Shadowplay

A simple ring of light on the wall

– if you point your finger into the center, your own shadow becomes the hands of a shy clock. Fragile, transient but present like yourself.

Shadowplay was first presented to the public during this years edition of Vienna Design Week. It is our latest piece of non commercial work and the conclusion of a summer dedicated to some experiments about interaction design with LED lights and micro controller programming. We had the feeling that this outcome is a nice contemporary combination of crafts, technology and human interaction. It was quite important to us to keep that scope balanced.
Therefore it is also an object that will surprise and reach people emotionally. This is something paramount in our work. We try to create things which encourage others and provide a different perspective beyond styling matters.
That’s why at first sight this clock is just some ambient light on the wall… until you interact with it. Then it actually makes you the most important component of the whole concept. If you touch the wall in the centre of the ring, the clock will dim all the lights but two spots which illuminate your index finger and make it cast two shadows which resemble the hands of a clock. So your own shadow tells you time. You tell time.

Entwurf: breadedEscalope, 2015
Material: Wooden frame, interactive light installation (LED), shadow
Umsetzung: breadedEsclope 
Dimensionen: 73 cm

Foto: breadedEscalope

Original Stool

A process of place and time; uses landscape as a crucial part of the formative process.

The “Original Stools” are produced in an unique process which is based on interaction & serendipity. The objects are manufactured with a solid hollow orb, housing a flexible silicone mould of the Stool. Resin is filled into the silicone form in the orb. Then, the orb is set in motion by simply roll it through the streets, down a slope, into white water etc. Since the orb is rolling in all directions, the resin coats the entire inner surface of the form whilst hardening. The flexible form “records” all influences from outside. Therefore, the shape of the outcome varies; depending on sort of landscape, the way it is handled, etc.After a couple of minutes, the resin turns to from liquid to solid state & a unique shaped object is born. An “Original Stool” is always an unpredictable character that describes the capturing story of its evolution. Every single object is individual. They all have their own story and a place to be called their ‘home’. The carefully conceived, free-range kinetic process captures specific time & place by permitting the environment to provide the distinguishing characteristics for each piece.
So far, more than 60 places got their own “Original Stools”, made by the people & their environment.