space planning 2

space planning

Here are some ideas how to put cars.

12 cars are bit too much, but I suggest this planning if you want to put 12. Quite strong image from side and front view.

Parsonally, I would like to propose 3 tidy cars and 1 odd car idea.

Anyway I passed RHINO data to Finn, so play around with it for a week or 2 weeks!

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Ich danke dich schon meine liebe platform menschen.

Finn Essen Kebab

Sunday 12.00 RCa

Hey guys
Finn and bass are going to buid a full size car on sunday. you don't have to come but if you feel like you would like some practice at building you are welcome to join us
finn and bass

Theme of cars

we need to unify/curate the collection of cars. i propose to use the types of car found at secondhand sales. this is a big generalisation but i think it would be mainly cars from the 80,s and early 90's. economy cars. bargains buys like the objects they transport. it also helps that usualy these shapes are slighlty more angular and hopefully easier to make
eg

ford escort mk2
vw golf mk1
rover 216
renault 5
peugot 205
and the Japananese models like
nissan bluebird
toyata carina


As Gaby suggested it is not about the car design but the uniform presentation. So extroardinary models that don't fit within a carbootsale profile don't work.(henny)

Design Boot?

So far Is Design boot favourite, add your comments please fast because it needs to be printed on Monday!


hey damen und herren,
suggestions for names and words that can be relevant:
- Car
- caRCA
- RCAr
- caR CAle
- Vehicle Design
- Design Boot.
- Twelve wrongs that make a right
- Drive in something
- Design / trunkload / in the back
- Junk in the trunk
- Platform 8 and The Skidmarks
- Skunk skunk skunk in the trunk.
- 50p entrance fee
- parking design
- taped
- cardboard cars
car-bage
car re boot
D-boot
DasBoot
carboard fanasties
bargain carboot design fest
polyssytrene coffee

bootylicious
bootleg
bootlicker

urban design projects

http://www.inhabitat.com/urbandesign.php

best press statement ever (version 1) open for discussion

INTRODUCING PLATFORM8 at DESIGN MAI 06
12 students from the royal college of art in London. We represent a range of cultural backgrounds which contributes to a diverse design approach. We look for alternatives to design as we know it, and question what role it can play in society.

In the overwhelming scale of the city of London we discovered the car boot sale. A place with a variety of people and objects. It’s an event to gather together over polystyrene cups of coffee and bargain over a collection of random products. A coming together as an alternative to the highstreet. At DESIGN MAI we present our car boot sale.

Entrance Pavilion
Pferrerberg Brewery
Berlin

17th – 21st May.

Oooh shit...

A small calculation brought me to the conclusion that we need at least 195 square meters to put down twelve cars with walking space between them! I send it to Hannes already. So 1000 square meters is fine with me. I think we may not be affraid of it, just take it.

Planning/tasks

Cat - Press release + contacts with college press office
- Cardboard + delivery

Henny - Tape (try sponsoring if not how much)
- Communication 2nd years (what to present en organise help of first years)

Tom - Transport - Exhibition 17th - 21st
- Stay 14th – 22nd
- How much do people want to take, do we need a van or does everything fits in the plane. (Index this)

Yota - Floor plan of the space 100m2 (12 cars and other proposals)

Bas - Sponsoring +
- Press release (together with Cat)

Simone - Graphics for invitation

Alex - Accommodation Place to stay during the time. Contact Hannes.
- Tools, what do we need for handling the cardboard, etc… (What to take and arrange this)

Finn - Electricity and lighting (See what’s needed and Arrange it for as less as possible)

• 1st Year take over work for second years to let them work on their show.

Dates
- Next Sunday Bas and Finn make life size model from cardboard
- Meeting for who is not yet in Milan next …

- Exhibition 17th - 21st
- Stay 14th – 22nd (If van is needed it also takes more travel time for tree people)

- 17th in the morning Press
- 17th evening opening event

Main concept:
Car boot sale. We meet in the middle of car boot sale and design show.

- Car boot sale, multicultural market place.
- The alternative for the high street shopping / our presentation as alternative in the design show.
-

Cars will be: (like Jenny’s car but different models)
- Medium and small European budget cars (Mazda 323, Suzuki, Toyota) for the normal man.
- White cardboard if provided on two sides white
- White tape
- What about the rest of the car?
- No shrink foil

What do you want!?
- What do you want to take?
- Showing, selling with the car as presentation base
- Fill it up with something, stick prints in the inside, present your products next to and on the car. Find a way but stick to the theme CAR BOOT SALE!!!
- What do you want to sell? Sell yourself and/or your products to the costumers.

cardboard update

we can get white (both sides) 200gr
I was thinking of getting it in 2 x 2 metres.
1000 sq metres - is this way too much , are we going to be left with a cardboard mountain when we realise how much we have left over??

this all comes from beaconpack.
what do we give them in the way of publicity space in return....invites etc..(simone?)

cars are good

foam cars, julian opie glossie print cars, cardboard cars

Meetings

Hey all,

What's going on with the meetings for Berlin? As far as I know there was one at 10:30 but at the moment I walked into college I got a message that it was moved to two today. I just spoke to Yota and he didn't know about this meeting at all.

