Rock Galpin is running 8 short courses in 2018 for those interested in learning or developing knowledge and skills to become a furniture and product designer. Interested? Follow the link to find out more and book. Studio courses as well as online.
The next course is January 22, 2018, the ONLINE course Furniture Design for Beginners. These can be take anywhere in the world.
There are places still available:
http://www.arts.ac.uk/csm/courses/short-courses/3d-design-and-product-design/furniture-design-for-beginners-online/
Or course based at Central Saint Martins with use of the workshops.
March 26, 2018:
http://www.arts.ac.uk/csm/courses/short-courses/3d-design-and-product-design/furniture-design-for-beginners/
July 16 , 2018:
http://www.arts.ac.uk/csm/courses/short-courses/3d-design-and-product-design/furniture-design—beginners-summer-school/
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3D printing is gathering speed with some very exciting new applications as designers use their creativity to explore how these new technologies can really be applied to the meaningful needs of today. We’ve moved on from 3D printing as an extraordinary effect and now we see a new reality emerging that can have real impact on mass, from car parts, bikes, homes to disabled and medical applications stemming from a technology which has truly extended what is now possible. Exciting times!
The Go Wheelchair by Benjamin Hubert
Short course at
CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS, LONDON
29/2/16 – 1/4/16
BOOK NOW
Last few places for the Furniture Design for Beginners course at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London
Attendees from all background’s welcome, no previous training is required, just an interest and enthusiasm to learn about and practice furniture design. Studio and workshop based with highly experienced designer/teacher and technicians on board.
Follow the link if you are interested.
Ironically quite often the higher we live, the more money we pay but the more we sacrifice certain qualities of our environment, whilst arguably attaining others. Our relationship on the one hand with nature, certainly at human scale, can become largely disconnected in our high level flats souring high above the ground and any plant life . Perhaps we still do not fully appreciate the Zen inspiring sense of well being that surrounded by nature can provide. This is perhaps why, with the absence of plant life, block living can be a tenser living experience. Bring on blocks with woods, where the artificial, man made is beautifully balanced in nature and aesthetic with nature itself, the man made and organic ecosystem working in holistic unison.
La Tour des Cedres, or The Cedar Trees Tower bold project proposal by Stefano Boeri certainly is inspiration for thought. A beautiful concept melding the man made and organic, stemming from his first test project in Milan, Bosco Verticale buildings in Milan.
On a practical note I am fascinated to understand how this would work in the long term, the upkeep of tress, watering, the safely issue of falling branches and dead trees and the debris from a thousand tress vertically located, the different faces, North,S,E and W over time generating quite a different growth could also present a few challenges. This is one big test and I’m sure one that can be learnt from, worked through and solved set by step. I’m a fan. Rock Galpin
