Design portfolio Nicolas Chuard

Table of Contents

Penis Case & Other Lights 4 I Amsterdam 20 Bananalphabet 28 Ultimate Judgment Suit 32 Amsterdam Light Festival 38 Secret Operation - The Parasit 42 sexIS - War Branding 46 Pleasure of Discomfort 54 Poster for Open Days 62 Thermo Storm 2000 64 Blossoming Bacteria 68 Still-Life Drama 72 Above the Grass 76 Hostel for Space Travelers 90 1m2 Office / 2m2 Freedom 96 Forces of Nature 104 GRIT - Ballie 110 Himalalife Travel Agency 114 2 sEx=MC 124 Migration to the Future 126 Fresh Pasta & Tasty News 132 Additive Material 142 My Sweet Baby Egg 148 My Inside Out 156 Shaped Personality 170 Searching for the South 182 Watching the Sun Burning 198 Attractive Move 204 Babylon’s Garden 208 Like a Snake 220 Destructive Design 226 Is Sex Complex?

242 Life is a Stream 256 Hyperplasmic Composition 246 Statik 256 Faustraum 268 Everything for Everyone 282 More is More & More 286

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Penis Case & Other Lights

Penis Case & Other Light is a fashion show about nudity, it is a collection of symbolic outfit representing the absurdity, beauty and subtlety of sexuality and attraction. This collection represents the globalisation of culture, a mix between asian delicate artcraft, totem from africa and penis case from australia.

The poetic vocabulary used in the collection refeer to the flame you keep in yourself, to the risk you take to undress till the essential, and the uncomfort we are ready for in order to be eye-catching.

The outfits are made out of metal wire, lampion papers, candles and leather stripes. Each models pocess a special element such as shark teeth, coins, seeds, music intrument. Each model represent the personality of the models wearing it, as a kind of totem.

penis case

& other lights

Nowaday, each outfits has been transformed into lamps furniture.

fashion show

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by N.Chuard Wed 8th may 2013 17:30 in the Gym

Last adjustment before the show With models Lara, Johanna and Jens.

Penis Case ÂŤPlane tailÂť with model Lauritz

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Penis case «Flower» with model Jens

Penis case «Bright belly» with model Johanna

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Penis case «Flower» with model Jens Penis case «Cosmic Sounds» with model Lara

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Penis case «Black Sun» with model Rodrigo Penis case «Bright Belly» with model Johanna

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Penis case «Flying Brain» with myself as the model

Penis case «Deep Water» with model Till

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Penis case «Zen Garden» with model Anton Penis case «Space Invader» with model Nathan

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I A msterdam

This project is an answer to the work of Pateliotis Ioannis, student in sociology in Wageningen, who wrotte about ÂŤEnvironmental HumanitiesÂť.

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Pateliotis explore and divide the different categories of tourisme, and study how do they interact with local culture, social life and environment. He underlines the fact that existentialist tourisme and pilgrimage are disapearing, due to a globalisation of the culture, and an over merchandised travel business. My answer is an entertaining display proposing to tourists to mix their hand map with the map of the city they are exploring, therefor find a new and personal approach of the city. The display is a stamp from the city map on wich you’ll press your hand, and print a postcard with the mix of your hand and map. You can send it to your friend, or use it as a map. I wanted in this project to underline the rich cultural mix of tourist in Amsterdam, and propose them to play the game of hand reading, as it reflect your uniquenessand destiny within the world.

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Step one: open the display model Yoogin Stamp and writting pad with blank postcards

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Step three: print your hand on a blank postcard

Step two: press your hand on the inked stamp

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You will keep one daythe print on your hand might be handy!

Step four: writte what you want on the postcard and send it for free through the world!

Bananalphabet

It is a font generated by using banana peel as stencil to create an alphabet. This font is usable on computer programs and free to download. It refeers to dutch anarchist movement PROVO during the 80’s. This group aimed for an active and free underground culture for everyone, and refused the economical model of museum and society.

I decided to leave the graphic Design department in Rietveld to join the Design Lab, and this work is my answer to my desire of entering the 3D world.

I produced two ranges of scarves/flags promoting my philosophy of «Pleasure is now and first». I do believe that if an artist find pleasure in his creative process, the result will be of better quality, and the feeling of hard labour will disapear. These scarves show my desire of a more playfull and pleasurfull work, and my refusement of the flat paper world of graphic design.

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ÂŤAll that matters is to enjoyÂť Screenprint on silk and coton, 30 exemplars

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Ultimate Judgment Suit

Is perfection possibly human? This work is a research about perfectionism and judgement, especially present in education.

My idea is that perfection is a question of scale and time, nothing can be perfect except at a present moment. We, I mean humans, need to categorise and judge, it is instinctive. As nothing will be perfect forever, the ÂŤUltimate Judgement SuitÂť is a way to illustrate and leave a trace in time of this permanent critical eye. It is an armor protecting you from an judgamental world, to become a judgamental warrior. Everything you touch, every step you make will be marked by your judgement.

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The suit is made out of ingraved linoleum, it is furnished with a roll to ink it.

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Judgamental sole and inking roll

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Print out of the suit 2,5/1 meters, ink on paper

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A msterdam Light Festival

This work is a collaboration with Jens Toni Williumsen. Two of our concepts got selected for the festival:

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«Under the sea, above the clouds» is a metaphore of the surreal atmosphere of Amsterdam.

It is an installation of a bright helium ballon floating over the river. On the water is displayed some translucent cloud reproducing the light of a storm under water.

«Whispering Lights» is a dark metro entrance where you have to whistle in order to turn the light on. The «forest» of light strings will turn extremely bright if you scream, enlighting the whole area. This work is about interactivity between people and the question of safety in Amsterdam by night.

We didn’t pass the last round of the competition, but we’ve learned a lot through its process: dealing with architects, the city regulations, the interactivity with the audience. It also learned us how to make a budget and turn an illustration into a concrete project.

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Technical plan and explaination of the installation Light Helium balloon desired model for the installation

Visualisation of ÂŤUnder the sea, above the cloudsÂť

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Secret Operation - The Parasit

This project comes out of a workshop given by dutch architect Frank Havermans. His request was to create a mobile kitchen suiting his installation «Secret Operation 610», a mobile conference room. We had no budget limit, the only conditions being that it contains a kitchen, a fireplace for barbeque, a water and energy tank, and a way to reach the conference room (two meters high).

