Technology
Experiments on 3D-surface
This month we experiment with a new 3D support in our material library – Bamboo P
This month we experiment with a new 3D support in our material library – Bamboo P
Maison & Objet, the self-confessed international authority for home decor, interior design, architecture, and lifestyle culture and trends breezed through Paris again for it’s January edition. With over 3000 exhibitors, it was a fascinating whirlwind of creativity and inspiration!
We focus above on three main trends that struck us in the salon, Recycling, Cardboard & Paper, and Textured Walls, and highlight below some technological developments that caught our eye.
In the Recycling
In the Cardboard & Paper trend, the work of French artist Marie-Anne Thieffry was an astonishing use of layered cardboard, carved into beautiful spherical lights and figurative busts. Molo Designs from Canada showcased their unique structures in folded paper and cardboard, flexible wall partitions, seating and lights that can be adapted to any space, and reconfigured with ease. A perfect product for the modern city apartment.
Textured Walls were everywhere, giving a new dimension to any interior: we particularly liked Portugal’s Burel Factory, a historical wool manufacturer, who create intricate hand finished wall coverings in finest wool. They are used in hospitality for their acoustic and thermal properties, and they add a touch of luxury to
We can’t wait for the September edition of Maison et Objet, it is sure to continue to inspire us in ways we can’t even imagine.
Dans le procédé habituel de sérigraphie pailletée, les paillettes sont d’abord mélangées à un vernis transparent qui les enrobe puis imprimées sur le support. De ce fait, la réflexion purement “métallique” de la paillette est remplacée par une réflexion “plastique” dont l’effet est notoirement moins intéressant : le scintillement est comme noyé dans le vernis et la taille des paillettes est limitée par la trame de sérigraphie. Grâce au procédé exclusif d’American Supply, nous restituons le pouvoir réfléchissant dans son intégralité, il est de plus sublimé par la taille et la disposition anarchique des paillettes sur leur support, renvoyant un éclat métallique chatoyant dans toutes les directions.
Avec ce nouveau développement, le Creative-Techno-Lab d’American Supply est la seule équipe en Europe capable de réaliser ces projections placées d’une large gamme de glitter sur des supports les plus variés mesurant jusqu’à 250cm par 140cm de laize. Pour l’exemple ci-dessus, nous avons projeté un mix de large paillette Hexa selon un motif de gros flocons de neige sur notre velours Deep Blue luxury.
Cette technique peut être appliquée à de nombreux projets en mode, décoration et merchandising visuel. Imaginez ce que vous pourriez réaliser avec ce nouveau procédé de projection grand format pour une vitrine événementielle.
Durant toute l’année, nous travaillons sur des développements matière pour vous présenter les innovations à la pointe de la technologie et en amont des tendances émergentes. Pour cette saison, nous avons mis au point un nouveau procédé d’Impression/Projection de paillettes sur Très Grand Format, ce sera notre dossier TECHNOLOGIES du mois. Ces applications sont nombreuses et épatantes, et ne se limitent pas à la période des fêtes.
Si vous souhaitez vous informer sur ces matériaux et recevoir quelques échantillons, merci de formuler votre demande par e-mail avec la référence du produit concerné. Vous pourrez aussi naviguer parmi une sélection de nos matières préférées.
Winter is falling with the first snowflakes, bringing the early morning frost, and the inimitable Christmas windows. We took a walk around our hometown Paris to bring you a curated selection of our favorites so far.
We work on material developments throughout the year to bring you cutting-edge materials and update our existing classics, and Christmas is one of our busiest times. This season, among many new developments, we developed the Large-Scale Glitter Projection Printing process that is our TECHNOLOGY story this month, which can be used for many seasonal and non-seasonal applications, take a look here.
Morning frost is one of the earliest signs of the arrival of Winter, bringing with it the promise of cozy nights, and hot cocoa in front of an open fire. It was a popular sentiment that ran through requests for Christmas 2018, alongside the more traditional snow effect materials, as people searched for more technical representations of frost. American Supply's Creative-Techno-Lab worked on mood boards to highlight this trend from January 2018, pinpointing the materials we have that best represented it, and gathering new materials with this in mind.
If you would like to inquire into any of these materials and receive samples, please contact us giving the material reference, or feel free to browse MATERIALS for a curated selection of some of our favorites.The usual process for screen printing with glitter requires the glitter to be mixed with a transparent varnish that saturates it before it is printed on the surface. With this method the metallic appearance of the glitter is lost and replaced with a more plastic reflection, making the effect less interesting: the glistening metal is not only drowned in the varnish, but the size of the glitter is also limited by the weave in the silkscreen. With our new exclusive development, we give back to the glitter its glistening potential and elevate it with the ability to vary particle size and allow a more anarchic placement on the surface, letting it shine in all directions.
American Supply’s Creative-Techno-Lab is the only team in Europe that can achieve Large-Scale Glitter Projection Printing of 140cm wide by 250cm long in a wide range of Glitter references and in any custom design. For the example shown above, we projected a custom Large Hexa Glitter in a Snowfall design, printed on our Deep Blue luxury velvet.
This technique can be applied to a wide range of fashion, design, and visual merchandising applications. Imagine what you could achieve with this new large-scale format.
American Supply continues to push the material boundaries both technically and creatively with our in-house expertise.
Credit Photo: American Supply
The Duo dubbed design duo Legrand Jäger came from the United States. The material they had was “Nettuno” in the color skin.
From Legrand Jäger:
Le Confident
Facial Recognition Emotion (FER) software interface The Confident or head-to-head is an archetypal design object, originally from XIX century, that uniquely embodies communication. Often thought of as a seat for gossip, its sitters are uniquely located for intimate conversation. In Legrand Jäger’s recalibrated version of the seat, our culture of quantification and gamification informs the object’s design both stylistically and functionally. Based on a personal understanding of gaming seat consoles, a personal face recognition (FER) software interface between the conversation partners, emotional feedback, live monitoring, during their exchange. Only seven human emotions are universally identified by such devices, enough for efficient profiling according to specialists.
A special thanks to IKSV and Hayung-Ok Park for production and Adjmal Sarwary from Mind Trace for customizing his emotion tracking software. – Website: www.studiolegrandjager.com
Credit Photo: Legrand Jäger (https://studiolegrandjager.com/projects)
Ramy Fischler’s, RF Studio came to American Supply researching a specific material for The Agora showcase at Maison & Objet. The team chose our material “Billy” in the Mysterious Forest colorway out of our vast index of more than 10,000 material references.
The material is a fire resistant complex of PET over MDF wood. In this particular circumstance, it was laminated on boards of 3m by 0.6m, enabling the perfect flatness for the support, essential to preserve the iridescent and metallic qualities unique to the product. Billy was originally intended for the fashion industry and exists in a wide range of colors.
American Supply is renowned for its ability to re-contextualize materials and their intended applications taking them out of their original industrial function, to a broader creative utilization, discovering and unlocking their inherent potential.
Since 1948, American Supply has conceived, developed and produced a range of more than 10,000 materials that are renowned for their originality and personality. Our mission is to put these materials into the hands of luxury brands, in the heart of their creations, their products, their points of sale and their identities.
American Supply creates and implements the materials sought by brands to unlock their creativity and reinforce their Lovebrand status. Attraction, obsession, and brand dedication are born through our expertly realized productions and sensorial material solutions. They feed the customers desire, sustaining the experience in a way that seamlessly re-invents itself.
American Supply works side by side with its clients to provide material solutions that embody their creative briefs and vision, respecting and preserving their brand’s unique DNA.