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Urban Outfitters are proud to be exhibiting the designs of Maciek Wojcicki, whose work has been considered to have similar brand qualities which will further develop store experience through creative engagement.

As a part of London Design Week, from September 18th until October 10th Urban Outfitters will host Maciek’s first ever solo exhibition since graduating from Royal College of Art. On the boutique floor of the Oxford Circus branch, Maciek will present a wide variety of objects including “L.O.F.T” workstation and “99g” hanging table which was shown in Milan, alongside brand new designs yet to be unveiled such as “Gap Light” lamp and ”Snooking Corner”.

Maciek’s work can be described as practical yet playful and customisable as objects are rarely used in one fixed way. Most of the exhibits are examples of new typologies, which do not yet exist in our cultural landscape.

Barber & Osgerby, Fernando & Humberto Campana, Oscar Diaz, Konstantin Grcic, Gitta Gschwendtner,  Richard Hutten, Sjoerd Jonkers, Max Lamb, Arik Levy, Ross Lovegrove, Peter Marigold, Ben McCarthy, Nendo, Marc Newson, Fabio Novembre, Polka, Karim Rashid, Inga Sempé, Studio BetaTank, Kiki van Eijk, Marcel Wanders, Maciek Wojcicki

Here in the evening it could be really seen how cosy space was created in high ceiling building using the L.O.F.T furniture with its lighting features.

Workstation has gained a lot of attention in the internet blog community, It could be seen on Iconeye, Onoffice, Dezeen, Yanko Design, DesignSpotter, Design Addict, MoCo Loco, Trendhunter, Existing Visual, Ffffound, and over 50 other blogs following contemporary design around the world.

The ICON product yearbook – April 2010 (Europe)

WNĘTRZA KOMERCYJNE – January 2010 (Poland)

NEO2 – November 2009 (Spain)

ONoffice – November 2009 (UK)

ICON – November 2009 (UK)

My Home – November 2009 (Hong Kong)

Office & Facility – October 2009 (Poland)

ONoffice – September 2009 (UK)

Workstation has been chosen by Li Edelkoort, former chairwoman of design academy Eindhoven and art director of Designhuis to be shown at the Talent 2009 show in Designhuis – Eindhoven (Netherlands)  among other designers graduated this year out of 30 design schools in Europe. The aim of the exhibition is to get an overview of the state of affairs in design education and its future stars. Exhibition lasts between 17th  of October and 30 of November and is a part of Dutch Design Week (17-25 October)

http://www.design.nl/item/talent_2009_part_ii

Fragment of an Interview for 100% Futures. Question: What is my inspiration

During London Design Festival L.O.F.T Workstation could be seen at 100% Futures show in Earl’s Court (24-27 September 2009) I would like to thank everyone who visited my stand during this intensive four days.

(Thanks for your help Veronica!

L.O.F.T Workstation is a project of a flexible changeable structure, the simple construction of which serves for customization and interaction with workspace according to preferences of a user and demands of a currently performed task.

The structure consists of a few elements: main pillar which serves as a support for the ends of two lightweight rails on which the lighting and slider bars are placed on which supporting legs can be moved back and forward according to a spatial requirements. The rails can be moved around the pillar independently as they are sharing the pivot point at the end of each of them on the slider ring centered at the top of the main pillar.
Pillar, rails and rail-legs are all similarly grooved on the outside and horizontal parts. Those grooves are stabilizing features for accessories, like screens, boards, shelves and lighting, which can be mounted on the structure. Grooves are also a cable management feature which makes it easier to change construction settings without struggling to keep dangling cables in chosen place.

Lighting is a fluorescent, cold strip lighting in line fixtures of 4000 K light, which can be slid, exchanged, added to and removed from the rail easily without multiplying plugs and cables.

The entire structure may be disassembled without using any tools by one or two people. Grooves and openings are designed to be an easy and intuitive way of attaching accessories and adjusting the space with no need to drill the holes in the wall or ceiling or using ladders, by simple wedging, tying, hooking.
This way more functionality can be added, space divided and shrink in the workspace.

Worktop is easy to remove and put aside or hanged on the rail-leg wedged shelf equipped with hooks. Table legs, when not in use, can serve as shelves wedged on the rail legs.

Entire structure is made using simple methods out of beech wood, plywood, powder coated steel, chromed pipes, fabric, nylon straps, and machined acetal elements. The imagination of a user is the limit because versatility of the structure might make it even something else than the workspace if required.

This kind of flexible structure suits space restricted home offices, studios and conversion spaces where adjust ability and keeping elements near each other is essential.

I am happy to invite everyone  of you to see an RCA Show (26.06-05.07 2009) London, Kensington Gore, SW7 2EU

You can see there my finished version of a workstation and try it out.

I would like to thank all of You who visited the show and have seen my work and had a chat with me.

Photos of a final piece and of a process will soon be also available on this blog.

Vertical parts before finishing, waxing and assembling.

Pillar during gluing

Steel parts prepared, before powdercoating procedure.

Powernet – strong streachy fabric considered to be used in mid-prototyping.

Prototyping on the functional model.