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Decoding Material: Industrial craft

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Reading the material between the line. / Leyendo el material entre líneas. Those are aluminum cans of different beverage brands. A craftsman cut and weaved them until he arrived to this result. I found very interesting when crafts are done starting from a standard industrialized origin. In this way the similarity and homogeneity that define mass production move away and it starts to be more relevant and important the skills of the craftsman and each one of his results. Georges Moanack industrial designer.

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Decoding Material: Subtract

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Reading the material between the line. / Leyendo el material entre líneas. This is a door of one of the Dutch trains. Instead of adding another component like a door handle / handle / doorknob they subtracted material to the door creating a spot of interaction with the user, allowing this way to be pulled. Sometimes the solution is not to add components but subtract one of them. Algunas veces la solución no es sumar componentes sino restar alguno de ellos. Ubicación: Eindhoven, The Netherlands. I have be...

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Decoding Material: Pedal to shape it

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Reading the material between the line. / Leyendo el material entre líneas. Pedal to shape it. Pedalea para darle forma. This is a traditional potter´s wheel that works when one spin the lower surface with your foot. This way, raw material located on the upper working surface spins as well and can moulded. A simple operation principle can have a big impact. Un principio de funcionamiento simple puede tener un gran alcance. Pedal to shape it. Pedalea para darle forma. Ubicación: Paris, France. I have been ...

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Decoding Material: Urban solutions

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Reading the material between the line. / Leyendo el material entre líneas. This is a bicycle and motorcycle lock. Normally is used on one of its wheels to block the vehicle. It is always interesting to see the solutions that the people generate with what they´ve got. Normally those solutions give us insights about a problem or about the interaction with a product and I consider that those "urban solutions" have to be consider when you design. Ubicación: Paris, France. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Decoding Material: One piece

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Reading the material between the line. / Leyendo el material entre líneas. This door knob is made just with one piece of a tied iron creating this way the final shape. Lots of times we try to add pieces, components, materials, shapes, textures, productive processes, among others, and most of those times what would ideal is to subtract. Ubicación: Girona, Spain. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I have been a couple of years now gathering inspiring, thrilling, exciting images of real situations, objects...

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Decoding Material: Another way of drip towels

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Reading the material between the line. / Leyendo el material entre líneas. Another way of drip towels. Otra manera de escurrir toallas. This is a machine to drip towels of a car washing place. You place the wet towel in the middle of the two rollers and you turn the handle. The towel will be pressed and all the water will go out. Even you can adjust the pressure of the rollers by tighten the screws on top. It is always interesting to see the solutions of others for a common situation. Por vocación, profe...

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Decoding Material: Just a sewer´s lid

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Reading the material between the line. / Leyendo el material entre líneas. Just a sewer´s lid. Solo una tapa de alcantarilla. This sewer´s lid drag my attention not only because of its simple and interesting shape, but also because of the way that had been designed. Each one of the stripes has an horizontal cut and thanks to this division of the material, can be curved in two opposite directions, generating the rhythm and its attractive. Etiquetas: diseñador industrial y de producto Georges Moanack.

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Decoding Material: Soundbox

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Reading the material between the line. / Leyendo el material entre líneas. It is amazing to de-compose the objects to understand its parts separately, to be able to perceive the whole in a different way after. The minimum quantity of components lot of times can maximize the final result. if we broke up this instrument, it will be composed by three parts: the soundbox, the metallic parts and the joint and just with those three parts it can be concreted an instrument. Etiquetas: Caja de resonancia. Por voc...

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Decoding Material: Trick your mind

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Reading the material between the line. / Leyendo el material entre líneas. Engaña a tu mente. One interesting thing about the mind is that it can not distinguish between what is real and what is not. Therefore one can trick it making it to believe that they are some situations that you already lived or on the contrary that you have not lived yet. Arte de la calle. Engaña a tu mente. Ubicación: Girona, Spain. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I have been a couple of years now gathering inspiring, thrill...

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Decoding Material: Transformation

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Reading the material between the line. / Leyendo el material entre líneas. This is a Colombian mobile shop developed by its owner. As you can see, the base is a supermarket trolley with some additional accessories to make it functional for its purpose. Some objets can be used as a starting point to help us to achieve our goals. We cannot limit ourselves neither by the lack of materials nor by the existing products and archetypes. Etiquetas: Carrito de la compra. Ubicación: Bogotá, Colombia. Por vocación,...