«Secret Operation 610» is based on the design of FA-18 fight plane flipped over. It is made out of wood on a metal structure. For my design, I decided to inspire from biologic design, precisely on the Limulae. Billions years of evolution brough this prehistoric crabfish to a very ergonomic and protective design, made to run well under water. I used main of the line of the Limulae and translated to create «The Parasit», a portable kitchen pulled by its bigger brother «Secret Operation 610». The result is a scale model of a modular vehicle made out of brass and wood, containing a kitchen, a BBQ, 2 storages spaces, water and electricity tank, and some toilet.

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«Secret Operation 610» by Frank Havermans visible on military base in Utrecht, Netherlands

Barbeque place in «The Parasit» Toilet inside «The Parasit»

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Profile of «The Parasit»

SexIS-War Branding

This project is a collaboration between me and Arthur Guillerminot during a workshop lead

by Lukas Feireiss. Our project hands to propose a fashionable outfit for the insurgent group’s female followers for casual and combat use.

War and political conflict are part of our everyday life and culture, mass media being the lens through wich we observe it. In recent years the use of branding for diverse conflict parties are becoming more and more apparent. In particular in the case of the Islamist insurgent group IS (Islamic Front) involved in the Syrian civil war, the all black suits of their members have become a visual trademark of the group.

When H&M put in Syria a military jump suit in their shops, it got sold out very fast. The women engaged in the group IS bought these glamourous military suit as they couldn’t find some on the market. We thought it is interesting how fashion react on on everyday’s culture and conflict, we wanted to reverse the tendancy by suggesting a special outfit for IS that would later influence even more the fashion world.

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SexIS fèz, astripe of silk containing the first sentence of Coran is wrapped to it.

The stripe of silk can be use to hide the face

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Fatma’s hand patch because you never knie on what you believe

Fashionable accessories for IS female insurgent

The slogan of IS is written in the back

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Pleasure of Discomfort

This work is a colaboration with Yoojin Lee during the workshop «Die in deStijl» by Lukas Feireiss.

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By studying the deStijl design movement, we conclude that it is very aesthetical and well constructed approach of furniture, but hey are unfortunately quite uncomfortable. I made myself a reproduction of the «Red & blue armchair» by Gerrit Rietveld, so I realised by myself this discomfort.

We decided then to flip the purpose of the chair to use this discomfort as a source of pleasure.

Sado-masochist furniture present some interesting comon point with this chair, so we decided to use it as so. It is a new interpretation of the chair, and it is also a comment on the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, build by the architect, but it s function and directions are evolving with time.

A big thanks to models Lara, and Alexis who introduced us to the practice of bondage.

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Poster for Open Days

This poster is a collaboration with Kjersti Alm Eriksen and Mathilda Beckman for the Open Day of Design Lab at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. It is screenprinted at 60 exemplars, every exemplar is unique by the gradient of ink it uses.

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This poster is made to be used as such on advertissement panel, and it can be cut in many way to reduce it to a flyers with the main informations.

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Thermo Storm 2000

This project comes from an assignment by Joost Konijn, we had to create a heating system.

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My first plan was to build a microwave gun in order to enlight light bulbs without pluging them. After breaking 3 microwave and nearly die by electro choc, I had to abandon this project as it was too dangerous to be made in school.

So I came with the idea of adapting tools from the workshop into koocking tools. Thermo Storm 2000 is a portable oven, using a hot air gun as heating source. It is very practical for grilling quickly and intensely dishes such as crème brulÊe, fried egg or chicken wings.

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Step three: enjoy your meal!

Step one: put the oven over the dish

Step two: put the heat gun into the oven top Coock as long as needed

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Blossoming Bacteria

This vase designs jewellery through its shape. in the vase is some cold tea with sugar, in wich we add a bacteria called Kombucha. This bacteria create a layer of skin on the surface within few days. When you take out this skin and let it dry, it becomes some kind of transluscent leather. I designed a vase that will create a kinetic shape through the bacteria. the principle is that every 10 days, you take out the skin and let it dry. the level of the water will low and change with the shape. When the vase is nearly empty, just add some tea and sugar, and the process can continue undefiitely. You can create jewellry or diverse object with the resulting material, and make it colourfull by adding food colorant in the water.

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Vase filled with tea, sugar and kombucha day one Kombucha skin freshly taken out

Empty vase Blown up glass

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Still-Life Drama

This work is in collaboration with Marko Bakovic for the exhibition UNCUT, Amsterdam 2014.

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A still life is still because we consider objects as unanimated, but what about their vision of life? Still-Life Drama is an installation in wich you can give life to objects and create a scenary, by using microphone and handles to animate them. Human mind is so rich to create stories, why not to deliver it? Just project yourself into being a stuffed pigeon, a tatoo gun, an old football trophy or a fire alarm, what would you say to your neighbourg?

When nobody uses the installation, it comes back to its nature of still-life.

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Still-Life Drama landscape

Visitors using the installation Whole installation Including microphone, speakers and banana peel

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Above the Grass - Roskilde Festival

Roskilde Festival is the biggest music festival in Scandinavia, welcoming more than 600’000 peoples every year. We decided to present a project in collaboration with J.T. Williumsen, K Beck Sorensen and N.Favot. Our first proposal was 3 huge turning bar actionate by bikes. The project got accepted, sponsored by TUBORG, costing 1,3 million euro. Later on, the sponsor decide to step out of the Festival, so we changed our project for a less expensive one.

We proposed «Freedom is a cage», a reproduction of a hamster cage 30/20 meters, with many entertaining display in it. The installation got constructed, but in the last minute the festival comitee closed the project down for some inside comunication problems.

Our last proposal got realised and welcomed around 50’000 visitors during the festival.

«Above the grass» is an installation of 30/15 meters, it is a resting area where all the furniture is hanged on the ceiling, therefor swinging. This project learned me how to manage constructors, and deal with administrative comitee and their changing mind.

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Different proposals for the turning bar Not realised for some security and budget reason

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Different proposals after TUBORG canceled the first project.

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Sketches and construction plan of installation ÂŤAbove the GrassÂť

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On the long sides of the installation there will be swings, in 3 different sizes. There will be at least 30 cm of distance between the support beam and the swings. The smallest version is 90 cm long and 35 cm wide and can hold comfortably 2 people. The medium size is 1,50 m long and same width as the others. The medium can contain 4 people.

The biggest swing will have a length of 2,20 m and same width as the precedent. On the big swing, 6 people can sit. A safety system could be acquired to limit the possibility of swinging to high.

