Milan.

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Q&A with Irina Dzhus

Ukrainian designer Irina Dzhus is the brain behind her namesake conceptual wear brand founded in 2010. The design concept for DZHUS is based on interaction and transformation of construction modules in order to create new aesthetics of the form – avant-garde and virtually archetypical at the same time, categoric but variable. Thanks to Irina who graciously offered [...]

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Molo Cloud Floor and Table Softlight

Molo founders and designers Stephanie Forsythe and Todd MacAllen just announced the official release of Cloud floor and table softlight, the newest additions to molo’s award winning Soft collection.  The white textile cloud shade comprised of hundreds of cellular honeycomb-like forms supported by a visually delicate, three-legged wooden base. View the installation of Cloud floor [...]

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Irving Harper – Works In Paper

Irving Harper: Works In Paper is a recent monograph from Skira Rizzoli celebrating the multi-faceted designer, Irving Harper, with a focus on his incredible collection of paperboard sculptures. As the director of design at George Nelson Associates in the 1960s, Harper contributed to numerous mid-century creations, namely the Marshmallow Sofa for Herman Miller furniture and the Ball and Sunburst clocks [...]

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Central St Martins MA Show Autumn-Winter 2013

Check out my pleats compilation from the Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design MA show. Fashion graduates Jaimee McKenna and Jessica Fawcett channeled Issey Miyake with their emphasis on pleating while Eilish Macintosh’s second collection focused on sewing and ruching glossy vinyl pieces with thick cords.

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Aqua-scape: Whole Plastic Architecture

Aqua-scape is the branchild of Professor Ryumei Fujiki of  F.A.D.S + fujiki studio and KOU::ARC, comprising of a series of portable outdoor installations formulated around the idea of structure and design in nature. The design is inspired by various sources such as the jellyfish, origami and textile, and the principles of folding paper have been adapted to folding plastic.

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Nothing Fancy – Minimal Wallet by Chieh

London-based designer Chieh Ting Huang conceived Nothing Fancy  - the non-stitched minimalist wallet. Each wallet is created from a single piece of leather, requiring no stitching — shortening the time it takes to produce each one and saving on materials.

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The Office by Paper Donut

Paper designer Alexis Facca of Paper Donut alerted us of her recent work. Called the Office, the paper sculpture is a re-creation of the office of Walter R. Cooper – a British advertising agency in 80′s.  

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Voltage

For her fourth collection, Dutch designer Iris van Herpen takes on the theme of electricity featuring 3D-printed ensembles.

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Bio-geometric tailoring

Menswear collection by Ichiro Suzuki successfully merges traditional British tailoring, structural engineering and Op-Art.

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Lotus

LOTUS 7.0 is a living wall composed of smart foils that fold open in response to human behavior. Placed in Sainte Marie Madeleine Church in Lille, the LOTUS dome creates an interactive play of light and shadow. As one walks pass the installation, hundreds of aluminum foils unfold themselves in an organic way, generating transparent voids [...]

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Faceture by Phil Cuttance

The Faceture series by Phil Cuttance consists of handmade faceted vessels, light-shades and table. Each object is produced individually by casting a water-based resin into a mold with surface tessellation. Before casting begins, the mold is manually manipulated by hand to create the object’s form before each casting, making every piece utterly unique.

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Al Bahar Towers by Aedas

The key highlight of the 25-story Al Bahar twin Towers in Abu Dhabi is the solar-responsive shading device that are parametrically designed based on the geometric mosaics of the ‘mashrabiya’ – traditional wood lattice screens prevalent Arabic architecture. The architectural office of Aedas at the helm of the project conceived a system of triangulated panels arranged within [...]

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Biomedical Research Center by Vaillo + Irigaray Architects

Our friends at ja+u recently informed us of this pleat-friendly project by Spanish architects Vaillo + Irrigaray. The Biomedical Research Center is a functional rectilinear block with an assembly hall, library and administration on the ground floor and research labs above. The building’s key architectural feature is the exterior louvers constructed of 3mm-thick perforated aluminum panels arranged in a tessellated origami pattern. The [...]

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Square One: the miracle of space age

Simply adore this architectural and monochromatic Autumn/Winter 2012 collection by Dutch fashion designer Hellen van Rees, brimming with the signature cubic projections woven into the Chanel tweed-like garments which are made of recycled yarn. More after the break:

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