Now you can buy DFTS Factory products in Maastrich. Visit Conflict at Minckelersstraat 14, 6211 GX, Maastricht, NETHERLANDS.

Conflict is located in the historical centre of Maastricht. The shop sells contemporary furniture, home accessories and designer gift items. The collection has a slight focus on Dutch Design. Featuring both designerlabels and self- producing designers. The range is completed with some outstanding ‘foreign’ designs.

NYC based magazine Surface featured the 3D printed bracelet Torus by Claesson Koivisto Rune.

This is what they wrote:
Swedish design trio Claesson Koivisto Rune (CKR) has fallen in love with selective laser sintering. The affair began last year when Belgium-based manufacturer Zigg Zagg pro- duced their Leaf cellphone prototype for Huawei by using the laser-powered process. When Stockholm-based manufacturer DFTS Factory asked CKR to create something wearable, they returned to the technique, curious to see if it could be used to fabricate a limited-edition bracelet. It could—but the job wasn’t easy. Constructing a single Torus

bracelet takes four hours and begins with sintering 2,208 min- iscule polyamide-powder links via three lasers to form a solid material through a 3-D rendered computer file. Eero Koivisto, who describes the structure as “basi- cally a tube of links creating another tube,” says the architec- tural result is a lightweight, geo- metric bangle that feels “like a hard textile.”—Brigette Brown

Here’s the events DFTS Factory will be taking part in during this years designweek in Milan. Bar Basso, Heineken, Pesha Kusha and pretty girls.

The Last Ashtray x Bar Basso – 2012.04.18 – 2012.04.21
Get the chance to see and use The Last Ashtray designed by Richard Hutten. TLA will be used at Bar basso throughout the week. How to get there: Via Plinio 39

DFTS Factory x Pecha Kucha – 2012.04.19 – 5pm-7.30pm
PechaKucha founders and old DFTS friends; Klein Dytham Architects have teamed up with Heineken to create a temporary club space that will run for three days. The good people at Svensk Form is co-hosting the night on the 19th and invited DFTS Factory to do a speech. How to get there: Heineken Design Club, in Zona Tortona, at the intersection of Via Bugatti and Via Forcella.

Torus x Girl
Claesson Koivisto Rune’s 3D printed braclet Torus will also be present throughout the week on the wrist of a beautiful girl that will go pretty much where we’re going, catch us to get a glimpse of this high- tech piece of jewelry. How to get there: You don’t, we come to you. Send a good invite.

The bracelet “Torus” designed by Claesson Koivisto Rune will be exhibited at Material ConneXion in New York from 28th Feb to 11th of May. 

Print/3D An Exhibit of Works of Additive Manufacturing (AM) from Industrial Design to Architecture

February 28th – May 11th, 2012 / Material ConneXion, New York:
Material ConneXion presents a new exhibition, Print/3D, featuring the latest 3D-printed objects and designs from an array of artists, designers and manufacturers. Advancements in additive manufacturing (AM) are spurring a paradigm shift in digital design and production that is impacting disciplines from industrial design to the art world. New technologies are making it possible to more rapidly and cost effectively produce prototypes, as well as make final quality pieces such as jewelry and objets d’art. Initially using mostly polyamide or nylon, 3D printers are now utilizing materials from clay to glass providing designers with far broader possibilities and creating new markets for direct-to-consumer sales. “From relatively humble beginnings, additive manufacturing has rapidly become one of the most innovative new methods of production,” said Dr. Andrew Dent, who heads up research for Material ConneXion’s library. “The advances in material types and combinations, AM methods and the constantly increasing process speeds demonstrate a technology that will continue to push the boundaries of what is possible. It has the potential to completely change the way we make everything,” he added.

Print/3D will show a wide range of 3D printed pieces from the fields of furniture, fashion, jewelry, medicine and product design. An on-site installation of a Makerbot printer will live print from scanned CAD files. Shapeways, Bespoke, .MGX by Materialise, Studio Dror, LGM and ElasticBrand among others, have all supplied examples of works to explore in this fascinating exhibit. Print/3D shows how technology, creativity and imagination combine to push the boundaries of 3D printing today.