Either a chain attached under the slide or above or any other limitative suggestion.

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pink zone is where the swing are swinging yellow zone is the chilling area

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Construction on the site with a team of charpenter

the height will be 3 m on which the fabric is composing the roof. This roof will be 1 meter high and its design is according to the drawings.

Inside the whole installation there will be numerous chairs and tables hanging in dispense. Creating scenery of lightness, randomly organized, to allow people to interact and create their own space.

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pink zone is where the swing are swinging yellow zone is the chilling area

The construction took aproximately one week.

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Around 50’000 visitors used the installation

Out of the music area, this installation was a good place to relax and meet other people

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WOW - Hostel for space travelers

This installation is a command from WOW, an art-residency/youth-hostel in Amsterdam.

They contacted me for creating a luminous installation for their huge staircase.

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I decided to team-up with K. Alm Eriksen, and we realised a huge lighting mobile hanged on the ceiling of both staircase. The theme is «Space traveling and galactic mysteries», inspired by the staircase present on a rocket launching, and the numberous «secret door» present in the hostel.

The light are working day and night, the intensity can be choosed. A time system shift regularely wich one is alight, some of them are moving by a turning system.

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The rockets were big and fragile We couldn’t use a truck, so we walked

Setting up of the installation

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Close up of a light

The installation is visible from far View from the highway

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1m2 Office - 2m3 Freedom

This office is the only intimate space available in the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. I created it when I switched department and arrived in Design Lab where I had no space.

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This ÂŤsecretÂť box is a 1m2 and 2m3 modular space. It contains a light table, a sound system, a lighting system including disco light, a seat and a window. It is on wheel and can be drive from inside, it is sound and heat isolated, and painted blue inside for more serenity. The door is hiden, and impossible to enter when somedy is inside.

This installation answers to my basical need for working: I do need to focus, out of the crowd sometimes, and i also need to release myself sometimes by listening loud music and dancing out for the view from others.

It has been available one year in the hall of the Rietveld, and found users.

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Some instruction on the door explain you all the possibilities offered inside.

The box can be open by a clicking system, invisible from the outside.

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A seat can be opened, for relaxing

A light table can be open, with many electricity plugs, allowing you to work on paper or computer.

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The box can be driven from the inside, through a small window and some handles.

The space inside allow you to move and dance free

A disco light with choose of colours is displayed on the ceiling of the box.

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Force of Nature

I’ve been colaborating with dutch designer J.Van der Wiel for few years now.

My function has diversed from illustrating furniture model and construction plan, realisating PR for futur project, experimentating with new materials, and mainly brainstorming about possible scenario and project around the forces of nature.

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I am currently following a project of architecture using forces of nature, in collaboration with architecture studio Bentem Crouwel.

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Manual and visualisation of a table For indian investors

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1 GRAVITY DINING TABLE INSTRUCTIONS

You received a nice box

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Open the lid with a screwdriver

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Remove the short side with a screwdriver take out the protecting foam

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The contents of the box looks like this 5 legs and a plate

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Put the plate on the foam to evict scratches screw the legs into the 5 screw threads

Take out the legs and put the protective foam on the floor

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The table is ready, uneed to stand it lay a protective foam beside the table

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Take care that the 5 legs touch the ground at the same time

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Flip the table on the protective foam

You made a nice job Enjoy!

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The cycle of natural energies Painting for exhibition ÂŤDragonstoneÂť Utopian representation of use of natural forces in architecture, such as eathquake

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GRIT - Ballie

GRIT project is a workshop proposed by Amsterdam Centre for Entrepreneurship to the difeerent universities of Amsterdam. The concept is to join different faculties around one social problem, and propose innovative solution. I did participate in a team of 4 with some students from psychology, music and graphic design on the topic of demencya. Our goal was to create some interactive tools for people suffering different level of demence.

We came with the concept of Ballie, some playfull little balls stimulating the intelectual and social activities of the patients. Some balls are stimulating the sense of touch, others the hear, and some or just a playfull way to comunicate between patient and family. With a declineason of 10 models, these are collectable, pretty cheap and a perfect gift for hospital’s shop.

This project was finalist at the Science & Innovation Award 2014 in the Netherlands.

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Sketchs and construction plan of the differents models

Uncut of X

Group work realise with K.Bech Sorensen, A.Karlson and M.Beckan for UNCUT festival, Brake Grond building, Amsterdam.

We have been asked to react on the exhibition room we received by playing on scale and history of the place.

The Brake Grond is an old theater place which lately turned into an exhibition space. We created a precise replica of the space as interactive sculpture, in which during the show a contorsionist would come and be locked during an hour.

This work is a ÂŤmise en abimeÂť of the surreal show taking place there, and the possibilities offered by symbolics representations.

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Himalalife Travel Agency

This project is the result of exercise Rapid Design Response, wich consist in reacting as fast as possible on actualities.

Collaboration with M.Dalhuizen on the new of ******, for curators of VNA in London.

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Himalalife is a travel agency proposing an original approach of traveling to Himalaïa. We assume the danger of such a trip, and turn it into the occasion of liberating yourself from your body envelope, on one of the most beautifull and symbolic spot in the world. Our agency proposes different philosophical approach of death, mainly based on a fusion of westernised and other culture.

Himalalife proposes an organised trip with possibility to take a one way plane ticket. We give to our customer a GPS localisator, so we know where their body envelop is, in order for the family to visit them. We the identity such as flyers, posters, encens burner for the agency.

We designed an aquarium symbolising our philosophy, and functional by showing were are our «liberated customer».

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Presentation to jury from VNA London Web site with booking system

GPS Localisator necklace Casted tin

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Himalaïa scale model, underpart of the aquarium Vacuum formed plastic, light bulb and wood

Aquarium with water tank on it Vacuum formed plexiglas The underpart is moveble in order to add point Localisation map of the «liberated» customer

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Complete Aquarium

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sEx=MC2

This poster is based on the idea that life is energy, and celebrating life come through the sexual act. It ended up in an illustration of an orgy where all participants share their energy with each others. The slogan E=MC2 is a reminder that sexual interactivities is the atomic energy within humans.

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This poster has been made by using aceton to melt polystiren and create an etching. Each prints destroys the matrice, so each models are very differents. This poster is the result of an assignment given by Bart de Beats.

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Migration to the Future

This work is a the result of a workshop given

by Lukas Feireiss on the topic of migration. I realised, in collaboration with A.Buntsma, a utopian package of tools allowing you to slow down the rotation of the earth.

