Out of the Ordinary
Graduation project Design Academy Eindhoven
department: Man and Media
Still lifes, but
not as we know them: instead of careful arrangements, these pieces show
everyday scenes that we usually ignore. Would you label
them as ‘art’ or ‘design’? By shifting focus from the curated and sublime to
the ordinary and disregarded, Janne Schimmel questions the status of products. The scenes come
from casual snapshots of the designer’s life: a heap of branches in the park, a
dead bird on the street, his table top after a day’s work. His 3D-scanner and
printer allow him to reproduce them as hollow structures with a plastic ‘veneer
of reality’. The lamp inside highlights the result: a tribute to the mundane.
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