Benjamin Garcia Saxe

We live in an era of great technological advancements that are continuosly expanding towards innovation and complexity. The fields of architecture and design are being influenced greatly by the development of new materials, new means of construction, and never before ways of representation that in turn constantly change the way that we create objects, spaces, and landscapes.
However, this advancement has also lead us to believe that 'good' architecture and design is that which most correctly harnesses all of these technologies and applies them as an excuse for acheiving excellence........ Benjamin Garcia Saxe

Benjamin Hubert

Born in the UK in 1984, Benjamin Hubert studied Industrial Design and Technology at Loughborough University and graduated in 2006.

The London based studio was founded shortly afterwards in 2007 and specialises in industrial design across furniture and lighting sectors working with international manufacturers across Europe and Asia. The studio works on a diverse range of projects including both mass/batch produced consumer products and limited edition/one offs. Benjamin Hubert has received international critical and media acclaim and has been exhibited internationally.

Benjamin has also received a number of prestigious awards including: Design of the year (British Design awards 2010) Best Product (100% design/Blueprint awards 2009) Homes and Gardens Young Designer of the Year (Design Classic Awards 2010) and EDIDA International Young Designer of the Year 2010.

Blu Dot

The three of us were college friends and shared a passion for art, architecture, and design. After we left college and began to furnish our first homes, we didn’t like the stuff we could afford and we couldn’t afford the stuff we liked. We figured we were not alone and we were naïve enough to try and do something about it. Blu Dot was born in 1997. Our goal is to bring good design to as many people as possible. That means creating products that are useful, affordable, and desirable. To make that happen, our design process is founded on collaboration. Not just among ourselves as we play show-and-tell with concepts, but a total collaboration between pencil and paper, materials and machines, even packaging and assembly. We like to think that the form is almost inevitable, a by-product of the process. Our job is simply to help it emerge as beautifully and as efficiently as possible.

Bruno Romanelli

Bruno Romanelli is a London based artist specialising in the technique of lost-wax casting. All the images on this site have employed this technique in some way.

For much of his career, Bruno Romanelli was known for his figurative glass sculptures which he exhibited on a globally. More recently his work has moved in a completely different direction, concentrating on ideas associated with abstract scultural vessels. This work explores the themes of light, colour, form and harmony within the context of the glass material.

Today, Bruno works full-time on glass making in his studio in south London, where he mainly concentrates on his own work for exhibition. He also takes on commissions, portraiture and can be employed for his technical expertise of glass casting to make other artists work.

boaz cohen

boaz cohen was born in israel on the 1st of january 1978.

since 2000 situated in the netherlands. 2001-2006 design academy eindhoven.

activities/publications:
06/2004 - future cafe concept 'dewoonkamer' nominated for cafe cultuur prijs.
07/2004 - 'shine of the times' - interior ideas with swarovski crystals.
12/2004-07/2005 - internship by walter van beirendonck.
05/2005 - nomination for bombay sapphire design glass competition.
04/2006 - 'breakdown milano' - exhibition during salone satellite together with alexander pelikan.
10/2006 - dutch design week - eindhoven: - graduation galleries - design academy eindhoven - connection - holland art gallery - de bijenkorf (featuring the noisy-furniture special edition sponsored by 3M) (click here for images)
22/11-3/12/2006 - cité du design - biennale internationale design 2006 saint-etienne
01/2007 - bcxsy - together with sayaka yamamoto - for the latest news, works and projects
05/2007 - boaz cohen was granted with the 'individuale subsidie' from NBKS

