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It's great to see ACID reporting on our client, Nomad and their recent success in the DME Awards 09. We get a little mention too - thanks Nomad, thanks ACID..... no one will get away with copying the MK1 - it's a one unique innovative design!
We've been long standing members of ACID (Anti-copying In Design) for many years because we believe in originality of ideas and we hate plagiarism with vengeance!
WonderCulture Designers Kiosk (Designers Market little bro) is happening next Thurs 3rd Dec and Thurs 10th. 12pm til 10pm. Designers, Christmas gifts & a fun creative-thinking activity. Nomad & Nest will be there with a stall.
We're up for another 48 Hour Challenge... Are you?
Design Up Your Street & the 48 hour Challenge is back by popular demand!
We're now scouting for anyone with an interest, experience, knowledge in design to contribute to the next issue #2. If you want to join this new dynamic design community and would like to be a contributor, a design writer, have something thought-provoking to say about design, a photographer or good with a camera then contact attic 2 by 19 Nov. In your own words you could inform and inspire the wider community from the general public to education, from private to public sectors. We're looking for design stories & pics, design news, design-led events, companies or organisations interested in funding a page to promote your own design stories in an issue and essentially anyone up for the 48 Hour Challenge. We also want you, the consumers and users of design to take part in our A Question Of Design feature.
Issue #2
We're still Talking Design in Wales, Design beyond Wales, Design in your Community, Design Up Your Street. We're sticking with the same inclusive 'design is for everyone', the community-spirit, the same fast, fun and focused approach. We're keeping features such as A Question of Design, Think Ark, Design Thinking and Design events calendar so we need to know what design stuff is happening and when.
New Stuff
Issue Theme - It'll be top secret until 7 days before the challenge! To keep it fresh, intriguing and in the spirit of the challenge this issue and future issues will be given a slightly ambiguous theme to provoke spontaneity and lively responses in design articles and features we publish. And to add to the challenge we will let you writers and contributors know what the theme 7 days before the publication production challenge starts.
Design Up OUR Street - yes, we need your street! We will be looking for interesting design stories up your street anywhere in the world from Llandeilo to Leeds, Mumbles to Melbourne, Bangor to Berlin. We may want to feature 6 neighbours with their favourite design objects or we may want to feature urban design up your street or cool design destinations or design events that may be happening up your street. We'd like this to be a regular feature so if there's design up your street then let us know. Help put your street on the design map.
Design Contributors
This is our Tribe of design writers and reporters who'll be writing about all sorts of design stuff. The exciting but scary thing about each Tribe of contributors selected for each issue is we won't have a clue what features or design topics they'll be sending us until just before our Edititorial deadline and that'll be up to the wire on the start of the 48 Hour Challenge. And how contributors interpret the Issue Theme is anyone's guess - it'll be their spin on design!
Community Partners & Issue Partners
There's no escaping. Design Up Your Street costs money to produce. But as much as we'd love to be in a position to fund it all ourselves, we're not. One thing we wanted to do from the start was produce an accessible free design publication for anyone to pick up, read and keep. We still believe this is the absolute right approach and this is where our partners come in to help the costs. We've 2 created Partner packages - Community Partner & Issue Partner. If you, your business or organisation would like a design voice and it's your voice the Design Up Your Street could be right up your street.
More
Design Up Your Street is evolving - that's the nature of the beast so keep an eye out for updates and more NEw Stuff we're planning on introducing into Issue #2.
For more info on Design Up Your Street, issue #2, being a contributor or a partner please call Lynsey or Ange on +44 (0) 29 2049 0498 or email info@attic2.co.uk
Congratulations to our client Nomad Wheelchairs for winning the Design Management Europe (DME) Award in Eindhoven recently. The guys at Nomad really pushed some design boundaries and it's great to see that their first-hand experience and commitment to employing design as an integral part of their business has been internationally recognised and rewarded. For a newly established business and brand with no experience of working with design the guys did a commendable job pulling 3 design studio's together to work on the MK1 wheelchair concept with attic 2 responsible for the design and development of the soft-seat system 'Wear', SDA studio for the design of the frame and chassis and Elfen for the marketing literature. We're proud to be a part of the team and a part of the Nomad community.
Project – Wheelchair ‘Wear’ Soft-seat system
Client – Nomad Wheelchairs
Designers – Angela Gidden & Lynsey Jackson 2008/09
Hot off the press & Out today! A free design publication created by the attic 2 Studio and some willing mates! Copies from the WonderCulture Designers Market at Chapter, Cardiff this weekend and various social venues around the City.
Design Up Your Street... where we talk design in Wales, design beyond Wales, design in your Community & Design Up Your Street.
Big thanks/diolch to all our helpers and contributers - the 48hr challenge was fast furious focused & FUN!
