PREPARATIONS FOR THE LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL

We have been commissioned by London Design Festival to design an installation for the V&A Museum. With the great help of Polish Cultural Institute, we have started the process in June and we went through the first stage of prototyping! Information about all the stages of the development of this special commission will be published here. Our exhibition will involve the pond in the V&A's Madejski Garden. We want to use the flexibility of FiDU to multiply the arcs and to add some extra 3d to the pond. The forms will be one of the largest we have made in FiDU - therefore the 3d-making of the form is planned to be made on-site. We would also like everyone to see the process. It will be inflated on-site because the elements are too large but also because we want to test and develop the new method of transporting. The pieces are transported flat and rolled and then they are inflated to become fully valuable construction elements.

We call the new installation: BLOW&ROLL!

In coopertation with Polish Cultural Institute, London.

PLOPP STOOLS AT AUDI A7 PREMIERE

Our Plopp stools were guests on the newest Audi model premiere: A7. The show was organized in Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich. Design objects - Plopps among them - were used as an additional attraction being a combination of newest technology and extraordinary design. Along with the stools, we have shown the drafts of how Plopp stools were developed.

ZIETA PROZESSDESIGN AT MOSS GALLERY

Poetic License exhibition started in May, 2010 at Moss, 150 Greene street, NY, including design pieces of Prozessdesign: Plopps and Chippensteel chairs. It is the first large exhibition in the USA for us. You can find some open edition pieces as well as limited edition brass stools and brass/inox chairs.

http://www.mossonline.com/gallery-exec/display/poeticlicense_201005_exhibit

COPPER EDITIONS OF PLOPPS AND CHIPPENSTEEL AT DESIGN MIAMI/BASEL 2010.

PRESENTED BY KARENA SCHUESSLER'S GALLERY

Limited editions of Plopps stools and Chippensteel chairs made of copper are exhibited at Karena Schuessler's gallery in Berlin. This year they have been shown at Design Miami/Basel.

ZIETA PROZESSDESIGN AT DMY 2010

Zieta Prozessdesign and ETH Zurich prezented an exhibition showing the process of FiDU technology - experiments, projects, products. Sheet steel, laser cut, welded, inflated by air pressure. The exhibition spans several years of development from materials, prototypes, machinery, documentaries to applied and experimental results. The show is conceived as an ongoing work in progress featuring the entire range of FIDU applications and hands-on, on site production.

PLOPPS AT SAATCHI GALLERY

Beginning May 13th Plopp stools are shown at Saatchi Gallery, exhibited by Phillips de Pury. The exhibition previews on May 13th until May 17th and then continues through June and July. We warmly encourage everyone to visit the last floor of Saatchi Gallery, King's Road, London.

http://www.phillipsdepury.com//exhibitions.aspx?sn=EXSUKCON

PLOPPS IN SHANGHAI - EXPO 2010, ADDED VALUE. DESIGN FROM POLAND EXHIBITION

The exhibition in Shanghai shows the best products of Polish Designers in seven categories - nativeness, the potential of the industry, aesthetics, engineering, universal design, ergonomics, digital technologies. It takes place in the Polish pavilion, May 1-31.

Plopps were shown in two sizes - Mini and Standard and in two finishes - black lacquered which is an open edition and Teflon Gold, which is a limited edition of Plopp stool coated with shiny golden Teflon. Information about the whole Plopp Family is available here (click)

METAL(S), TOOLS GALERIE

For Tools Galerie, for 'METAL(S)' exhibition, we have prepared our chairs in different materials and technologies. Chair Chippensteel in Raw Lacquered Steel and in shiny INOX, chair 3+ Platte in Raw Lacquered Steel. Both designs are limited and unique - Chippensteel is produced only in 100 pieces (raw) and 50 pieces (INOX) and 3+ Platte was produced in 2008 as 2 pieces only.

http://www.toolsgalerie.com

ZIETA PROZESSDESIGN AT YOUNG CREATIVE POLAND, SALONE DEL MOBILE 2010, MILAN.

ZIETA PROZESSDESIGN AT YOUNG CREATIVE POLAND, SALONE DEL MOBILE 2010, MILAN.

Especially for Salone del Mobile di Milano, Zieta Prozessdesign has prepared some new design objects in FiDU technology. They will all be exhibited in La Triennale di Milano. The new products manifest the discovery process and the new possibilities of FiDU. The efficient mass production of a unique design in:

- different materials

- different shapes and sizes

- different systems

Creating new possibilities for architects, interior designers and whoever wishes to possess mass-individualized design.

Zieta Prozessdesign is a young Polish-Swiss company specialized in design in innovative, smart technologies. We started in 2007 and succeeded with a revolutionary design of a Plopp stool which became our icon.

The history of our projects began at the ETH Institute in Zurich, where Oskar Zieta has been working for several years as a research associate and a teaching assistant -discovering new methods for steel sheets’ utilization in design and architecture.

Today, we would like to present more uniquely-shaped products and experiments developed by us in innovative FiDU technology.

Their extraordinary inflated forms are nothing similar to what design objects were before -bringing unusual experience, great pleasure of use and discovering new possibilities in FiDU.

