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Product Design Martina Taranto
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“ I miei occhi giacciono in fondo al mare nel cuore delle alghe e dei coralli. [...] “
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In Sicily, when summer begins, the first time you go to the beach may be painful.
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The happiness you are seized by is so strong that makes you forget to put on the sun cream. Your reckless passion for Summer, Sun and Sea tragically turns into a heavy burn, you will lose pieces of your skin from all over your body, like a snake - but, at the end, you won’t care - because you will be so satisfied and the state of mind you’ll be raped by will be so peaceful and relaxing, that loosing pieces of yourself would be the last of your problems. The design process, for me, is something like that - willingly lose pieces of me in a reckless and passionate adventure that aims to the highest expression of my interior and professional contents.
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Product Design | Martina Taranto
date of birth: 27th Jun 1989, ERICE (TP), TRNMTN89H67D423X mobile phone: + 44 07939983316 / +39 333 92 60 024 e-mail address: martina.taranto@gmail.com address: 23 Fir Grove, New Malden, Greater London, Surrey, UK, KT36RH portfolio online: issuu.com/martina.taranto
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#Photoshop #Indesign #Illustrator #Rhinoceros #Keyshot #Cura #Fusion360 #3Dprintig #RapidPrototyping #DigitalFabrication #DigitalArt #ArduinoElements #Alchemy #Word #ManualandDigitalSketching #TheoryofColours #TheoryofShapes #Sociology #Semiotics #AppliedSemiotics #Photography #PhotoEditing #ManualSkills #Crafts #html #Arts #SustainableDesign #CorporateIdentity #Branding #WordPress #SocialMedia
As a curious person I am always searching for new points of view and new approaches to things and life, in order to appreciate everything in the most conscious and sensitive way. I really care about people’s needs, both practical and intangible, this is why I’m interested in semiotics, in the way objects and people affect each other respectively according to culture. I try to deal with different topics in order to sharpen my versatility and enrich the quality of the creative process. I am interested in experimenting new perspectives in order to design anything in the most unexpected way. I have a good eye for detail and I love dealing with graphics and digital art.
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2014 AURONIA CONTEST, Operae Torino,1 st place 2012 ENRICO CIRIO TALENT AWARD #1, 6th place
SPOKEN LANGUAGES Italian (Mother tongue) Fluent English (B2 TOEIC certificate April 21st 2015)
VOLUNTEER 2007/2013 LIBERA, nomi e numeri contro le mafie + UNILIBERA 2013 Young municipal councilman at Calatafimi Segesta Municipality 2015 Princess Alice Hospice.
STUDIES
2003/2008 Liceo Scientifico G. Ferro Scientific and classical studies mark: 100/100 2008/2011 Università degli studi di Palermo Polytechnic of Turin Energetic Engineering 2012/2015 IAAD Istituto D’Arte Applicata e Design Product Design mark: 110 with honours/110
29th Jan 2016, London FabLabLondon (attended) Electronics Design: Fundamentals Workshop. 12nd Dec 2015, London (ran) FabLab London organized and ran Christmas Craft Workshop for families. 21st/22nd Nov 2015, London Hackcess (attended) “A hackathon focused on using digital fabrication and maker technologies to help disabled people live more independent lives...” by Whizz-kidz with Fab Lab London, Autodesk, Ultimaker and Goldsmiths University. 20th Nov 2015, London FabLabLondon (attended) Fusion360, Autodesk. 28th Mar 2015, Turin FabLab Torino (attended ) Arduino Day. 18th Mar 2015, Turin FabLabTorino (attended) Welding Microphones! How to make a piezoelectric microphone. 8th/10th Oct 2014, Turin IN-Residence -DesignDialogues#8 (attended) Resonance Tuning. 15th Sep 2014, London GlobalDesignForum,LondonDesignFestival (attended Lecture: OLED there be light: the future of illumination. Lecture: Democracy in Design: The Modern Makers.
2015 Fondazione Achille Castiglioni Graduation Project 2015 Redivivus Graduation Project Apr/Jul 2014 Lago School project
2008/2009 TRADITIONAL ARTWORK Traditional Sicilian canvas with handmade coral inserts, for Planet Gems. 2011/2014 ILLUSTRATOR Illustrator for monthly online magazine: “Il palindromo” 2012/2013 GRAPHIC AND ARTISTIC WORKS Installation for traditional Sicilian event. Advertising campaign for Young Municipal council 2014/2015 PHOTOGRAPHER Holi Colour (Calatafimi Segesta) WALL ARTWORK Vesper Pub (Turin). 2015/2016 INTERNSHIP FabLab London Since Nov, 2015. FREELANCE WORK _Prototypation and digital fabrication of menu holders for Tech City’s public event at the National Gallery. _Re-Branding and Corporate Identity for Planet Gems. JOURNALISM Published essay for FabLab London.
