MIXER06 – throught designeast.eu

As we mentioned before, a design workshop has took place at MIXER festival in Zlin.

First of some workshops was about design project KONSEPTI. This ten years old project has been founded by Lucie and David Řezníčkovi. As they say – they wanted to bring modern and characterful furniture to the people of Czech republic. KONSEPTI works with many reputable companies as VITRA, CARTEL, CASSINA and others. As a supplier, for example Vitra works with many well known designers like Phillipe Starck, Frank Gehry, Ron Arad or Charles and Ray Eames.
For more info look at links above.

Second workshop has been presented by Peter Olah. This man is well known especially because of his work for ŠKODA AUTO. In his presentation, he has tried to describe his work and whole creative process of making a car in modern factory. He mentioned how many subjects are important for this work, because their work don’t ends by finishing sketches or making clay model. I have understood that work starts by idea and making some concept sketches. Concept sketches becomes to a detail design sketches of exterior and interior. In this phase is very important to stick with real proportions cause in the next phase, redrawing with modeler, could this proportions make a radical effect on the final shape. From this technical drawing is “easy” to make a clay model. In many factories, then this clay model is beeign scanned so the software modelers could make a NURBS model. But in ŠKODA, thy make a 1:1 sketch and 1:1 clay model. Then is this model scanned and remodeled so every part of car could be modified separately. Then they make a prototype with real parts from every used material. This presentation has been made on example of ŠKODA JOYSTER.

Third presentation, which I catch has been about STUDIO CONCERN by Jiří Přibyl, Martin Imrich. This young project (2000) has done a interesting works for companies like PANASONIC ČR, CYBEX or ADIDAS. I think it’s could be better to look at their site for detail of every work.