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Here's some more nautical design from London designers PostlerFerguson (see their buoy-shaped lamps in our earlier story), this time a set of wooden toy ships. 

Top: Container Ship
Above: Oil Tanker

Called Wooden Giants, the three toy boats are based on the three largest cargo ships in the world.

Above: Liquid Gas Tanker

The toys were shown as part of the London Design Festival show Translations in September.

Translations was curated by Oscar Diaz and presented each designer's latest project alongside the object or image that originally inspired them - in this case a photograph of the world's largest container ship.

Here's some information from the designers:

Wooden Toy Ships by Postlerferguson

The Emma Maersk, Arctic Princess and TI Asia are three of the largest cargo ships in the world transporting goods over thousands of miles from continent to continent. From the crude oil pumped into the belly of the tanker in the south Chinese sea to the refinery which produces the main synthetic raw materials to be delivered to factories and manufacturers around the globe, these giant machines are an overlooked but integral part of our daily lives.

Behind the sheer gigantic complexity and abstraction of the global logistic system hides an intriguing beauty of radical functionality and almost organic, nerve-like organisation. We aim to translate its machine protagonists into a very familiar format of classic wooden toys and objects. Wooden toys were on the height of success in the middle of the last century and quickly got pushed aside by a tsunami of cheap plastic toys and now barely occupy a niche segment.

The Wooden Toy Ship mini-series is about reintroducing a sense of the grandeur of current technological feats to the wooden toy. The quality of the materials, reduced aesthetic and sense of technological optimism draw on the classic language of wood toys, while the updated subject matter introduces essential aspects of global modernism into the home.

‘Translations’ acknowledge the fact that objects are just a link on a chain of objects, and cannot be understood in isolation. The exhibition showcases new work by a group of young designers, which use a mix of intuition and observation as a primary tool to generate their ideas. What do they have in common a shovel and a range of outdoor lighting? You may ask.  What about a pencil sharpener and an ashtray?

The link could be just a particular shape, a similar way of using them, or simply how the different materials are connected. The designers involved in ‘ Translations’ found inspiration for they projects on dented cars, a shovel, an ashtray, mailing envelopes, the world's largest container ship, or a lab funnel, for example. In order to explain the designer’s thinking path, each prototype will be displayed alongside to the images or objects that inspired them. Translations' intends to demystify the creative process by giving a rare insight into what inspire designers, and how they translate ideas into products.

Dimensions:

Container Ship:
800mm * 110mm
Birch

Liquid Gas Tanker:

590mm * 98mm
Ash

Oil Tanker:
750mm * 140mm
Maple

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London designers PostlerFerguson have created a collection of lamps shaped like nautical buoys.

Called Buoy Lamps, the pieces comprise wooden ribs bound together with rope.

PostlerFerguson presented the project at Mint shop as part of the London Design Festival in September.

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The following details are from the designers:

The Buoy Lamps are part of an ongoing investigation to the aesthetics of industrial technology. The most specific, highly engineered objects take functionality to an extreme which is no longer recognizable to the layperson. The odd shapes and brilliant colours of navigational buoys could just as well be from children's' toys, Christmas ornaments or giant jewellery.

Underneath the bizarre appearance, however, remains a pleasing materiality that is still comprehensible to the non-engineer upon inspection. There is a logic of balance, construction and materials that is curiously pleasurable, rewarding in its simplicity and inevitability.

The Buoy Lamps draw on these qualities, referencing various aspects of marine culture in their design and performance. Wooden ribs bound together by rope support central lights, balanced so that they can be jostled into different angles.

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London Design Festival 2010: here are some photos and a video featuring designers including Richard Woods, Tord Boontje, Committee and artist Gavin Turk, who each created an installation in one day at the Established & Sons gallery during the London Design Festival last month.

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This movie by Gestalten TV documents the processes that unfolded each day and features interviews with each of the designers.

Photographs are by Nick Ballon.

Above: Richard Woods

The information that follows is from Established & Sons:

Established & Sons LIMITED presents ‘Design Against The Clock’ a series of live design performances at the Mayfair gallery.

Above: Tord Boontje and RCA students

A selection of key design figures, reflective of London’s creativity including artist Richard Woods, design duo Committee and sculpture and artist Gavin Turk will work onsite to produce works reflective of their individual design practices.

Above: Gavin Turk

Each finished piece will be exhibited daily at Established & Sons LIMITED. Established & Sons LIMITED will also act as a Design Café for the duration of the Festival, where food and drink will be served and guests can enjoy browsing a Gestalten bookstore.

Above: Gavin Turk

A variety of pieces from Established & Sons Collections, including Estd by Established & Sons, will be showcased and limited edition posters will be on sale.

Above and top: Committee

Above: Committee

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