• Pilotis Vase – First Article

    This was the first piece I received back from the ceramicist Peter Fink of Potsfink. Peter helped to create the molds from the positive wooden forms I made and he slip cast all of the Pilotis Vases for our project with Apparament 50.

  • Sketching China

    ECAL exhibitions SKETCHING CHINA Product Design Master December 13, 2014 – Réunion, Zurich Isch Mir Ecal / Made in China 2nd Exhibition of sketches and photography by Master Product Design students, made during a study trip to China and Hong Kong in February 2014 The gallery exhibited sketches made by our master class on our trip…

  • Scott Bicycle x ECAL Process Photos

    In 2014 ECAL’s Master of Product Design class teamed up with Scott to develop a commuter bicycle. Here are a few process photos for our group’s development. Our team was comprised of Thomas Burns, Kasia Kempa, and Lucas Frank. This project was led by Philippe Albert Lefebvre and assisted by Stephane Halmai-Voisard. Here we are visiting Scott…

  • Early Computer Art

    John Cage ‘Computer to turn us into artists’ Conceptual Art: John Baldessari – Back of All Trucks… Idea > Result Analytical Systematical Removal of Subjectivity Bernd and Hilla Becher – Kalkofen Sol Le Witt- Brick Wall Art as an Idea Idea > Result Schematic Drawing for Incomplete Open Cubes [Manfred Mohr p181, 1976] 1956 IBM…

  • Exquisite Corpses from Junior Design Research

    During the 2015 Junior Design Research conference in Lucern, Switzerland I gave a talk about The Fear of the New and in the afternoon I led a workshop called “What’s Next to My Design?” The workshop went over simple methods of researching that can lead you down new paths.   We closed out the research workshop by…

  • Lecture: Roland Früh

    REF: Caro Diario Nanni Moretti 1993 Lucius Burckhardt 1925-2003 (about the small things) Norman Potter (Dont Think) R. Früh’s Projects Max Bill, 1908-1994 Providurium.org easy-lessoning.com

  • Lecture: Joel Vacheron

    Michel De Certeau – The Practice of Everyday Life Albert Camus Boris Vian Howard Becker – Outsiders Dick Hebdige – Subculture: The Meaning of Style Roland Barthes – Mythologies Stuart Hall – Resistance Through Rituals Vibrations Magazine Paul Gilroy

  • Adjustable Stool/Table

     

  • Appartement 50 – Kitchen Panorama

  • Together / Apart

    In 2014, as a one day workshop led by Bethan Wood and Tomas Alonso, Roosa Ryhänen and I made this bench.  Our brief was to create a seating for two which would encourage some type of interaction.  

  • Master Design Produit

  • A Few Textures Observed at the Unité d’Habitation

    Taken during visit in September of 2014