THE GREAT KNOWLEDGE QUIZ - Duropal

… I SOMETHING!
STARTING BASIS
“Who says that laminates have to be made from
wood?” “develop innovative applications with HPL
as the surface finish. Perhaps there is a use for ‘soft’
objects and furniture.” “Bring together what belongs
together — but which nobody yet knows about!” With
all these questions and challenges, guest lecturer
Wolfgang Kreser sent out his seminar participants on
a voyage of discovery.
this required not only good ideas, but also successful
realisation. these began with small-scale
MATERIAL COCKTAILS
60 _ HPL World
experiments, the so-called ‘material cocktails’, continued
with works in more detail with “Little objects”
and finally resulted in large applications in the form
of situational furniture. over the course of the semester,
“… i know something!” became “… i can do that!”
and finally “… here it is!” and in fact, as the selected
examples show, the creative dedication was well
worthwhile. HPL has rarely been seen to be more
flexible.
in the first seminar phase, diligent research was carried out. the students thereby developed a feel for the
material. Cutting, scratching, gluing, bending, riveting, plaiting, drilling, stringing — everything that can and
cannot be done with HPL.
LITTLE OBJECTS
SEMESTER PROJECT AT THE
UNIVERSITY OF WISMAR
How does one learn creativity? With Duropal HPL in the trend colour Icy White (U 1027) and a clear goal. “Design
furniture and objects which demonstrate the versatility of the colour white at an exhibition presentation” was
the virtual task which the renowned Hamburg interior designer Wolfgang Kreser (formgold) gave to the students
of the Interior Design Faculty of the University of Wismar specialising in furniture and building components (Prof.
Achim Hack) at the start of the semester on 2.10.2008.
Above_ Material cocktails by Andrea Kirch
in order to refine the newly acquired feel for the material, small articles and implements were planned and
produced in the second phase of the seminar. a further step towards the ‘great’ creative design.
Above (from left)_ Little Objects by Dietrich Jax, Andrea Kirch, Dietrich Jax and Tim Niemann