Daniel and Markus Freitag celebrates their 15.anniversary with a first-time-in-scandinavia lecture.
Hear about their products, their holistic-design-theory and how a great brand has been developed.
Monday, November 3, 2008
Rune Tolsgaard (Angora) & Michael Noer.
Med afsæt i Michael Noers dokumentarfilm - Bøjet i Neon - taler Rune Angora og Michael Noer åbenhjertigt om kreative processer og fordele og ulemper ved kreativt samarbejde.
Se hele foredraget her: itpc://assets.lynfabrikken.dk/lyntalk/podcast.xml
Se hele foredraget her: itpc://assets.lynfabrikken.dk/lyntalk/podcast.xml
Friday, October 31, 2008
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
The Undertow of The Infinite - Numen Light Objects in RADO Store Vienna
A large light installation in the shop window and smaller ones inside the elegant Swiss watchmaker’s store Rado were presented at a Happy Hour on Friday, October 10, during VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 2008. In the presence of the creators from Austrian-Croatian design studio For Use, the guests could marvel at the 'breathing' lighting grids being reflected ad infinitum.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Nem Iphone holder
Dean (fra Dean and Ying’s blog) har fundet en genial og simpel måde at lave en stander til sin iPhone. Han ville have noget at stille den på når han skulle se film, men indledende pap-strukturer mislykkedes.
VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 2008 Opening
On Thursday evening, the opening of the 2nd edition of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK attracted over 1,000 invited guests to party far into the night with music and drinks in the hall of Liechtenstein Palace.
PureAustrianDesign IN THE CITY - A huge bubble full of design.
On Friday, 3 October 2008, the installation PureAustrianDesign IN THE CITY was unveiled in the main court of the MuseumsQuartier Vienna. For three days an oversized bubble serves the austrian furniture industry as a showroom to the Viennese public.
Maxim Velcovsky's Luminiscent Mirage.
This year's first design trail Passionswege led to Lobmeyr's business premises in Vienna's 1st district, which house an installation with glass objects from the company's own archive selected, arranged and composed by Czech designer Maxim Velčovský (Qubus design) from Prague.
Wine and Design.
On Saturday afternoon the bulthaup studio, showroom of the renowned kitchen producer next to Vienna's Opera, was cram-full, a fact that could not really be put down to the damp and windy autumn weather, but to the presentation of a new Lobmeyr drinking set designed by Polka.
Algae Power Meets High-end Fashion.
A big design installation of another kind was to be seen at the high-end fashion store Song during the second day of VIENNA DESIGN WEEK's design trail PASSIONSWEGE: An algae power station designed by Vienna-based designers EOOS. This 10 meters long installation of glass tubes filled with algae supplies the store's energy.
When Handcraft Becomes Art.
On the third and last day of the festival's design trail PASSIONSWEGE the Wittmann showroom next to Wiener Secession presented a divan bed developed by German designer Susanne Philippson which extends the definition of a "Real Wittmann".
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Freitag Shop - diagram of key features
I recently attended a "Retail 2025" thinktank at GDI in Ruschlikon, Zurich. Some of my colleagues couldn't make it to the Freitag shop, so I created this image in Photoshop to show them some of the key elements of this unique shop.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Designed to be wearable, this stylish wristband USB flash drive will not only facilitate the immediate accessibility of your files, but it will also assist you in remaining acutely conscious as to its whereabouts at all times.
Designed to be wearable, this stylish wristband USB flash drive will not only facilitate the immediate accessibility of your files, but it will also assist you in remaining acutely conscious as to its whereabouts at all times.
Originally uploaded by LYNfabrikken
Designed to be wearable, this stylish wristband USB flash drive will not only facilitate the immediate accessibility of your files, but it will also assist you in remaining acutely conscious as to its whereabouts at all times.
Designed to be wearable, this stylish wristband USB flash drive will not only facilitate the immediate accessibility of your files, but it will also assist you in remaining acutely conscious as to its whereabouts at all times.
