.MGX receives two Good Design awards for 2008
Last year was the largest Good Design Awards program in history, and out of a record number of products considered, both the One_Shot.MGX and the Sequence.MGX emerged as winners for their cutting-edge designs.
The One_Shot.MGX (designed by Patrick Jouin for .MGX) is a foldable stool which is manufactured by selective laser sintering as one complete piece; the stool emerges from the machine in its final form, complete with hinges that are concealed by the graceful structure of the stool itself. By virtue of gravity combined with a simple twist, an array of rods transforms, in one flowing movement, into a small, useful, strong seat.
The Sequence.MGX (designed by One & Co. for .MGX) is half functional object and half sculpture. Also manufactured using selective laser sintering, the bowl's surface transforms from solid to loose chain mail and in doing so, represents the intersection of two generations of manufacturing processes.
Founded in 1950 by architects Eero Saarinen, Charles and Ray Eames, and Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., Good Design bestows international recognition upon designers and manufacturers for advancing new, visionary, and innovative product concepts, and for stretching the envelope beyond what is considered basic product and consumer design.
The Good Design Awards are conferred annually by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design together with the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
E-volution Launch in NYC
With some of the most important names in the art and design worlds present, including Frank Stella and Arik Levy, the new .MGX E-volution collection launched to great admiration at Moss in New York City on the evening of May 16th.
In addition to the latest pieces by Hani Rashid, Bathsheba Grossman, Luc Merx, Platform Studio, and Peter Jansen, hundreds of guests were thrilled by the innovative creations of Patrick Jouin (Solid collection), Amanda Levete, and Lars Spuybroek.
Together these pieces form the largest display of .MGX works ever assembled and as part of the '123' exhibition, will remain on display until June 27. We invite you to come and learn more about our prize winning creations, get a firsthand look at our new collection, and experience the magic of .MGX
Murray Moss said the following about the exhibition:
'Our exhibition, '1 2 3' , which opened during the ICFF week in May in our New York gallery and featured the collection .MGX by Materialise, was an extremely important step for Moss: an opportunity to present to the global design community - journalists, designers, gallerists, manufacturers, and architects - the core of the historic 'first generation' of end-user functional objects created through the new processes of Additive Layered Fabrication, or 3D printing.
As well as featuring earlier, now-iconic examples already in the permanent collections of many prominent museums, like Patrick Jouin's One Shot stool (2006)- the first object ever 'printed' fully articulated, with moving joints, in one piece, with no assembly - the exhibit was the debut for new 'organic' works born at the intersection of mathematics and nature and an almost anachronistic aesthetic embracing the Rococo and Art Nouveau, including Peter Jansen's 'Julia Light' and Luc Merx's 'Stucco Wall System'.
Like the ancient world's most important treasures, housed in the Royal Wunderkammers during Europe's golden Age of Reason, the artefacts produced by .MGX by Materialise are today's 'wonders': modern objects conceived by the human brain in tandem with the computer, and representing a true contemporary synthesis of art, science, and nature.'
.MGX works with innovative 3D printing techniques and some of the top designers, architects and artists from around the world to produce architectural models, art pieces and other custom projects, as well as a range of exceptional lighting objects, furniture, interior goods and accessories - all with a degree of detail, complexity and speed that cannot be offered by other production techniques.
Through the specific technologies of stereolithography and selective laser sintering, objects are brought to life primarily as single pieces, without joints or seams, through the principle of 'additive fabrication', whereby material is transformed from one state to another (liquid to solid or welding of material particles by laser beam). In most cases, .MGX creations would be impossible to produce using other manufacturing methods.
Recent .MGX collaborations have included projects with artists such as Frank Stella and Peter Jansen, as well as Asymptote, Future Systems, SOM, Foster & Partners, UN Studio and other leading architectural and design firms.
The .MGX line of design products is currently exported to over 20 countries worldwide; has received many awards, including two Red Dot Design Awards; is featured in numerous international museums, including the MoMA in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris; and regularly appears in top design and decor publications such as: Icon, Surface Magazine, Elle Decor and Vogue Living.
