NoChintz Newsletter Issue 001 Autumn 09

Issue 001 100% design Special issue101% Design in Brussels

The Box ProjectABR

KIDPrEDCLOUDY

TEN-XYZCloud Walk

Cork WallCascade #003

100% FuturesHomework Desk

Lilac Lot Collectionb+y design

PurewhyteCrazy CreationsBubble Candy Lights

Dress-CodeUndergrowth Designs

Designers BlockTimorous Beasties

Helena JonassonKithkin

Tales of Design

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ContentsThe Box Project101% Design in Brussels

ABRKIDPrEDCLOUDY

TEN-XYZCloud Walk

Cork WallCascade #003100% Futures

Homework DeskLilac Lot Collection

b+y designPurewhyteCrazy Creations

Bubble Candy LightsDress-CodeUndergrowth Designs

Designers BlockTimorous Beasties

Helena JonassonKithkinTales of Design

Staff Favourites

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A little note from us...

Welcome to the first Issue of our NoChintz magazine. This issue is a retrospective for 100% Design London 2009.

For those that don’t know us, we are an interior design studio based in Manchester. We work on vast ranging projects across both the domestic and commercial sectors (www.nochintz.com) and pride ourselves on good design - traveling the world seeking it out!

We were delighted to be invited to exhibit at this years main show to launch a recent Studio project, The Box Project (p4-5). We are UK agents for the fantastic Barcelona based furniture company ABR, and were also pleased to showcase the first examples of the product to the UK market.

Whilst a frenetically busy time we did manage to sneak of the stand to see what trends and products were being launched as this years show. We will continue to bring you trend forecasts and reports over the next few months, reporting from cities, exhibitions and launches across the world.

This issue was collated by the winner of the Box Project, Karen Smart.

With a special thanks to eskimo creative for turning it into a magazine!

Editor-in-Chief Lucy Goddard

Features Editor Karen Smart

Contributing writer Karen Smart

Design and Art Direction Mark Janson – eskimo creative

Published by NoChintz Ltd [email protected]

NoChintz Newsletter | The 100% design London issue | Autumn 09

The Box Project 2009

Karen Smart, interior design student from the University of Central Lancashire is unveiled as the winner of The Box Project. The competition, created by Northwest designers, NoChintz and backed by 100% Design, challenged the region’s creative community to think inside the box!

Karen answered the design challenge by creating a concept that impressed a panel of industry experts. The brief asked creatives to design the interior of a 2x2x2M micro building challenging it’s design and function.

She responded to the brief by designing a box that could use its own form to furnish the space with sections of the walls folding down to make shelves, tables and seating with its function suited to many interior uses.

The panel of leading experts included; Martin Stockley of Stockley Associates, David Partridge

of Argent Group PLC, Janet Dunnet of Piccaddilly Partnership, Tom Fenton of Urban Splash & Rachel Haugh of Ian Simpson Architects. The Piccaddilly Partnership gave its full backing to the project and Argent Group PLC, which is currently developing The Hive in the Northern Quarter, donated sponsorship money to help kick start the Project.

NoChintz would like to thank every body who came to visit The Box Project at this years event and showed an interest in the winning design.

For further information please contact: Natalie Gray on 07703 334 424.

www.theboxproject.co.uk

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Thinking inside the box!

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Designed in Brussels presents, in collaboration with the foreign trade department of the Brussels capital region and “Mode Design Brussels 2009”, the innovating work of 5 Brussels Designers.

1. Gauthier Poulain

The latest collection includes the Hold Cabinets (Dresser & Cupboard) & the Up coffee table. Featured in numerous magazines, and winner of Belgium Young Designer of the year award 2005, Poulain’s works are distinguished by the quest for dramatic contrasts between materials and colours.

www.gauthier-poulain.com

2. Maarten De Ceulaer

On display was Pile of Suitcases. An answer to it’s predecessors wardrobe closets’, which were enormously big, heavy and static. A clothing cabinet, which consists of different volumes, each specifically designed for one type of garment. Easily dismantled, separately transported or reconfigured if desired.

www.marteendeceulaer.com

3. Sebastien Wiernick

On show where Panels 02 & 03. The concept of the furniture lies in the use of panels. The assembly is conceived through digital processes and it’s production is managed through a computer. Sebastian Wiernick is also the founder of OnSite Studio.

www.sebastienwiernick.com

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KIDP

The second showcase of Korean design at 100% Design. The Korean government and KIDP will present the 11 works of up and coming Korean design studios/light manufactures, furniture and graphic design. KIDP is the only design body in Korea to plan and implement national design polices and strategies.

www.kidp.or.kr

rEDCLOUDY

rEDCLOUDY is a leader in visual communication and designer stationary. This calendar (featured below) was a particular favourite. We love the colourful graphics on this calendar and the simplicity of the embossed numbers.

