Design Rumour

Design Rumour

Design Rumour featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Georgia

Georgia is an open toe 3” block heel with a flexible 3D printed sole that feels like a sneaker and looks like a clog. The platform combines a traditional insole, midsole, outsole, and shank of a high heel into a single 3D-printed platform that embodies the performance requirements of each of these layers within a complete construction. Inset into the platform is a woven mesh of lattice that acts as a dynamic form of supportive cushion. To top it off, a soft leather upper that comes with two interchangeable strap options.

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Venous Materials

Venous Materials project envisions a new way to design dynamic tangible interactions using fluidic Interfaces. It is a new type of interactive material that is inspired by veins systems in nature and the human body. When the user applies pressure or motion to the material, it dynamically displays geometric patterns and colors. The different patterns are displays that function as tangible sensors, that can animate dynamic graphics, create responsive objects for learning activities, and visualize body movement and balance.

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Linap

This elegant clothes hanger provides solutions to some of the biggest problems - the difficulty of inserting clothes with a narrow collar, the difficulty of hanging underwear and durability. The inspiration for the design came from the paper clip, which is continuous and durable, and the final shaping and choice of material was due to the solutions to these problems. The result is a great product that facilitates the daily life of the end user and also a nice accessory of a boutique store.

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Sonder Moments

Sonder Moments is a naked-eye 3D art piece that embodies elements of nature, digital aesthetics, and emotional power. Not only does the larger-than-life effect brings a strong visual impact on the audience, but the huge figure of the character also serves as a manifestation of the awakening of self-consciousness and the power of individuals. The colossus travels from another dimension to the social fields of the metropolitan spaces, breathing into this world energy and exuberance from a different time and space.

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Last Stand

The last stand is a fancy, 3d printed, dynamic, ergonomic, aesthetically catching product, made by Ospina Umbreit design studio, to give dying pencils a longer life. Almost every human has used a pencil as a way to physically materialize and communicate ideas, language, concepts, etc. However, pencils are not used 100% before they get thrown away. Their ergonomics become really unsuitable to most users after being sharpened many times; they get on average 20% of their product spam thrown away, making pencils not totally optimized. Every pencil user can give their dying pencils a last stand.

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Digital Taihu

Digital Taihu uses 3D printing technology to activate the application of traditional Chinese culture in the digital age, combining Taihu stone with bi-directional evolutionary structural optimization algorithms to explore design generation methods from natural systems, resulting in digitally sustainable designs with optimized structures.

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