Unfold is pleased to invite you to come and see Unfold/Recollected, a solo show at Gallery Valerie Traan in Antwerp, Belgium.

With RECOLLECTED, Unfold is showing its body of work from a different angle. The Antwerp-based design studio is best known for their conceptual installations that bring stories about new ways of making, manufacturing, appropriation and distributing in a digital age. The objects taking part in these installations - vases, tableware, jugs - are props used for telling the bigger story. But in UNFOLD/RECOLLECTED, these props become the protagonists. Arranged on a handful of custom made trays, the different objects are starting to connect to each other, new families are composed and other stories unfold.

Featuring projects in collaboration with Materialise, Charlie Stern, Barnabé Fillion, Lucas Maassen and Sons & Arthur Hoffner.

22.04.2016 - 05.06.2016
Opening drink: Friday April 22, 4-9pm

Gallery Valerie Traan
Reyndersstraat 12
2000 Antwerp, Belgium
valerietraan.be

For Milan Design Week 2016, the institutions that support and promote Belgian design have joined forces with the international contemporary culture magazine DAMN° to present Belgian Matters at Palazzo Litta: an exhibition featuring the results of pairings between 13 designers and companies from Belgium. Each project has been commissioned especially for the event and will be seen for the first time during the Salone.

Unfold collaborated with Materialise, an international leader in additive manufacturing or 3D printing. Called upon by diverse clients across the world, from industry to artists, it’s renowned for its software to operate 3D-printers. Unfold wanted to spotlight a hidden gem in Materialise’s arsenal by working with their eStage software, a solution to automatically generate so called support structures that are used in Stereolithography (curing liquid resin with a laser). These light weight geometric structures are normally printed together with the actual object in order to support it during the process, but removed afterwards and discarded as waste. 

Fascinated by their aesthetic inherent to the process -very utilitarian but also reminiscent of neo-gothic industrial architecture and the work of Bernd & Hilla Becher- Unfold turned things around and made them the distinct feature of a side-table and bowl. 

Simple shapes were fed into Materialise’s eStage software, the generated support structures subsequently 3D-printed and cast in bronze by Factum Arte, using a cutting edge process. The actual digital 3D designs that were used to generate the support structures were never printed. In turn they have been re-created in more traditional materials by means of glass blowing at Ajeto Glassworks and CNC wood milling by Modelmakerij Van Gerwen.

Skafaldo will be presented at the Milan Design Week 2016 as a part of Belgian Matters, an exhibition concept conceived by Siegrid Demyttenaere on behalf of DAMN° for Belgium is Design.
Belgian Matters takes part in the group event A Matter of Perception: Tradition & Technology at the Palazzo Litta.

A Matter of Perception: Tradition & Technology 
Palazzo Litta, Corso Magenta 24, Milan 
Open daily : 11am-9pm 
5 VIE late night: 13 April 6-11pm

belgiumisdesign.be/fuorisalone2016
damnmagazine.net/events/palazzo-litta

We are currently looking for a highly motivated, passionate intern to work with us on a range of new projects and products.

Period: September 2015 until December 2015 (minimum, longer can be agreed on).

We constantly experiment and push the boundary of existing techniques in our studio therefore we always look for interns with broad or multidisciplinary skills. These are the basics we look for in our interns:

Unfold is is thrilled to be nominated for a second time for the prestigious Designs of the Year award issued by Design Museum London! We're nominated with of Instruments and Archetypes in the Digital category, a project in collaboration with Kirschner3d & Penny Webb. In 2013 Unfold was nominated with Kiosk.

more info: Design Museum

It's official! We are extremely honoured to announce that Unfold has won the prestigious Henry van de Velde Award for Young Talent!

Design Flanders -the government organisation who promotes contemporary, high-quality and innovative design from Flanders- has been presenting the Henry van de Velde Awards and Labels since 1994. The Awards and Labels showcase role models from the design sector and present home-grown design to the general public.

We kindly invite you to come to the award ceremony and opening of the exhibition tonight jan. 9th in the BOZAR museum in Brussels. The exhibition features the largest overview of our work ever presented side by side and we've worked very hard to pull it all together. On display are l'Artisan Électronique, Stratigraphic Manufactury, The Peddler, Of Instruments and Archetypes, Kiosk, Utanalog and a few more.

Tamar Shafrir from Space Caviar has written an excellent essay for the catalog on Unfold's "conversations between the fields of physical making and digital form-giving," it's a great read.

We hope to see you tonight, show you our work and have a toast!

ps. if you plan to come, register first at henryvandevelde.be

What started as a minor update to get our website in line with the rest of Unfold's identity became a complete overhaul and rebuild. Just like the visual identity, the site was lovingly crafted by Indianen and coded by Wout. The new site might look familiar, we kept what worked well but tweaked a lot of things and added some major new sections which are now conveniently located in the top menu. 

Unfold was commissioned by publishing house Gestalten to edit a book on the creative potential of 3D Printing. Featuring over 100 projects from various artists, designers and makers, Printing Things explores a new wave of creative 3d printing applications facilitated by the unprecedented lowering of the barriers into production. Together with an understandable technical introduction into 3D-printing, Unfold has written eight key essays that delve into the complex topics that these paradigm-shifting technologies bring up: Empowerment, The Right to Copy, Interface and Interact, Body Topology, The Aesthetics of Complexity, Building Blocks, Exploring Machines and Materials & Crafting New Industries.

Editors: C. Warnier, D. Verbruggen (Unfold), S. Ehmann, R. Klanten
Format: 24 × 28 cm
Features: 256 pages, full color, hardcover
Language: English or German (Dinge Drucken)
ISBN: 978-3-89955-516-5
Catalog Price: €39.90 / $60.00 / £36.99

You can buy the book Printing Things at our own webshop, Gestalten, Amazon or your favorite bookstore.

Unfold is pleased to let you know that two of our projects l'Artisan Électronique (2010, together with Tim Knapen) and Brainwave Sofa (2009, together with Lucas Maassen) will be part of Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital at MAD, Museum of Arts and Design in New York. We are honored that both projects are being recognized by MAD as being amongst the 10 highlights of the show which features more than 100 works by renowned and upcoming artists, architects and designers.

Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital will explore the many areas of 21st-century creativity made possible by advanced methods of computer-assisted production known as digital fabrication. In today’s postdigital world, artists are using these means to achieve levels of expression never before possible – an explosive, unprecedented scope of artistic expression that extends from sculptural fantasy to functional beauty. Out of Hand will be the first major museum exhibition to examine this interdisciplinary trend through the pioneering works of more than 80 international artists, architects, and designers, including Ron Arad, Barry X Ball, Zaha Hadid, Stephen Jones, Anish Kapoor, Allan McCollum, Marc Newson, and Roxy Paine. Represented will be some of the most compelling creations from the past decade ranging from sculpture and furniture to fashion and transport.

Organized by MAD curator Ron Labaco, Out of Hand will be on view at MAD beginning fall 2013 (October 16, 2013 to July 6, 2014).