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Locality: North Melbourne, Victoria

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17.01.2022 Prima Familia ToTems & Elementary Abacus. . ToTems commission completed for @1k_chairs in Adelaide.

13.01.2022 Join us for a chat with four other creators from @friends.associates Melbourne Design Week 2021 exhibition, A World We Don't Want presented by @greenmagazine Speakers: @dale.hardiman @flackstudio_ ... @figgoscopecurates @jonathongriggsphoto @seljakbrand @damienwrightstudios @stephen_royce_design WHEN Wednesday 31 March 2021 at 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM LOCATION The Stables, Meat Market 2-8 Wreckyn Street, North Melbourne, VIC 3066

12.01.2022 Thrilled to present Windgate - Future Artefact this coming week [email protected] for the@ngvmelbourne's Melbourne Design Week A World We Don't Want. Sometimes to find out what we want, we look to the opposite to understand what we don’t want. A World We Don’t Want presents fourteen ideas on a world we don’t want by leading Australian creatives to speculate on a future we do want. Windgate is a collaboration between Marta Figueiredo and Jonathon Griggs.... Responding to the theme A World We Don’t Want, we created Windgate, a future artefact that has assimilated the language of an alienated urban environment. Appearing as a twisted skyscraper, Windgate allures the viewer to touch and connect. Contributors include Alterfact, Andrew Carvolth, Andrew Simpson and James Walsh, Dale Hardiman and Stephen Royce, Damien Wright, Flack Studio, Foolscap Studio and Liam Fleming, Guy Keulemans and Kyoko Hashimoto, Marta Figueiredo and Jonathon Griggs, Nicole Lawrence and Thomas Coward, Sam Tomkins and Daniel Licastro, Seljak Brand and Tom Henty. Alongside Design The World You Don’t Want, Friends & Associates are also presenting two solo exhibitions in the same venue: Drift by @tom_fereday , and A Suggestion of a Possibility by @natturnbull . Graphic and art direction by @more__studio Fiends & Associates A World We Don’t Want 2-8 Wreckyn Street North Melbourne Opening event 26th March 6pm-11pm All welcome

02.01.2022 Congratulations Rachel and Ulla @etu_etu_ @ulla_britta.westergren for the excellent exhibition! It was a pleasure of being part of By-Product Show. @circular.open.design. For By-Product group exhibition exploring circular open design during Melbourne Design Week 2021, I have created STARDUST Luminary. STARDUST Lamp re-utilises resin powder waste carefully collected from cutting resin sheets for the WINDGATE project. The resin casting process was done through pouring stages ...creating deposit lines of resin waste on the surface of the lamp. ABOUT STARDUST Interstellar particles form a constellation drifting atop a glowing gem, elevated above a burgundy pillar. The interplay of simple geometries emit a soft and celestial brilliance. Light is diffused through thin particles of resin waste, bringing life and dimension to the new resin that encapsulates it. At the core of this luminary runs a red spine, forming a string of functional elements: aluminium tube, two rings and a cord. The brightness of Stardust is controlled by a Bluetooth dimmer installed via an app on your phone for your convenience. Thoughts on my waste material: Extensively used in screens and furniture, resin is trending with candy furniture popping up in our instagram feed. Resin is plastic and degrades very slowly hence contaminates our entire ecosystem. During the Covid-19 pandemic, acrylic screens were installed in shops and offices to protect workers, making resin as indispensable as ever. Resin is a cheap and formable thermoplastic but is difficult to recycle. While offcuts can be heat-pressed together to form new sheets, the waste from cutting requires a pyrolysis process, which presents the challenge in the management of this waste. Efficient pyrolysis techniques are key to achieving circular economy. @circular.open.design @ngvmelbourne

02.01.2022 The integration of sound to the spheres was the most complex part of the Elementary Abacus. Using a trial and error process, a few design options emerged, inspired by the mechanisms of children’s toys - for example the Happy Apple. After some prototyping, a solution became apparent - to give each of the spheres an internal winding musical machine that could be activated by a wheel in contact with the structural arch. Each one of the spheres produces two familiar tunes: Debuss...y’s Clair de Lune, and Paul Dukas’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. The tunes are subtly played, sometimes a bit aleatory while moving each sphere along the arch, only happening in one direction at time. Decoding the melody with the motion is an evocative experience that can potentially create other connections, like synesthesia. Imagine seeing the music with the movement, or in the colour of the ball? In English, ‘clair de lune’ is ‘moonlight’, and in the Elementary Abacus, the sphere on the arch is a golden, glowing orb ‘in the sky’. The Elementary Abacus - is a playful piece that offers a new kind of inclusive sensory experience combining craft and new technology. See more