Category: Design

ATUEMARÜ

Margit Steidl and Roland Dorn are the founders of Graz-based collective ATUEMARÜ. As a parallel project born from their love for bikes, Margit and Roland have started building lamps using rims from found bicycles, resulting in unique designs.

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Photos & Interview by Clara Wildberger

Please tell us about your passion for bikes. How did you come up with the idea of creating rim lamps?

Roland: A long time ago my mother bought me my first bike, but I enjoyed more riding my sister’s pink princess bike because it was faster. Years later, I started building and restoring my own single speed and fixed gear bikes. After a few bike projects, I ended up with quite a lot of leftover parts…

Margit: …and you wanted to have a lamp in your room. You were sitting on the balcony, besides some of your bike stuff. So, why not doing a lamp out of the leftover bike parts? We mounted different rims and spokes and created the first rim lamp – we liked it and named it ‘The Earth’.

How do you distribute tasks?

Roland: Margit is the best bike waste collector ever!

Margit: Roli is the one who has the knowledge about electricity and such things. Basically we make any decisions and work on tasks together.

Tell us about your design process? How many different models are you planning to create?

Margit: There are many possible connections of rims and spokes left to create more different forms of lampshades. Therefore, I doubt on ever reaching a finite point. This is also one of the main motivations when creating these rim lamps.

Roland: Every lamp is and will be unique. First, we create a draft of a shape we imagine. We then start choosing parts we’d like to use and from that point we just work on the object. Sometimes we end up with a shape different from the original draft.

How would you describe your lamps?

Roland: An object with history, caused by the former life of the parts – kind of reincarnation of wheels. Dirty somehow, looking fragile, although they’re not at all.

Margit: Playful somehow, lively, working with one of the most archaic shapes: the circle.

December 14, 2015
Typodarium Calendar 2016

Typodarium 2016 is a tear-off calendar, just like the one our grandmas used to hang in the kitchen, but this calendar unveils a new font everyday. On the front, the font is prominently displayed, and on the back it’s described in more detail – how it originated, from what or who came the inspiration and where we can obtain the font. Typodarium 2016 is published by Verlag Hermann Schmidt Mainz.

www.2016.typodarium.de

Images courtesy of Typodarium

December 10, 2015
La Charrette by Antonin+Margaux

Antonin+Margaux is a Nantes-based graphic design and screen printing studio. Founded in 2011, Antonin+Margaux do client work, have an online shop where they sell their own screen printed products and also run numerous workshops. Their love for screen printing has turned into La Charrette, a project in which they’re planning to transform a bike into a screen printing trailer and travel across France and even Europe. We invite you to find out more about this innovative idea on the video below and to contribute to Antonin+Margaux’s crowdfunding campaign.

www.kisskissbankbank.com/la-charrette-print-ride

November 30, 2015
Minimalissimo Magazine

Following a successful Kickstarter campaign, the first issue of Minimalissmo Magazine is out. Minimalissmo started in 2009 as an online publication championing the best of minimalism, touching on many areas including art, architecture, fashion, graphic, packaging and industrial design. The driving force behind the website and the magazine is Edinburgh-based designer and editor Carl MH Barenbrug.

As we read in the welcome note from the editor, “the first printed issue is dedicated to highlighting some of our favourite features over the past six years as well as exploring the minimalist design ethos and its influence on creativity”.

The first issue discovers, among others, Danish architecture studio Norm Architects, fashion designer Rad Hourani, director of Vitsoe Mark Adams and Swiss artist Zimoun.

www.minimalissimo.com

November 26, 2015
Enrich & Endure Aprons

We already introduced Enrich and Endure on our blog but since then Sarah and Lorcan Quinn have been rethinking their business. Formerly a homeware brand working with Irish linen and wool, Enrich and Endure now focus on creating artisan, made to last aprons.

While their direction changed slightly, the ethos ethos remains the same – quality materials, longevity, local craftsmanship and top-class design. Both Sarah and Lorcan are big foodies and their passion for the industry can be seen in their work.

“The apron idea first came about while we were still involved in the homewares. Basically we really admired and respected the work of our favourite coffee roaster/cafe in Dublin and had always wanted to collaborate with them and so designed them aprons for their baristas. Word of mouth soon spread that we were designing customised Irish linen aprons and so when more and more restaurants and coffee shops started to approach us about working together we began to think seriously about the idea of aprons” – says Sarah who is mostly involved in the design and production.

“After around 6 months of development we decided to go for it full steam ahead. We really love it. We are constantly on the road meeting restauranteurs, chefs and coffee shop owners, getting to see behind the scenes of what they do and seeing first hand the passion they have for their craft. I’m sure you will agree, working with like minded creative people is so much fun”.

www.enrichandendure.com

Photos courtesy of Enrich and Endure

November 18, 2015