Defying Gravity
CURIOSITY | STRATEGY | PASSION
FORMPASCH
THE COMPANY
FORMPASCH – currently based in Tokyo, Japan – is an award-winning multidisciplinary design consultancy with its core business focused on product/industrial design solutions and design strategy. Its intercultural and cross-disciplinary business experience defines the company and its project development. We create meaningful experiences that deliver beyond customers’ expectations and enable business transformation.
Kai Malte Röver
THE ORIGINATOR
FORMPASCH was founded in 2007 by Kai Malte Roever, former designer at the DENSO Global Design Center Japan and current Design Specialist at RICOH Company Japan, LTD. Recipient of the German iF Design Award & Japanese Good Design Award, with a master's degree in product design from the Royal College of Art in London, UK and a diploma in industrial/product design from Germany. Clients and work experience stem from companies all around the globe including Australia, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Japan, New Zealand and the UK.
MEDIA
AWARDS
Good Design Award Japan 2016 - RICOH LA-1100
Good Design Award Japan 2016 - RICOH SC-10A
iF Design Award Germany - PUYL
PRINT | WEB
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"Velo introduces a wild bunch of passionate cyclists – frame builders, urban planners, artists, photographers, and those who ride professionally – who are making an impact. They are not only shaping styles, but promoting cycling as a primary form of transport. The book also explores the aesthetic of today’s cycling culture and presents custom-made frames and art bikes as well as a selection of contemporary illustration and design influenced by the cycling movement. Geared toward anyone who has a personal or professional interest in cycling, Velo is the fast lane into a current topic that is both entertaining and socially relevant. A striking visual journey into the multifaceted world of cycling." - text by Gestalten Verlag
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EXHIBITION
"Bike to the Future is a joint effort of Design museum Gent and the IMF Foundation, which offers a glimpse of the future of the bike. Both talent and inventiveness are the driving forces behind this exhibition, where brilliant ideas and ingenious prototypes are key. By combining form and technology in different ways, designers reinvent the bike time and again. The result is a photo finish of design, exquisite craftsmanship and industry.
The exhibition showcases contemporary models, such as the electric bike ‘M.A.S.S. SNOW’ by Philippe Starck, as well as prototypes and experiments with unusual materials and functions, like a folding bike design by Gianluca Sada that is as compact as an umbrella when folded. The importance of bike accessories cannot be underestimated either. For example, the magnetic bicycle light ‘iFlash One’, designed by the Danish studio Kibisi, the ‘Hammerhead’ navigation system and the ‘Hövding’ airbag helmets bring out the best in the aluminium steed. Belgium, too, is well-represented in the exhibition, with bicycles from Eddy Merckx and Jaegher, as well as Tobias Knockaert’s laser-cut bicycle on display. Accessories originate from Curana, among others, a global trendsetter when it comes to aluminium mudguards.
The bicycle is beginning to have a profound impact on the development of towns and cities, provoking new design typologies and urban infrastructures that range from novel forms of parking, bike-specific bridges and tunnels (macrodesign) to interventions like rain sensors for bicycles at traffic lights (microdesign). Now more than ever, urban planning is heading back to the future - back to when cities were life-sized places with rational and practical solutions for moving people around. Socially engaged designers and committed citizens are creating bottom-up initiatives to bring people together to discuss and generate solutions to reduce the barriers to cycling. Projects such as the ‘London Underline’ and bike bridge over the Ghent R4 illustrate the variety of mobility solutions. The Ghent ‘bike kitchen' and ‘Bicycle Gangs of NY’ give an idea of the big bike community." - text by Design Museum Gent
New visions for the use of solar energy
"The 'Sunny Memories' exhibition held at Harvard University in 2010 linked technological innovation - dyed solar cells - with creative design. Sunny Memories is a large-scale international workshop created to innovate around a new generation of ‘dye-sensitized’ solar cells, inspired by plant photosynthesis. More than 80 students from four top-level design schools in the US, France, Britain and Switzerland, came up with a huge variety of ideas." - text by Harvard University Center for the Environment
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