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Whistle

2018
Artist/Maker
Big-Game (design studio)
École Cantonale D'art De Lausanne
Camile Blin (rendering designer)
Place of origin
Lausanne

BIG-GAME is a design studio created in 2004 by Elric Petit, Augustin Scott de Martinville and Grégoire Jeanmonod based in Lausanne, Switzerland. Petit studied Industrial Design at La Cambre in Brussels in 2003 while Martinville and Jeanmonod both studied at the Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL), graduating in 2005 and 2003 respectively. All three designers teach on the course at ECAL.

The 2018 ECAL Digital Market saw the creation of 45 3D printed objects by ECAL Product Design master’s students and ECAL-related designers (faculty members and alumni). A range of innovative everyday objects were presented at Milan Design Week at the Spazio Orso 16, a 17th century Milanese palazzo, which had been turned into a production site and retail shop. The project investigated the possibilities of production on demand, emphasising how fast turnover within the design industry could become, and experimenting with new design details that are too intricate to achieve with traditional manufacturing techniques.

Object details

Object type
Whistle
Materials and techniques
Printed on demand on Formlab printers.
Extruded Plastic
Printed
Brief description
3D printed Whistle
Physical description
3D printed whistle manufactured in black plastic with a smooth surface. The shape is straight with a rounded top and a circle cut out.
Dimensions
  • Length: 68mm
  • Width: 18mm
  • Height: 5mm
Gallery label
(2021)
Individuality in serial production

Although mass-manufacture requires easily-produced uniform parts, designers have found ways to introduce elements of individual expression to their products. In the 1990s, Dutch designer Hella Jongerius experimented with firing porcelain at very high temperatures to create a dinner service of infinitely irregular plates, bowls and beakers. More recently, the retail concept ECAL Digital Market has exploited the possibilities of 3D printing for serial production. There are over 40 designs that feature details that cannot be achieved in a single step in more conventional manufacture. The designs are available to buy on demand, or customers can purchase a digital file to print the products themselves.

Porcelain beakers, plates and bowl
B-set, 1997 (manufactured 1999–2009)
Designed by Hella Jongerius
Manufactured by Koninklijke Tichelaar Makkum, Netherlands
Porcelain Museum nos. C.142, 148, 149, 152-2009
Museum nos. C.134, 137, 139-2009: Given by Reino Liefkes

3D printer
Form 2, 2018
Designed and manufactured for Formlabs, USA
Plastic, metal and electronic components
Museum no. CD.63.1-2020

3D-printed objects
2018
Designed by Thilo Alex Brunner and Jörg Mettler (flint), Chelsea Park (comb), Miji Noh (scissors), Mu-Hau Kao and Oscar Estrada (trinket tray), Carolien Niebling and Olli Hirvonen (bracelet), Alexis Georgacopoulos (candle holder), ECAL/Ignacio Merino (shoehorn), Big-Game (Whistle) for ECAL, Switzerland
Printed resin
Museum nos. CD.26, 27, 32, 36, 49, 50, 53, 54-2020

The object sits in the 'Automation and Labour' section of the Design 1900-Now gallery opened in June 2021.
Summary
BIG-GAME is a design studio created in 2004 by Elric Petit, Augustin Scott de Martinville and Grégoire Jeanmonod based in Lausanne, Switzerland. Petit studied Industrial Design at La Cambre in Brussels in 2003 while Martinville and Jeanmonod both studied at the Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL), graduating in 2005 and 2003 respectively. All three designers teach on the course at ECAL.

The 2018 ECAL Digital Market saw the creation of 45 3D printed objects by ECAL Product Design master’s students and ECAL-related designers (faculty members and alumni). A range of innovative everyday objects were presented at Milan Design Week at the Spazio Orso 16, a 17th century Milanese palazzo, which had been turned into a production site and retail shop. The project investigated the possibilities of production on demand, emphasising how fast turnover within the design industry could become, and experimenting with new design details that are too intricate to achieve with traditional manufacturing techniques.
Collection
Design, Architecture and Digital Department
Accession number
CD.53-2020

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Record createdJune 24, 2021
Record URL
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