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LA SMILZA Graduation Project in collaboration with Fondazione Achille Castiglioni e Fablab Torino
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GLI SPECCHI DI BAUDELAIRE Graduation project in collaboration with Redivivus Liuteria
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MACINAMATITE Artefact/Artistic Installation for FabLab London
THE CANNON BALL Artefact/Artistic Installation for FabLab London
INNESTO Re-style & Corporate Identity for Planet Gems
TALIA Unusual Musical Instrument
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LA SMILZA *
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SMILZA > having little flesh; lean.
More or less risky dissertations on the designer’s evolution in view of the technological progress and the democratization of design and productive media.
A graduation project on a chair. Exactly what everyone tells you not to do from the very first day at university. But if the suggestion comes from the “Fondazione Achille Castiglioni” you can not refuse. This is a challenge with habits and social customs that evolves considering future scenarios, in which the technological progress and the democratic nature of the production process will allow well designed items to be affordable for everyone. I find a “raison d’être” to the object that, probably, is the greatest archetype of Design, thanks to the special support of Achille Castiglioni’s method who, as a legacy, leaves a critical memory.
* This is just an abstract of the whole project. Most part of the theoretical analysis, along with the socio-semiotic research is missing because of extensive length of its contents.
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“Art is to be made by people and for the people, as a happiness to the maker and the user.”
“All of us architects, sculptors, painters, we must turn to the craft. Art is not a profession, there is no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman ... We form one community of authors without class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist. We conceive together the new building of the future, which will embrace architecture, sculpture and painting in one unit, and it will be raised one day to the sky from the hands of millions of workers, like the crystal symbol of a new faith.“
CONCEPT #democratisation Autoproduction is the tendency of reclaiming the production process, to regain and own once more, the satisfaction of making our things with our hands.
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Making connections, to the net, to other people/Chronic nomadism.
#technological progress New technologies and their simplicity, must be the catalysts that will allow our society to be distinguished from the past ones because of the democratic approach to objects’ production. It could be said that the autoproduction is the tendency to claim and reclaim the humanization of the production process.
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#Mychair
Thousands of chairs already exist... What if would my chair exist just when I need it? What if it wouldn’t be necessary to produce thousands of chairs? What if I could build my seat according to my physical, temporal, spatial needs? Answering to these questions has been my chance to face the problem of a limited and thoughtful production with a very low impact, to justify the umpteenth chair that the world would host ... it would not be the chair but its potential idea, that would need to be accepted by the audience; this would make my object much less invasive both economically and ecologically in the irrepressible industrial panorama in which we operate. Moreover, this has been a very good occasion to analyse the society thoroughly in his distinctive feature of this time: nomadic life.
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THE WISE
M A N S AY S : “[...] The identification of “the main component of design” is that specific planning element that embodies the will to answer to a particular functional feature rather than to a particular stylish characteristic, or an expressive/communicative search type.“
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“It is necessary to approach to the industrial design, considering the evolution of the everyday reality, with the continuous certainty that also the most humble object has its own story to tell: not a “formal appearance”, but a formal “quantity”. And from the analysis of the “formal quality” of a serial object, our experiences of working always lead inevitably to the ethical problem of the design and the use of the object in the production process. This is a problem of responsibility for the industrial designer, in a society where massive and progressive transformations are not only quantitative changes but they invest qualitatively the man and the whole world around him.“
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LZA I wanted to design a product that would respond to preconditions such as: democratic-ethical-chronistic production and consumption of objects, application of new technologies and historical memory.
in the world, with the 3D printed joints, you can rebuild your chair when and where you want, improving it and giving to it always different features (as you can learn from the instructions beneath).
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LA SMILZA is made of broomsticks, 3D printed joints and a suspended laser cut seat. It is
highly customizable, affordable to everyone according to their needs, transportable everywhere by whom uses to often travel from one place to another, easy to assemble and disassemble. If you are a nomadic person, you can bring with you a piece of your latest homes! Because of the availability of broomsticks everywhere
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BUILD YOUR SMILZA: #materials:
8 broomsticks cut into12pieces,2 pieces of rope 3m each,26 self-tapping screws,10 3D printed joints,laser cut back and seat,hammer,screwdriver.
