Addictlab Milan presskit

Creative think tank which discovers and accelerates creative talents from everywhere, generates innovation for organization and companies and creates sustainable change.

Contact

Jan Van Mol jan@addictlab.com

Website

www.addictlab.com

Location

Belgium/ Switzerland

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Guillaume Cabrié

France

Guillaume Cabrié is an artist located near Geneva. He uses 3D technologies and new materials to propose innovative creation.

Salmanazar Light “Salmanazar Light” is both a decorative lamp and a stand for 35 champagne flutes. “Salmanaz Light” transforms the set of the champagne flutes into a luminious and harmonous work of art. This work is completely 3D Prited using approximately 5 kg od woodplastic composite. A microcomputer is programmed to dynamically control each of the 560 individual color LEDs for this effect. A custom industrial 3D printer was designed and built at Pangloss Labs by the artist in order to print this creation.

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Belgium

Jan Van Mol

Belgian Jan Van Mol has been called a concept king, a brand guru, a renaissance man, a pioneer in the creative industry by the international press. He founded Ad!dict Creative Lab (addictlab.com) in 1997, a creative laboratory uniting thousands of creatives from all over the world.

Designer, artist, creative director, Jan Van Mol describes himself as a creative wanderer. And wonderer.

Wine Tray

Frame

“Wine Tray� to bring your glasses safely and elegantly to the table. Exists in different sizes. Preferably in cork for ecological reasons.

Multifunctional fashion accessory & design object in veneer wood.

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Indonesia

Widianto Utomo

Widianto Utomo, born in 1972, is a multi talented artist-designer. His eastern and western style design educational background enriches his already multicultural life experiences. It makes his design creation uniquely passionate and has the capability to radiate unspoken inner beauty while being functional and already classic. Widianto is a designer able to inspire and unite people regardless their socio-cultural backgrounds and tastes.

(B)Eau

“B(Eau)” is a porcelain (clay) liquid container, which design was inspired by the olive tree branch and the philosophy behind it. “B(Eau)” encourages sharing and caring between one another and makes connection between the two people.

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Flip-Flop

“Flip-Flop” functions as a reversible mobile stool and a tray. Can be made from wood, mould plastic or combination of materials. Inspired by both the traditional craftsmanship ingenuity and modernity simplicity.

Switzerland

Paola Bernasconi

Creative thinker with a degree and practice in contemporary jewelry and a degree and practice in interior design. Self taught fashion designer/maker.

Passion 4 materials-shapes-textures and thinking different.

Dragon Egg

Origomu

Dragon egg is a folding tessellation technique that changes a sheet of paper into a light and rather resistant 3D object. Have you ever seen elastic paper? Here it is.

“Origomu� project are jewels made with plastic six packs-rings. It is a pard of a series of necklaces, bracelet, earrings and some jellyfish - created for an environmental-friendly NYC contest, which is part of a worldwide origomu movement.

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Kristel Peters

Belgium

Kristel Peters is a shoe designer with more then 15 years experience in the international Fashion Industry. Currently she is an artistic researcher in KASK / School of Arts of Hogent working on the project ‘Rethinking High Fashion Shoes’, funded by the research fund arts of University College Ghent. As part of this project, Kristel is exploring possibilities for the development of sustainable shoe design. Focusing on circular economy models, she is particularly interested in and in search for sustainable methods for shoe making and for new materials with low/no impact.

Growing Shoe

‘Alice’, a new modular shoe made from funghi. ‘Alice’ consists of two detachable parts: the base and the upper. The base is a modular shoe structure, produced through additive manufacturing. The upper is replaceable and it consists of “zero waste” materials. The full shoe can be adapted and customized according to the needs and/or the trends. Thanks to its modular qualities, the shoe is fully recyclable. Project ‘Alice’ has been recently selected as “Laureate” of the first Additive Design Challenge.

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Switzerland

Titane Lacroix

Light designer and plasticien from Geneva, Switzerland.

Black Box

“Black Box” are made from rubber and each can be used as a single lamp or added to each other in order to make your own creative object.

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DOUBLE / TELEPRESENCE ROBOT

“Double” gives you a physical presence at work or at school when you can’t be there in person. “Double” is the #1 telepresence robot for Hybrid Offices and Blended Classrooms.

As it connects via Wi-Fi, this robot can be controled from anywhere. “Double” gives the ability to fully participate - to see, hear and speak.

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MAGAZINE LAB

DESCRIPTION The Magazine lab researches and looks for new ideas in view of distribution, print, digital, content, augmented readers, communities, art, illustration and many other subjects.

A new magazine concept for Addictlab As a solution for its own publication platform, Addictlabs founder Jan Van Mol came up with a “Modular Magazine” concept. He introduced the concept of augmented readers/consumers, so that content is not created by an isolated editorial board, but is turning readers into editing participants. His concept still wants curated content, yet the format should be digitangible: both an online inspiration source as a true tangible object, re-installing paper – or other materials - as a valuable resource, adding an extra tactile level to the content at hand.

