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Meet the Future
Vel
Dorota Pakula vel Rutka (not shown) and
Karolina Chyziak (at lef) are graduates of the
industrial design program at Warsaw Academy
of Fine Arts in Poland. Together they have
formed a company called Vel. “In our projects,
we like to challenge the conventional ways
of thinking about the product,” they say. “We
believe that beautiful objects can’t be useless,
and that useful objects can’t be boring.” The
designers used colorful braided fabric-covered
cords wrapped on a simple metal frame to
create the UL lamp, which is illuminated by a 13-
wat E27 light source.
www.velhome.com
At the Berlin-based ofce of
FAMOS – Büro für Gestaltung, Hanna
Litwin and Romin Heide develop
solutions for diferent felds of design.
They take on commissioned work
(from single pieces to large-scale
production) as well as graphic or
product design. “We like to work
in between disciplines to create
new concepts,” they say. The duo is
comfortable working with two- or
three-dimensional designs in their
workshop or on the computer. Their
specialty is combining traditional
techniques with new materials and
modern processes. They presented
their Orb pendants at Light+Building.
www.buerofamos.com
FaMoS
august 2014 | enLIGHTenment Magazine 65
