Erik Rosin
Erik Rosin, 25, Sweden
School: Beckmans College of Design
Department: Product & Interior Design
Specials: Strategic and Graphic Design
Design background
- 1 year of Art History at Södertörn University
- 1 year of Three-dimensional Design & Architecture at Nyckelviksskolan
- 3 years at Beckmans College of Design
Important lessons learned during your education
To listen, research, question, visualize, cooperate, create, inspire and work hard.
Did you do anything prior to your education to strengthen your skills and to get into your school?
I worked at a nine to five job in a store, which was a great way of getting motivation and energy to start studying. It also keeps you grounded.
Project title
Origami nemuro – Kami / Kuro / Fuji
Length of project
8 weeks
Concept
A sleeping place is often static in both its expression and function, even though the need for sleep is everything but static when you live together. One wants to read whilst the other wants to sleep. One rises early whilst the other has a lie-in. The soft module Kuro transforms the bed according to the user’s needs. Make a blackout, a headboard, a silencer or just a decoration of an unmade bed. The bed Kami has a bedding that is foldable according to needs and the bedside table Fuji has the shape of an extended tetrahedron. The shapes of the three units are inspired by origami, geometry and the golden ratio. The choice of materials, where life cycle thinking is central, is influenced by the Japanese philosophy Wabi-Sabi. What nature has created can be decomposed by nature.
Inspiration
Origami, geometry and Wabi-Sabi
Materials
Kami (bed) – Pine, latex, steel, cotton, wool, Valchromat
Kuro (module) – Latex, wool
Fuji (table) – Valchromat
Keywords for the visual design
I started out by folding paper, and wanted to transfer the fragility and angular form of it into full-scale interior.
How is your work process when you design?
I put a lot of focus on the research and concept making phase, being the phase where the crucial part lies whether a project will be taking responsibility and be an inspirational one.
Which part of the process is the hardest for you to work through?
Building stuff.
In your experience, are there specific skills that would be helpful to master?
Positivity, creativity, questioning and progressivism.
What are your strengths?
Researching, questioning, approaching people, asking for help, taking the initiative to cooperate, idea making, implementation on a strategical and organizational level.
What are your weaknesses?
Building stuff on my own. Often I don’t lack the knowledge on how to do it, just the motivation of actually doing it.
Do you turn to specific areas for inspiration in general?
Nature, humans, space.
Any designers you find inspirational?
- Nirvan Richter, architect, furniture designer and founder of Norrgavel.
- Zandra Ahl, glass and ceramics professor at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design.
- Mathilda Tham, professor in sustainability at Goldsmiths College in London and Beckmans College of Design.
Other students you find inspirational?
Many in general, no one in particular.
Is your work process based on a special approach towards design?
Yes, one where taking responsibility and creating inspiration is in focus. By taking responsibility I mean through an ecological, economical and humanistic point of view. I see the designer roll partly as a creator of long term strategic goals with the intention to create a sustainable world. Inspiration is one of the ways of getting there.
Do you have a dream scenario for you and your design in the future?
To be able to work with design both on a macro level as a strategy and on a micro level with interiors, furniture, products and graphic design.
Has it always been a dream to work with design?
No, I started this path unconsciously about nine years ago, and consciously about five years ago. Before I loved learning languages, and I saw myself working as an interpreter/translator.
Why did you choose this specific specialization?
Products, furniture, interiors and graphic design are things which are close to us in our daily life, hopefully they tell stories and you appreciate them for their function. I thought design had the possibility to change and inspire people in their daily life. Today I still believe this, but design has opened my eyes to the possibility of being a process which can be applied in much larger structural complexities.
Do you have any other projects you would like to highlight?
I am currently working with my Bachelor exam project, where I investigate how I can create a design process which is taking responsibility and is inspirational at the same time. My intention is then to transform the theory into practice, exhibiting four inspirational projects in the areas of furniture, product/service design, graphic design and film.
Where can we find more information about you?
Contact info
Erik Rosin Studio
Theory & practice
+46 73 969 85 55
Thanks for sharing in detail. Sport on furniture is necessary. you can also design customized design for your furniture.
designerfurniture1
June 10, 2011 at 07:48