posted by factoryNoise
Monday, August 1st, 2011
We are over the moon to have received a D&AD nomination for our Superlight Seat designed for Acro Aircraft Seating.
posted by Lee
Friday, July 22nd, 2011
Following the success of the rain-forest showers last year Greenpeace once again invited us to come and get involved with their field at Glastonbury festival. This year’s theme was to be Oceans, and no sooner had they mentioned that they are also building their first ever purpose built campaign ship, the Rainbow Warrior III, the film The Life Aquatic sprung to mind. Not for it’s music, although that might also have been relevant, or the bright colours… but the fantastic scene where their boat is revealed in a section view, allowing the viewer to discover whats inside in an entirely new way.
A ‘back of an envelope’ sketch and some enthusiasm was enough to get the buy in from Greenpeace, following which I set about modelling the ship in Solidworks based on the information available on their campaign website. It was at this point that we contacted Sami Lill who I knew would be the perfect person to fill in each room on the ship with his incredible style of drawing. After sending him some elevations and initial renders he came back with his own loose ideas for how we might use the space to best shout about some of the key features of the new boat, such as it’s three stage power system, recycled energy and onboard laboratory.
Before too long it was time to switch from virtual to real and so variously we gathered on the Greenpeace field. Unfortunatly the rather damp June weather had slowed progress on a very ambitious design for the field as a whole, and continued to hamper things in the days leading up to the festival.
Although the rain and mud slowed us down, it didn’t stop us, and so the field started to take shape. Aside from the showers, there was an amazing straw-bail recording studio, a farmers market, some fantastic wave sculptures and a fish which had scales made from old CDs. As for the showers, Sami and Laurie took to the 25m long blank wall with some big PHAT markers and bought the Rainbow Warrior to life right before our eyes! I spent my time trying to organise the interior decoration and the sails, and generally trying to keep everything moving forward despite the rather trying weather. In the end the whole thing looked fantastic, and hopefully generated some interest in the new Rainbow Warrior from the queues of people waiting patiently each morning to get cleaned up.
The showers themselves are powered using an Okufen boiler, which runs on highly compressed wood pellets. This makes them more-or-less carbon neautral, excusing the transport and processing of the pellets.
Sami produced this great time lapse of the boat taking shape:
Greenpeace Mural at Glastonbury from ubersuperduper.com on Vimeo.
And there are more photos here
Enjoy!
posted by Adrian
Friday, June 24th, 2011
A short article on presentation – based on a few years at the coalface with varying degrees of success! Presenting is definitely an artform in itself and there are many schools of thought on how best to do it – ultimately nothing really replaces experience !
posted by factoryNoise
Thursday, May 26th, 2011
posted by factoryNoise
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
Code named ‘Cougar’ within Remington, the womens foil shaver we designed for them has become a bit of a bench mark for the DNA of the brand, with strong yet understated aesthetic creating recognisable brand language that can be reused across different products without dictating the design direction. Futhermore, the modular construction allows for different product configurations with minimal part changes and tooling investment.
posted by factoryNoise
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
Faster than a speeding bullet the Not For Wimps concept airline seat we developed for Contour Premium Aircraft seating made waves as it made its way around the planet. Well, virtually that is… carried on the news wire of the global press including The Telegraph and The Australian .
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