The rest of the rEDCLOUDY range was equally impressive. For more info, please visit their website

www.redcloudy.com

ABR Produccion

ABR are not a manufacturer. They operate in the same way as their forerunners; distinguished brands such as Santa & Cole and Mobles 114. They do not have their own factor, instead they seek the most suitable manufacturer for each project.

By working this way their catalogue is able to offer furniture, lighting, screening, accessories and even the ‘Virgin of Memory’ USB stick.

This eclecticism and a desire to try new things are unmistakable signs of the company’s vibrance. As indeed is the blend of courage and humour needed in order to bring to the market objects such as an expanded polyurethane chair, which looks like it is a replica of the buttocks of Michelangelo’s David, or the above- mentioned virginal USB device!

Featured in ICON’s Product year book and in the November issue of Living ETC. and ELLE Decoration’s which list, it won’t be long until you start spotting it about.!

email [email protected]

Korea Institute of Design Promotion

rEDCLOUDY

ABR


by TEN Design Collective

At this years 100% design the TEN Design Collective presents TEN-XYZ; an exploration of their varied perspectives on the complex issues of sustainability within design. Using digital design manufacturing technologies TEN XYZ references the axis utilised within software and digital manufacturing technologies to produce three dimensional objects. For this years project TEN XYZ is partnered with Metropolitan Works, who have given designers access to the plethora of machines and expertise housed on their East London site.

For more info on designers visit www.ten-xyz.com

TEN-XYZ

Cascade #003

by Three Ball Cascade

CASCADE #003 is the latest in a series of furniture by the Japanese architecture studio, Three Ball Cascade. Designed to reflect the relationship between the different objects placed on it’s surface and the way this affects the users interaction with the table itself. This challenges the notions we have of a tables function and changes the way we feel we can use its form.

For more information please visit www.threeballcascade.com

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Cork Wallby Sam Pickard

British textile designer Sam Pickard has a distinctive illustrative style. Her strong contemporary designs are reflected in her latest range, launched for the first time at 100% design 2009 Sam has used modern laser-etching to transform large tiles/panels of the old - and eminently sustainable - material of cork, which she has personally sourced from Portugal. Her patterns are disciplined and linear, with cool optical effects. The tiles that are insulating for both sound and heat can also be fire rated. Sam says “the effect isn’t smooth and bland like printing”.

See more of Sam’s work at www.sampickard.co.uk

E-mail [email protected]

Cloud Walkby Yu Jordy Fu

London designer Yu Jordy Fu showcased a 9m long chandelier made from hand cut paper at 100% design this year. The Piece is composed of 25 smaller paper lights joined together, all of which are cut freehand from recycled paper and can be bought separately.

The piece celebrates the spatial relationship between people and the city - the existing, proposed and imaginary London.

“Cloud Walk” is lightweight and treated with non-flammable spray. The chandelier is sustainable: the made from recycled paper, the method and production is handmade, and the product uses energy saving LED light sources. By introducing the Chinese paper cutting tradition into a contemporary use, the chandelier is also sustaining a culture.

www.jordyfu.com


100% Futures

by Robin Gasby

As winner of the New Designers 100% Design Award. Northumbrian graduate Robin Grasby had his own stand at this year’s 100% Futures exhibition. Grasby showcased several products at the New Designers show in July, including a two seater chair in beech, but his Homework Desk garnered particular praise. The judges included 100% Design London show director Peter Massey and JAM director Jamie Anley.

They where impressed with the versatility of the piece, which includes a white board, magnetic marker pen and eraser, cutting board, built in ruler and compartments for various tools.

www.robingrasby.co.uk

Homework Desk

Winner of the New Designers 100% Design Award.

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by Undpartner

The Bookmark Vol.2 is just one of many in the collection. A futuristic piece of furniture which turns your wall into a three dimensional pattern. Due to it’s oblique shape, it keeps your books from falling and is easy to put on the wall and open to any position. Undpartner is a design duo consisting of Barbara Collackner and Michael Walder. To see more of Undpartners work please visit

www.undpartner.at

Lilac Lot Collection

by Hamish Bigg & Eleanor Young

B+Y Design is a collaboration between designers Hamish Bigg & Eleanor Young. Hamish & Eleanor meet at The Glasgow School of Art whilst studying Product Design and Textile Design respectively.

