2016

Arctic Imports

by Winy Maas (MVRDV, The Why Factory) with Pirjo Haikola (The Why Factory), Mick van Gemert (MVRDV, The Why Factory) and Ania Molenda (The Why Factory) Mental and natural qualities of the Arctic inspire five future city concepts by The […]

02.08.2016

XXL City

by Cynthia Hathaway Inspired by the Inuit practice of sharing large mammals for food, Cynthia Hathaway proposes the production and engagement with giant vegetables and animals as the starting point of new city development. An indoor-outdoor facility incorporates growth, processing, […]

02.08.2016

“Time is life” carpet

Designer: Droog with Metahaven, 2011 A carpet that spans a lifetime and can be rolled or cut to use over the years. The carpet extends 13 metres and spans your life. You begin your life in white, then evolve into […]

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Investment is invisibility screw

Designer: Droog with Metahaven A discrete way to secure value. Each screw is 32 grams of 24-carat gold.

02.08.2016

Story is shelter bed

Desgigner: Droog with Metahaven and Michèle Champagne Escape into fiction as the motion picture moves across the bed’s frame.

02.08.2016

“Escape is history” parachute

Designer: Droog with Metahaven, Michèle Champagne and Digna Kosse A parachute made from a lifetime consumption of t-shirts is the safekeeping of waste for eventual need.

02.08.2016

“Prescription is insurance” supplements

Designer: Droog with Metahaven A lifetime of pills for real and imagined pains and pleasures.

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“Celebration is memory” fireworks

Designer: Droog with Metahaven To mark decisive life moments, launch your own fireworks.

02.08.2016

Future open houses

Future open houses by EFGH (Hayley Eber & Frank Gesualdi) with Irina Chernyakova Existing rules of the suburbs are becoming outdated as home-made services and collaborative consumption are becoming increasingly widespread. Future Open Houses imagines how the new residential service […]

02.08.2016

“Fiction is survival” foods

Designer: Droog with Metahaven Fiction is as critical as food. Here, these basics of survival are combined.

02.08.2016

Tool inlays by FormaFantasma

Intruding on the standard production method, FormaFantasma introduces unexpected meaning and craft into a mass produced item. Intricately shaped inlays are incorporated into chip board—transforming the material from under- to Upperlayment™. Part of the Hidden inlays series, Tool inlays incorporates […]

02.08.2016

“Excess is essence” bath

Designer: Droog with Metahaven A surplus of ephemerals like earth and pigments stashed for years of intensive use.

02.08.2016

Dawn/dusk mirror by Minale-Maeda

Inpired by a reflection on a pool of water of the sky at dusk or dawn—the archetypical mirror—has become the basis for this mirror. Hung one way, it reflects dusk, and hung the other, it is dawn.

02.08.2016

Storage is armour tyre

Designer: Totan Kuzaembaev with Droog and Metahaven A brutally functional use of diamonds for safe winter driving that is, at the same time, a saving for future need.

02.08.2016

Rietveld Lego buffet by Minale-Maeda

A playfully charming yet serious piece of adult furniture, Buffet is a re-interpretation of Rietveld’s 20th century Buffet made of approximately 26,000 Lego bricks. In line with Reitveld’s manifest for a do-it-yourself method of building furniture from standardized parts, the […]

02.08.2016

Clock inlays by FormaFantasma

Intruding on the standard production method, FormaFantasma introduces unexpected meaning and craft into a mass produced product. Intricately shaped inlays are incorporated into chip board—transforming the material from under- to Upperlayment™. Part of the Hidden inlays series, Clock inlays incorporates […]

02.08.2016