Designers and materials

Created the new look for something that is very simple is not an easy work. The chair or lamp is one of example. These are things that have in every house and every where. Therefore, design new look for these difficult because the shape these thing is already decided.

In this case the options for designers are new material or new styles. To illustrate, everyone knows that chair is mostly make by wood but what if they can be presented in a new material. The other way is designers have to find out a new style that is not change the main purpose of the object. For example, designer can think about a new form for chair but it must not change the main purpose of chair.
To illustrate:

chairs with new materials



lamps in new style design

That shows the important of material in design. Using new materials instead of the old one can bring the new look for the object. That is the reason there are many exhibition about new material every year.
For example:


Material Vision in 2007:
Materials for Product Development, Design and ArchitectureInternational Trade Fair and Conference
Frankfurt am Main22. - 23. November 2007 Forum Messe Frankfurt





iF Material Award _January 12, 2007 : open to manufacturers, designers, developers, design engineers and architectsThis award started as a platform for recognizing material trends and developments in design and will feature its third edition in 2007.

References pictures:
http://material-vision.messefrankfurt.com/global/en/presse-center_fotoservice_detail.html?guid=mf_ddsp147_3463
http://www.vanbezooyen.com/materialstories/
http://material-vision.messefrankfurt.com/global/en/fakten.html