Working with bioplastics - Natural artificiality.
This years summer workshop at the Domaine de Boisbuchet will be held from 18th to 24th of July - welcome!

Link / www.boisbuchet.org
Research / know-how-transfer

Recently three beautiful books have been published in which also some of our work is shown - product design as well as material research projects.

Made of ... Neue Materialien für Architektur und Design
By Christiane Sauer
Editor Gestalten Verlag
ISBN: 978-3-89955-293-5

Moderne Möbel, 150 Jahre Design
By Fremdkörper
Editor H.F.Ullmann Verlag
ISBN: 978-3-8331-5628-1

Exploring Materials : Creative Design for Everyday Objects
By Inna Alesina and Ellen Lupton
Editor Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 978-1-5689-8768-2

Link / www.formade.com
Link / www.gestalten.com
Link / www.fremdkoerper.com
Link / www.ullmann-publishing.com
Link / www.elupton.com
Link / www.alesinadesign.com
Link / www.papress.com
Books / books

We also made our way to reveal some internals of our social sides in a network.

Link / www.facebook.com/StudioBeatKarrer

How would design education in 2050 look like? Beat Karrer and Kristina Pröhl showed the potential of external design workshops inside the education area of the singapore design festival. The showcases of the two Boisbuchet Vitra Design Museum workshops "manufactured nature" and "molded nature" helped to point out the advantages of a - slightly or very - different view onto the design process.

Link / www.singaporedesignfestival.com
Link / www.boisbuchet.org
Know-how transfer / manufactured nature
Know-how transfer / molded nature

The swiss design association's website has been updated and relaunched. It is now possible to search for sda-members by alphabet, name, region and specification. Have a look.

Link / www.swiss-design-association.ch

Burri public elements AG launched KickboardZ, a kick scooter stand for schools and public spaces - graphical, durable, robust.

Link / www.burriag.ch
Serial / KickboardZ

DUO designed for Röthlisberger Kollektion and SPINNAKER designed for Offecct are both nominated at the Delta Award '09 competition.

Link / www.adifad.org
Link / www.roethlisberger.ch
Link / www.offecct.se
Serial / Duo
Serial / Spinnaker

During this year’s workshop at Boisbuchet we have been giving shape to semi-fabricated biopolymers - for example by casting, vacuum forming or extruding the materials. Regards to the participants, the sponsors and the staff.
 

Link / Article on Architonic
Link / www.boisbuchet.org
Link / www.jakob-winter.de
Link / www.fkur.de
Link / www.swiss-composite.ch
Link / www.saropack.ch
Link / www.bioresin.de
Know-how transfer / molded-nature

Good news for those of us who are feed up with daily bad news. Introducing DINGSBOOM, a lighthearted project reflecting the current state of the world, to which we contributed the revolving mirror TURN AROUND.

Link / www.dingsboom.ch
Link / buy online from designselection.ch
Link / buy offline at einzigart

For the German theater festival "Theaterformen" we designed a flying carpet that overspreads the Festival Centre based in the courtyard of the Staatstheater Hannover. The flying carpet will take off on the 10th of June and fly until the 21st. During that period the Festival Centre with it's cafe, bar and stage will host bands, DJ's, artists, performers and last but not least the visitors, wellcome!

Link / www.theaterformen.de
Unique / Flying carpet