Toss B redcently lauched our new lamp SPECTER. Its appearance is characterized by the two elyptical cut-outs. It will next be presented at Euroluce in Milan:

14 April till 19 April 2015
Rho Fiera Milano
Pavilion 13, Stand M10

Link / www.tossb.com
Serial / Specter
 

At Giardina 2015, BURRI public elements exclusively presented three new product developments including our new SkateboardZ stand. These were on show at “les urbanistes”, the largest installation at the trade fair, which won the Gold Award in the “Special Garden Show” category at the opening.

At the Innovationsforum on the occasion of Swiss Plastics Fair in Lucerne, Beat Karrer speaks about his experiences while developing FluidSolids.

Swiss Plastics
Innovationsforum
Tuesday 21. January, 10:00 - 15:30
12:00 Beat Karrer: Biowerkstoffe für Designbauteile
Messe Luzern, Halle 4

Link / swissplastics_innovationsforum
Link / www.fluidsolids.com
Research & Development / Fluidsolids
Know-how Transfer / Lectures
 

Certain designers, developers and inventors, as well as other innovatiors, are working today to ensure our future is a positive one. What ideas, opinions and developments do they have in store for us? We'll find out at Salon D - we wish everyone who attends our very first issue and primiere a positive future (Gutes Morgen).
Attendance is free. As the number of seats is limited, we recommend registering well in advance by mail: salon-d(at)dreiform.de

GUESTS:
Eckard Foltin (Head of Insight & Foresight Management)
Barbara Busse (Creative Direction Colors & Materials, Deutsche Telekom)
Stephan Rahn (General Manager Communication, 3M Deutschland GmbH)
Beat Karrer (Industrial Designer, FluidSolids)
Dr. Sascha Peters (Material Specialist, Haute Innovation)
Steve Rommel (Fraunhofer Institut IPA)
Lorenz Potthast (Media Designer)

PRESENTATION:
Gerrit Terstiege (Design Publicist)

SALON D - GUTES MORGEN
16. January 2014, 19:00
Geisselstrasse 103 a
50823 Cologne DE

Link / www.dreiform.de/salon-d/
 

We are very happy that FluidSolids is nominated for the Design Prize Switzerland.
Keep your fingers crossed for the award ceremony on the 01.11.2013.
Following the ceremony, all the nominated projects are exhihibited at the D'S Design Center in Langenthal from 02.11.13 - 26.01.2014.

Link / www.designpreis.ch
Link / www.architonic.com/the-shapeshifter
Link / www.fluidsolids.com
Research & Development / FluidSolids

Switzerland is the country in Focus of this years Skopje Design Week.
The installation PROJECTED SPACE by Beat Karrer shows two different approaches to design: product design and material design. The exhibition gives an insight into the development of the material FluidSolids and shows an installation made with some elements of the Architonic Concept Space IV - illuminated by a bunch of SPIN lamps by TossB.

Link / ministryofpleasure.net
Link / www.fluidsolids.com
Link / www.architonic.com
Link / www.tossb.com
Serial / Spin
Research & Development / FluidSolids
Unique / Architonic Concept Space

On the ocassion of Blickfang we'll speak about social, economic and environmental performance of new materials and about our experience on the relationship between design and material development.

Sunday, 25th of November, 14.00h
Kongresshaus Zürich

Link / www.fluidsolids.com
Link / www.blickfang.com

BRIGHT STRIPES has become a little sister. Since the LED technology is getting better yet smaler, BURRI public elements AG commissioned us to redesign BRIGHT STRIPES outdoor luminaire. The quality of light and the design language remain - but in a much thinner and lighter body.

Serial / Bright Stripes
Link / www.burriag.ch
Link / www.ims-ag.ch

link / www.forumschlossplatz.ch

We had a great time holding a lecture and teaching a workshop about do it yourself bioplastics at the Institute of Technology in Architecture at ETH Zürich. Thanks to Manuel and the students.

Link / www.caad.arch.ethz.ch/blog/
Know-how Transfer / molecular utopia

We are proud that the FS Stool we designed for FluidSolids® has been awarded a Materialica Gold Award.

