French designer Samy Rio has acquired the highest honour at this year’s Design Parade festival in Hyères for his products that incorporate bamboo.
Bambou hairdryer by Samy Rio
Rio’s Bambou collection utilizes bamboo cylinders as choices to tubes of plastic, forming sections of items such as the heads of hairdryers and bases for speakers.
Bambou hairdryer by Samy Rio
It earned him the Grand Prix for Design Parade ten on Sunday, as part of the yearly event hosted at the Villa Noailles arts centre in the south of France.
Bambou speakers by Samy Rio
He was selected by a jury headed by designer Pierre Charpin – who also designed an exhibition for Design and style Parade ten – and including Memphis print designer Nathalie Du Pasquier, Comme des Garcons production manager Jean-Marc Drut and last year’s Grand Prix winner Laura Couto Rosado.
Bambou speakers by Samy Rio
“Beyond a basic aesthetic option, we enjoy the mastery of presentation and methodical researches with regards to the material,” said the festival’s organisers in a statement. “The development process of diverse bamboo employs has been determinant for our decision.”
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Rio, who studied at Paris design college École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle (ENSCI), developed two hairdryers to show the material’s use. Whilst both use bamboo for the main body, one particular has a fixed handle and the other turns on automatically when its shaft is unfolded.
Etched controls on Samy Rio’s Bambou speakers
His periscope-shaped speakers also incorporate tubes of bamboo at the base, which is engraved with manage icons. Capacitive sensors that detect electrical pulses from the human body are positioned behind the controls, turning the tube into a touch-sensitive panel.
Both items are shaped employing a bespoke instrument: a personal computer numerically managed (CNC) milling machine mounted on an industrial lathe.
Samy Rio’s prototypes and material experiments with bamboo
Electronic components are stored inside the previously smooth interior of the dried bamboo tubes, which are sealed with an elastic polymer.
Max Frommeld and Arno Mathies’ folding sled
The jury’s Particular Award went to a folding sled designed by German-Swiss duo Max Frommeld and Arno Mathies.
Max Frommeld and Arno Mathies’ sled folded flat
Modern day plastic hinging is mixed with a conventional sled development to type the snow-skimming vehicle that folds flat, developed by the exact same designers who previously launched a collapsible boat.
A selection of Max Frommeld and Arno Mathies’ folding sleds
Frommeld and Mathies, who studied at London’s Royal University of Art, also obtained a Specific Mention from digital platform Eyes on Skills.
Christophe Machet’s roof tiles made from flip-flop soles
Christophe Machet’s Toiture undertaking, which uses recycled colourful flip-flop soles as roof tiles for short-term structures, was awarded the Public and City of Hyères Prize, although duo Els Woldhek and Georgi Manassiev won the Varois Cork – Special Award for their use of the natural materials.
Floter containers produced by Els Woldhek and Georgi Manassiev
Other designers nominated for this year’s awards integrated Ying Chang for her modular furniture technique based mostly on a two-dimensional grid, Marlène Huissoud for merchandise manufactured with the aid of insects, and Maxime Loiseau for streamlined headphones that transmit sound by way of printed electronics.
Els Woldhek and Georgi Manassiev Floter containers created from cork granules cast into Jesmonite
Design and style Parade 10 took area from 3 to five July 2015, with exhibitions of the perform at Villa Noailles continuing right up until 27 September.
Villa Noailles was designed by French Modernist architect Robert Mallet-Stevens and was built among 1924 and 1932. The centre hosts two other yearly festivals: The Worldwide Festival of Style and Photography in Hyères – which has been operating because 1986 – and the Pitchouns festival for youngsters, launched in 2011.
