Designers of the future - Design Miami/Basel 2010
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Design Miami/Basel celebrates its fifth anniversary this year with a record number of exhibiting galleries. Since its first edition held in 2005 in a small church in the Old Town of Basel, the fair has grown exponentially and now hosts to 32 different international galleries in its own hall at the Basel Fair site. Over the past four years HSBC Private Bank has supported and shared a vision with Design Miami of seeking new perspectives from across the globe. This year the fresh perspective of four young designers were revealed through the fair's 'W Hotels Designer of the Future Award' which recognises emerging designers whose work reflects exceptional innovation and beauty in limited edition designs. The prestigious design award will include a commission to be showcased at Design Miami in December 2010. The winning young designers:
Graham Hudson |
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For the Design Miami commission Hudson will drawing upon architecture and design concepts to explore the demise of the 1990's club scene in London. By directly referencing the architecture of several de-commissioned clubs that embody and represent the hedonism of this era, Hudson plans to create modular bar and disc-jockey booth that can be installed temporarily at sites around the world. "The physical experience of
this project must be functional, making the design context an exciting platform."
| |  | | Graham Hudson, designboom.com |
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rAndom International |
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London and Berlin-based studio rAndom International is a design collective who employ forward thinking digital programming to develop interactive design installations. Their work demonstrates an intense curiosity towards experimental processes and explores possibilities of physical movement as a trigger for design. The Design Miami commission will be an extension from this philosophy whereby rAndom International will create a light installation that has been programmed to “dance” in response to the visitor’s body movements. At the current Design Miami/Basel on now, rAndom International have a Swarm Light on exhibit, which captures the audible presence of visitors through lights.
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| Swarm Light, www.random-international.com |
Zigelbaum & Coelho |
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Zigelbaum + Coelho is a post-industrial, multidisciplinary design studio. The design duo combine their individual skills to create new human experiences - Jamie Zigelbaum builds next generation computer interfaces while Marcelo Coelho is a designer and researcher whose combines human-computer interaction, science and design. At Design Miami the interactive light installation Six-Fourty by Four Eighty will recontextualize the common pixel by introducing it into the physical world, beyond the confines of the screen.
| |  | | Six-Fourty by Four Eight, www.zigelbaumcoelho.com |
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Beta Tank |
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| | Beta Tank is a design practice founded by Michele Gauler and Eyal Burstein to address complex social/technological issues.
An early design Mind Chair revived the sensory substitution technology developed by Paul Bach-y-Rita (1969) who observed "You don't see with the eyes. You see with the brain." The chair used a movie camera and solenoids to vibrate images into the backs of those seated on the Mind Chair.
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For the Miami commission the duo will harness aspects of international tax and legal entities in their design to explore how humans adapt to progress in their everyday lives. -“We want to understand how true innovation and creativity, that which crosses boundaries and moves into the unknown".
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