The Addictlab magazine should be modular - leaving space for readers to construct and collect their own content. For that, Addictlab refined its creative chemistry table with over 140 disciplines in 13 categories, now used as a true guiding and navigation tool through the lab’s creative community, people and concepts.

And although the Addictlab magazine should have an online distribution because of ecological and practical reasons (the readers are all over the world), it should also leave the way to local entities (Fab labs, creative hubs) to produce their own Addictlab magazines locally.

As Addictlab is active in the maker & prototyping world, the production and fabrication of a magazine needs to fit that concept too.

So Addictlab’s ‘cloud hub’ concept with online members can be expanded to local ‘ground hubs’ with their own specific communities, adding a DIY level to the art of magazine making and book binding.

IPAC Design School partnering up with Addictlab Students of the IPAC design school, Geneva, have been working on this briefing, and are presenting two solutions at the Salone Satellite during the Milan Design week 2016.

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IPAC “The Parasite” Concept

IPAC DESIGN GENEVA is a school that is building its future with a new state of mind, connected to innovative companies that understand that designers have to invent a future with creativity, respect and responsibility. IPAC DESIGN GENEVA is filled with established professionals who are major players in the world of design.

We practice openness, responsiveness and anticipation. The difference with IPAC DESIGN Geneva is in our ability to create experiences that develop a desire for innovation, exploration, immersion and transversality, developing skills while still respecting an educational framework.

The “Parasite” concept of the Modular Magazine is based on the idea that each article/project is presented individually on a sticker. Thus giving to the reader the possibility to choose as many articles as they like and stick them on any support they want. It could be a sketch-book, another magazine, a newspaper or even a catalogue from a company they where interested in.

Thesticker is mostly an image, with minimal information that invites the reader to use the dedicated addictlab magazine app in order to access the text and further information. On the digital app the reader can create his personal magazines with content of their interest.

Its an idea that merges physical and digital and deconstructs the traditional format of the magazine.

Team Members: Michael Rothenbuhler, Lydie Perrenoud, Lazlo Savary, Brian Santos, Julie Lemarchand, Anna Liferenko.

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IPAC “3D Modular Magazine”

IPAC DESIGN GENEVA is a school that is building its future with a new state of mind, connected to innovative companies that understand that designers have to invent a future with creativity, respect and responsibility. IPAC DESIGN GENEVA is filled with established professionals who are major players in the world of design.

We practice openness, responsiveness and anticipation. The difference with IPAC DESIGN Geneva is in our ability to create experiences that develop a desire for innovation, exploration, immersion and transversality, developing skills while still respecting an educational framework.

The 3D concept of the Modular Magazine is based on the idea that each module is a 3 dimensional object that occupies space and creates an emotionally strong element that changes its identity as it changes its content.

The origami like modules can be stuck to each other, according to the readers choice, creating a spatial concertina that has a strong physical presence. The magazine can become an artistic or decorative object and gives the editor and contributors many different possibilities in communicating their ideas, not only via the content but also by treating each module as an emotional element.

Once the reader has made their selection and the modules are stuck together, it is very easy to read the articles and identify each of them for quick reference.

Team Members: Marc Silva, Farah Cuénoud, Arthur Taquin, Yousif Al-Khudri, Emily Miligan, Simon Morel.w

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CORPORATE TRANSFORMATION LAB

DESCRIPTION Using the Addictlab methodology as a software concept.

Addictlab and its business unit YourOwnLab helps companies to become an employee engaged and activated organization connected with the outside world.

YourOwnlab helps creating a new company culture to increase job satisfaction, to detect unperceived talent and to generate an entrepreneurial mind-set throughout the organization.

The LAB culture empowers people, fosters innovation and contributes to the financial goals of the company. Opening the innovation process to clients, suppliers and outside communities will accelerate even further idea generation and detect new business opportunities.

The transformation process proposed includes several aspects touching deeply the organization of the company: • profiling people differently to discover creative competences and assemble dynamic groups (pyramidal system versus circular approach) • accelerate and increase business and non-business related idea generation engaging teams and communities (open innovation culture) • deploy physical fabrication environments as well as collaborative workspaces empowering talent and prototyping ideas (collective intelligence) • bringing faster business cases and opportunities to the market (rapid prototyping)

LAB CLIENTS Saint-Gobain

Renault

BNP

Dessault Systems

Airbus

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KIDS LAB

DESCRIPTION Addictlab at Expo Juniors, April 22 - 24, Geneva.

Addictlab has partnered up with the Palexpo Geneva fairs, to set up a 500 m2 Addictlab space dedicated to creativity, innovation and crossdisciplinary thinking.

By accelerating and promoting local lab members and working with various local partners, the Addictlab space will boost activities for kids (4 to 14 years) such as : • Watch a movie in the MinimaCinema, learn to program robots, make your own camera from tetra paks and develop your own pictures.

• Learn to work with wood, paint with plants, or let scribbling machines do the work for you.

• Watch a photography exhibition, learn about art therapy for kids in war zones, and print in 3D ... in chocolat.

The Addictlab laboratories

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