Design Museum

KWADRAAT-BLAD

Design: Wim Crouwel ca 1967

TYPOGRAPHY: Working with sketches for the New Alphabet and preliminary artwork for Kwadraat-Blad.

New Alphabet was his most radical experiment, conceived in response to his experience of the first device for electronic typesetting; characters were designed to follow the underlying dot-matrix system.

THIN BLACK LINES

Designed by NENDO

The Thin Black Lines series includes furniture, lamps, vases, exploring the theme of outlines. The series was developed in cooperation with Phillips de Pury & Company and first exhibited in their Saatchi Gallery space during the 2010 London Design Festival. Rendered in simple black lines fashioned from bent steel, the forms are inspired by Japanese calligraphy. This distinct graphic quality allows playful manipulation of perspective, with objects often appearing as two-dimensional forms simultaneously. As your eye traces slight black lines outlining the pieces, volumes and surfaces appear and disappear, and the practical function of the product comes into focus.

MIMOSA

Designed by JASON BRUGES for Philips

Philips commissioned Jason Bruges Studio to create an artwork for the 2010 Solone del Mobile as a showcase for the organic LED technology developed at Lumibade Creative Lab. Mimosa is an interactive artwork consisting of slim OLED  panels arranged in petal configurations to form flowers. A motion sensor mounted above reacts to movement from nearby people, opening and closing the delicate petals snd changing the light conditions. The piece was inspired by the Mimoso family of plants, which open and close in response to environmental conditions. OLED technology is relatively new in consumer facing products. It creates light by passing electrictiy through.

Some interesting chairs I found at the Design Museum.