Brodie Neill

Brodie Neill is a dynamic designer capturing the attention of the international design scene with his new and exciting use of form. The young Australian’s rapid rise to success has established an impressive collection of international achievements and an extensive list of prestigious clientele. Already,Brodie Neill's progressive approach has resulted in the much-celebrated design E-turn (Kundalini) and the @ Chair; a design recently included in Time Magazine's most influential designs for 2008.
Other projects of acclaim are the Remix chaise longue and the Reverb chair (The Apartment Gallery London) both progressive designs that fuse material form with advanced technologies. Brodie Neill’s continuous creative endeavors led to the partnering with fashion maverick Alexander McQueen for ICFF New York in 2009. Brodie Neill merges his underlying interest in form, first explored at the University of Tasmania, with a progressive digital approach developed during a Masters degree at the Rhode Island School of Design. After a successful stint working for top brands in New York, Brodie Neill established his current studio in London's East End, where he applies his seamless, fluid-like designs to a range of objects from production items to special editions pieces. With an extensive record of international exhibitions, Brodie Neill has won international design awards and continues to attract top manufactures with his unique fusion of technology and a progressive aesthetic.

Beat Karrer

Where does a product designer get his ideas from? From new materials which encourage challenging new application possibilities. From new production techniques which make the previously unthinkable possible. And by observing everyday life manifesting unsatisfied needs.

It is in this arena Zurich designer Beat Karrer develops new products which resound favourably with his renowned clientele such as Anthologie Quartett, Ballfinger Lighting and Designerslabel (Germany), Boffi (Italy), Offecct (Sweden), Burri, Kidsmodern, Röthlisberger and Tossa (Switzerland). As well as among the juries at international furniture exhibitions in Belgium, Germany, Spain and Switzerland which awarded Beat Karrer with several prizes for his designs which often are unusual in their approach yet very functional and practical in their daily application.

Nowadays Beat Karrer is also an active guest critic at ETH Zurich, lectures all over Europe, participates in juries and holds summer workshops for the Vitra Design Museum. Beat Karrer's ideas have appeared in many publications and various books, for example the "International Design Yearbook".

Bev Hisey

Bev Hisey has had her mitts in the design field for a million years.
Bev Hisey started with fashion, and moved into home decor after the birth of her daughter in 1990. In addition, Bev Hisey has proven herself to be a great resource for a number of notable Canadian design talents. In May of 2002, at New York's International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF), Bev Hisey launched a new line of handmade carpets, floor runners, cushions and blankets to great applause and media recognition. Since that time, Bev Hisey has been creating an ever-expanding line of quality hand-made products for the home, adding new techniques such as hand-tufting, hand-knotting, die-cutting, and silk-screening to her repertoire.Bev Hisey 's products are playfully modern with classic finishings, setting her apart as a design original. Bev Hisey talent for creating unexpected combinations of colours and textures inspires the eye to gaze and the hand to touch. "They're the kinds of colours you want to fall into" she says.

Ball Nogues

Ball Nogues is a collaborative design and fabrication studio led by Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues that produces architecture, art and industrial objects. The Studio has exhibited at major institutions throughout the world, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Museum of Modern Art; the Guggenheim Museum; arc en rêve centre d'architecture + Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux; the Venice Biennale, the Hong Kong | Shenzhen Biennale; and the Beijing Biennale. They have received numerous honors including two AIA Design Awards, United States Artists Target Fellowships and a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. In 2007, the Studio was the winner of the PS1 Museum of Modern Arts Young Architects Program Competition. Recently, their work became part of the collection of the MoMA. The partners have taught in the graduate architecture programs at the Southern California Institute of Architecture;the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Southern California. Their work has appeared in a variety of publications worldwide including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Guardian, Architectural Record, Artforum, Icon, Log, Architectural Digest, and Sculpture.
The studio is currently working on permanent public commissions for Santa Monica, San Francisco, and Los Angeles; a wildlife observation building in Saugerties, New York; and installations at the the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and several galleries. Ball Nogues Studio is represented by Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles

