Cabina was founded by Coni Luna and Caro Mikalef in 2004 aiming at an integral and artistic approach to communication. Cabinas work has been featured in international publications such as Los Logos Vol. 2, 3 and 4 by Die Gestalten Berlin, or the Latin American Graphics: The Best Latin Designers from Yesterday and Today book edited by Taschen.In 2005 won the Argentina Country-Brand Contest, where among 60 international studios the jury voted unanimously for the project. In 2007 was commissioned to design the Argentina Tourist-Brand. These days Cabina is working with fashion designers, art centers, musicians and larger-scale corporate clients. It is aslo developing a new area inside the studio "sound identity" with Stephan Mathieu a recognized musician and sound artist based in Germany.
caro@espaciocabina.com.ar
www.espaciocabina.com.ar
GRUPO BONDI
Grupo bondi is a team of producers and designers, Ivan Lopez Prystajko and Eugenio Gomez Llambi, who develop a new and original way of producing concrete outdoor and urban furniture. We focus in recovering the poetics we believe it' s inside the objects and, in this way, emphasize their possibility as expressive mediums.
We work based on material and conceptual experimentation, investigating the technological processes which are involved, using what we have within reach. Without boasting or silly ambition, our pieces are made to last a lifetime: this is how we understand sustentability.
Our operation center and atelier is located in Buenos Aires. There we draw, make the models, manufacture the molds and produce the pieces, transfering a kind of soul to our objects.
We choose Bondi because is a trip, a collective trip, because it connects places and people, because they are colourful, because they can move and because there is an open space always to jump in.
Owners of a very personal graphic universe, they've been working with corporations, like Visa, Esso, Repsol, Daimler Chrysler, Interbanking, Chungo, among others; Institutions, like CMHR (canadian museum of human rights), Marq (architecture museum), MuJuBa (jewish museum of BA), SCA (architects association), OSI (Soros Foundation NY), Caracas City, Buenos Aires City, among others; and own projects like IDarg (argentinian identity) nobrand (urban design) and IDBerlin (together with urban dialogues in Berlin)
They recently won the Argentinian Bicentennial Brand, considered as one of the 10 best branding projects in the world last year. Their designs were published in the best design books and magazines in the world (Taschen, Novum, Communication arts, Etapes, etc.) and exhibited in New York, Berlin, Paris, Tokyo and other main cities in southamerica.
"Our identity is a constantly evolving, complex concept. We are communicators in uncertain times, when identity tends to get lost. Our goal is to communicate the identity using an abstract vocabulary of beauty and synthesis that conveys a perception of each project's heart as well as its constant evolution.”
info@nobrand.com.ar
In M2 we rethink the use of traditionally known building materials to apply them with new meanings.
In that way, as a union between traditional and modern, we developed a line of handmade mosaics different to the existing ones with versatile and adaptable designs and offering new ways to use them with new forms of application.
We created 2 lines of mosaics: encaustic cement tiles and terrazzo tiles with it´s own style, capturing the nobility of traditional ones.
Our products are designed for anyone who values the combination of contemporary design on a material full of history.
We have won several national competitions such as BA Emprende 2008, and participated in many fairs Fematec 2009, Casa Foa 2009 and 2010.
Today, after been selected by IncubaVII, we have our offices in the CMD
Garments that control devices, interact with the environment, take care of your skin, health, quality of life, providing UV sunrays protection, fast drying, thermal insulation, insect repellent, etc.
Materials used include organic cotton, eco bamboo, lyocell, polyester recycled from PET bottles, printed with water based inks, no solvents used.
Science and nature together, to impact on functionality of clothing, from a policy of sustainable design.
The company offers high value added activewear that represent an enhanced choice for consumers, meeting actual need of clothing benefits incrementally and new needs not covered by textiles nowadays.
Indarra also provides product development services for other companies.
www.indarradtx.com
info@indarradtx.com
Her production is based on existing local customs that she enrichs through innovating proposals of uses and modern technologies, paying extremely attention to details with a distinctive Latin American touch.
Industrial Designer Patricia Lascano is very versatile in her path of production, not only regarding the materials she uses as the type of products she develops.
Her innovation around an Argentine custom, the “asado" (gaucho’s grill meat), is accurate developed with synthesis and economy of resources. It makes global a local tradition.
Here, she presents LUNAR, a chair that gets its shape from cuts applied to a fiber glass laminar conical structure.
The most arduous product of her career is in the last phase of production and also represents an evolution of a traditional element: a horse saddle, which she is now developing for Polo.
patlascano2@mac.com
www.estudiolascano.com
