Modern Ceramics – Re-inventing the wheel :
l’Artisan Electronique from Unfold Design Studio
The pottery wheel is one of the oldest artisan techniques for making utilitarian objects. Belgian company Unfold, in collaboration with Tim Krapen and the RepRap community, developed L ’Artisan Electronique, which is a virtual pottery wheel that can be creatively manipulated on the touchscreen of a tablet. This also acts as the interface for running a 3d scanner, adapted to pipe clay through nozzles to build the pottery form. The innovative process imitates the traditional technique used by ceramicists, in which the form is built up by stacking coils of clay. The result is a curious meeting of an ancient craft with modern technology and digital design software.
Simple glazed printed porcelain scaled forms - Unfold Design Studios
The L’Artisan Electronique installation was commissioned by the Z33 Art Centre for the exhibition ” Design by Performance “ According to Jnathon Keppat Unfold, , the clay qualities desirable in more traditional pottery techniques hold true for printing with clay too. The general rule of thumb with clay is that the whiter it is the less plastic and malleable it is. What is known as ‘short’ clay. The darker the clay, the more sticky it is and often the more plastic and able to bend before breaking. The converse is, the whiter the clay the higher the temperature it can be fired to before distorting. So porcelain is higher fired and stronger than say red earthenware red clay. There is always a payoff and that is why most clay bodies are a blend of a number of materials.
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More technical details here → http://unfoldfab.blogspot.com.au/
‘Volcanoes’ – ave size 9 x 9 cm (Experiments in modelling with ‘sculpt mode’ in the 3d program Blender)
Virtual Pottery from Yoon Chung Han on Vimeo.
Virtual Pottery is an immersive audiovisual installation that uses hand gestures to create 3D pottery objects and compose real-time sound piece. Using the simple and anagogic metaphor, Virtual Pottery attempts to transform body gesture into a digital music domain in a compelling way. The body is transformed into this multi-sensory space as a way of sculpting sound pottery. It delivers the same manner when we do in real pottery creation; sculpting clay, polishing the shape, adding glaze materials, and finally going through the firing process. By using simple hand gestures, the user can experience a virtual creation and sculpt their own pottery pieces, while compose real-time music. The meditative feeling, combined with experimental music, pushes the user to explore the relation between virtual sculpting and spatial sound composition.
Created in TransLab, Media Arts and Technology, University of California, Santa Barbara
Advisor : Prof. Marcos Novak
Technical Collaborator : Byeong-jun Han
Project Utanalog, Ceramic Utah Teapot
The Utah teapot is a 3D model created in 1975 by Martin Newell which has become a standard reference object in the computer graphics community. It is a simple, round, partially concave mathematical model of an ordinary teapot. The objective of Utanalog by Unfold is to return the iconographic teapot to its roots as a piece of functional dish-ware while showing its status as an icon of the digital world.
Recent ceramic innovations :
Modern Italian Fireplace Design by Montegrappa
Horus Coffee Table
Stephane Thivend
The Reveal Display Cabinet
Modern chair modules
Decorative ceramic wallsl from Naxos
The ceramic “Soundcollector” by Dutch designer Rommert Calje is suspended on wires and captures and amplifies sounds.
( an inverse ” cone of silence ” )
Modern ceramic tiles from Impronta
Impronta Porfido and Vibrazioni ceramic relief tile designs
Italia Nuova Wall Tiles
Ceramica Cielo, based out of Fabrica di Roma, Italy, espouses daring style, and this is clearly visible from their Jungle Collection. Exotic elegance is displayed with these reptile patterns. Definately appropriate for the Year Of The Snake.
Ceramica Cielo
Porcelain Dress, by Li Xiaofeng
Porcelain Dress, by Li Xiaofeng
BRIEFCeramicASE – Alexandros Stasinopoulos
The challenge in this project, was to mix the concept of traditional ceramics, a primitive material with long history in many cultures, with the unique properties high tech ceramics posses, like their extreme hardness, scratch- and abrasion-resistance, skin friendliness and their unique sensuous tactility.
BRIEFCeramicASE – Alexandros Stasinopoulos
Luxury ceramic dog house by Marco Morosini. Italian designer dog bed for the pampered and spoiled dogs.
Ceramic dog house
future figurines – Kim Simonsson
Matthias Kaeding’s ceramic Neolithic Knives
Time to re-discover our ancient culinary skills. This is just a concept knife, but I’d say a handle wouldn’t go astray.
Urban Gnome collection from London designers Vitamin
The Collection comprises a Money Box, Bottle Opener, Salt & Pepper shakers, and a Kitchen Timer.
A grey hand crafted modern ceramic planters from NATURE
KERAMION Foundation – Center for Modern and Historic Ceramics in Frechen, Germany
Portable Ceramic Bread Iron by Kim Been
Guarantee perfectly crisp toast by toasting your bread manually.
Strips of seaweed have left their mark on the photosensitive surfaces of this vase by Anglo-Dutch design duo Glithero
Glithero developed ‘Silverware’, a photographic technique that captures direct impressions of seaweed specimens on porcelain. The resulting images resemble abstract art from the 1950′s on surfaces that echo Wedgewood’s black and white Portland vase.
Castagna ceramic dog house by Bosa
Muggar
A piece of Delftware pottery, developed in 3D for a virtual shop and displayed in a virtual room.
An impressive abstract facade – Wintergarden Shopping Complex in Brisbane, Australia
” Our work on Wintergarden has enriched the studio’s knowledge in the fields of screen geometry, cutting, folding and panelising to the point where the most complex elements of design and construction are converted from creative potential and idealism to practical achievability. ” – Studio 505
photo – John Gollings
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