Kraftplex supports Fablab Müchen at the International Crafts Fair in Munich this year: www.ihm.de/en www.fablab-muenchen.de/mitmachen/veranstaltungen/032018-wir-sind-auf-der-ihm/ On the makerspace (main entrance West EG_W.100) kraftplex and wellboard are used on the new laser cutter MrBeam 2. www.marktplatz.ihm.de/en/FabLab-M%C3%BCnchen-e-V,c471711
Aart van Bezooyen from Material Stories was with kraftplex at the prototyping and shaping matter event 2014 of the HOWER industrial design center in belgium. The Industrial Design Center is an open and experimental knowledge platform between the industry and the industrial design educational program of Howest (University College of West Flanders). Industrial Design Center supports a multidisciplinary collaboration amongst students, teachers, researchers and companies. […]
in april 2013 students of the BURG University of Art and Design Halle have presented in a short video all you can do with kraftplex. http://www.kraftplex.com/2013/make/ in the following months they worked with the “material of the month” and used it in different ways for the realisation of their creative ideas and projects. we are […]
Team: Jan Vietze (Professor), Nevin Wolf, Romina Biermann, Sonja Chow, Pablo Lapettina and Julian Weller “It was a pleasure to meet you at the “screw-driver-race” in hildesheim. Your kraftplex material has fascinated us and we have had much fun in experimenting with it. Enclosed we send you some pictures of our finished racing-vehicle and also […]
Over the track with paper and electric screwdriver – the twelve teams taking part in the 2013 Electric Screwdriver Race proved that it works. The spectators were given quite a show: ad-hoc last-minute repairs, turbulent scenes during the races and an exciting play-off of two teams who completed the track at the same time – […]
Materials will move on to the next location of one of our partners: Lancaster University in the UK. The subtheme of “Smart processing” will be further investigated through hands on explorations in a masterclass around Lasercutting. Designers and engineers will work with familiar and new materials to experiment with the laser manufacturing technology. Material Sense […]
the 8th. HAWK Akkuschrauberrennen is taking place on 22. June 2013. Challenge is to build a racing vehicle out of kraftplex! more Informations
Material of the Month: Kraftplex from MAKE on Vimeo. kraftplex trailer / 2013 / Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design
students of the university of weimar investigated under the leading of prof. johannes grossmann the effect of coloured light on various surfaces. the experiment has been carried out with four coloured lights (yellow, red, green, blue). the results show that, with its linear, round and even surface, wellboard enables an exciting light-colour structuring. the carton […]
the tokyo architect masahiro chatani, employing origami, the ancient japanese art of paper-folding – and adding cut-paper and pop-up book engineering concepts – has been creating works of “origamic architecture.” more than 100 works by chatani, his colleagues keiko nakazawa and takaaki kihara were shown from may to september 2001 at the american craft museum. […]