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  • 15.3.2024 – 13.10.2024
    new project , exhibition

    "Water Pressure - Designing for the future" an exhibition of the MK&G Hamburg and Jane Withers Studio – looks at the water crisis from a global perspective. We were commissioned to come up with an installation celebrating water. The result "vital rain" is part of the exhibition and will stay permanently in the museums yard.
    more soon

    MKG Hamburg - Water Pressure

  • april 2024
    new project

    For the glassware company Lobmeyr we designed "ident" - drinking set No.287

    Identical shape, identical height - five individual glasses.
    The series was unveilded during Milan Design Week.

    Lobmeyr

  • april 2024 - ongoing
    factory tour

    We designed the factory tour for Laufen in Gmunden with a lot of details and small installations to guide and inform local and international guests.

    Laufen Gmunden

  • 5.4.2024 - 14.7.2024
    exhibition

    "inWastement" glass series is on show at the Klimabiennale in Vienna at the "design with a purpose" exhibition.

    Klimabiennale Wien

  • 15.9.2023 - 21.7.2024
    exhibition

    HEIMATEN. An exhibition and survey and an attempt to break with conventional takes on Heimat. the exhibition was shown at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MK&G) in 2022. Our specially commissioned piece 'riparian cloud' is now also on show in Molfsee.

    Freilichtmuseum Molfsee

  • 01.06.2024 - 30.03.2025
    exhibition, adapted project

    A utopian insect swarm based on our 'curiosity cloud' developed with 13 children from Dresden swirls during the Kinderbiennale in the Japanische Palais. The participatory process resulted in 24 fantastic, colourful insects.

    Children's Biennale "Planet Utopia"

  • 30.05 2024 - 13.10.2024
    new project , exhibition

    All in! Re-Designing Democracy - Every aspect of democracy has been designed, therefore it can be designed differently. A new "Themis" claims in the exhibition for rights for Nature.

    Bundeskunsthalle

  • 10.05. 2024 - 23.06.2024
    exhibition

    20th anniversary international exhibition and series of events. Our glass project "access" is part of the exhibition.

    design without borders

bubble voyage

a window display merging the analogue and the digital world to unveil hidden stories

Hermès’ 2018 theme “À vous de jouer! / Let’s Play!” was translated into a window display that uses technology, storytelling qualities of animation and the movement of the pedestrians. The viewer can discover various narratives, that merge delicate Hermès objects with digital animations to surprise and trigger curiosity. Disks that seems like floating soap bubbles are all across the windows, whilst behind are monitors displaying nothing but a white glow. Once glimpsed through the bubbles the screens unveil stories that interact with the displayed Hermès objects. Various worlds allow the viewer to dive into different scenarios that were drawn and animated by Maresch&Sturm: An underwater scene include fragrances and soaps that seem like bubbling in the water and attract curious fish.

A basket seems like emptying marbles that roll through a building block labyrinth before falling into Hermès bags. In an animated horse race, real leather purses and other small items, seem like transforming the horses into colourful toy animals, whilst on the right side a delicate scarf is suspended from the screens and one can discover that birds on a beach carry the fabric away. The installation fascinates with magical illusion that encourages viewers to look twice in order to discover what’s going on before they can depict the nature of the technology used to create this game of hide and seek.

 

main image above: ⓒ Satoshi Asakawa/ Courtesy of Hermès Japon

mannequin blowing soap bubbles, which act as filters to make the sceneries on the screens visible
image: ⓒ Satoshi Asakawa / Courtesy of Hermès Japon

bucket emptying 'marbles' which are running through a digital labyrinth and end up in two different bags
image: ⓒ Satoshi Asakawa / Courtesy of Hermès Japon

Pedestrians can discover various narratives, that merge delicate Hermès objects with digital sceneries that surprise and
trigger curiosity.

pedestrians exploring the windows

closer view of the right window / image: ⓒ Satoshi Asakawa / Courtesy of Hermès Japon

The imaginary worlds that happen in the bubbles are continued
in the 16 small windows.

three of the 16 small windows
image: ⓒ Satoshi Asakawa / Courtesy of Hermès Japon

balloon journeys

The project concept of bubble voyage was continued as balloon journeys on the occasion of the reopening of the Hermès store in Osaka in September 2018. This time, instead of soap bubbles, balloons were seemingly blown away by wind. The video screens functioned as windows on the facades of the houses offering a glimpse into the rooms of the buildings.

Hermès objects and the mannequin are carried away by the flying balloons, image credit: Nacása & Partners Inc. / Courtesy of Hermès Japon

The left window shows a view to a children's room, where it seems as if kids would throw toys around. In the other window, a plant seems to grow from the Hermès bag. image credit: Nacása & Partners Inc. / Courtesy of Hermès Japon

a small window with an elephant standing on a seesaw / Ginza Maison Hermès / Tokyo

  • material

    large windows
    modified LCD screens, polarisation filter, various

     

    small windows
    privacy filter, various

  • team

    Katharina Mischer, Thomas Traxler, Elisa Polner, Clair Garcia-Webb, Clarissa Kellermann, Johannes Nortmann

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