For further information on .MGX by Materialise, please contact:
Technologielaan 15 - 3001 Leuven T +32 16 39 66 11 +32 16 39 66 00
www.mgxbymaterialise.com info@mgxbymaterialise.com
The One_Shot.MGX (designed by Patrick Jouin for .MGX) is a foldable stool which is manufactured by selective laser sintering as one complete piece; the stool emerges from the machine in its final form, complete with hinges that are concealed by the graceful structure of the stool itself. By virtue of gravity combined with a simple twist, an array of rods transforms, in one flowing movement, into a small, useful, strong seat.
The Sequence.MGX (designed by One & Co. for .MGX) is half functional object and half sculpture. Also manufactured using selective laser sintering, the bowl's surface transforms from solid to loose chain mail and in doing so, represents the intersection of two generations of manufacturing processes.
Founded in 1950 by architects Eero Saarinen, Charles and Ray Eames, and Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., Good Design bestows international recognition upon designers and manufacturers for advancing new, visionary, and innovative product concepts, and for stretching the envelope beyond what is considered basic product and consumer design.
The Good Design Awards are conferred annually by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design together with the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
E-volution Launch in NYC
With some of the most important names in the art and design worlds present, including Frank Stella and Arik Levy, the new .MGX E-volution collection launched to great admiration at Moss in New York City on the evening of May 16th.
In addition to the latest pieces by Hani Rashid, Bathsheba Grossman, Luc Merx, Platform Studio, and Peter Jansen, hundreds of guests were thrilled by the innovative creations of Patrick Jouin (Solid collection), Amanda Levete, and Lars Spuybroek.
Together these pieces form the largest display of .MGX works ever assembled and as part of the '123' exhibition, will remain on display until June 27. We invite you to come and learn more about our prize winning creations, get a firsthand look at our new collection, and experience the magic of .MGX
Murray Moss said the following about the exhibition:
'Our exhibition, '1 2 3' , which opened during the ICFF week in May in our New York gallery and featured the collection .MGX by Materialise, was an extremely important step for Moss: an opportunity to present to the global design community - journalists, designers, gallerists, manufacturers, and architects - the core of the historic 'first generation' of end-user functional objects created through the new processes of Additive Layered Fabrication, or 3D printing.
As well as featuring earlier, now-iconic examples already in the permanent collections of many prominent museums, like Patrick Jouin's One Shot stool (2006)- the first object ever 'printed' fully articulated, with moving joints, in one piece, with no assembly - the exhibit was the debut for new 'organic' works born at the intersection of mathematics and nature and an almost anachronistic aesthetic embracing the Rococo and Art Nouveau, including Peter Jansen's 'Julia Light' and Luc Merx's 'Stucco Wall System'.
Like the ancient world's most important treasures, housed in the Royal Wunderkammers during Europe's golden Age of Reason, the artefacts produced by .MGX by Materialise are today's 'wonders': modern objects conceived by the human brain in tandem with the computer, and representing a true contemporary synthesis of art, science, and nature.'
.MGX works with innovative 3D printing techniques and some of the top designers, architects and artists from around the world to produce architectural models, art pieces and other custom projects, as well as a range of exceptional lighting objects, furniture, interior goods and accessories - all with a degree of detail, complexity and speed that cannot be offered by other production techniques.
Through the specific technologies of stereolithography and selective laser sintering, objects are brought to life primarily as single pieces, without joints or seams, through the principle of 'additive fabrication', whereby material is transformed from one state to another (liquid to solid or welding of material particles by laser beam). In most cases, .MGX creations would be impossible to produce using other manufacturing methods.
Recent .MGX collaborations have included projects with artists such as Frank Stella and Peter Jansen, as well as Asymptote, Future Systems, SOM, Foster & Partners, UN Studio and other leading architectural and design firms.
The .MGX line of design products is currently exported to over 20 countries worldwide; has received many awards, including two Red Dot Design Awards; is featured in numerous international museums, including the MoMA in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris; and regularly appears in top design and decor publications such as: Icon, Surface Magazine, Elle Decor and Vogue Living.
For further information on .MGX by Materialise, please contact:
Technologielaan 15 - 3001 Leuven T +32 16 39 66 11 +32 16 39 66 00
www.mgxbymaterialise.com info@mgxbymaterialise.com
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