Featured work and projects
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On 29, Nov 2015 | In Exhibition Studio projects & research | By admin
digital bamboo research collaboration
Artisans from Tasikmalaya and Garud in West Java have produced beautiful bamboo objects for many generations, yet sustaining these practices and a cohesive community faces increasing challenges from the movement of labour and enterprise from villages to cities as part of Indonesia’s ongoing modernisation. Digital Bamboo is a collaborative, practice-led research project that reflects upon these challenges and explores new ways of thinking and making in the 21st century, shaped by rapid changes to the social and material ecologies of making communities in Australia and Indonesia.
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On 06, Feb 2012 | In Studio projects & research | By admin
the cup suite – artist cup
The ‘Artists cup’, a commission by Manfredi Enterprises in 2004, connects the fields of painting, product design, computer modeling, printing and manufacturing. The collaboration between artist, designer and manufacturer was made possible through the development of an innovative trans dimensional printing process to map two-dimensional images to three-dimensional form.
The painting South Coast Cottages by Reg Mombassa (aka Chris O’Doherty) was transform into a ceramic decal using the new imaging technology, which was subsequently applied to the latte beaker. It was the first commercial application of the process developed by Rod Bamford for the Lindsay Vase conservation project.
The work exemplifies the potential of digital photogrammetric trans-dimensional printing to facilitate collaboration between visual artists, designers and manufacturers in a commercial environment. The ‘Artists cup’ was exhibited as part of the major exhibition ‘Smart Works”, at the Powerhouse Museum in 2007. This influential survey exhibition showcased the place and meaning of the ‘handmade’ in design and relationships between individuals and partnerships, nationally and internationally.
The Artist Cup Series :
Latte Beaker and Saucer for Manfredi Enterprises
Design : Roderick Bamford: 2004
Image Artwork : Reg Mombassa
Photograph courtesy Manfredi Enterprises
Published references
Smart works: design and the handmade, Grace Cochrane (ed), Sydney: Powerhouse Museum 2007. ISBN 9781863171229 (pbk.)
http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=350987
http://www.dhub.org/object/350987,mombassa
http://about.nsw.gov.au/collections/doc/the-artist-cup-collection-designed-by-roderick-bamford-and-reg-mombass/
http://byte.frostdesign.com.au/tag/espresso-di-manfredi/
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On 06, Feb 2012 | In Exhibition Studio projects & research | By admin
hyperclay: contemporary ceramics
HYPERCLAY: Contemporary Ceramics is a National Touring Exhibition surveying the work of 8 Australian artists selected for their experimental approach to the medium. The showcase highlights strategies that extend ceramics practice into new, unexpected territories and reflect re-imagined possibilities for the medium .
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On 25, Jan 2012 | In Exhibition Studio projects & research | By admin
the cup suite anniversary
2010 celebrates the 10th anniversary of Ceramica di Manfredi, Espresso di Manfredi and the Cup Suite. For the occasion, a special Anniversary issue of the suite was commissioned, with *Frost design developing a new dynamic branding for the recent Tazzalta mug and the Universal saucer.
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On 14, Jan 2012 | In Exhibition Studio projects & research | By admin
the cup suite
A set of 3 beakers, cup, mug and saucer in porcelain. The cup suite was designed for Manfredi Enterprises in 2000 and manufactured by Royal Thai Porcelain and Monno Ceramics, Bangladesh.
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On 12, Jan 2011 | In Exhibition Studio projects & research | By admin
gmloop
As the exchange of information in our everyday lives becomes increasingly digital, and interpersonal dialogues ‘televisual’, the experience of communication is mediated in a way that physical form becomes coded as image space. The GM ‘Loop’ series explores the reversal of this condition, the translation of an embodied aesthetic from digital information to physical object. The forms are created using computer modeled imagery and thematically informed by the genetic modification of organic forms of food. Read more…
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On 06, Feb 2010 | In Studio projects & research | By admin
‘sustain me : contemporary design’ exhibition
‘Sustain me : contemporary design’, an exhibition showcasing contemporary approaches to sustainable design was Curated by Rod Bamford & Liz Williamson. The exhibition was shown at the Ivan Dougherty Gallery, 30 July – 22 august 2009, and the catalogue remains accessible via the internet at http://sustainme.cofa.unsw.edu.au/