Fur seats, biomaterial lights and AI contact gadgets function in Dezeen and ASUS Zenbook's Design You Can Really feel exhibition, which is open to the general public till 22 September.
Operating as a part of the London Design Competition in Shoreditch from 17-22 September 2024, the exhibition explores materiality, craftsmanship and synthetic intelligence (AI).
The exhibition highlights ASUS' patented Ceraluminum materials, which was developed for its Zenbook laptops.
Ceraluminium combines the lightness of aluminum with the sturdiness of ceramics, leading to distinctive shades impressed by nature that make every object distinctive.
Dezeen chosen six product and industrial design studios to discover how materials qualities comparable to form, colour and texture may be mixed to create objects or moments that interact the senses.
Every of the items within the exhibition – overlaying furnishings, lighting and set up design – expresses the qualities of Ceraluminum in several methods.
Guests navigate by an area formed by sculpted sand dunes, connecting the aesthetics of the pure world with new applied sciences.
The exhibition features a specifically commissioned piece product of Ceraluminum by Future Facility, the design and analysis studio led by distinguished designers Kim Colin, Sam Hecht and Leo Leitner.
Referred to as SUSA, the small conceptual AI machine integrates the features of a smartphone, pill or transportable laptop whereas minimizing digital distractions comparable to intrusive leisure and social media.
Concealing the display screen behind a tactile perforated floor product of Ceraluminum, the design invitations customers to deal with the bodily object itself, to create an instance of what the designers name “calm know-how”.
South Korean design studio Niceworkshop presents its sequence of sturdy chairs and tables Aluminum Formwork (AL – FORM), that are made utilizing previous skyscraper formwork utilized in building to pour concrete constructions.
Particularly for this exhibition, the lounger has been ceramicized by ASUS utilizing its patented Ceraluminum course of.
Each the lounger and the SUSA machine from Future Facility mark the primary time Ceraluminum has been utilized to things apart from the ASUS Zenbook.
Studio Moreover has created a sequence of pendant lights that resemble lava rock known as the Quasar Lamp. They’re hand-formed from skinny items of aluminum foam, sourced from discarded automobile wheels.
Additionally on show is Mexican designer Fernando Laposse's furry rooster banquette, made with a fiber derived from the leaves of the agave plant and his loofah divider, which repurposes the edible fruit as a flexible and useful materials.
Danish observe Pure Materials Studio is launching new lighting items that includes the studio's handcrafted bio-textiles, created from a mix of biopolymers, pure balms, chalk and clay.
Additionally on show are the studio's bio-textile tapestries, that are handcrafted from protein-based biopolymers, pure balsams and chalk and solid utilizing the studio's proprietary method known as Procel.
British artist and designer Giles Miller created a floor-to-ceiling sensory set up known as Awaken for the exhibition.
The set up is made up of over 1,800 elements, together with lots of of 1mm thick stable wooden petals which can be positioned at exact angles of rotation and incidence to create rhythmic patterns.
The exhibition culminates with an interactive space the place guests can study concerning the design story behind the ASUS Zenbook and have a hands-on demonstration of its particular options.
These skinny and light-weight ultraportable premium laptops function superior synthetic intelligence instruments and are clad within the patented Ceraluminum materials.
Picture by Mark Cocksedge.
Design You Can Really feel takes place throughout LDF
Design You Can Really feel will run from 17th to 22nd September at Protein Studios in Shoreditch as a part of the London Design Competition. Discover out extra data, together with opening hours, at: dezeen.com/designyoucanfeel.
London Design Competition 2024
London Design Competition 2024 runs from 16-22 September 2024. See our London Design Competition 2024 on Dezeen Occasions Information for data on the numerous different exhibitions, installations and talks happening all through the week.
Partnership Content material
The Design You Can Really feel exhibition is a partnership between Dezeen and ASUS Zenbook. Discover out extra about Dezeen companion content material right here.