Print/3D runs at Material ConneXion, 60 Madison Avenue, 2nd floor, New York, NY from February 28th to May 11th, 2012. An opening reception will take place on Tuesday, February 28th from 6.00 – 8.00pm.

About Material ConneXion:

Material ConneXion (a Sandow company) is a global materials and innovation consultancy that helps companies create the products and services of tomorrow through smart materials and design thinking. Focused on delivering Innovation That Matters™, Material ConneXion is the trusted advisor to Fortune 500s, and any forward-thinking company or government agency seeking a creative, competitive, or sustainable edge. With offices in New York, Milan, Cologne, Bangkok, Seoul, Daegu, Istanbul, Beijing and Shanghai, Material ConneXion’s international network of specialists provides a global, cross-industry perspective on materials, design, new product development, sustainability and innovation. Material ConneXion maintains the world’s largest subscription-based Materials Library of innovative materials and processes—an indispensable asset to a wide audience of users. Its sister company, Culture & Commerce, represents the world’s leading designers including Philippe Starck and Marcel Wanders, in licensing their groundbreaking new products. For more information, visit www.materialconnexion.com.

For more information please contact:

Contact: Susan Towers, VP Marketing & Communications
Material ConneXion
stowers@materialconnexion.com
T. (+1) 212 842 1509

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Torus is a new bracelet for women designed by Claesson Koivisto Rune and produced by DFTS Factory.

Its probably safe to say that Claesson Koivisto Rune is the most interesting design and architec- ture firm working from Sweden today and definitely its most prolific. “Always modern, always inno- vative, always fresh. That’s how we think of Claesson Koivisto Rune, it doesn’t matter if they’re making a house or a paperclip,” says Gustaf Kjellin, ceo and co-founder of DFTS Factory. Yet it’s not this which drew DFTS Factory to the company for a collaboration. “They’re a lot like us. They’ve got their eyes open, a real keenness to know what is happening in popular culture, music and tapping into that for inspiration. They’re like adult youngsters with a hunger for the new,” explains Andreas Aaltonen, co-counder DFTS Factory.

Claesson Koivisto Rune holds a deep respect for the traditional handicraft so etched in Swedish culture but blends this with a fervent appetite for the most cutting edge techniques in the industry and it’s this element which has been important in making Torus. “Through modern 3D manufactur- ing and selective laser sintering (SLS), new shapes are possible. Shapes that cannot be made either by conventional machines or traditional handicraft. Torus is such a shape. The torus can be described as a surface of revolution generated by revolving a circle in three dimensional space about an axis coplanar with the circle. It is now also the name of a bracelet.” Claesson Koivisto Rune, architects and designers.

Torus is built solely out of 2208 individually loose plastic links that together form the shape of
the bracelet. The whole process of making one bracelet takes four hours. With precision made distances between the links, the bracelet feels like something that can only be described as textile fabric. With Torus, Claesson Koivisto Rune has pushed the boundaries for what is possible within the SLS manufacturing technique. It is a bracelet that perfectly shows the infiltration of architec- tural construction into fashion and visa versa. A bracelet that couldn’t have been made any day sooner than right now and with the feel and look of how the future might be.

Mail info@dftsfactory.se for further information. High res images from www.dftsfactory.se/press

Andreas Aaltonen
+46 (0)763 05 28 85 andreas@dftsfactory.se

Gustaf Kjellin
+46 (0)735 71 06 74 gustaf@dftsfactory.se

Notes to Editors:

Claesson Koivisto Rune is one of the most internationally acclaimed Swedish architect and design studios. Like Scandinavian masters before them, such as Aalto or Jacobsen, Claesson Koivisto Rune practise both architecture and design. The company’s work includes architecture, furniture, interior and product design, for such clients as Asplund, Cappellini, David design, E&Y, Iittala and Offecct.

Selective laser sintering (SLS) is an additive manufacturing technique that uses a high power laser to fuse small particles of plastic, metal, ceramic or glass powders into a mass that has a desired 3-dimensional shape. The laser selectively fuses powdered material by scanning cross-sections generated from a 3-D digital description of the part (for example from a cad file) on the surface of a powder bed. After each cross-section is scanned, the powder bed is lowered by one layer thickness, a new layer of material is applied on top, and the process is repeated until the part is completed.

