For: Malmstens / Year: 2018 / Where: Lidingö
Design: Rickard Torstenfelt
Production: Carl Müller, John Funkquist, Victor af Wetterstedt, Gustav Larsson, Fredrik Höjer
Packaging design: Rickard Torstenfelt, Maria Sterner, Javier de Leon, Anders Gjertz
Renders / Photos / Sketches: Rickard Torstenfelt
Design: Rickard Torstenfelt
Production: Carl Müller, John Funkquist, Victor af Wetterstedt, Gustav Larsson, Fredrik Höjer
Packaging design: Rickard Torstenfelt, Maria Sterner, Javier de Leon, Anders Gjertz
Renders / Photos / Sketches: Rickard Torstenfelt
ABOUT
nik nak is the result of a project that takes place in the spring of the second year at Malmstens- skolan called "Tiny product". For three days, the cabinet maker students will produce 100 pieces of a small product designed by a furniture design student. The product will then serve as a small gift given away to guests that visit the school, lecturers or when representatives from the school travel around the globe. This particular year they choose to produce two "Tiny products" and nik nak was one of them.
nik nak is the result of a project that takes place in the spring of the second year at Malmstens- skolan called "Tiny product". For three days, the cabinet maker students will produce 100 pieces of a small product designed by a furniture design student. The product will then serve as a small gift given away to guests that visit the school, lecturers or when representatives from the school travel around the globe. This particular year they choose to produce two "Tiny products" and nik nak was one of them.
Since the product was supposed to be a gift to anyone I wanted to create something that felt
familiar yet no one could say they had or did need. I wanted to give it as many characteristics as possible for the user to connect to this seemingly non product on many levels.
familiar yet no one could say they had or did need. I wanted to give it as many characteristics as possible for the user to connect to this seemingly non product on many levels.
Visual with the movement, Audiell with the sounds of the movement
& Haptical with the raw sawn sides
& Haptical with the raw sawn sides
It's made in birch wood with a special cabinet making technique originated from Japan. By keeping track at each piece of wood when you saw it and them putting the same pieces together again but now hollow when you assemble the "box" an illusion is made that the piece is solid. And also the pieces will grow and shrink in the same way keeping it from cracking and breaking.