Although diverse in their approaches, both share core philosophies of sustainability and playfulness. Their work aspires to engage it’s audience in a creative way, with thoughtful and enduring designs, ranging from interactive lighting to furnishing textiles. Having developed strong identities for themselves, Hamish and Eleanor joined under the name B+Y Design to exhibit at 100% Futures.

www.b-ydesign.co.uk

b+y design

09 Collection by Kirsty Whyte

PUREWHYTE is a new design brand founded by Designer Kirsty Whyte. All the products are newly designed by and manufactured for 2009. The varied collection follows kirsty’s core design principles “ I aim to create a purely designed product, which explores it’s material, which will hopefully become a modern classic, making it a sustainable product a customer would want to keep and last for years to come”. All PUREWHYTE products are manufactured in the UK, spanning from as far a field as the Lake District, Tyne and Ware and Southampton.

Whyte recently received Best Newcomer to Launchpad 2009 at Pulse, Earls Court London and been selected as the UK winner of the Swiss Design Days Geneva design competition. Kirsty also specialises

PUREWHYTE

in Kiln formed Galss. After her degree she was invited as an international guest student to Kalmer University in Sweden where she studied Glass Design.

www.pure-whyte.com

wwwpurewhyte.blogspot.com


Crazycreation Designs

Staffordshire based company Crazy Creations Designs produces ceramic wares using the finest materials and processes to fuse fun, design and form. The ceramic surface is used as the canvas and the imagery and decoration is built up on the ceramic using multiple surface decoration.

Wares include Englishrosey using the concept of pick and mix ceramics and Death by Music, combining platinum and gold detailing with black printed imagery. They have also developed new designs in ceramic lighting (see picture on right) which had it’s preview at 100% design. Recently Crazy Creations exhibited at the Interior Lifestyles exhibition, in Tokyo, on the British Design Stand.

www.crazy-creations.co.uk

Crazycreations

by Yura Kim

Designer Yura Kim presents her Bubble Candy Lights at this years 100% Design. Her work draws on natural forms and textural qualities found in bird nests, feathers and eggs. She is interested in playing with the casting of shadows through the light which penetrates through her structures. The sculptural forms are made from plastic resin. The repetition of the lines and shape work to create the 3D structures, making a rigid form from a liquid material.

Eunyoung Kim (Yura Kim) has a BA Hons in Decorative Arts from Nottingham Trent University. She exhibited at New Designers in 2008 and has been announced as the winner of the Blueprint Award at this years 100% Design London.

Yura Kim’s work can be found on her blog at www.eunyoungkim2009.blogspot.com

Bubble Candy Lights


by Fukutoshi Ueno & Akira Isogawa

DRESS-CODE is the entrancing result of the recent collaboration of two Japanese Designers, both now residence of Australia. It marries the vision of World Renowned fashion designer Akira Isogawa with the minimalist of emerging furniture designer Fukutoshi Ueno.

The collection implants several of Akira’s Kimono inspired designs on Fukutoshi’s arresting and acclaimed furniture piece CODE. In this collaboration, their powerful personalities play off each other to create a new direction for both their disciplines.

Fukutoshi Ueno www.idee247.com

Akira Isogawa www.akira.com

DRESS-CODE

Blaue Blume Teaset

Inspired by the obscure and uncanny in life Tina Tsang (founder of Undergrowth Designs) breathes life into everyday objects to create an unconscious dialog between the object and the user. The aim of her design is to enthral the user and give a sense of Tina Tsang is a graduate of Central Saint Martins Collage of art in film and illustration which has also been a major influence in designing her products. She also runs her own manufacturing agency trading with china in garments and does freelance fashion styling.

www.undergrowthdesigns.com

Undergrowth Designs


Designers Block

Textile & Wallpaper

By depicting uncompromisingly contemporary images on traditional textiles and wallpapers, Timorous Beasties has defined an iconoclastic style of design once described as “William Morris on acid.” Noted for its surreal and provocative textiles and wallpapers, the design studio Timorous Beasties was founded in Glasgow in 1990 by Alistair McAuley and Paul Simmons. The pair met while studying textile design at Glasgow School of Art.