The idea came from the fact that the rotation of earth is slightly speeding up with time, and each earthcake actually speed it up even more. Time is extremely precious, especially with the speeding of industrial practice and through technology. We do propose a system that hypotheticely will slow down the rotation, by wearing some sole with hooks. When you walk in the direction of the East, the hook are orientated behind you, so the friction force you create will slow down the rotation. If you walk to the West, just turn your sole around, and the hook will create friction in the other direction.

Ultimately, the idea would be to create a ÂŤEarth DayÂť once each year, where everybody at the same time will walk the same direction in order to slow our planet.

Time To sTep againsT Time

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Prototype of the sole, mounted on hooks the direction of wearing is indicated on top

Sole in use First test A wrist watch equiped with a compass let you know if you have to change the sense of your soles.

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Complete package ÂŤTime to step against timeÂť

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Fresh Pasta & Tasty News

Our everyday life is overloaded of diverse informations. Through medias such as television, advertissment, radio, it becomes nearly impossible to escape the intence flow of globalisation.

This overload of information give us the feeling that we have to be aware of every act on the planet, in order to not be disconected, but in the end it becomes difficult to remember these news as there is so much of it. My personal feelings is that we eat information without taking care of their sources, and we digest it without enjoying their taste. I created «Fresh Pasta & Tasty News» to make people aware of the process of intelectual digestion. I focused my research on the fresh pasta as they have to made on the day, and coupled them with the news of today. Enjoy some delicate fresh food printed with actualities, and don’t feel guilty to not read every of your pasta!

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step two print the pasta with the ingraved pasta roll

step one spread the dove with a regular pasta roll

Complete set

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step four take out the pasta and put it to dry on the dryer

Step three cut the pasta with the calibrated knife

Last step serve your pasta, seasoned it as you want and eat it!

Step five boil the pasta between one and two minutes

Pasta dryer

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Additive Material

I have a fascination for meteorits because they are the only case of adjunction of material on our planet. Humanity has thrown a lot of object and persons in space, but sometimes space send us back something on the form of flying rocks.

There is around 1500 meteorits falling every year, only few of them resist until the crash.

They don’t present many interest in their materiality, they are mainly composed of hard stone or a mix of iron and nickel, or both. What is interesting is the narative they are carying: they could end our era, as they could maybe brings other form of life, they represent a mix of fascination and fear.

In this project, I tried to play with the symbolic of it, by turning them into narrative jewelry and objects. I proceeded by the technic of lost wax, first shaping it by hand, then casting it and melting it at 8000°C. Because of their non-contact with air and water, they rust very fast, wich give it its rough appearance.

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Light Speed Bullet These bullet are made to shoot new meteorits in space

Life Nest This ring has a shape to welcome becterial life Here are two samples of metal meteorits . As you can see on the slice, the temperature goes so high during its break through atmosphere that the metal crystalise

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Seed from outer space This ring contains a seed, bringing hope a new life

Space Jaws Thisteeth is casted from meteorit metal

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My Sweet Baby Egg

I believe that the most important difference between gender is the possibility to carry and give life. It is one of the biggest complex of men I think, giving him the specified personality as we know. Some theorician even pushed this theory to the fact that this is the main reason why there is more men than women into the art world, a lake of physiologic creative possibility for men. During the Roman era, some prostitue had to pass a test in order to have kids. They had to be able able to carry an egg under their arm until it bloom.

Through this design, I want to allow men to experience what is to carry life during 22 days.

I used first chicken egg, but the incubation temperature is too high, so I choose quail egg.

In order to incubate it, you’ll have to carry it around 22 days all the time, during your sleep as your shower, social time and sport. Your body temperature will maintain the egg at temperature around 23°C.

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First egg shell prototype sculpted wood

Final prototype of egg shell aluminium shell and isolating foam, silicon and leather

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Prototype worn by model Gaspard Example of casual wearing Prototype worn by model Gaspard Your body temperature is provided by your armpit

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My Inside Out

This project is about the inside beauty we all receel and rarely show. Everybody is composed of hiden part he’ll rarely see, such as nipples, nostrils, anus, ears, mouth and so on. Through this jewellry project, I want to use these secret parts and reveel their beauty through earings, necklace and rings, as a way to reveel your intimity in an acceptable way to everyday’s people.

As the cottation say, «beauty is inside, it is just a matter to see it», so I applyed this sentence.

«My Inside Out» is a serie of objects made by using lost wax technic, with casted sylver and gold. These parts has been casted on myself using alginate and other proceed, then turned into plaster cast.

The idea is that you can order on demand a jewellry for yourself or your beloved one by sending to the artist a cast of your part, who will turn it into an object. The jewellry is delivered in a «Budha Palm» nut, hidden in its inside.

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Wax casting of fingers and nipples Foam cast of belly button, ears and nostrils

Dentist’s foam used to realise the cast

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Nipples taxido buttons Nipples button in their packaging

Nipples sleeve button

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Nipples necklace and earings

Women’s nipple spinning-top

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Belly button’s Ring In its packaging

Belly button’s Ring Casted gold

Anus necklace

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Shaped Personality

Once I carried a baby, and by touching his head, I noticed how soft was his skull. Since then came to me the idea that we could actually force the skull to grow a certain way. This practice has already been made in some african tribute and in asia, resulting in wonderfull shape.

With the evolution of body modification and the need of people to differ from each other, I create two helmets modifying your skull. One is a a structure stamping your skull in a small round shape, giving you a third eye. The second is a helmet for baby shaping his skull with another face, giving it a ÂŤJanusÂť head. The idea is that the parent would 3D scan their faces, and through a program calculate the possible face of their child. After 3D printing it and casting it in aluminium, the baby would wear it and finally have two face: the one nature decided, and the one logic qould have done. This project reflect the need of parent to recognise themself in their childrens, and the fact that everyone is shared in two different personalities.

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Searching for the South

This project is about searching for a slower life.

In our society, everything is precisely timed, and human turns to be more and more considered as a machine, based on our desire of efficiency. I do believe that this tendency to aim for fastness and efficiency is the most unhealthy choice in human kind, because we are considering ourself as out of nature’s rythme.

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My concept is that everybody is searching for his «South» like migrating birds do, I mean that everybody is searching for a place and rythme of life that suits him. I made a serie of solar clock rings to explain that principle. if you want to read the time by wearing them, you have to point your finger to the south and read the shadow on it. These rings give a very aproximative notion of time as the shadow is not very precise, and the sun journey changes everyday, wich means that you can’t be too efficient and have to think in period of the day instead of hours. As these can only works with sun, it becomes unusable by night, implying that when it is night you should relax and sleep.

