We present this years diplomas from the Industrial Design Faculty of Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków.
There was a wide range of topics from animal care car sets presented by MOBILVET to objects concerning people’s relations like RESPOND and ŹRÓDŁO – SPRING. The aim of SPRING project was to initiate comunication between members of some society. The idea came from consideration about progresive society atomization. It is a multimedia system to serve a purpose of information exchange between inhabitants of housing estate. RESPOND is a system of objects placed in the public space in different places in the world. Using a technology of sound and image transmittion it lets arranging meetings in spite of the distance between users. There are employed devices like mobile phone and computer to arrange and organise meetings through internet and sms. Water in this project is a kind of medium of occured relation. Being at both sides of the screen, posssible to be touched by both participants of the meeting it makes a common space of understanding. Answering for people’s needs studens have designed ideas and koncepts. Also they were cooperating with some institutions. The children-parents integration place was designed for Maltese Childcare Centre in Kraków and is going to be used there every day to make pleasant and friendly the time of children and their parents waiting for treatments. Glass radiator was designed with help of glass furniture manufacturer DubielVitrum and Irga company. As an idea of innovative use of common technology became an interesting task for progressive producents and is designed to place a new quality of glass into interiors and to give more freedom and inspiration to arranging living spaces. Shoes designed by Nassir were produced by polish shoe manufacturer Wojas. They bring the idea of simple and easy manufacturing process used to get a rich choise of design. Each kind of presented shoes has some advantages giving a comfort of use like velcro, lack of tongue and shoelace for better hygiene etc. Willing to share with all the ideas we show presentations of those projects.
