Former student of MOME, András Kerékgyártó's diploma work titled Experimental Seating System has been chosen as one of the best 3D projects at the Central European Review of graduate projects. As a result, András received a job-training proposal at NOTI. His work can be seen in 2+3D (No. I/2012) and Typo (Czech Republic) magazines.
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Zsófia Budai, 2nd year student of MOME's Design Institute won the Vincent Sheppard Design Competition with her "Csipke" chair.
Vincent Sheppard is a Belgian furniture company specialised in producing paper woven Lloyd Loom furniture. They produce high quality furniture made from a traditional product often combined with new sustainable products.
Two MOME students, Tamás Bozsik and Kata Mónus together with their work "Cross-Ropes" received the Honourable Mention of Green Furniture Award in Sweden.
The Green Furniture Award jury: 'Cross-Ropes' is a storage function with an expression mix of a hard and soft, using locally grown natural materials - ash wood and linen rope. One rope is pulled all over the corpus and a tightening mechanism at the bottom of the furniture makes it possible to retighten the ropes over time.
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Peter Toronyi, student of MOME, won Red Dot's design award for his Nissyoku lamp in the category "Illumination".
In Japanese culture, the meaning of light is life; light brings forms alive. This conception inspired the design of Nissyoku, as did the process of the solar eclipse. The light emitted from Nissyoku determines the object's character, existence, and meaning.
The body of the Nissyoku lamp is made with reusable or biodegradable polymer. The lamp can be used as hanging chandelier, or a table or wall lamp. The pieces of the lamp are fixed together or to a wall with magnets and a metal disc. When Nissyoku is used as a wall lamp, the two halves of the lamp are fixed to two metal discs. When it is used as a spherical table lamp, the two halves are simply joined to each other.
The spherical caps on either side can be rotated in multiple directions. The direction and strength of the light is adjusted by the degree of turning. The two caps move across an internal concave surface. They are fixed to the lamp with magnets. The lamp can be switched on or off by touching the central metal ring.
Each cap contains a 5-watt LED. The lamp is powered by hybrid supercapacitors, which have a much higher power density than batteries and can function without maintenance for over 500,000 cycles.
Nissyoku is a mood light, rather than a task light or an ambient light. It was designed to create atmospheric effects that could establish an emotional connection between user and product.