During Stockholm Design Week 8 February 2012 we invited our friends to celebrate our two new releases with us, Claesson Koivisto Rune and Richard Hutten. We had a fantastic time, good beer from Bavaria, good music as always from DJ Camillo and good camera work from Country. Also thank you to The Jens for the photos and Ziggy for the artwork on the walls.

Richard Hutten putting out his last cigarette in “The Last Ashtray”

Dj Camilo at the wheels of steel

Mårten and Eero getting interviewed by Country

Mårten and Ziggy admiring Ziggy’s artwork for “Torus”

Friends at the release of Torus by Claesson Koivisto Rune and The Last Ashtray by Richard Hutten

Cap (illuminated)

Dj Camilo admiring The Jens photographs

Richard Hutten getting interviewed by Country

For the Torus bracelet by Claesson Koivisto Rune we asked Swedish graffiti-legend Ziggy to make an illustration for the campaign, this is the artwork.

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The Last Ashtray by Richard Hutten for DFTS Factory

Since the inception of DFTS Factory in 2010, the creative lure offered by Richard Hutten has been burning strongly in the ambitions of its founders, Andreas Aaltonen and Gustaf Kjellin, “We’ve met him in various cities around the world since 2003 and think he’s one of the best. So our second release had to be a collaboration with him,” says Gustaf Kjellin ceo and co-founder of DFTS Factory.

There’s aesthetical thinking as well as functional reasoning behind The Last Ashtray’s form. The four pits are sculpted so that ash will not be easily scooped up and scattered by gusts of wind and in this sense they also work equally well in the hands and homes of the non-smoker – for contain- ing sauces, spices, office accessories… In Huttens own words; “Smokers are a dying species and the ashtray will die with them. I designed this ashtray to throw my last cigarette in and I hope other smokers will do the same. If you then don’t use it as an ashtray, you will find other purposes for it – reminding you on your wise decision. And if you keep smoking, well, then it’s still a beautiful and handy ashtray.”

“We’ve used melamine for The Last Ashtray. There’s a reason it’s used in the production of most ash- trays in that it can take a kicking; it’s resilient” expains Andreas Aaltonen co-founder DFTS Factory. Proportionally speaking, the piece is a perfectly square 15x15cm to let an average 84mm cigarette rest safely in its recesses. Attention to detail has also been given to the colour selection for the initial run. The Last Ashtray will initially be available in four colours, matched to iconic cigarette tones – filter, skin, glow and ash, chosen by Hutten and DFTS Factory.

DFTS Factory’s collaboration with Hutten has resulted in something which, while perhaps being for a controversial purpose, is a genuine design-offering beyond its primary task. Another statement piece from a Swedish company specialising in engaging vivid pieces and its collaboration with a designer whose work has never been anything but.

The Last Ashtray will be launched at this year’s Stockholm Design Week. Mail info@dftsfactory.se for further information. High res images from www.dftsfactory.se/press

Andreas Aaltonen +46 (0)763 05 28 85

Gustaf Kjell +46 (0)735 71 06 74

Note to editor:

Richard Hutten graduated from the Academy Industrial Design Eindhoven in 1991. The same year, Hutten opened his own design studio, working on a variety of projects covering the design disciplines including furniture, products, inte- rior and exhibition design. It was at this time that his recognisable No Sign of Design and Table upon Table concepts were developed. One of the most internationally successful Dutch designers Hutten is a key exponenent of Droog Design, which he has been involved in since its creation in 1993. His work is part of the permanent collections of, among others, Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art Amsterdam, Vitra Museum Weil am Rhein and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His clients include E&Y Tokyo, MOSS New York, Karl Lagerfeld and HRH Queen Beatrix of the Nether- lands. www.richardhutten.com

The long awaited second product release from DFTS Factory is now very close, The Last Ashtray designed by Richard Hutten. We are proud to present the campaign photos shoot by photographer Jens Andersson.

Article about DFTS Factory and its creators in Swedish magazine Residence.