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CONCEPT PORTFOLIO The easy availability of broomsticks, plus the fact that their measures are the same all over the world, allows the section of the printed item to be universal. 3D printing opens a big range of opportunities in terms of customisation thanks to the chance of using the most diverse materials, even special ones such as the metal or marble. Users can build a fully customizable product; they will choose the material that most pleases them. They may print the joints by themselves or they might order the components from any prototyper they want receiving them at home directly.
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Printing tests and shape variations due to structural reasons.
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La musique souvent me prend comme une mer! Vers ma pâle étoile, Sous un plafond de brume ou dans un vaste éther, Je mets à la voile; La poitrine en avant et les poumons gonflés Comme de la toile, J’escalade le dos des flots amoncelés Que la nuit me voile; Je sens vibrer en moi toutes les passions D’un vaisseau qui souffre; Le bon vent, la tempête et ses convulsions Sur l’immense gouffre Me bercent. D’autres fois, calme plat, grand miroir De mon désespoir!
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Les fleurs du mal, Charles Baudelaire
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In team with: Alberto Petronio Daniela Salerno
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Baudelaire’s mirrors
Redivivus is a luthier artisan workshop, brought to life by the brothers Massimo e Umberto Mari. Redivivus produced its own instruments until 2005, when the economical crisis erupted and the market was flooded by Chinese products. Sales decrease and the brothers are constrained to return to the labour of repairing and restoration. Today the company is facing a difficult moment. For them we designed a product that could be a real alternative to the more elitist basses and guitars. Within a modern scenario in which mass production insinuates with tenacity and insistence our everyday life, the artisan works quietly in his shop. Staggered in a society where the handmade product is recognized as a precious object, but for reasons due to habits, lack of curiosity and attention, and to a market invaded by industry, artisans are stuck in a limbo where their product is no longer valid. In fact the craftsman lives in the shadows of industrial production, often forced to change his identity job,
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creating objects from scratch with his bare hands, in order to survive. With the intention of restoring social and professional identity to the artisan figure, we have developed an innovative, engaging and up to date product. Developing on the analysis of the know-how of a Turin workshop of guitar and bass making, and giving particular attention to the product’s quality, formal characteristics and performance in order to restore luster to a craft and art long held behind the scenes.
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CONCEPT We came up with the idea of an object that uses the principles of guitars and basses to optimized the sound emission through the consistency of the wood they are made with. We thought about different objects which could reach out to everyone, independently from the fact they know how to play or not a musical instrument. With this product, Redivibus will pay particular attention not only to an elitÊ of customers but to those who appreciate what the elitè produces.
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SOUND WAVES Sound waves are emitted from a speaker, positioned exactly in point F so that the waves will bounce on the paraboloid, propagating in a cylindrical bundle of its perimeter’s dimension.
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Experimenting on wooden pieces we applied the luthiers’ techniques into the designing of a unique piece of craftsmanship.
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Because both artisans have specialized in the fixing of electric basses and guitars, they have acquired the ability to reconstruct missing or broken portions of any part of the guitar, making the instrument look as good as new and making the point of union between old and recently glued wood to be imperceptible, neither for its colour or grain of the wood. Willing to emphasize this characterizing capacity, the gluing method will be used to join rhombus and triangles obtained from wasted wood, that compose the body of the paraboloid.
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Boudelaire in his poem “La musique� describes a situation in which privately everyone enjoys music and all the memories this arouses in us with its harmonies. The same feeling that our object seeks to enhance.
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The selection of wood becomes a fundamental factor in the working of this instrument that amplifies sound. Softer woods better transmit low or medium-low frequencies, while the hardest woods respond better to medium-high and high frequencies.
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Hard woods (top row) Medium-high frequencies from 6000 to 25000 Hz: Ebony, Rosewood, Canadian maple (from left to right)
Soft woods (bottom row) Medium-low frequencies from 0 to 6000 Hz: Ash, Fir, Alder, (from left to right).
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BODYPARTS S O U L tripod
The detail of the base, formally recalls the that usually supports the Charleston in a drum kit. The intent is to maintain cleanliness and simplicity to focus attention on the paraboloid and its pattern.
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To be formally coherent with Redivivus’s musical imagery we decided to resume the typical
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Meeting up with a handmade product, automatically links us to the soul of who used his hands to create it from scratch; therefore, the object instantly becomes more personal and intimate. “Gli specchi di Baudelaire” do not want to impose an attitude or gesture, but instead wishes to return space, time and privacy to those who make use of it, conveying sound with our artisans’ culture, tradition and story.