Hope you think its a good read. If so we'll do it again..... in 48hrs... or less!!
I'm still blaming Lynsey - it was her idea, she created the 'monster' as we say in the Studio!
Anyway, here's the plot so far - We're designer's, we thrive on deadlines so we've created one for ourselves and a few design mates. 2 days ago we set ourselves a really crazy challenge as part of the Cardiff Design Festival 09 celebrations.
The challenge was to create an 8 page tabloid size newspaper focused on the design scene in Wales..... All in 48 hrs ..... From sourcing articles, writing features, editing copy, collecting, compiling and taking photos, designing layout and style and of course coming up with the publication title.
So off to print it's gone and hot off the press will be Design Up Your Street where we talk Design in Wales, Design Beyond Wales, Design in your Community and Design Up Your Street.
Free publication out this weekend. Copies available from the WonderCulture Designers Market in Chapter, Cardiff and from other venues around the city.
Thanks to the Hoffi boys for advise and an extra MacBook, an extra pair of hands and some keen design eyes!
We're off to the launch of the Cardiff Design Festival 09 in the Senedd, home of the National Assembly for Wales here in the slightly chilly and grey Cardiff Bay! But who cares as it'll be all bright and buzzing with Welsh designers and creatives en mass. And the bonus - we get to see Nomad & Nest in the Festival Showcase as one of the companies shortlisted for a Cardiff Design Festival Award... but we have to wait until Monday 5th Oct for the awards announcement and celebrations! Everything crossed for a few more days then.
The shortlist for the Cardiff Design Festival 09 Awards has just been announced and attic 2's Studio collaboration with Hoffi for the design of the Nomad & Nest website is on the list! Damned marvelous! Cheers Judges. Glad you like our website... lets hope it wins! Looking forward to the awards night on the 5th October.
WonderCulture Schooltrip Task Tags and badges
Just love this large impressive timepiece by H Samuel under their brand name Everite. It's above the arched entrance to Cardiff Central Market which opened on the 8th May 1891 by the Marchioness of Bute.
Discovered a disco in Crockherbtown Lane (which I also dicovered!). Disco lights flashing at 4pm? I was intrigued but didn't go in. Leaves me wondering - Was anyone really on the dancefloor?
10Feet Tall..... just another favourite 'nest'!
We've been busy busy but not too busy to upload our photos from last Thursday's WonderCulture Schooltrip on Flickr. It was a terrific creative activity - pure free-flow, individually inventive and great to meet new people presenting different perspectives of the city centre. Everyone established their own documentary approach from the off. Lynsey went all random on us walking in the opposite direction to where she would normally go and opposite to the rest of us when she spotted us! My approach was way more controlled - walking a familiar route, identifying a street name, looking up, setting an horizon and capturing the architecture ignored just below the sky horizon - and I got that blue sky I love too! We proudly presented our souvenirs at the end - Lynsey did 'old' - a bag of good old fashioned chocolate limes bought from a sweet shop established a 114 years ago that none of us even knew existed. I did 'new' - I joined the new Cardiff Central Library and got my library card, a first in over 15 years ..... better late than never!
WonderCulture School Trip Cardiff on Flickr
Ange's WonderCulture Schooltrip on Flickr
Lynsey's WonderCulture Schooltrip on Flickr
3.9.09 3pm on the steps 3 hours to discover & capture 1 School photo on the Museum steps 2 key destinations to visit 1 souvenir collected 2 postcards of Cardiff - posted!
1 look up 1 look down 1 place you've never visited before 1 sketch of an interesting doorway
1 bottle of pop 1 packet of crisps 1 bar !! 15 visual perspectives per Tripper uploaded
1 Flickr WonderCulture Schooltrip Cardiff 09.09 pool 1 Flickr Cardiff Design Festival 09
2 Satchels packed!
TODAY - it's the WonderCulture Schooltrip in Cardiff and it' sunny!
We're involved in organising the trip for WonderCulture and the Cardiff Design Festival 09. A whole bunch of curious people with sketchbooks, camera's, pop and crisps will be meeting on the steps of the National Museum of Wales at 3pm today. As Cardiff city centre is changing with the urban redevelopment project nearing its final stages the WonderCulture Schooltrip is an opportunity to re-familiarise and grab a fresh perspective of the city in a fun and creative way.
DESIGN
attic 2 originals soft-seating catalogue 09 is our studio's signature upholstery collection and are designed in-house and made in Wales. Our ethos is to create furniture concepts of design excellence that are individual, distinctive, flexible, sustainable and timeless classics - what we call our 'modern antiques of the future'.
FUNCTION
All our products are designed with high flexibility and adaptability in mind, creating seating solutions for use in a wide spectrum of commercial and domestic environments - bars, clubs, hotels, leisure, receptions, TV sets, break-out areas, restaurants and exhibitions.