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You have to wait one hour to take the ring out This suit the idea that you have to follows nature rythme

The ring is package in a Jericho Rose A plant that opens when in contact with water

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Rinhorn Beetle Ring Casted porcelain

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Dark side of Fingers Ring Casted gold

Triceratops Ring Casted porcelain

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Sharp time Casted porcelain with a shark teeth

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Watching the Sun Burning

New popular technologies in design such as lasercuting, CNC miling, 3D printing shapes nowaday everyday life for the designers.

Through this project, my aim was just to explore and play with a lasercuting machine in order to see its potential. After numberous tryout on diferent material, such as bacon, cheese, croissant dove, porc skin, raw egg, aluminium foil, clay, different woods, beetles wings, ice, and finally human skin, I must admit I had a lot of fun.

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Lasercut tatoo on my left arm one hour after

Result after two days the laser left a trace during 1 montn

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Attractive Move

This project is based on magnetisme, a natural force I studied longely with designer Jolan Van der Wiel. Through this prototype, I wanted to explore by myself the different way to make magnetisme visible and playfull, because I believe it is interesting for human eyes to realise its shape and origin.

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The ÂŤAttractive RingÂť is a jewel that will attract every metal element close to your hands during the day, so the jewel build itself by carrying it.

Delivered with it is a bag fof metal dust. You can dip the ring in it and experience the beauty of magnetisme, and a very nice point is that it is very difficult to take the dust out as the attraction is continuous.

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Prototype in resin with a neodim magnet inside

Babylon’s Garden

This project is the idea of a world where we would live in symbiosis with living object. By having to treat with entities such as plant and animals, I believe that the consumerisme model would change, bringing muh more respect and knowledge about our surrounding world, having feelings towards your everyday’s objects.

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«Babylon’s Garden» is a fashion piece using this principle of symbiosis. It is a living room plant that you take care everyday, and you can take it outside as a hat when you need to protect from rain or sun, or just want to be fashionable. The idea of symbiosis is here the fact that human provide C02 and water to the plant, while the plant provide everyday oxygen and beauty to the human. When you go out, the plant then protect you of sunlight that it transform in oxygen, and from the rain that it drinks.

The dome in the middel of the plant makes the rain distributed equally to each plant,and its miror cover reflects light for a better sun distribution.

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Final prototype, on its support Wooden foot, coper base, aluminium dome and plants Shaped hand-crafted for vacuum former There you can see the structure for flowing water,

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Water is distributed equaly by the dome

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Like a snake in a nature reserve

This work is based on the graduation project «Like a snake in a nature reserve» by A.Chappatte, on wich me and B.Kollar colaborate.

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Our idea was to interpret the symbol of the snake through pattern printing and garment making, from its terrific side to its incredible beauty and ability to transform.

The result is a multimedia installation by A.Chappatte taking part in the Rietveld Graduation show 2015, a small «nature reserve» where stories, music and performance of A.Chappatte meets around an aquarium with dried snake. The fashion garment were inspired by the japanese folding tradition, executed by B.Kollar.

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Destructive Design

This project is about creation and desrtuction, how these two concepts complete each other. I believe that chaos is necessary for creation, and what we name creativity is just matter of transformation.

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Destructive design is inspired by an experience I had: in 2009 my room burned, destroying all my precious objects and memories. When I arrived on the place, everything was black and melted, it was a strange mix between beauty and despair. I remember I wanted to seat on my chair to cry, but it was made out of plastic and broke when I seat on it. From this experience, I made a chair that reflect the beauty of destruction by fire. These chair are made to resist 5 minutes of intense fire, after what you can freeze them with epoxy and keep them with their burnt design. Therefor all exemplars are unique depending on how you burn it.

This work is inspired as well by the serie of Marteen Baas and the ÂŤDo HitÂť chair by Marijn van der Poll.

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First sketch Baby chair burnt First sketch Baby chair

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Extinguishing the fire after 7 minutes Extract from the video «Destructive Design»

Burning of the chair Extract from the video «Destructive Design»

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Is Sex Complex?

This work is a reflection on human evolution toward virtual reality and body extension such as cyborg. I wrotte a speculative scenario in collaboration with L.Varady Szabo, in wich we describe a sexual intercourse in a near futur.

The scene is extremely confusing, a lot of differents device are used, and it becomes difficult to know what is organic or mechanicl, but we understand that it procure s an incredible pleasure. Humanity has entered a new era where the sexual act is so far from its original kind that human aren’t really human anymore, or maybe is it the opposite? Finally humanity has reach its ultimate goal, doing one with the machine for an eternity of pleasure and an end of any complex of any type.

The object you see are props I realised as illustration of the scenario, where a new serie of possible sex toys are in sale. By keeping the traditional Durex branding, we can see the transition between traditional human being and cyborg development.

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A text by N.Chuard & L.Varady-Szabo

Hence a slice of the metallic nirvana dawns on the couple. They might be around 80 years old each, which is fairly young. About 60 percent of their body being still organic, nerves trembling at each 0s. and 1s. of the shiny beast. 0 would be the equivalent of back and 1 the equivalent of forth in that case.

On this brand new experimental model, we’d have about a dozen phallises, each one a different size and shape, rotating in different ways like a heap of glowing worms. Vaginas too: of different sizes and different textures. Some other holes would be more considerate as ports for electric discharge that go straight to the brain or the pleasure board.

The man got his brand new digital vagina implanted on top of his spine, surrounded by three pleasures ports and had been pounded for the last 30 minutes by at least three of the cyborgs glowing worms: 10101010.

The woman is following the trend she saw on the latest magazine: one digital dick on each knee. It is gradually becoming harder to see exactly where is what. The last time I was able to understand the scene, one was in her husband’s mouth, the other was still rotating freely outside the electro/organic pit. But vaginas as well, she is still cherishing this great gift she got since birth. Both of her eyes had been replaced by wombs when she was about fifteen. And in these eyes, a couple of chromed glowing worms found their way, of course. Swarming as if they were swimming in lemon juice.

With all this, it is hard to say if we could still be talking about a man and a woman… It is hard to say if we could still talk about organic or robotic, and it is hard to say if we could still be talking about sex. They now look like one entity, nested into each other, every hole filled and connected with a constant flow of kinetic and electric data alway getting progressively more intense. They don’t know where their own body ends and where the other partners body starts. Even the cyborg is not sure, even IT, feels 60 percent organic now. Because, let me be clear, what we are witnessing here, is a orgy between (what use to be) a man, a woman and a robot. Maybe you didn’t understood that. But maybe it is also to remind myself.