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MACINAMATITE
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Art work
During my internship at Fablab London I was asked to exhibit few old items recovered from the mysterious basement. This grinder is one of the weird things found there.
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MACINAMATITE is com- ing of some object present posed of many parts, most in the lab that would have of them are hidden. been easy to combine with my intention of recalling My intention was to rein- the grinder’s old function in state this obsolete product an ironic way. in the lab’s everyday life - I took a look around the also I wanted its restyling lab and I saw all the coto recall the object’s old lourful pencils stored in the function, like an echoing sad box on the shelf. presence of the past. Because the hidden ele- What I did is very simple: ments were not essential I replaced the metal grid to understand the object’s where the meat used to ultimate function, I decid- come out with a 3D printed to remove them. I came ed one designed to hold the with this idea of the pencil pencils. case because I was think-
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THE CANNON BALL
Art work
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What would you do with a cannon ball from the 19th century? I turn it into a globe for magnetic laser cut baby ships!
The Cannon Ball is exactly what the name says it is: a true, original, crazy cannon ball from the Napoleonic period.
monstrously dangerous centuries before, made me realise how objects’ perception is subjected to times and culture. The very same stones that were seducing me because of their It has been recovered from the magic shape, in a distant past might have basement at FabLab London. ended uncountable lives. The first time I saw a ball used as a weapon was two years ago, at the Segesta’s archaeological settlement, in my home town - there 120 big catapult balls lie peacefully on the grass. These balls are made of perfectly polished white stones, typical of the area. Seeing those unnaturally rounded stones, for me as risky as an Arnaldo Pomodoro’s sculpture,
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Holding the cannon ball in my hands, brought my memory back to that day I was peacefully standing with one hundred of mass destruction weapons at my feet. Through this design I wanted to convey, in a tragicomic way, that paradox.
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INNESTO
*This project is still in the stage of prototyping.
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INNESTO > a bud or small shoot of a plant placed into a groove, slit, or the like in a stem or trunk of another plant in which it continues to grow.
In the western region of Sicily, near Trapani, there is an ancient tradition linked to Coral. Mediterranean Coral has always been considered a precious good. In the past people used to use it to make jewels but also to decorate their homes furnishings. They used to cover in coral votive statues and paintings of Saints and Gods. Planet Gems is a small Sicilian company that still produces handmade coral paintings respecting the antique tradition and its techniques. Planet Gems is trying to get a more contemporary look for its paintings. They asked me to improve their style by choosing and prototyping new motives and themes that would put in evidence the articulated production techniques and the preciousness of the decorative elements such as pearls, semiprecious gems, silver and trimming. The re-style process is evolving according to PG’s customers’ taste and sense of aesthetics.
I was also asked to re-design Planet Gems’ website and Corporate Identity, social media included. You can have a look at them browsing: www.planetgems.it or Planet Gems facebook page and instagram profile.
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#Folklore
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These three pictures are very representative of the Sicilian culture and aesthetics. Planet Gems main subjects used to be floral or religious subjects. Their customers request a typical Mediterranean style, recalling Sicilian Art and Culture. In order to satisfy clients’ demand I proposed to PG a series of three subjects linked to these requirements that, in the initial stage, will be used to test the audience’s reaction to this potential change of style, gradually adapting their taste to new solutions. The tradition is based on concepts such as massive decorations, excess, luxury, ostentation - the chosen themes are quite elaborate in order to test feasibility in terms of techniques and materials’ efficiency. It has been verified that subjects with perspective lose impact and they suffer of harmony deficit; it is because of the limited shades of colour that can be obtained from the materials at disposal. For this reason, in order to boost the final effect, I decided to proceed using frontal figures with rough perspective or none. The company wants to realise unique pieces in order to underline the uniqueness of the craft.
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https://issuu.com/planetgems/docs/planet_gems
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https://issuu.com/planetgems/docs/planet_gems
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Paracelsus’s homunculus teaches us the important key role played by proportions regarding people’s perceptions.
This school project of mine is a study about how physical aberrations can mislead us from the true essence of things. This project’s name is TALIA which is the Sicilian words standing for ”look at that!”. It has never been prototyped.
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FIGHT STEREOTYPES
WITH CURIOSITY Stereotypes
affect social relationships. I built my study on the contrast between attractiveness and unattractiveness.
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as well as beauty influences the way we perceive reality. I combined this two elements in order to demonstrate that things are not always what they seem.
