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Salone Milan 2012 Preview: Superlative Student Work from SCAD at SaloneSatellite

By Ray Hu - April 10, 2012

in Furniture Design | Salone Milan | Lighting | Design Festivals

The Savannah College of Art and Design is pleased to announce that three of its Furniture & Industrial Design students will be exhibiting at the SaloneSatellite in Milan next week. "New work from SCAD students Bradley Bowers, Alejandro Figueredo and Matt Gray will be displayed in a dedicated exhibition at the internationally renowned design fair from April 17-22 in Milan, Italy."

B.F.A. industrial design alumnus Bradley Bowers, an M.A. furniture design candidate from Texas and Savannah, Georgia, will show his unique tabletop vase "Om," crafted of paper and latex. He will also show "Mona," a multi-purpose tabletop vessel, and his innovative lounge, "Shell," which creates a sense of true balance when used.

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B.F.A. industrial design student Alejandro Figueredo, from Caracas, Venezuela, will exhibit "Ligna," a tabletop lamp, and "Gira," a hanging lamp, from his lighting series that explores themes of balance and tension.

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M.F.A. furniture design candidate Matt Gray of Dallas, Texas, will exhibit two pieces, "Li," a low table intended to encourage a new type of dining experience, and "Ante," a series of wall-mounted antlers that seek to create a juxtaposition between the natural world and manufactured objects, that can be used as a rack or serve as artful décor.

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SCAD notes that "designs at the SaloneSatellite have been through a rigorous selection process and were chosen for inclusion by a committee of professionals from the fields of design, architecture and design media." Now in its 15th year, the SaloneSatellite focuses on designers under the age of 35—the three students will be exhibiting as design professionals under the moniker PLZ DONT TCH—with the timely 2012 theme of "Design ↔ Technology."

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Taylor

12 years ago

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Matt Gray,
I'm working at an architectural/design firm in Dallas specializing in hospitality called ForrestPerkins. We are starting a new retail project and I was browsing on core77 for inspiration for product display. I came across your "Ante" design and fell in love. I was shocked to see your picture! Congratulations on your work. You are awesome.
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Bradley L. Bowers

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DJ,

Dont stab out your eyes. Just loosen up and let go. There is more too it than crumpled up paper but I feel like you wanted to make a base-less poke at an idea you dont comprehend--so I will leave it at that.

Everything will be okay.
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DJ

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After countless hours fighting for curvature correctness, nominal wall thickness, draft cores, sink-reducing revisions, edge gap tolerances and mould flow - seeing a guy get praise for crumpled up paper just makes me want to stab my eyes out with my metric calipers.
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LIZZIE HARR

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YAY SCAD! Great work and congratulations lads! Really awesome seeing your projects on my Google Reader :)
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