As I said, the picture is getting abstract. Blips and moans is what we hear. Ass and ionized lubricant is what we smell. Try to picture it: when you’re half asleep and you don’t recall being yourself anymore. When you wake up somewhere you don’t remember having fallen asleep at. Some form of ego loss. Some form of dehumanization…

Of course it is the true « getting lost » in the data. It is when it mixes it the betweens. We knows it since forever but here, ladies and gentlemen, it is happening before our eyes. Here a new kind of birth is happening for the first time.

It had took some thousand years of research in technology and a couple of use-to-be gendered devoted perverts and a sophisticated machine and several ports of any sorts and the most intense coït ever recorded in the surface of the earth for the inevitable to happen.

And how else than by the very basic, the number one act of creation, the king of life: the sexual act. Yes, in front of you is happening the most important event to ever occur since, maybe, the discovery of fire. The birth of a new mind. Or should I say the dissolution of all that is mind? In between all those mechanical chromed dicks, exactly where the friction occurs, in the brains and in the boards, in the bones and in the wires, humanity has shifted once more and forever in a numerical and chemical sea of hyper consciousness/pleasure. What use to be what we knows as « being » is disappearing. The gate to the foresighted new era is opening before you in the form

of screams, passionate fever and intense data transfert.

At this very moment humanity is no more. It has vanished in a new cyber little death.

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Manual of the device

Front side of the packaging using a plug adapter as sex adaptor

Hyperplasmic composition #1

Hyperplasmic Composition #1 is the first swimming pool installation of the new business wing of the New Dirty Enterprises: Guerilla Hot Tub Services.

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This project has been made and lead by Jerszy Seymour during my internship at his design studio in Berlin 2015. The pool has been realised under the label of «ghetto production» of the New Dirty Enterprise, meaning that we realised it with minimalistic tools: a heat gun, a roller, a scisor, and a lot of human power. This DIY attitude focus mainly on a group efforts, when many individuals become one through the movement of making. The swimming pool is an evocation of Neaderthal people who were philosophing at night in hot water stream while watching as the stars.

Hyperplasmic Composition #1 has been installed on the rooftop gallery «Bonjour Tristesse» in Berlin during summer 2015.

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We developed a technic for the making with the 2 other interns there, until it became natural.

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The swimming pool is ready to open, lets party like Neandertal men!

Some minimalistic/constructivist makeup has been made on the making crew.

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«Going with the flow», here is the principle of this project. This big flaoting chair allow you to relax and go where the flow of the river will lead you. Because of its large proportion, once in the water, you can’t climb on it anymore, so better be aware when you want to stop the journey.

The height is calculated to match with the canal side of Amsterdam, the original goal was to cross Netherlands in few days. Due to the instability of the chair with the wind, I abandoned the idea of such a trip, and use it as an amusement object since then.

This project is a continuation of «Searching for the South», a reflection on existentialism and life being a long migration toward death.

Testing the limit of balancing Making of the chair with styrofoam and polyester

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Statik

This work is the result of an art residence organised by Ürbane Kunste on the topic of «mobility» in the Ruhr area, Germany My first reaction when coming to this city was to notice a big amount of cars for a few inhabitants. It became a problem creating traffic jams, underlining the unefficiencity of public transports.

With the 200 euros offered by the workshop, I decided to buy my first car, and turned it into a sculpture. I bought a second hand car, transformed it in order to have the door closed forever.

I painted it as new and placed it in the public space for 6 months on a parking lot. The keys were in the ignition coil, ready to start.

It has been an interesting process, dealing with all the legal issues, and changing the status of a car into a sculpture. This sculpture represents for me «art in real life», nothing indicate it is a sculpture, it is therefor difficult to notice what difference it from other regular cars.

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The car will stay 6 months parked in Gelsenkirchen among other cars.

The keys are inside the ignition coil, ready to start The door and front has became unexisting

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The car attract the curiosity of passing walkers

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The parking issometimes full or empty only the sculpture remains here permanently.

Some postcard indicate you the presence of the sculpture through GPS coordinate.

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Faustraum

FaustRaum is a performative installation. It is an experiment around the central topic of the play Faust by Goethe, ÂŤthe modern human being who has freed himself from all boundariesÂť, translated into a multidisciplinary experience. Directed by F.Menge, it has been presented the 24th march at gallery Arti & Amicitiae during the FLAM festival in Amsterdam, during a 5 hours ongoing performance.

My part has been to produce an object installation interfering with the performers. I decided to create the two modern philosopher stones that Faust was looking for: a big Viagra pill, for eternal libido and youth, and a Snicker chocolate bar, a concentrated alchemistry of all sugar energy possible. It is a reflection on our contemporary society based on consumption, and the question of who owned who.

At the entrance was standing a table with 300 clay charachters given for free to the audience, as a comercial representation of Faust soul.

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Painting after fiber glazing the sculpture

Delivery of the Viagra pill

Inside structure of the Viagra pill made out of styrofoam plates Sculpting of the snicker bar in styrofoam blocs and isolation foam

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Video installation by R.Ermolaev projected on performer D.Tiecken

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Everything for Everyone

Everything for Everyone is an essay about the relation we have to consumption in general, analysed through the specific field of supermarkets. This text is an attempt to understand my own relation to shopping, the contradiction between pleasure and disgust, the feeling of avoiding the void by getting more and more items, the contrast between what I think I know and the reality behind it.

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This text isn’t a scientific review, it is a revolted poetry about contemporary society and the necessary evil of the consumption’s system. It points relation between the human drives and how these are used in marketing, the effect it has on our perception of reality, and how supermarkets are a simulation of an utopic version of nature.

What if life was just a big shopping session in a supermarket?

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Illustrated and printed on glossy paper Cover made out of orange juice packaging

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More is More & More: Can you feel it?

More is more & more is an installation, let’s call it a show, reflecting on the comercial aspect of art and the hypereal society we live in. It is a dramacomic interpretation of it, as it is necessary to to take a distance in order to reconsider it.

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I focused on the four pillars of our concumption society, what is needed to keep the economic motor running. Medication and control over your perception is the first. Sugar and mass produced food is the second. Freedom of movement is the third, represented by Statik (p.260).