To everyone has happened, even unconsciously, being the victim of stereotypes or prejudices related to the physical appearance. These stereotypes affect social relationships, sometimes preventing them. One of the most appropriate instruments to fight stereotypes is curiosity. To be interested in what you do not know or what you do not understand, encourages people to go beyond the limits imposed by canonical beauty. Music on another hand is able to bring people together thanks to its playful and ethical features, and also because of the transmission of social and cultural messages.
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CONCEPT Masks allow us to take new identities. As a demonstration of the fact that not everything we see is a faithful representation of reality, I reasoned on the concepts of deception, concealment and aberration.
“Never stop at first sight” that’s the message I wanted to convey through my study on deformation, human body’s aberrations in particular.
Elaborating these inputs, what came out from my stream of consciousness was the crippled mouth that you have when you ware a diving mask...
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Inspired by animal body parts, I designed a series of two musical instruments to be played through the mouth.
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INSPIRATIONS/ASPIRATIONS With their aesthetics, my designs badly alter the facial expression of the person who wears them, but the sounds they make using the head as a sounding board, would be as harmonious as the Kalimba’s ...and as strange as the Sicilian Scacciapensieri’s.
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I wanted the body-language involved to be as unusual and flashy as facial expressions in order to emphasise the inconsistency between what you can see and what you hear.
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Every time I go to the sea, I am always so enraptured by the wonder that surrounds me that I end up staying too much under the sunlight, without thinking of the consequences for my skin. At the end of the day it is hotly burnt. My skin is dried, arid, it loses its usual softness, and it hurts...so bad. These projects are the result of what I feel being a similar experience. When I decided to start the following projects I was in a stressed period, I felt dried up of ideas and motivation but I wanted to wildly push myself forward, with no rules, randomly, trusting only my artistic instinct. What follows is what came out.
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IMPASTOR
a new material.
IMPASTOR > Combination of the italian word “impasto” ( meaning = dough) and the english word “impostor” like me when I am out of me.
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When I get annoyed because things are not evolving as I would like to, I am usually taken by a wild raptus of hyperactivity during which I try to make them happen faster. I don’t even sleep too much because I need the night-time to find the best solution. It is some kind of madness that I use as a catalyst to change my ideas into real objects. I deeply feel the need of the making, of creating things, transferring the superpower of creation from my brain to my hands. While I was developing this project I was living in Calatafimi, my Sicilian home town. Sicily sometime is a difficult place to express yourself as a common designer would do in the rest of the world. The designer professional figure is quite misinterpreted and misunderstood. I started getting frustrated very quickly - because of the lack of opportunities I felt impotent in my home town contest.
having professional expertises’ disposal and the ideal lab where to conduct experiments - I hadn’t none of those things in Calatafimi. Nobody thought me how to get the best solution from the worse opportunities, that was a proficiency I developed during my first youth in Sicily but, for lack of need, I put it in a corner once I went to study in the flourishing Turin.
In order to satisfy my need of the making process and develop my ideas in such a complicate and quite rudimentary environment, I needed to free myself again from the academic attitude. I had to unWhile I was at University I grew up ex- leash my aesthetic sense of beauty, trust tremely perfectionist, they thought me it as a lead to find the best language for how to develop my projects in the best me to express myself as an inventor. circumstances: easily finding materials,
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I experimented on atypical materials. I wanted to convey with my object the idea of wild, spontaneous, unforced. I wanted to use a material that would have been easy to manipulate but also indomitable at the aspect. I wanted to try the design of a new composite material. As the matrice, I used the only kind of foam I could find in the local shop of my home town. I tried different mixtures, using different reinforcements. What came out is a light, compact and resistant material.
*NEXT STEP These cups are the very first products I designed using the IMPASTOR. It is my intention to develope a prototype for a project on wedge heel for footwear.
Depending on the different doses of materials you’ll have diverse textures and performances.
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An Impastor chair
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Spora is a chair brought back to life. After dealing with the Impastor for some time, I decided to recover an old chair for kids I found abandoned in the fields of my granpa’s country house (my recreation ground) using the pink foam. The small chair originally used to be used by the kids of my home town’s primary school... from time to time the school gives away old items - my aunt took that little chair and brought it at my grampa’s place. The chair was completely covered in rust, unused for years because of it. “Spora” is the Italian word for “spore”, In biology, a spore is a unit of asexual reproduction that may be adapted for survival, often for extended periods of time, in unfavourable conditions.
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“[...] Seduto se ne stava e silenzioso stretto a tenaglia tra il cielo e la terra e gli occhi fissi nell’abisso.“ Peppino Impastato
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