Originally uploaded by LYNfabrikken
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Friday, June 6, 2008
Thursday, June 5, 2008
City Lounge by Carlos Martinez
City Lounge is an outdoor space in the center of St. Gallen, Switzerland, that has been designed by Carlos Martinez in collaboration with Pipilotti Rist, as a result of a design competition to create a public living room.
A red carpet flows all around the buildings, recreating places to relax, places to converse, places to park, fountains, even fake cars you can climb on.
It’s an amazing project that brings life to the city.
A red carpet flows all around the buildings, recreating places to relax, places to converse, places to park, fountains, even fake cars you can climb on.
It’s an amazing project that brings life to the city.
City Lounge by Carlos Martinez
City Lounge is an outdoor space in the center of St. Gallen, Switzerland, that has been designed by Carlos Martinez in collaboration with Pipilotti Rist, as a result of a design competition to create a public living room.
A red carpet flows all around the buildings, recreating places to relax, places to converse, places to park, fountains, even fake cars you can climb on.
It’s an amazing project that brings life to the city.
A red carpet flows all around the buildings, recreating places to relax, places to converse, places to park, fountains, even fake cars you can climb on.
It’s an amazing project that brings life to the city.
Isle Lounge by Asobi
Isle Lounge is an iconic piece of furniture, a sofa large enough to seat several people in comport. The design, created by Asobi, exploit the possibilities to simply change the way you lounge and relax.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Walking Chair.
Fidel Peugeot from Walking Chair in front of Walking Chairs PET LIGHT SHOW, an illuminated space made from plastic bottles. The light-installation based on the new lamp-object PET LIGHT 33 will point a new direction in the shaping of open spaces. Methods of processing plastic bottles will be demonstrated live on site, the installation will be developing throughout DMY. www.walking-things.com.
Symbolphonic by Martin Bramer.
Martin Bramer, Berlin, Germany. This radio gives its user the possibility to mark their four favourite radio stations with different symbolising objects.
www.designconnect.de.
www.designconnect.de.
MONOBOX by Morten Bramer.
Using the iconic form of an old transistor radios the MONOBOX can be seen as a modern homage to these analogue classics. Built out of only one piece of wood, there aren't any loose control elements.
Martin Bramer also showed the Speaker-Mark and Tok-Tok pieces.
Martin Bramer also showed the Speaker-Mark and Tok-Tok pieces.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
The Sustainable wheel by design boost
Peer Eriksson talk about the Sustainable wheel on a lecture at LYNfabrikken, Aarhus Denmark maj 2008
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
3trees
We live in an increasingly conscientious age, all of our actions have reactions. As designers we should be leading on these issues, not just as a commercial imperative, but as part of a wider change in our approach.
"Three trees is a is a not for profit enterprise set up to help everyone involved in design and advertising to rethink their working cultures and start to produce sustainable creative solutions that really work."
This kind of stuff really needs our support and recognition. It made the Design Week Hot 50 for 2008 (along with dynamo london) so it must be good
www.threetreesdontmakeaforest.org/
"Three trees is a is a not for profit enterprise set up to help everyone involved in design and advertising to rethink their working cultures and start to produce sustainable creative solutions that really work."
This kind of stuff really needs our support and recognition. It made the Design Week Hot 50 for 2008 (along with dynamo london) so it must be good
www.threetreesdontmakeaforest.org/
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Do scratch by Droog Design
Produced for Droog Design. You have to scratch off the black (enamel?) surface of the lamp to let the light shine through.
Friday, May 16, 2008
4T - an iconic sidetable with bazillions of holes, slots and pockets to put all things in.
Walking-Things Shop4 T - an iconic sidetable with bazillions of holes, slots and pockets to put all things in.
product name: 4T
product material: chrome-plated steel
product size: 66x40 cm, height 40 cm
product weight: 16 kg
product: colors: chrome
designer & producer: Walking-Chair design studio, Vienna
country of origin: Made in the European Union (EU)
Droog Design: Heat wave electric radiator by Joris Laarman.
Droog Design: Heat wave electric radiator by Joris Laarman.