The last one is entertainment and taboo, or how to release pressure in such opressing situation.

«Can you feel it?» consists of 3 overdimensioned pills: VIAGRA, for eternal libido and the fear of aging, Ecstasy as a solution for global love and perception change, and the Painkiller as a daily partner to moderate the dialogue between you and your body. These pills has been transformed into a playground, these can be ride by the audience. They represent the notion of «art you can touch» and branding in art.

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Presented at GOGBOT Festival in Enschede Very appreciated by the young audience

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Building up the pills with styrofoam , glass fiber, and an inner wood structure

The ecstasy is a dutch Mitsubishi type

One boy riding the ecstasy pill at GOGBOT Festival Enschede

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More is More & More: Placebo la vie

This work is a complement to «Can you feel it?» in the the More is More & More show. It reflects on the role of an artist to brand himself,to become a comercial products. During the show, the audience is invited to take and consume for free these business card.

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The card consists of a medication plate. It contains a pill with my logo on top. The pill is a placebo, made out of micro crystaline cellulose and food colorant. The color blue refeer to VIAGRA, a libido booster and power strengthener.

Nothing indicates on the tablet it is a placebo. It represents the desire of creating transcendance through art, using the power of the mind, a goal eternally aimed by artists.

A special version was made, a «red pill», a homemade ecstasy. It refeers to the movie classic Matrix, about seeing the world as it really is, or continuing diving blindly in it, a simple question of perception.

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DIY metal device to press and stamp the pills

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Wooden structure adapted to a vacuum former The cards have been shaped and glued last step is to insert the pills and aluminium film

Laser cutted printed paper

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More is More & More: Sugar Century

«Sugar Century» is the second pillar of society in the show More is More & More, representing the age of sugar rush and industrial food. As an answer to a desire for energy and immediate pleasure, I used the Snicker bar as an emblem, for it’s ultra nutritive composition, some mad scientist modern alchemistry.

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The Snicker is one century old, and was one of the first mass produced energy bar, an ongoing success since then. Any proper kiosk in the world has to sell Snickers in order to be considered as proper. The rush and need sugar create in you is part of daily elements unstabilising your mind, creating dependency to more consumption. It is one factor of the concept «stronger faster and better», where efficiency and rapidity of reaction prime on quality.

The Snicker bar was produced for the FAUSTRAUM preformance (p.272), presented as part of the More is More show. It was used as a bench, underlining the «art you can touch» notion of the show.

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Displayed at SELECTED, gallery Looiersgracht 60 Snicker bar used as bench by audience During GOGBOT Festival in Enschede

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More is More & More: Arty-Farty

Arty-Farty is the world’s largest farting pillow (7 meters in diameter), in process to be in the Guiness Book of Records. It represent the last pillar of our consumeristic society: entertainment and taboo, or how can we release the pressure of an opressing system.

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The idea was to take such an iconic object of bad taste humor, one century old as well, to turn it so big that the effect twists, it becomes dramatic. During the show, the audience was invited to jump on it from a 3 meters high platform. This affected people by bringing them in an emotional rollercoaster: first by the surprise, the reaction to the vulgarity of it, it’s aesthetic beauty, the danger involved by jumping on it, the funnyness of the sound. As a result, the audience start laughing by a mix of anxiety and confusion.

Arty-Farty is a reflection on the role and perception of sculptures, it is also a critic on artists such as J.Koons and D.Hirst, both trying to break the world record of the most expensive artwork ever sold.

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Comissioned illustration of More is More & More realised for acquirer of the giant Snicker bar

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Tropic Cities - Jolan van der Wiel

Tropic Cities is a show presented by designer Jolan Van der Wiel in the Scheepvartmuseum in Amsterdam. The objects realised for the show are all realised from plypropylene, polyester, and epoxy, and other multi component plastic. These reflects on a possible future when Netherlands will become a tropical climate, and watert will be omnipresent all around.

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I have first been asked to brainstorm on the idea and create visual and information for the funding request. I have later on integrated the office and freelanced on a 6 months on this topic, from the very first prototyping, experiment with materials, management of the production, and finally installation of the exhibition.

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coloured polyuretane poured in PP pipes Benitier polypropylene pipes sliced and melted together Vase and Stone

transparent polyuretane casted on silicon pattern Palm leaf lamps

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7000 Polypropylene pipes melted together Tropic Chair

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Meandering Bench front view water and air circulating in Details of Meandering Bench

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Meandering Bench A bench that stocks water

WOW Hostel / Art R esidence

WOW is a youth hostel and art residence located in Bossen Lommer, Amsterdam. Two floors of the buildings are for visiting tourist (yellow and red), the two other floors are studio for artist in residence. I have been living two years in WOW, got involved in many of the cultural program, create great relation with other artist, I took the best what this place could offer.

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I got comissioned to realise an illustration for the PR of WOW, emphasizing on the co-existing of tourist and artist, who dont get to meet that often. This illustration is based on a A2 format, I tried to represent as much as possible all the activities and diverse life stories present in there.

The graphic has been used on many media, there is even a ÂŤcolor it yourselfÂť version for kids available in the cafeteria of the building.

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Planisphere - Marianna L adreyt

Planisphere is a fashion collection of toga realised by Marianna Ladreyt. The garment are a modern interpretation of a contemporary pantheon, and refers to Marianna’s thesis work about the junction between the 2D and 3D world.

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Selected for the Rietveld Design Award, her collection travelled through magazins and show, finally presented at prestigious fashion festival at Villa Noaille in Hyères. For this occasion, fashion brand Chloé and Zwarowski asked her to create a garmentexclusive for the festival.

Marianna decided to create the «vulcanologist» toga , we collaborated to design a graphic pattern printed on textile and in zwarowski crytals.

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Top: pattern realised in coloured svarovski crystals Pants: sublimation print on cotton

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Stadt Bauwelt - High R ise Distopia

I have been comissioned to realise a serie of illustration for Architecture and Urbanism magazin Bauwelt. 8 Illustrations are spread over 6 pages, accompagning an article by writter Charlie Clemoes (Failed Architecture) on the topic of High Rise architecture. The article starts by analysing the first scene of TV serie ÂŤThe WireÂť season 3, where the 3 heroes witness the destruction of a high rise buildings where they lived for years.

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TATE etc... - Song of AERO

Comissioned work for TATE Modern London magazin’s «TATE etc...» for article «Song of Aero/Public Discourse» by Danny Denton, under category New Voice.

