radu abraham
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Radu-Constantin Abraham Born on 21st of May 1988 e-mail: radu.abraham@yahoo.com phone: 0040748115165
about me I see myself as a hard working person, always willing to get my hands dirty when designing a product. I am permanently trying to bring a fresh perspective to my work, by researching and exploring new materials, shapes and colors with combination between them. Also, I am developing an experimental practice using diverse materials and techniques with the purpose of opening new creative tendencies. Being positive and optimistic always helped me, so that’s one of the things I take with me wherever I go.
work experience 2013-present - Freelancer, Product Designer 2011-2012 - Industrial Designer, Pretext Advertising
education and training 2011-2013 Master in Design; University of Arts and Design, Cluj-Napoca, RO 2007-2010 Bachelor in Visual Arts, Specialization Design; University of Arts and Design, Cluj-Napoca, RO
workshops and exhibitions 2014 May - Workshop: Communication through images, words and design 2013 March - Exhibition: Walking Design - exposed products: walking canes
languages Roumanian - Mother language English - Proficient
specialized skills Carpentry Good knowledge on how to operate woodworking machines Welding Ceramics Leadership Project Management
computer skills Adobe Photoshop Corel Draw 3DS Max Google SketchUp
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Seating object A contrast between only two materials, this chair is made out of iron wire and oak wood. The structure of the chair is built from bended iron, which was then welded together. On top of it, there’s a thick, straight edged, oak wood. The contrast between this two, starts from the material itself, and it goes to the thickness of it, shapes and finally to colors. There’s also a contrast in matter of perception, between the warmth of the wood and the coolness of the iron.
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Polygonal lamp The construction of this project starts at the bottom with a polygonal plaster base and goes up with a thin aluminum pipe, that has a LED light at the end. A small lampshade it’s used, made out of brown glass. At the other end of the lamp, connected through a wire that goes from the LED, through the pipe and the base, there’s a plaster box where the batteries are. As it will be shown in the following photographs, cork was also used in order to secure the pipe in the base, and the lampshade on top of the pipe. Another very important purpose of the cork is to give subtle touch of contrast between the white of the base, and the grey of the pipe. The lamp has several positions in which it can be used.
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Inspiration The inspiration for this project comes from a need of mine to experience constrasts between materials. By contrast I mean also texture and color. I tried to follow straight lines in order to create the volume as you can see it here. There’s also a subtle industrial touch on the lamp, the reson for it is that at that time my workshop was being located in an old abandoned factory. I tried to make the lamp fit into this background by giving the idea of hope; a light born out of ruins.
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Walking Cane Organic shapes inspired, walking cane. Made out of oak wood, with an insertion of natural shell at the top in order to create some texture material and color contrast, this project was built and shaped by hand 100%. It’s basically made out of two wood boards put together in opposite sense of their fiber and then cut into shape before polishing until the wanted volume was reached.
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Inspiration The inspiration for this project were the natural organic shapes and structures. I believe that most of the documentation that we need in order to design any shapes we want, can be found in nature. It’s too bad that this connection between human and nature it’s getting weaker and weaker, because I feel that we forget to consider the simple things around us, now that we make everything so complicated. Things should be kept simple as a line.
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Sattelite lamp
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This project it’s made out of wood with a few touches of copper and plexiglass. It is a LED light, floor lamp that uses simple thin lines and basic shapes, in combination with each other. I used height on the vertical element in order to create the impression that the upper part of the lamp, defies gravity. There’s a satellite look that it’s given by the wands that are holding the cooper pipe together with the body of the lamp. Besides the look, the wands have the purpose to give you the opportunity of changing the direction where the light goes, as they give the permission to rotate. They are also used for a quick assembly/disassembly.
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Sofa This sofa, comes as a response to a clothing store need, in order to offer their clients a place to rest. There’s a frame that it’s made out of welded iron wire, with two huge pillows on top of it. The pillows are tighten up together with two textile straps. There is the idea of a nest, that stays behind this project.
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