Droog Design: 85 lamps chandelier by Rody Graumans.
Droog Design: 85 lamps chandelier by Rody Graumans.
Victory Gardens Pogostick Shovel, 2007
Victory Gardens Pogostick Shovel, 2007
Victory Gardens 2007+ Pogostick Shovel custom gardening tool built within the context of a utopian urban gardening proposal for the city of San Francisco.
more info:
http://www.futurefarmers.com
Victory Gardens 2007+ Pogostick Shovel custom gardening tool built within the context of a utopian urban gardening proposal for the city of San Francisco.
more info:
http://www.futurefarmers.com
dickey by gerry²
dickey by gerry²
Dickey is a humorous modification of the naked bulb on a luster terminal. Everybody knows the immense energy demand of electric bulbs. This product is a small jest and also a homage. "So don't buy this product - switch to energy saving lamps!"
Designer: gerry² - creative findings (Germany)
Dickey is a humorous modification of the naked bulb on a luster terminal. Everybody knows the immense energy demand of electric bulbs. This product is a small jest and also a homage. "So don't buy this product - switch to energy saving lamps!"
Designer: gerry² - creative findings (Germany)
Botanical Gameboy + Custom Game, 2004
Botanical Gameboy + Custom Game, 2004
Botanical Gameboy was an experiment conducted during Playshop. This was an attempt to power a gameboy by harvesting voltage from lemons 9 lemon trees. We designed a custom game: Count Volta to live on the gameboy. Through this experiment, we found that we would need 48,000 lemons to power our gameboy, thus we demonstrated the wonders of powering small devices and controlling video playback speed by squeezing lemons. (see images)
photos: left: front gameboy connected to series of lemon trees. rt: back of gameboy with meyer lemon sticker.
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Count Alessandro Volta an Italian physicist, known for his pioneering work in electricity, invented the voltaic battery in 1800. The voltaic pile was a forerunner of the electric battery. The electrical unit known as the volt was named in his honor.
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Botanical Gameboy was an experiment conducted during Playshop. This was an attempt to power a gameboy by harvesting voltage from lemons 9 lemon trees. We designed a custom game: Count Volta to live on the gameboy. Through this experiment, we found that we would need 48,000 lemons to power our gameboy, thus we demonstrated the wonders of powering small devices and controlling video playback speed by squeezing lemons. (see images)
photos: left: front gameboy connected to series of lemon trees. rt: back of gameboy with meyer lemon sticker.
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Count Alessandro Volta an Italian physicist, known for his pioneering work in electricity, invented the voltaic battery in 1800. The voltaic pile was a forerunner of the electric battery. The electrical unit known as the volt was named in his honor.
Uploaded by LYNfabrikken on 16 May 08, 2.28AM PDT.
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Botanical Gameboy + Custom Game, 2004
Botanical Gameboy + Custom Game, 2004
Botanical Gameboy was an experiment conducted during Playshop. This was an attempt to power a gameboy by harvesting voltage from lemons 9 lemon trees. We designed a custom game: Count Volta to live on the gameboy. Through this experiment, we found that we would need 48,000 lemons to power our gameboy, thus we demonstrated the wonders of powering small devices and controlling video playback speed by squeezing lemons. (see images)
photos: left: front gameboy connected to series of lemon trees. rt: back of gameboy with meyer lemon sticker.
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Count Alessandro Volta an Italian physicist, known for his pioneering work in electricity, invented the voltaic battery in 1800. The voltaic pile was a forerunner of the electric battery. The electrical unit known as the volt was named in his honor.
Uploaded by LYNfabrikken on 16 May 08, 2.28AM PDT.
Compose your blog entry
Botanical Gameboy was an experiment conducted during Playshop. This was an attempt to power a gameboy by harvesting voltage from lemons 9 lemon trees. We designed a custom game: Count Volta to live on the gameboy. Through this experiment, we found that we would need 48,000 lemons to power our gameboy, thus we demonstrated the wonders of powering small devices and controlling video playback speed by squeezing lemons. (see images)
photos: left: front gameboy connected to series of lemon trees. rt: back of gameboy with meyer lemon sticker.