What I want to say is who and makes the meetings and when. Who makes sure everybody knows about them and especially, who calls them off and why? Making group appointments is not about the individual (who can call them off for whatever reason) but making an effort to be there!

henny

at Platform 8

installation by tom price at abandoned railway that runs from Finsbury Park to Highgate then
picks up again along Muswell Hill road and ends at Alexandra Palace. It was
decommisioned in the 50s.

Definition

Platform 8 is run by a designer and a visual artist. The platform goals and aims are to create or claim the ground between the boundaries of Art and Design.

Platform 8 is about the individual, and seeks to see design as an experimental activity, which can be a way of expression, conveying individual contents, ideas and messages. It is about the individual student and his/her ability to develop a specific personal approach, area of interest, and a way of thinking through individual projects- very much the way artists work. Consequently there are no limits.

Design can cross the boundaries to neighbouring disciplines such as engineering, sciences, commerce, industry, art, craft, architecture, media etc…

INTRO?

Platform8 is fed up of podiums and podium based design. So, we've taken a slice of the city, a car boot sale, and put it in your face. Come and see this sale of ideas, you might pick up a designer for a bargain price.

tape

Samples are coming in various colours. White, black, blue, green, white, red, yellow and some fluorencent ones. Think about the colours applied on cardboard. How many meters do you think you need?

cardboard sponsership

Hi everyone: things to think about.
we need to make these decisions this week.

need to know
1. board thickness (2m/ 3m) or double size (7m/ 8m)
2. Colour: white / standard
3. Type of board: corrugated or other (sending sample)
4. Size: 1600 x 2800 is the biggest size but they can produce them bigger for us.
5. How much do we need
6. What date to deliver in berlin

in touch with 2 companies who are keen to give us cardboard.
i prefer www.beaconpack.co.uk
they will deliver straight to Berlin.

Vehicle blueprints

Hey girls and guys,

I found a website full with blueprints of cars. It can be very usefull: http://cgworld.ru/modules.php?name=Blueprints

h.

mobile home

on the backroads

Hello all. God i was just out in the hugh world that is bebo and myspace, looking at all the quality music blogs and seeing all the users connected and posting and promoting on each others blogs. so it was quite nice to return to the quiet cosy backwater that is platform8 blog.. Away from the gaze of the masses.
Other than that check out the pics from the irish match today. makes me pround to be irish

Burning Man

Check out this link to some amazing photos from the Burning Man festival in a desert in Reno - I wanna go :

http://www.ski-epic.com/burningman2005/

There are a lot of wierd and wonderful car-art things there too.

Mini Tokyo Concept

For the Tokyo Auto Show Mini produced a conecpt on the theme of the british picnic. Its amazing, complete with streamlined tea wicker picnic basket and strap on tea bags. Pure instanateous design excess. An immediate image hit.

At the ICA:

THE LONDON NOBODY KNOWS & FINISTERRE

25 - 26, 28, 30 Mar
THE LONDON NOBODY KNOWS & FINISTERRE
'Featuring music by the arch pop Saint Etienne, Finisterre combines keenly observed sequences from the urban landscape with loving voice-overs...' Rolling Stone
For all those London lovers here over the holidays;
Two highly idiosyncratic looks at London.

sorry, fahren ja.

Farhen auf die berlinner autobahn.

Hi Platform 8 Berlin gang,


THIS WEEKEND THERE ARE TWO CARBOOT SALES
AND WE HAVE TO BE THERE;

- Saturday there is Killburn Park
- Sunday Battersea
Yota knows the details.


WHAT WE NEED TO DO FOR BERLIN;

- Arrange cardboard (delivered in Berlin!)
- Electricity
- Transport, a van for tool and other transport
(We need 2 or 3 drivers auf die autobahn)
- Book tickets everybody (think of two days of building our cars)
- Where do we stay (Hannes, is it the kindergarten again?)?
- Arrange tape (colours, length and prices)
- A printer and paper
- Tools (knives, hammers, drill/skrewers, nails and skrews, staplers)
- Shrinkwrap anybody?
- Carsounds; music for the exhibition
- Graphics, invites logo and a short text of who and what where.
(finished = printed before Milan to promote it over there!)

We have to split tasks, write your name behind yours. And what else do we need to think of?
This list is up in the studio notice board.

OK NEXT WEDNESDAY;

- everybody needs to have a scale model of their car 1:5, make this as accurate as possible to prevent unwelcome surprises.
- also figure out how many square meters of cardboard you need
- written down what you personally want to gain for at this exhibition
- think on how much electricity you need (light, music, laptop)

Venezuela Land of the free

Comrades,

I propose the next platform8 trip to be to Venezuela. The mission to contribute through design to the flourishing of one of the worlds few democracies. Thanks to a healthy oil reserve Venezuela has had the opportunity to disregard to the unjust structures and harsh economic regime imposed by a capitalist west orientated trade agreements. President Chavez has initiated a fantastic social, healthcare and education service, as well as tackling poverty. The good man also generously offered the USA aid in the form of Oil, engineers and nurses following the New Orleans disaster. Mr. Bush was not overly impressed. So let us join this progressive and visionary people on their brave adventure, Venezuela, We salute you!