Comments on: Vendôme by Kram/Weisshaar

By: longlegs

longlegs — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:03:21 +0000

wait.. julius von waldstein, you think glossyness is ‘disgusting’?
Moron.

On the other hand, good critique, nyc!
For the record: I love the matte flavour of this project.

By: julius von waldstein

julius von waldstein — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:12:02 +0000

I have seen these at Design Miami / Basel and this piece was the only actually outstanding thing in a surrounding that mostly focuses on disguisting glossyness.

By: dan

dan — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:34:57 +0000

ugly and outdated

By: nyc

nyc — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:58:20 +0000

From both a Design point of view and a digital technique point of view I find them a bit crude-

Facetted monolithic blocks are not that difficult to develop in a parametric modeling system, and formally, I wish they were a bit more sensual, a bit more developed, a bit lighter, a bit heavier, even- it is like a rudimentary parametric acedemic example-

It still speaks too much about programing and not enough about Art, even Design I think-

That said, I think it is commendable that they are not building in plastic only (as so many digital technique practices do) and that they are using significant technological developments in their work-

This project could be great if it were a bit more Erotic, more developed-
Promising, though!

By: bald skull

bald skull — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:21:07 +0000

ALSO, no mention of the WASTE from making 99 molds which only get used once and are then discarded… huh!

By: bald skull

bald skull — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:15:33 +0000

again with these…

By: musser

musser — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:18:37 +0000

I think this is beautiful. I can’t define why. But, it’s pleasing to me on a few levels… among them, the process of fabrication.

By: zuy

zuy — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:00:42 +0000

sorry it’s functionnal to put something or somebody as a cube of wood or a cube of concrete but with an unique shape
see the story telling

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=iL69raj0oCk

By: zuy

zuy — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:44:12 +0000

fragtal design + mix of materials…i’m agree with Nope this is not advanced technology but it’s simple but not minimalist, no functional as art…it’s OK for Miami-Basel but not for Milan

By: Nope - will get into trouble

Nope - will get into trouble — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:00:27 +0000

This is called ‘abdication of creative responsibility’.

Using a computer program to generate ‘random’ shapes is just lazy designing that looks ‘cool’. Every red blooded (male) design student doodles that one at some point when they’ve run out of other things to rip off.

This is not advanced technology. They look like Tron props.

Come on guys this the Emperor’s new (wool and concrete) clothes.