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Count Alessandro Volta an Italian physicist, known for his pioneering work in electricity, invented the voltaic battery in 1800. The voltaic pile was a forerunner of the electric battery. The electrical unit known as the volt was named in his honor.
Uploaded by LYNfabrikken on 16 May 08, 2.28AM PDT.
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Futurefarmers.com
Futurefarmers work across many media. We enjoy creating platforms for sociability, play and culitvating consciousness.
What we do...
Comfortable in both traditional and new media, Futurefarmers employ a fertile approach to every project; Web design, Interactive Installations, Print, Illustration, Exhibition Design,Animation, 3d Character Development, Packaging, Book Design, Database Development,Flash, PHP, C , MSQL...
Research
Integral to our studio practice is ongoing research in new media technologies, renewable energy sources, and new configurations of learning. We host workshops, presents projects, seminars, and a web site that collectively question or challenge the social, political and economic systems we live in. Futurefarmers is where the energy of art production, education, curatorial practice and social interaction fuse to create a vital space and an environment of exchange.
Artist in Residency Program
Through our Artist in Residency program, Futurefarmers have collaborated with a wide range of practitioners since 1995 to explore the relationship of concept and creative process in the development of new work.
Thursday, May 1, 2008
LYNfabrikken goes Flickr
If you want to be inspired besides going on OPENnetwork.dk - please feel free to take a tour on our Flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lynfabrikken/
Thursday, April 24, 2008
POST IT at The Rietveld Academie
Taken from the show in 2007.
Contact info:
Gerrit Rietveld Academie
Frederik Roeskestraat 96
1076 ED Amsterdam
tel: (31)20 5711600
Frederik Roeskestraat 96
1076 ED Amsterdam
tel: (31)20 5711600
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Gijs Bakker and Renny Ramakers, DROOG DESIGN
Since 1993, when it was co-founded in Amsterdam by the product designer Gijs Bakker and design historian Renny Ramakers, DROOG has championed the careers of such designers as Hella Jongerius and Marcel Wanders, while defining a new approach to design by mixing materials and interacting with the user.
Discover more about Droog and its work at droogdesign.nl
When Renny Ramakers showed a few pieces of furniture assembled by young Dutch designers from cheap industrial materials or found objects, like old dresser drawers and driftwood, at exhibitions in the Netherlands and Belgium in early 1992, she sold so little that she barely covered her costs.
Even so, the pieces - a bookcase made from strips of paper and triplex by the Jan Konings and Jurgen Bey; a driftwood cupboard designed by Piet Hein Eek and a chest of drawers constructed by Tejo Remy by tying half-a-dozen wooden drawers into a bundle with thick cord - attracted so much attention that Ramakers, then editor-in-chief of the design magazine Industrieel Ontwerpen was convinced that she had discovered “a clear break from the past”, in other words, a genuinely new approach to design.
Hearing that Gijs Bakker, the product designer and professor at the Design Academy in Eindhoven, was planning to exhibit the work of his present and past students at the 1993 Milan Furniture Fair, she suggested that they collaborate on a joint show. “Before we started out Gijs and I agreed,” recalled Ramakers. “If we’ve made a mistake and they think it’s worth nothing we’ll shut up shop. If it catches on, we’ll keep going.”
The fourteen objects they showed in Milan ranged from Konings and Bey’s paper bookcase and Remy’s bundle of found wooden drawers, to Marcel Wanders’ Set Up Shades stack of ready-made lamps, Hella Jongerius’ bubbly polyurethane bath mat and a chandelier of lightbulbs devised by Rody Graumans. They called the collection Droog Design after the Dutch word ‘droog’, which translates into English as ‘dry’ as in the dry wit, or wry, subtle sense of humour that characterised all the pieces they exhibited.
