KithKin Presents » Tokyo 07

Inside Out Record

kithkin — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 19:44:18 +0000

Produces a negative record, that plays from the inside out, and produces a version
of the original song that is strangely familiar, but not the same.

By Ian Atkins & Joss Debae

Pencil Sticks

David Wilson — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:53:22 +0000

Ever played your pencils like drum-sticks whilst trying to work? Why shouldn’t guilty pleasures like this be encouraged?

Bag stuck in a tree

Ed Vince — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:49:32 +0000

It is a common occurrence in an urban environment but one that is often overlooked and unappreciated. To see it blowing gracefully in the breeze, filled with the warm glow of the sun can be quite mesmerising.

I wanted to capture this moment in its entirety by suspending the branches in space, so it appears to float, completely detached and isolated from its surroundings.

The branches have been rendered in a stylised, almost abstract form to exaggerate the re-contextualisation of the object itself and the colour selections help to push this further.

The use of a real plastic bag as the diffuser creates a stark contrast with the finely crafted branches that display it, and enables the mood of the light to be altered by either crumpling the bag up or replacing it with one in a different colour or graphic.

Play & Display

Ian Atkins — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:58:11 +0000

Play & Display is a unique wireless hi-fi that stores and plays your MP3 collection, but also prints the album artwork. No longer will your music only be accessible by a long list of album names on a computer. Your mp3 music collection will, proudly, be displayed on your wall, for all to browse and experience. As the collection grows the albums concertina along the shelf.

Computers are increasingly encroaching on traditional archetypes of storage and display in a domestic space. In the case of music; MP3’s have replaced CD’s, with songs now being stored digitally. It is a move from physical to virtual; making the CD collection, case, and artwork redundant.

Newton’s Breakfast

David Wilson — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:58:39 +0000

The intention here was, to design the experience of interacting with the object, to create a paused moment in time like a glass tipping on the edge of a table.

Despite being static, the object holds a narrative of potential consequence, drawn from our knowledge of eggs and Newton’s cradles. Just by simply being observed, the cradle creates excitement through the low-level anxiety produced from the anticipation of the event that the object hints towards.

Medical Heirlooms

Tamsin van Essen — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:54:23 +0000

Inspired by contemporary society’s obsession with perfection and beauty, and the concomitant fear of perceived ‘abnormalities’, this project explores diseases and medical conditions through the manipulation of ceramic objects. Illness and disease form part of our history, but because of the attached stigma there is a tendency to hide evidence of ill health, rather than accepting it as part of everyday experience.

I have been working the ceramic material in a way that emulates physiological processes, deliberately encouraging ‘faults’, ‘defects’ and ‘blemishes.’ These features add visual and tactual interest to the vessels, and are intended to mirror the interest and individuality added to a person’s appearance by scars, flaws or deformities from medical conditions (their health legacy).

Based on 17th-18th century apothecary jars, the forms have strong historical and medical links, as well as providing the metaphor of vessel as body. The jars become containers for disease, rather than holding the cure. As family heirlooms, the jars can be passed down through generations in the same way as the hereditary medical conditions.

Flect: Magic Mirror

Will Gurley — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:50:28 +0000

When play meets style parents and children agree, Flect is the kind of mirror every growing family needs.

Frezenda Imagination Friendly Environments is a collection of objects that help integrate play for children into adult environments. Ordinary living room decor becomes an avenue for self-expression.

Beat Blinds

Will Gurley — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:46:19 +0000

Beat Blinds encourage children to embrace the world of music.

Frezenda Imagination Friendly Environments is a collection of objects that help integrate play for children into adult environments. Ordinary living room decor becomes an avenue for self-expression.

Etiquette Set

Ed Vince — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:43:44 +0000

It combines the semiotics of a plastic Airfix model kit with the implied luxury of an à la Russe table setting, using what is essentially wastage from the mould to structure the pieces in the correct position.

The set retains the detailing, form and visual language of the ornate silver cutlery and ceramic plate, and forces these values into the context of mass production and contemporary consumer culture through manufacture, material choice, packaging and method of use and disposal.

The design and realisation of this product is intended to comment on the loss of tradition, heritage and craftsmanship evident in the consumer culture of which we are part, and to question how and why we assign value to the different objects that surround us.

Alter Ego

Alex Hinnerskov — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:38:30 +0000

This is the ego-friendly camera where the lens focuses on the wonders of you and is not ashamed to do so. No longer will the retail-therapy buzz wear off after a few days for alterEGO gives the confidence that a new outfit never could.

Designed to fit into every pocket, cosmetics bag and niche of your life, alterEGO is a product that the glamorous girl cannot live without. It celebrates the desires of the shopaholic, providing an ego-friendly companion that records every look, every outfit, every pose.