for his school project at ecal, Jérôme Rütsche has created a chair out of kraftplex. his construction is inspired from the work of architect and designer Jean Prouvé based on using steel for furniture. using “flying” layer procedure Jérôme succeeded in creating a kraftplex chair giving a similar stability to steel chairs and keeping a […]
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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 […]
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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 – […]
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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 […]
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the 8th. HAWK Akkuschrauberrennen is taking place on 22. June 2013. Challenge is to build a racing vehicle out of kraftplex! more Informations
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“innovationspreis biowerkstoffe”, third place for kraftplex design plus award for kraftplex if design award for wellboard interzum award for wellboard
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Material of the Month: Kraftplex from MAKE on Vimeo. kraftplex trailer / 2013 / Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design
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welcome to kraftplex / materials by franzbetz! on the following pages you will find interesting facts about the new wooden sheeting kraftplex, about wellboard, the wooden composite in waves and about other products. franzbetz hanover
Read more >where to go with the papers? “galaplex”, the paper holder made of kraftplex 0,76 mm is the adequate answer. it has been designed and produced by sculptress rahel schröder during a materialworkshop from the ” werkakademie” in lüneburg and hannover directed by tim oelker. thanks to galaplex, papers can easily be taken out or ordered. […]
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“the wave and pop up table” is sophies work with wellboard, premiered at designersblock, revel, milano. the wave is 200cm x 70cm per section and comes with unique clips which can mount the screen at any angle. the pop up table is available in several sizes. photo: sophie hedderwick sophie´s new creation “3 shrooms” […]
Read more >from 24 – 27 september 2009 100% design show is taking place in earls court, london. 100% design london is the uk’s leading architecture and design event showcasing everything for the modern building and interior. wellboard will be newly presented by the designer sophie hedderwick, who will expose her new innovative wellboard creations on her […]
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