video response

I found the video more interesting than i thought it was going to be.  I like his design and thought he was a pretty unique guy.  there were some pretty cool place that he designed.  One of my faorite parts of the movie was when he was working with another guy from his office creating a building of some sort and they were just sitting and looking at it.  then he would say something and they would be cutting the most RANDOM shapes or curves of some sort and just tape them on.  And he would say... i like it.  Something that i took from the video was how "fragile" you picking your life career is.  he could have stopped so many time or focused on other things he like but always just had a passion for this kind of stuff.  He met the right people at the right ime and it worked out very well for him.  BUT i do have to agree with some of the critics when they say his designs are repetitive and "random" because they are.  and i know they are after watching the video.  all in all i enjoyed the film.

Zahner

ZANHER

..in collaberation with artist/designers/architechs

experiment with materials ex glass copper

innovation - do their jobs so one one else can
manufactor cost, build assemble on site

systems of building
tools from old anvil......to new water jet cutting

incredible amount spent on mock up process

materials...
every kind of metal you can think of, and some other things like glass hard plastics

hallmark

HALLMARK

Material..
paper (mill in georgia) metal-copper,nickle, alluminum, magnesium,
plastic, foil, flocking, cellusuede, flitter/plastic, glitter,
ribbon polypropylane, pp, coloring/blowing agents
extrusion

process..
stamping cutting pasting, printing (alot) slitter,  diecutting UV process, curing laminating, injection molding, programming packaging

first 2 feild trips

Reuter Organ

PRODUCTS
 organs (every part)
MARKETS
 churches, home uses, repairs
MATERIALS
 zinc copper wood(walnut, oak, poplar) tin steel brass lead bone
FORMING
 drafting, heating pipe, milling mandrel, hand casting laminate cnc router
CUTTING
 saw drill press cnc, jointer, slip rolling
JOINING
 saldering iron, woodworking joining, glue spring
FINISHING
 desssign for assembly and disassembly, stains laquar longevity, apperance circut board
OVERALL IMPRESSION
to me seems very old fashion style or production and they have some strong "tradtions" in the way they create their product, very organized though and well formed production line


Star Signs LLC

PRODUCTS
 signs, other boards/displays, laminates/wraps
MARKETS
 anyone! industrials building to schools
MATERIALS
 steel alluminum glass plexy acrylic lexan plastics
FORMING
 computer CAD, desinger
CUTTING
 router saw plotter
JOINING
 weld screws glues, folds
FINISHING
 painting rough up first flatbed printer vinyl, brail, etc
OVERALL IMPRESSION very cool interesting place, they have such a wide variety of things they do and yet almost of tghe their projucts and roll through their warehouse with ease.