Link / www.materialica.de
Link / www.fluidsolids.com
Unique / FS Stool
Awards / 2011

The Vitra design museum invited us to collaborate with the fabulous glassmakers of the Corning museum of glass. What a stunning experience.

See the movie > www.youtube.com/watch
 

Link / Corning Museum of Glass
Link / Vitra Design Museum

Formfjord invited us to contribute an exhibit to the SUBSTITUTES exhibition at gallery berlin-weekly.com - thanks Fabian!
Opening on the 4th of June at 18.00h.
See all the Substitutes online at

Link / www.berlin-weekly.com
Link / www.formfjord.com

During the Milan furniture fair you will find SPIRA we designed for Tossa at the openair exhibition "Montenapoleone Design Experience".

12.-17.04.2011, Via Montenapoleone, Milan.

Link / www.tossa.ch
Link / www.cosmit.it
Serial / Spira
Exhibitions / Montenapoleone Design Eexperience
 

A wonderful reportage about what we do and why we are doing it has been published in the 30th issue of the fabulous MARK magazine. Hat tip to Terri & Arthur!

Link / www.mark-magazine.com

A statistical approach to the prediction of good design. During the 6th Swiss Design Network Conference we speak about a cross-disciplinary research project in which a statistical modelling technique is used to optimise decision making in the field of industrial design.

Link / www.sdn2010.ch
Know-how Transfer / Ideal form

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

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

Link / www.facebook.com/StudioBeatKarrer

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

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

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

Speech at the "After Stockholm" event at Kontorrama in Oslo. Together with Ross Lovegrove, FURNID and Andreas Störiko.
5. March 2009, 17:00
Kontorrama, Brynsengfaret 6, 0667 Oslo

Link / www.kontorrama.no
Serial / Spinnaker
Know-how transfer / lectures

DUO shelf designed for "Röthlisberger Kollektion" is one of the ten pieces that are nominated for the award "Furniture of the year 2008" organized by the Swiss magazin "Raum und Wohnen". You can see all the selected products online and - of course - vote for your favoured one.

Link / www.raum-und-wohnen.ch
Link / www.roethlisberger.ch
Serial / Duo

From August 10th to 16th Annina and Beat tought another Summer Workshop in collaboration with Vitra Design Museum. Warm thanks to the 23 participants from 11 different countries who joined us on our journey into the exploration of new materials.

Link / www.boisbuchet.org
Know-how transfer / "Manufactured nature"
 

The exhibition "Design Deutschland" including DO IT YOURSHELF is now shown at the "Neues Museum" in Nürnberg. 25. July - 5.Oct. 2008, Opening 24. July

Link / Neues museum nürnberg
Link / www.german-design-council.de
Serial / Do it yourshelf
Exhibition / Design Deutschland

NIGHTSHADE is one of the finalists at the LIGHTS OF THE FUTURE 2008 COMPETITION at the light+building fair Frankfurt. Please keep your fingers crossed.

Link / www.light-building.messefrankfurt.com
Serial / Nightshade
 

NapfNapf child's plate holder for Kidsmodern is making sure that the food ends up in the child's stomach and not on the floor.

Link / www.kidsmodern.com
Serial / Napfnapf

After having received a "Materialica Design Award" last October, GROOVE table is now nominated for the "German Design Award". This Design Award is the official recognition of excellence in design offered by the Federal Republic of Germany. It is the central thrust in the campaign of the Federal German Ministry of Economics and Technology to promote good design.

Swiss company Burri Public Elements commissioned us to develop a new reflector for their outdoor luminaire Public Light System.
The result is NIGHTSHADE. Thanks to the newly developed principle of controlling the light, NIGHTSHADE minimizes light contamination and achieves a high efficiency as well as a targeted light distribution. And last but not least NIGHTSHADE gives the luminaire it's distinctive appearance.

Link / www.burriag.ch
Serial / Nightshade

Avverati
SPIRA, BANTAM and ROTOR were on show at the avverati - a dream come true exhibition during the International Furniture Fair in Milan. You can find those projects as well in the book edited for this occasion. Avverati - a dream come true, Fondazione Cosmit Eventi

Serial / Spira
Serial / Rotor
Serial / Bantam