A Point Of Design: Sanserif Creatius' Habla

Another new and innovative product from Valencia-based design studio Sanserif Creatius, is a shelving system that facilitates communication with roommates or fellow workers. Imitating the form of a speech bubble, Habla interacts with objects in the home and creates a visual communication system. Formally speaking, Habla is a wall shelf with two possible arrangements, in which the strength of the concept based on adapting the speech bubble borrowed from comic books, opens up interaction with the space and its other users.

Habla has been conceived to hang from or be fixed to the wall, being completely integrated with the vertical surface thanks to the use of an invisible fixing system. In this way, it reinforces the sensation of a 2D vignette of the composition you wish to make. Just as the speech bubble in a comic strip or graphic novel provides us with essential information that allows us to understand what is going on, or which reveals key details about the main character in the story, as designer Ana Yago explains, “Habla provides us with information on the space where it is located, on who lives there, underscoring an element or a series of them”.

A Point Of Design: Bold Chair by Sanserif Creatius

Image courtesy of Sanserif Creatius

Once again Valencia-based design studio Sanserif Creatius have created a new innovative product that pushes the boundaries in furniture design, presenting a bench style chair that is made from 100% biodegradable corrugated cardboard. Environmentally sound, the functional, economically viable and serialised production based ‘Bold Chair’ is created in one single die. Made of 5mm thick sheets the standard model measures 50x63x72 cm, weighs 16 kg and has an estimated resistance of 1,000kg in compression tests.

With no screws or wedges, there is reduced machine and staff related costs along the assembly line, helping to reduce the collateral energy consumption in production. With both assembly and handling carried out exclusively in special employment centres; to reinforce values of integration and respect, Sanserif Creatius continue to amaze me.

A Point Of Design: Mustafá table

A Spanish design company I’ve written about on many occasions, Sanserif Creatius last month launched the ingenious Mustafá table. Inspired by Arabian art, the Mustafá is a versatile M-shaped table that stays true to the Sanserif Creatius philosophy of bringing groundbreaking designs created with sustainable industrial materials into social environments. Honing the environmental and social values underpinning Sanserif Creatius’ designs, the Mustafá table is part of the exclusive collection created from corrugated cardboard presented at the latest edition of Habitat Valencia Fair.

Ana Yago; a designer for Sanserif Creatius says: “We are keenly aware that users are looking for added values, furniture and products with soul, that transmit cultural, social and environmental values”. Yago also underscored the need to recover and/or add industrial materials to the repertoire used for the home and office, given that “it is well demonstrated that they are incredibly multifunctional with a range of features well above more conventional materials.”

A Point Of Design: Dividing Space with Typography

Valencia based design company Sanserif Creatius have introduced a decorative modular system designed to be used as shelving or to divide spaces within a home or business environment. COMA, whose name is taken from comma (the punctuation mark), is made of two modules combinable in different positions through the use of a metallic structure covered in wood panelling. The main aim is to “reorganise spaces through a graphic play that reconverts a separating wall into an ethereal and multifunctional element”.

COMA helps create different spaces using graphic recourses borrowed from the alphabet. Similar to the way in which punctuation marks indicate different parts of a sentence and text structure, COMA organises spaces without physically separating them. Furthermore, its modular structure enables it to act as a simple arrangement of space whilst transforming itself into shelves, a display unit or a container – among many other possibilities.

With the piece anchored to the wall, “It is akin to a branch emerging from the bricks and cement, bringing light and depth into any space. COMA sets in place an evocative visual game with a lightweight volume, replacing the concept of the dividing wall with a structural element added into the construction”.

Sanserif Creatius work their magic - again!

One of my favourite design studios is that of Sanserif Creatius who work tirelessly to produce environmentally-friendly furniture solutions amongst other things. Valencia-based, pioneers in social design, Sanserif Creatius have been busy working on a series of biodegradable products (primarily made from corrugated cardboard), which are particularly exciting. As you'll notice from the official product images below, Sanserif Creatius don't take themselves too seriously, which is part of why they're so great.

Last month saw the release of MyScreen frames; a decorative picture frame that defines the limits when projecting images onto a wall. This new product is conceived to resolve a need in contemporary spaces, where tube TVs and even flat screen plasma or LCD screens are giving way to Home Cinema. Using a video projector on a vertical surface is an increasingly more popular system for viewing images and audiovisuals.

“MyScreen recreates the corners of a virtual screen and ensures that the space we use for projections on a wall or another surface at home or in the office are clearly demarcated”, explains the designer and director, Ana Yago.

More recently, this month the design studio have created a table called Duduá, drawing its inspiration from typography (pictured above and below). Duduá is an n-shaped module that can be put to many uses and follows the Sanserif Creatius philosophy of bringing designs with industrial materials into homes and offices.

Again, Ana Yago explains: “Duduá can be used as a kind of wild card for decorators, either as a stool or side table. When we conceived the piece we envisaged it multiplying and growing in space, taking on new functions as more modules are added to the initial composition.”