Droog Design did catch on. It was the hit of the 1993 Milan Furniture Fair. The French newspaper Libération suggested that the “unknowns” responsible for Droog should be given a medal for spiritual savoir vivre”. Many of the pieces unveiled in that first Droog exhibition - like Graumans’ 85 Bulbs Chandelier - are now regarded as iconic objects of the early 1990s. And many of the young designers featured in that show, such as Hella Jongerius and Marcel Wanders, have since emerged as pivotal figures in contemporary design.
Looking back it is easy to see why Droog made such a splash. By the early 1990s contemporary design had rebelled against the self-parodic cacophony of candy coloured plastics and kitsch motifs of the mid-1980s Memphis movement by adopting a restrained, sometimes overly retentive minimalist aesthetic. As Renny Ramakers put it: “Design became much more sober.”
Droog was different. It shared the simplicity of minimalism and its careful choice of materials, but deployed humour – albeit a dry or ‘droog’ humour - to strike an emotional bond with the user. Rudy Graumans’ 85 bulb chandelier is an inspired example of lateral thinking in design, but it is impossible not to smile at the verve with which the designer transformed an everyday object like a standard light bulb into a spectacular chandelier. The stack of standard lampshades that Marcel Wanders turned into his Set Up Shades lamp and Tejo Remy’s bundle of battered old dresser drawers elicited the same response. “It is a comment on many things: on plenitude, over-consumption, the pretensions that beset the profession,” said Ramakers of Remy’s piece.
Cheered by the response to their Milan exhibition, Bakker and Ramakers established the Droog Design Foundation in the following January and struck an agreement with the Voorburg-based company DMD (alias Development Manufacturing and Distribution) to make and market its products, mostly as limited editions. Those products, according to Droog’s statutes, would be those which “in terms of quality and content fit with the image and way of thinking communicated by Droog Design: original ideas (and) clear concepts which have been shaped in a wry, no-nonsense manner”.
Droog staged a second show at the 1994 Milan Furniture Fair and began discussions with the Centraal Museum in Utrecht which would eventually acquire and exhibit the entire collection until 1999. Bakker and Ramakers realised that the designers championed by Droog would have more impact if their work was shown collectively, than they would by exhibiting individually. “All those designs would never have become as well known if we had not shown them together,” observed Gijs Bakker.
Rather than simply select a collection of designs for the 1995 Milan Furniture Fair, the Droog duo decided to initiate new work by liaising with the Delft University to experiment with new materials on the Dry Tech I and II projects and later the Dry Bathing collection of bathroom products in collaboration with DMD. Droog then began work on its first collaborative project with a private sector partner in 1997 by developing a collection of ceramics with Rosenthal, the German porcelain manufacturer. One of these pieces was the white porcelain Sponge Vase modelled by Marcel Wanders on a natural sponge.
Bakker and Ramakers have since developed the Droog concept not by repeating and refining the original formula but by experimenting with new products, new designers and new industrial partners while adhering to the same principles. From creating visionary concepts for a New York Times millennium competition and designing a flagship store on rue Saint-Honoré in Paris for Mandarina Duck, the Italian luggage company, to devising the Dry Kitchen made from different variations on the same modular white ceramic tile, Droog has continued to reinvent its core principles on different scales and in different disciplines in industrial projects, books and exhibitions.
For the 2001 Milan Furniture Fair, it commissioned a group of young designers to dream up visionary ways of reconceiving the wooden cigar boxes made by Picus, a traditional Dutch box maker. The following year Droog commandeered a flophouse hotel in central Milan where another group of designers was each allocated a room and invited to create an intervention.
The core of Droog’s work is its collection of more than 120 products, which were either created by one of its group projects or commissioned from their designers by Bakker and Ramakers. “The criteria are flexible and shaped by developments in product culture and the designers’ own initiatives,” states Droog. “The only constant is that the concept has validity today; that it is worked out along clear-cut, compelling lines; and that product usability is a must. Within this framework literally anything goes.”
Front Design at Stockholm Furniture Fair 2008
Front Design have just completed an installation in the lobby of Nordic Light Hotel in Stockholm.
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