Concrete aggregate

I have just written an essay on the mass demolition of concrete prefab council estates country wide regarding the discarding of invested energy and material that goes into constructing such estates. For example 3 football pitches full of waste would have accrued if the Park Hill estate (1000 flats) in Sheffield had not been decidedly redeveloped of recent, wasting 3 weeks continuous output from a power station. So with 1.0 to 1.2 million tonnes of demolition waste amassing annually, this project was a rather welcome find. Singaporean designers have developed a process to recycle aggregate concrete into various applications, further contributing to a more sustainable built environment.  

I am very keen to start experimenting with concrete as a material and have seemingly be saying so for too long, I must act. Concrete, though controversial, its possibly my most favorite, quite a statement but due to its emotionally received complexity: volatile, looming, intimidating, masculine, dominating, beautiful, cool, calm, straight talking, purposeful, austere, ugly, harsh and foreboding.

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/5839/recycled-aggregate-concrete-street-furniture-by-cilicon-faytory.html

The Age of Stupid. Stupid!

For the release of Franny Armstrong's The Age of Stupid (out in cinema's on March 30th), a documentary featuring Pete Postlethwaite as a man living alone in the devastated future world of 2055 looking back at old footage from 2008 asking why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance, I aided the construction of a series of chairs for VIP's at the the premiere in Leicester Sq from recycled newspapers. Rolled up, taped, bundled into rigid blocks and then assembled, the chairs were a simple and effective solution to the brief. 

Anti-social project

Live project: Nokia Friend View

Nokia: Friend View

For this live brief myself, Lizzy and Vilma had to design a stand at a mobile exhibition for Nokia's latest software release: 'Friend-View', a status-update focused piece available on its new handsets that allows registered friends/associates to identify the locations of other members.

Intensive research into the brand and the users shaped the final design outcome which revolved around the concept of the spectacle. We designed a stand based around the notions of a cuckoo clock, hundreds of individual boxes form the fabric of the stand, each connected to an arduino which is activated through the Nokia website enabling users to enter their status both online and at the exhibition where details are displayed following the cuckoo's ejection from its box simultaneously alongside hundreds of others.

The concept arose from the seeming 'human' connotations the Nokia brand conveys, we decided to draw out human parallels thus creating a stark contrast to the technology heavy based competitors at the exhibition arousing a natural curiosity.

http://vilmajar.com/Nokia/

Alas the CV is good to go!

Here it is, after much tweaking the curriculum vitae is finally ready for the road. After all that trouble and toil it is quite frustrating that the preferred format is pdf! It consists of a laser cut net of thin corrugated card which houses 3 laser cut initials alongside the A3 poster.