Design Thinking Group Show

Design Thinking is Design Doing Group Show

The Opening is on Saturday, March 20th

New Project - Corian Shutters

This was a project I completed in an apartment in Woodside, Queens last month. The shutters are made from Corian which are milled with a very simple pattern and a handle under the panels so you don't need any hardware. The bedrooms in this apartment are very sunny in the mornings, and these shutters do the job in keeping direct sunlight out. And they aren't too heavy and dark, like they would be if they had been made of wood.

The Show Continues

on the second floor at http://www.christopherhenrygallery.com

Screens available

We are currently looking for a home for the two screens that we created for Bklyn Designs: The White Screens and The Weave Screen. Please let us know at info@leventandromme.com if you know of a suitable home for our pieces.

Rolling into BKLYN Designs

After setting up our booth at BKLYN designs yesterday - which included rolling the Weave Screen through the streets in Dumbo after the rain finally stopped - we had a great day at St. Annes Warehouse today. Thank you to everyone who came by and looked at our work.

We will be at BKLYN Designs all of this weekend.

New Screen Wall

New Screen Wall

Our most recent piece, a wall consisting of two screens weaving in and out of each other, has now been assembled.
The images above show it in its raw state (MDF) before being painted.

White Screens

The white polyethylene screens are being cleaned up, hole by hole. Drilling the holes on the CNC-router turned out to be only half of the work done...

Box Theater Project

Three screens milled

15,000

New Project:

I've recently been working on a new adventure with a computer scientist, Baris Yuksel, in creating a series of installations based on my drawings (you can find the originals in this blog). Using Processing 1.0 and Rhino, we've been trying to design a spatial experience, a galaxy, which comes together at certain points to create patterns. The installation will be interactive, but with what variables, we haven't yet decided. We are at the very earliest stages of this project so hopefully it gets more interesting as it develops. These are the first renderings we came out with. What you see is amazing, because each little cube signifies the computer recognizing the underlying structure of my dots. There are approximately 15,000 dots in this particualar drawing.

Prototypes

Polyethylene, CNC-milled, 2'x8'

Screen Wall - Time To Design New Talent Award 2008

Screen Wall, 3' x 10.5', height: 6.5' , alder wood, 2008

Box Theater Project - "The Panels"

Panel 1
dim: 24"x96"
mat: polyethylene

Panel 2
dim: 24"x96"
mat: polyethylene

The following are two screens that have been completed. We had a great debate on whether or not we should use 1/8" holes. Panel 1 has them; Panel 2 does not. When we went ahead with it, it did end up adding another seven hours to the process. But it makes quite a difference when viewed in person. Panel 2 took only two weekends to complete while Panel 1 took three.


We found the material in a plastics lumberyard outside of Pennsylvania. They had been sitting outside, by the river, and from time to time the river had flooded over them them. There was algae growing on some of them, and they smelled awful.

Screen Wall - Time To Design New Talent Award 2008

In September 2008 I won the Time To Design - New Talent Award, which allowed me to work for three months at the National Workshops for Arts and Craft in Copenhagen, Denmark. While many of our other projects use CNC-milling to achieve porosity, this project is based entirely on old-school wood-working techniques and details. More than 1500 blocks of wood were cut on a band saw, glued together four and four, sanded and routed, and finally assembled in a double-layered screen wall. The wall measures 10.5’x3.5’, with a height of 6.5’, and is made of alder wood.

Box Theater Project - Working Drawings

Box Theater Project - Introduction

I am going to show some photos of a project we are currently working on; we have long been developing this path, both on our own and together. And within the last year we decided to join forces, as two heads are always better than one. This is an ongoing project in which we are experimenting in many different directions and mediums. Inspired by geometric designs and the way they convey effects of rhythm and celestial atmosphere, we sought to re-implement texture and decoration into contemporary architectural space. Geometric patterns, because of their repetitive characteristics, have always lent themselves to mass production especially in textiles, fabrics and various other surface treatments. It started with a study of hand drilled material in comparison to machine and computer drilled material, and understanding the characteristics of the computerized milling system as an equally disciplined tool.

We began to experiment with various types of materials, no longer just different types of wood, but materials that coordinate well with the machine. The material we are using for this project is called Polyethylene, a plastic used in products such as the plastic shopping bag. The panels themselves are very translucent and the material tends to have a wax like quality which makes them particularly friendly to mill.