Flummox Nearing Completion

The smallest [R]ed[U]x Lab team is finishing off the wiring components for the Flummox installation at The Pandemonium store at the 2016 Junction Toronto Design Offsite festival. It is going to be a late night but the kids always manage to pull through.
It is always great to see old veteran [R]ed[u]x lab members from fabricator to design leads on past projects.

The team decided to go with rewiring string lights to get the appropriate lengths to the nodes in the design. Rather than use soldering irons, the group went with the peel/heat shrink membrane to bridge the gaps between the intended pieces with relative ease.

Flummox: Making the Vinyl Units

Thanks to Farah for creating this little video documenting how the Flummox team crafted each vinyl record into a base piece for the tessellated surface. Clearly from this video, there is a great deal of time and energy spent into making a single element even with all the conveniences of digital fabrication at our disposal!

FLUMMOX: [R]ed[U]x Lab at the TODO 2016 in the Junction

Once again the [R]ed[U]x Lab team has the privilege to participate in the Toronto Design Offsite festival in the Junction. This year the team will be mounting a window installation in Pandemonium: New and Used Books, CDs, DVDs, & Vinyl. Here are a couple of early renderings as the design concept developed.

TODO: Opticianado Prototyping Commences

Given the complexity and ambition of the design for the TODO Festival, members of the [R]ed[U]x Lab began prototyping the components of the display for Opticianado. Unlike previous projects the group has worked on, this storefront installation must not compromise the retail program of the store. Rather than solely showcasing the art piece itself, the designers opted to create a visually engaging form that would serve as a matrix for parametrically-driven conical diffusers. Proving to be a spectacular piece both in and out of the storefront, the design reinforces the showcasing of eye wear.