Design Academy Eindhoven Graduation Show 2012

It has been few weeks ago since Dutch Design Week 2012 but here is  finally my report about the 2012 Graduation Show.
A link to all graduation projects. http://www.designacademy.nl

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'Man-made Animals' textile by Renée de Brock

I discoverd some interesting textile design at the Design Academy Eindhoven Graduation Show 2012.
One of them is the work of Renée de Brock.Renee de Brock’s Man-Made Animals is a collection of imaginary animal skins of treated leathers and furs. Using the BBC series Planet Earth as inspiration, Renee has created three new categories of animals for her samples: the green primal animals, the orange amphibios and the blue peltbios, complete with fur and scales.
The presentation goes along with great photography by Lonneke van der Palen and Guus Kaandorp.

Floats by Eva Vermeulen

Eva Vermeulen got inspired by beach and created four sea accessoiries for her graduation project 'Floats'.
The floats are made of colored polyethylene foam combined with cotton ship rope. The floats are for relaxation in the water and for decoration of the beach.
The project caught my attention by this nice video. Have a look!

http://evavermeulen.com

Floats from Eva Vermeulen on Vimeo.

Femme Fatale fabrics by Barbara Medo

Barabara Medo's graduation project was exhibited at Design Academy Eindhoven 2012 Graduation Show. I was drawn to the installation in the first place by stunning looking Tijana Mirceta in the pictures.
Although Barbara Medo created textiles for the modern femme fatale I would also love to use some of the fabrics :).

INSECTED

From bees and caterpillars, to beetles, dragonflies and glow worms; nature’s own eyecatchers are the inspiration behind Insected, a collection of women’s fashion textiles that literally glitters. Drawn to insects by their bright colours, metallic sheen, shimmering shells and furry limbs, Barbara Medo has created fabric for the modern femme fatale; a woman who is not afraid of standing out from the crowd. From laser cutting to latex, Barbara embraces a whole range of the latest materials and techniques to achieve her desired effect.


http://www.barbaramedo.com/

SHAeRE by Barbara Larcin

SHAERE
Current social media websites are perfect for connecting and sharing with a network of people that you know. But what about people within your community, that you aren’t necessarily acquainted with yet?

Barbara Larcin sought to create a neighbourhood social media platform that can bring people together both online as well as offline, in the real world. Want a BBQ in a hurry? No problem, find a neighbour with one to lend. Need a reliable babysitter? There might be one living in your street. The SHAeRE platform helps people to help each other. After all, the more you share, the easier life gets.
With this project Barbara shows us that social media has endless potential, and perhaps we will leave the screen more often and actually meet some of our online friends offline.
http://www.barbara-larcin.com/

Function follows Beauty by Mathieu Frossard

French designer Mathieu Frossard presented his series of objects 'Function follows Beauty' as part of the Design Academy Eindhoven 2012 Graduation Show, in the connection to Dutch Design Week.
This was one of my favourite projects from 2012 Graduation Show.

'Function Follows Beauty' contains a serie of composite objects with intricate, eery details, which have unclear purpose or definition, as they are guided by beauty.

"Beauty is considered one of the pillars in the definition of design since its conception", Frossard says. "

Although designers tend to put higher value on the concept or the use, it would be hard to find any designer who claims to work hard to make something ugly or unnoticeable".

Read more at Domusweb.it