DETAIL
Without compromise, all our products are built to a high contract specification and are handmade with a high degree of craftsmanship ensuring immaculate attention to detail in materials and finishes at all times. Quality is paramount and we believe in designing and producing products to last a life time.
FUTURE-THINKING
All our products are designed and produced in line with our sustainable practices and our environmental policy Future-Thinking. We specifically adhere where possible to our 4 critical guidelines - Less Local Lasting and Love.
WANT ONE?
We'd love to hear from you so for contract, trade or direct retail sales please call us on +44 (0) 29 2049 0498 or contact sale@attic2.co.uk for more details of Originals including our pdf catalogue and prices.
Plan is a simple and well proportioned sofa range and chair. Specific to this design are the soft clean lines with compact proportions and footprint. The chair has been designed as a division of all the sofa units allowing it to behave in a more modular and flexible way. The contoured but slender arms ensure maximum seat area. Plan units can be grouped using imaginative layouts by mixing units, colours and textures to create graphically interesting layouts.
Designer - Angela Gidden 2002
Data -
Designed and made in Wales to high contract specification
Sofa 4+: w2640 x 680 x h755 mm
Sofa 3: w1980 x d680 x h755 mm
Sofa 2c: w1320 x d680 x h755 mm
Chair: w660 x d680 x h755mm
Plan Chair adapts well to to being used in a wide range of environments and is ideal for meeting areas, reception areas and spaces where a more formal linear configuration or a more intimate cluster is required. Shown in Divina wool felt from Kvadrat
Designer - Angela Gidden 2002
Data -
Designed and made in Wales to high contract specification
Chair: w660 x d680 x h755mm
Stretch offers users a low back flexible and informal solution to soft-seating within any contract or domestic environment. Stretch benches can cluster or meander in a strong graphic way creating a dynamic sociable landscape. Shown in Divina wool felt from Kvadrat
Designer - Angela Gidden 2001
Data -
Designed and made in Wales to high contract specification
2.0 Bench: w2000 x d980 x h570 mm
1.5 Bench: w1500 x d980 x h570 mm
1.0 Bench: w1000 x d980 x h570 mm
Stretch is designed to be a flexible sociable landscape of soft seating for use in any formal or informal workplace environment, bars, hotels or domestic interiors. Shown in Divina wool felt from Kvadrat
Designer - Angela Gidden 2001
Data -
Designed and made in Wales to high contract specification
2.5 Sofa: w2500 x d980 x h750 mm
2.0 Sofa: w2000 x d980 x h750 mm
2.0 Bench: w2000 x d980 x h570 mm
1.5 Bench: w1500 x d980 x h570 mm
1.0 Bench: w1000 x d980 x h570 mm
Chair: w1040 x d9800 x h 750mm
Stool: w500 x d390 x h 400mm
Caerdydd (Cardiff) is a classic retro styled chair designed as a complimentary accent to a mix of contract and domestic interiors from offices, bars, hotels, visual merchandise shop interiors to classic and contemporary homes. Shown in distressed leather
Designer - Angela Gidden 1998
Data -
Designed and made in Wales to high contract specification
3 seater Sofa: w1880 x d850 x h750 mm
2 seater Sofa: w1300 x d850 x h750 mm
Armchair: w850 x d850 x h 750mm
Modular and highly flexible modular seating created for relaxed social areas in the workplace or lounge bars and reception spaces.
Designer - Angela Gidden 2000
Data -
Designed and made in Wales to high contract specification
Slouch: w1910 x d900 x h740 mm
Bachelor: w1420 x d900 x h740 mm
Slab: w1040 x d900 x h 380mm
Model - Lola
Client - The Conran Shop - London, Paris, Japan, New York
Year - 2005
Designer - Angela Gidden
Model - Felix
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Model - Cennem
Client - Liberty of London
Year - 2007
Designer - Angela Gidden
The Cennen was launched during London Design Festival 2007 and remains part of their furniture collection on the infamous 4th Floor. Liberty commissioned Angela to design a soft informal but clean-lined sofa collection offering their customers a high quality timeless product.
Model - Pacino
Client - Habitat, Worldwide
Year - 1994
Designer - Angela Gidden
This is where it all began....
Here's some commercial facts we love about the Pacino -
Pacino launched in July 1994
Pacino was projected to sell around 220 units per week
Pacino was selling at a rate of over 340 units per week by week 4 after launch
Pacino was later selling at a rate of over 700 units per week by December 1994
Pacino was Habitat's best selling sofa range ever
Pacino was a key product in Habitats range for over 10 years
Pacino became Habitats longest selling product - second to the Chicken Brick introduced by Terrence Conran in the mid 1960's
Model - Cordoba
Model - Aquilla
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