He now leads the experiential department for Tinkah. He has designed articulated installations for international galleries, a bird sanctuary set within an agricultural landscape, an eco-sculpture on the backdrop of the Arabian Desert and a gallery space set within Jean Nouvel’s Institut du Monde Arabe. With a continuous thirst for challenges he has tackled many different sectors of design including retail design, industrial design and architecture. With clients such as Land Rover, Jaguar and Aston Martin - it was an opportunity to combine his love of a premium aesthetic with his passion for emotive environments. After 3 years at the BBC, Carlos focussed in on the field of experience design within the automotive sector at Imagination. His career started 10 years ago at the BBC, working up to Art Director level within film set design for various programs. It is this multi-functional ethos that we apply to our thinking.Ĭarlos Gris gained a BA honours degree in Architecture and a Masters commendation in Production Design at Kingston University, in South London. Tinkah are artists, designers, and artisans working towards culturally relevant solutions.The icon Tinkah, is a utilitarian tin container historically tailored for different purposes. Their wide scope of capabilities encourages us towards unique expressions and narratives. Tinkah is a multidisciplinary design firm. Following the path of the industry, which is based on a circular economy, their products are present today in more than 80 countries being part of the spaces we live in.įinsa’s commitment to design is present in the development of their products and processes, regularly holding design events and producing their own trendbooks.
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Continually learning from it, they incorporate many of its virtues into their organization its versatility, and strength as well as emotional closeness to people, and the comfort it brings to society.įinsa considers itself a part of the full natural cycle, taking care of both the raw material as well as the forest and environment. Since their beginnings, they have been ever-conscious of the responsibility of using wood as the base element to their products. They currently have a presence in over 80 countries and have been in the Middle East for over 28 years. With more than 80 years of history, Finsa has been a pioneer in the development of wood solutions for interior design and furniture in the Iberian Peninsula. While visitors interacted with the structure and objects, the sun will paint shadow patterns across the guests and surfaces within. This item requires you to find a place in Second Life (like a Sandbox) to unpack and use it. The reimagined partitions gave way to a peppering of creative products and furniture highlighting the vibrant colours found through the core of the Fibracolor material. Umbra Design Visit The Store Sold by: Giu Zeplin. Mashrabiyas’ geometric perforations enabled occupants to observe activity without themselves being visible, and simultaneously prevents the sun from overheating homes by limiting the light allowed in while still inviting a breeze. The Mashrabiya, an element of traditional Middle Eastern architecture, was historically used as a window or spatial partition.
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Through its unforeseeable nature, Umbra evolves according to its own system and questions our relationship with time in our living spaces.An immersive design installation that invited audiences to explore the interplay of shadow and light cast through a series of colourful architectural grids, drawing inspiration from the Mashrabiya.Ĭreated by Finsa, a pioneer in the manufacturing of particleboard and MDF, the project was entirely composed of their innovative material Fibracolour fully pigmented particleboard, for the first time in collaboration with Tinkah, a UAE/UK design firm, who have imagined this material into geometric lattices forming the entry into Dubai Design Week. At the same time and by inversion, it also reflects the light on the ceiling.ĭriven by a random sequence, the «effect» of the eclipse always arises at different moments as the rotation time varies from one cycle to another and can be achieved in ten minutes as well as an hour.
When the mobile begins its course, the hand-hammered aluminum disk moves under the lamp, temporarily obscuring the beam of light and creating a shadow on the ground. In an age where the possibilities of control and command over objects reign and multiply, how can Design – on the contrary – trigger wonder and invite the unpredictable into everyday life?īy its kinetics, the object produces both shadow and light.
The manifestation of chance is thus at the heart of Umbra’s conceptual approach. Even if today we still experience and contemplate the total eclipse as a true spectacle, the exact prediction of when and where it will happen dissipates the effect of this unexpected surprise.
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