Biothing

Alisa Andrasek is an experimental practitioner and research based educator of architecture and computational processes in design. In 2001 she founded biothing, a cross-disciplinary laboratory that focuses on the generative potential of computational systems for design. In 2005 she initiated CONTINUUM, an interdisciplinary research collective focusing on advanced computational geometry and software development. Andrasek graduated from the University of Zagreb, and holds a Masters in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University. She teaches architecture studios and theory seminars at the Architectural Association in London (AA DRL) and has taught at Columbia University, Pratt Institute, the University of Pennsylvania, RMIT Melbourne and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and has lectured at architecture schools worldwide. Andrasek was co-winner of the Metropolis Next Generation Design Competition, 2005 and received the FEIDAD Design Merit Award, 2004. Recent exhibitions of biothing’s work include: Permanent Collection Centre Pompidou Paris 2009; FRAC Collection in Orleans 2009; Transitory Objects TB-A21 in Vienna 2009; Synathroisis in Athens Greece 2008; Scripted by Purpose at the F.U.E.L. gallery in Philadelphia 2007; Seroussi pavilion at the Maison Rouge gallery in Paris 2007; Ars Mathematica in Paris 2007; the 2003 Prague Biennale; the 2004 Sydney Biennial; Architectural Biennial Beijing 2004, 2006 and 2008; and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, 2005. She curated the East Coast section for the “Emergent Talent Emergent Technologies” exhibition for the Beijing Biennial 2006 and for the “(Im)material Processes: New Digital Techniques for Architecture” for the Beijing Biennial 2008. biothing/CONTINUUM research is exploring the shift from the technique-based approach that dominated generative practices within architecture in the recent past towards the more explicit computational approach by engaging with scripting directly in an open source manner _ addressing a growing culture of collective computational knowledge emerging within a discipline. At the core of the work is an accumulative library of scripts and methods for their transcoding, applicable to the constraints of materials, structure, fabrication and assembly. Evolving algorithmic infrastructure allows a designer to work at the scale of information linked to various forms of materialization. Computational patterns are understood as deep in terms of their potential to produce expressions at various scales. Not unlike a genetic engineer, the designer writes code sequences in the generation of immaterial forms of intelligence, which are than linked to specific constraints within different scales of social and material production. Beyond the combinatory evaluations biothing is engaging into less-deterministic process of design search _ interlacing constellations of constraints as a positive input for computational infrastructure. Within this accumulative ecology of relations, design becomes a mode of composure (and less a composition) _ search for coherent behaviors out of a texture of collective constitution. Highly affective outcomes and the use of algorithmic scripting as the primary generative mode are frequently inseparable. Additionally scripting toolsets act as a kind of connective tissue between traditionally separate fields of expertise towards new knowledge unifications. Biothing/CONTINUUM collaborates with specialists from other fields of expertise such as mathematics, programming, robotics, cultural theory, structural engineering and software development.

Bertil Vallien

Bertil Vallien, one of the truly groundbreaking figures in Swedish glass art, was born in Stockholm in 1938. His father was a master painter and pastor of an independent church, his mother a housewife. Vallien was the second of seven children. The gifted young man soon tired of school and took a job as a decorator at PUB, one of the Swedish capital’s largest department stores. Shortly thereafter, though, he began studying art at Konstfack, the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design. He graduated at the top of his class in 1961 and was awarded a Royal Foundation grant. The grant funded travels in the United States and Mexico between 1961 and 1963, giving him the freedom to achieve his first success as a ceramist in California. Together with his wife and fellow Konstfack graduate Ulrica Hydman-Vallien, he then returned to Sweden and moved to the glassmaking region of Småland. He had been recruited by the legendary glasshouse director Erik Rosén. Vallien immediately began to work in both glass and metal, and soon began to experiment with glass-casting.
Bertil Vallien website

Brut Deluxe

Brut Deluxe is an architecture and design studio headed by Ben Busche. Founded in 2004, Brut Deluxe operates from two platforms in Madrid and Lisbon. Brut Deluxe is focused on the investigation and creation of space and its atmospheric qualities. The projects oscillate between different scales of urban intervention: from ephemeral artistic installations to industrial design, construction design and urbanism. According to project objectives, a multidisciplinary team involving architects, artists, designers and engineers are engaged in the design process. Brut Deluxe thrives on the international academic education and provenance of its team members. Brut Deluxe is oriented towards the social, economic and aesthetic qualities of the projects and combines both scientific strategies and artistic approximations in the creative process.
Brut Deluxe website