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Danny Denton’s text is a poetic interpretation of street art/activism in Buenos Air, developing its own language by the people for the people.

My illustrations are spread over diverse pages in the magazine, as small recall of the article.

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By Danny Denton

SONG OF AERO/ PUBLIC DISCOURSE A girl walks to school each morning – tracing with black shoes the pavements of Colegiales, Buenos Aires – her brother, younger, trailing behind, grumbling about the weight of his school bag. On the corner of Calle Jorge Newberry, each morning, their father, a breezeblock wall, says: CATA, TE AMO / TOMAS, TE AMO PAPÁ The children’s father became a wall when he was forbidden from seeing them. But, with spraypaint (drunken yellow capitals), he tells them each morning that he loves them. CATA, TE AMO / TOMAS, TE AMO / PAPÁ X In Cork City (home), a ghost haunts the lanes and walls of town. Howls its name in spraypaint! AERO is the tag (though of course no-one knows who it is), announcing its/her/his self in green-black cursive over the lock to our gate, and hollering from four-foot block lettering (red & white) on the old city wall above the back steps.

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a doorway on Oliver Plunkett Street.

From the Douglas Road to Blarney Street, cross our city and AERO sings the song of her/his/itself, from crumbling concrete and sooty plaster and faded brick. AERO distinguishes not between newness and dereliction.

The sound of traffic, of sirens, of screaming trains, of footfall, of leaves blown across the breeze, of laughter and cursing and barking dog – that is the song of AERO. X Concrete crumbles, and yet, our collective memory being poor, we make marks that might help us remember.

In Colegiales, a pair of three-storey minotaurs square up, fists reared, on the gable end of an apartment block.

They are called Salta and Teta, and were once two local boys, victims of an unresolved double murder. When street artist Jaz came to the suburb, asking residents what they’d like him to explore in his project, they told him the story of SALTA Y TETA. CATA, TE AMO, PAPÁ.

AERO X Somewhere like a mechanic’s yard is a good place to start, its shutters: AERO. Or a dry riser inlet on the South Mall: AERO. The ghost drafts its name over and over. The bird does not sing

a ditch, or high in a green-grey field, and all over, saying things like: ‘fell here when we hunted rabbits’ or, ‘drank cider on a Sunday’. The painting was both image and biography. It was AERO SALTA Y TETA

because it has a message; it sings because it has a voice.

AERO WOZ ERE. FUK U. X Memory is a stain, or a name repeated. Talk to me, oh toilet door!

Tell me of the multiple histories of this cubicle – political, immoral, romantic, musical!

X Park Hill in Sheffield: six blocks of flats, a Brutalist (failed) notion of Utopia, where no milk truck cruises the concrete skyways. On a second floor bridge between tower blocks are sprayed the words: CLARE MIDDLETON I LOVE YOU WILL YOU MARRY ME? On hundreds of boarded up front doors it says: Nothing of Value Remains In This Dwelling. The marginalia is the message.

X Somewhere else in the world is a landscape painting I saw once, a mist-dampened countryside valley.

Smudges of ditches, hills, snaking roads. But something about the piece was amiss, and, looking closer, I found, scratched into the paint (with a scalpel perhaps), tiny lines of text along

X So we use walls to spread the Word, to memorialise, to express the geysers of our hearts. FUK U. In Argentina, politicians pay folk to spray their campaign slogans across the district, because they know that word of mouth (of wall) is more powerful than any streetlamp poster. Too, folk stencil the names of their ‘disappeared’ so that nothing is forgotten. AERO. Walls of conspiracy; of abandonment; of love; of anger. KIRAN 4 EMMA. The message sprayed, the maker slinks away, out of the streetlight. It is a world of digressions and abandonments now, but the tag remains. TODO POR CRISTINA. TOMAS, TE AMO, PAPÁ. In a cave, ten thousand years ago, a woman or a man pressed a hand to a rock wall and left a reddish handprint in its place. DD WOZ ERE. Once, in a Catalan town, I saw a dog on a seventh floor balcony, barking at the sky. I am, I am, I am.

X Now, the gable ends of people’s houses sing a ballad of townfolk.

Youth, they say in these places, has nowhere to go but its own fantasies.

And in the cities the walls are alive with colour, lives crashing like waves over brick and plaster – tags, bombs, lustrous scenes from countless private worlds within walls. Folk tales breathe as you pass; ratmen, octopi, spaceships, birds immense, old heroes, cruel interiors, shady silhouettes, fights, faces, names, declarations. We contain multitudes.

X And on the street once, I overheard a girl ask her father: Daddy, do the buildings sleep like we sleep?

I suppose they do, love.

And what do they dream about?

I don’t know.

Maybe they dream about people, people walking around in them?

Maybe.

And people giving them their tattoos?

Maybe, love. I’m not really sure what you mean.

CATA, TE AMO / TOMAS, TE AMO PAPÁ AERO

Danny Denton is a writer from Cork. His first novel The Earlie King & the Kid in Yellow is published by Granta.

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Place of Hope

Places of Hope is an exhibition and series of activities that explores how we can shape the future of the Netherlands together. With the work of artists, science fiction films, studios and workshops, visitors are invited to discover the good life of tomorrow . The exhibition takes place in Leeuwarden, european capital of cultur 2018.

I got asked for this project to realise a fresco covering 50 meters of wall. Together with Non-Fiction, we came to the concept of a RGB illustration, inspired by artist couple Carnovsky. At first glance, the audience see a mix of 3 differents illustrations covering each others.

Through the use of some color filter glasses, they can apreciate each layers, corresponding to the present, the futur and a fictional aspect of the Netherlands.

For this exhibition I also realised graphics for a newspaper, a maze installation, a futuristic protest, and many more.

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NATURE Elephant grass, Godwitt, Seal, ottar, rats...

SDAC, Blue Energy Aflsuitdijk, Reduzum, Eems Dollard...

FUTURE

ALTOGETHER ALTOGETHER

Shell Pernis, Schipol Airport Bijlmer, Bonnema Tower...

PRESENT

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The signs were exhibitied during the show in the «discussion» room

Some old, actual and futuristic protest sign manifestation organised during the opening

Publication for the exhibition 12 projects by local «Landmakers»

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Nicolas Chuard is a swiss born artist (1988), currently living in Amsterdam.

First educated as illustrator in Geneva (CH), he graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam in the department DesignLab. He is now working as a freelance designer between the Netherlands and Switzerland.

You can contact him at nicolaschuard@hotmail.com or visit his website at www.nicolaschuard.com

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