ARCHITONIC CONCEPT SPACE III ON IMM COLOGNE

The Architonic Pavilion has been designed and produced by Zieta Prozessdesign in FIDU technology. FIDU allows to:

- create unique and individualized forms and produce them cost-effectively;

- create light and efficient constructions;

- increase ecology and cost-efficiency of steel-objects production;

About brief

Design brief presented to us by Architonic and Messerli (logistics cooperating company) was very precise. It has precisely defined the modules of elements, the diversity of exhibition spaces and the assembly times. These parameters have defined our design line. Working on a concept, we began our experiments with a flat form of a rectangle. It has been deformed into a hyperbolic shape to bring a form of a tunnel. To increase stability and enhance the dynamic look of a form, the centre of a shape has been lowered. The final form has some characteristics of a form called hyperbole - a form which belongs to a group of a Non-Euclidean geometry. Basic research and analyses of these kinds of objects were undertaken in the beginning of XIX century by mathematicians: Janos Bolyai, Nikolai Ivanovitsch Lobatschevski and Carl Friedrich Gauss. Our basis to the conceptual work was a hyperbolic paraboloid.

About requirements

The elements of the Pavilion needed to fulfil many requirements. Installations like this have to be light and durable, easy to transport, easy to assembly and durable enough to maintain their quality during all the events, fairs and exhibitions. This is why we chose inox steel in its raw form – with no lacquer. The elements of the Pavilion have to fit to the dimensions limited by the exhibition spaces available during the festivals and design fairs.

About joints and a final form

The aim was to design a stabile, light and durable form with a load carrying capacity, taking advantage of the full potential of FIDU technology. To stabilize the conceptually-designed object, we had to prevent the movement in any axis in the joints. After experimenting with prototypes and a delicate re-conception we created elements which are called ‘the knots’. There are two kind of knots in every module - one on the inside of a module, formed by four bars, and one on the outside of module formed by three bars – a bar from an inside knot and two outside elements. These joints stabilize an object in all possible directions and simultaneously create an interesting space composition. They give a full 3d possibility to FIDU technology, or at least show one of the methods to reach it. High glossiness of Inox gives an interesting effect of light and the reflections of each element. It is a combination of a strong and durable construction and attractive relations between all the elements. Each single element of a construction is configured to stabilize and influence the appearance of the whole structure. There is a ‘chaotic parameter’, which creates a visually-attractive installation. The task of a chaotic parameter is to perturb the repeated pattern of a structure. Elements in each module can be positioned in different configuration and the inside knot can be re-positioned in x,y or z axis. This kind of experiments with a configuration gave a dynamic look to the structure. The pattern is still visible, but if the modules were put together in a different way, it would be gone. The most important step was to find the crucial relationships between single-elements, their joints, the modules and to set the final characteristics and positions of all the elements together and to create a highly-interesting visual effect of the whole structure.

About transport

One of the requirements known from the very beginning of the process was to make elements fit the standard cargo container. This requirement was fulfilled by enabling the modules to fit one another just like it is done with most of the common chairs. Putting one module into another gives high space-efficiency in transport and storage.

About packaging

Easy-to-scratch Inox surface needs to be handled with care and specially protected in transport. We used PE-foam of individually-calculated density, thickness and hardness – harder foam would scratch Inox, and softer would be less durable. The durability of the foam guarantees that it can be used many times.

MATERIAL BOOM

Our Plopps and FIDU bench can be found on an exhibition "Material Boom" in Cieszyn:

All the objects that surround us are made of of various materials. Some of them are made using nanotechnology. In the case of others, traditional craft solutions are very popular. Sometimes those two, seemingly contradictory worlds, are joined together. Glass, known to mankind for thousands of years, is continued to be produced by the same traditional method. However, at the same time, technological advances allows the production of glass fiber or glass sheet 0.03 mm thick. Materials can take many different faces in different products. Often we are unaware of how many designers’ and engineers’ creativity is required for solutions that appear to be simple, even obvious. The products displayed at the exhibition are the best proof of that. Objects from different countries around the world distinguish themselves not with an innovative approach to the material of which they are made, but also only take into account the requirements of sustainable development and the latest trends in design.

"Material boom!" exhibition is a subjective choice of materials and products. It allows us to see the surrounding reality in a completely new, "material" way. I would like to in the most interesting materials used in design and architecture. I hope it will encourage entrepreneurs to implement innovative solutions in Poland and thus increase competitiveness in an increasingly global market. I hope that the "Material boom” exhibition will be an experience for you. Curator: Katarzyna Pełka The project is co-financed by the European Union under the European Social Fund. Place:: Budynek Straży Granicznej, Zamkowa 1, Cieszyn

DIZAJN = DESIGN

Our products and prototypes can be found on dizajn = design exhibition in Polish Institute in Berlin until the 12th of February 2010! Please follow the news on:

http://berlin.polnischekultur.de/index.php?navi=013&id=344

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Berlin-Germany/dizajn-design/198229966275

MATERIALICA BEST OF MATERIAL AWARD 2009

For the processing method for sheet metal, FiDU makes consistent use of the potential of the material and liberties of laser welding and cutting in the field of forming. The deformation of the material results in a diversity of shapes that so far are not connected with sheet metal.

DMY BERLIN 2009

FiDU elements - rotors, Plopps, benches and Chippensteel chairs were shown on International Design Festival in Berlin in 2009.