Timorous Beasties are experimental in approach to both hand-printing and machine production. These changes are reflected in an evolving aesthetic: from early way ward interpretations of naturalistic images of insects, plants and fish; to a searingly contemporary graphic style with Glasgow Toile.

www.timorousbeasties.com

Timorous Beasties

Furniture Designer

Helena Jonasson is exhibited as part of the group ‘0.6 collective’. She was born in Sweden in 1978, but she has been based in London since 2004. Designing furniture and products of graphic composition, yet with softness and expression. The range is quality hand-made by UK cabinet makers with long lasting qualities and longevity in mind.

The line of storage units are called the Linie cabinet and Funkis drawer unit. Linie (see picture above right) is a small cabinet, with a black edge detail and gently curved doors, which draws on the cartoon figure‘La Linea‘. The original character is illustrated as a single outline around his silhouette, walking on an infinite line of which he is a part of.

www.helenajonasson.com

Helena Jonasson


Six Irish Furniture Designers

This is a tale of five young girls, each born with a passion for design. Their furniture is as diverse as their goals are similar – to create innovative, fun and meaningful furniture and to make this furniture available to the public. Tales of Design are dedicated not only to design but to the entire design process.

Their furniture collection is an accumulation of design journeys’, with each piece encapsulating a chapter in each designer’s life. Tales of Design are: Eadaoin Dempsey, Malaika Mallard, Aimee Hartshorn, Elain Guinan, Jenny Walsh and for Designers Block one boy, James Carroll.

www.talesofdesign.com

Tales of Design

Collection of artists & Designers

‘Kithkin Presents’ is a unique journey into the tastes and influences of young design graduates. Curated by Ian Atkins and Joss Debae, Kithkin Presents has been organised to show people conceptual design at it’s most fun, dangerous and at times even impractical.

This is an exhibition from humble beginnings put together on a shoestring, organised communally, featuring several young designers and made possible by friendship, favours and passion Kithkin is a collective of artists and designers forged together through a desire to explore creativity, it is dedicated to working, learning and expressing ideas in a environment rich in collaboration and free from boundaries.

Kithkin Presents are: Anna Schwamborns, Celene Mcdowell, Mai Ohashi, Maria Tovslid, Tomomi Sayuda, Claire Acheson and Jayne Taylor.

www.kith-kin.co.uk

Kithkin

www.verydesignersblock.com

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NoChintz Director

This year’s 100% Design bar was designed by Viable London. Better known for their highly contemporary yet refined furniture pieces, this was there first bar design. The result is a striking structure that acted as the visual centerpiece for the feature corridor running the length of Earl’s Court Two.

The bar featured several snaking arrays of a honeycomb-like structure built from the Unibox system of aluminum extrusions and clad in a three-dimensional array of Perspex from Lucite’s new Frost range. The frames were arranged around an elegantly simple bar clad in Midnight black Perspex, complementing the dark decking.

Upholstered benches followed the angles of the main structures providing comfortable places to stop. Bute’s fabrics were selected for the upholstery for their beautiful blend of colours and textures.

Natalie Gray

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NoChintz Director

My favourite product at this years 100% Design was undoubtedly the Buzzi Skin (wallpaper to us!)

Buzzispace is a young Belgium design group with big ambitions. They describe themselves as a ‘creative think tank’ led by three simple words; Ecology, Acoustics and Flexibility.

They have successfully transformed these practical concerns into beautiful product designs, one of which is the Buzzi Skin.

Designed by Sas Adriaenssens, this self adhesive (yes no messy wallpaper paste) acoustic felt is available to use on walls, cupboards, doors or tiles.

Best of all they are 100% ecological and made completely of recycled PET bottles.

Lucy Goddard

NoChintz Designer

The highlight for me of the 100% Design was surprisingly not one of stunning furniture, materials or spaces. You sort of take that for granted when you’re at a design show for 4 days, and luckily TheBoxProject’s position was right next to Brompton Bikes.

I’ve been curious about the engineering challenge of making a fully functioning bike reduce to a small size for years, despite me not needing a folding bike. Brompton very kindly let me take one for a spin round Earls Court and I disappeared on my sunny London bike ride, albeit short lived. The bike works great, perfectly evolved for it’s function - it’s the 911 of the bike world. My fear was that it would feel too small, but it seemed just right, especially in a city. I now need to convince myself that a 14 mile bike ride is preferable to an easy car journey, that might be a while.

www.brompton.co.uk

Sanjay Prasad

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