3D ARTIST & DESIGNER
MARLENE WOLFMAIR
3D ARTIST & DESIGNER
MARLENE WOLFMAIR
Marlene focuses on hyperrealism and isometric view. She creates her own light setups, textures & materials.
In 2015, Marlene started to work at
ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation)
as an information designer for the TV news (Zeit im Bild).
Before, she was granted an 18-months artists’ scholarship at Fabrica in Treviso, Italy. She was working on projects for Airbnb, Atipico, Benetton, Daikin, Moleskine, Sisley and many more.
Marlene studied Information Design at
FH Joanneum - University of Applied Sciences in Graz, Austria, after she graduated from
HBLA für künstlerische Gestaltung - Secondary School for Art & Design.
Her work was exhibited at
VIENNA DESIGN WEEK in Austria,
Salone del Mobile in Milan, Italy,
Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne »LES SENS DU BEAU« in France and at the
Museum of Future Government Services in Dubai, UAE.
FRISUR
Caraffa
For SS16, FRISUR take inspiration from interior design, namely their first ever design object to close the gap between concept and product. They collaborated with the likeminded Italian design studio and communication research centre FABRICA. One of its students, Pascal Hien, has designed a minimal carafe with a cascading spout as part of the collection.
To continue their multidisciplinary approach, this collaboration is visualized by the Austrian 3D Generalist Marlene Wolfmair with sound interpretations of the Italian musician Giacomo Mazzucato, also known as Yakamoto Kotzuga.
This collaborative project is the first of many ventures into new disciplines for FRISUR.
This trilogy shows ways to communicate physicality and materiality.
frisurclothing.com
Direction:
FRISUR
Creation:
Marlene
Wolfmair
Caraffa Product Design:
Pascal Hien
Sound Design:
Giacomo Mazzucato / Yakamoto Kotzuga
VIENNA DESIGN WEEK
LOGS
Created for & exhibited at
VIENNA DESIGN WEEK
September, 25th – October, 2nd 2015, Passionswege
with & at the Master Carpentry
2M Walter und Michael Müllner
Pernerstorfergasse 92, 1100 Vienna
www.muellner.com
The master carpentry 2M of Walter and Michael Müllner designs and produces premier-quality furnishings.
In their special workshop for sand-blasting techniques the family enterprise in the 10th district also processes and modifies the surfaces of greatly diverse materials, including glass, plastic, metal, ceramic, and wood.
The Passionswege project of the young designer Marlene Wolfmair consists of a logarithmic arrangement of wooden elements, their surfaces processed through sand-blasting.
Wolfmair demonstrates that not only in the digital world can the combination of design and mathematical formulas produce interesting results.
Also the formula-based arrangement of simple elements can lend an extraordinary fascination to a construction.
Curator:
Lilli Hollein
Production: Michael Müllner
Design & Creation: Marlene Wolfmair
Exhibition Photographer:
Kollektiv Fischka/Kramar
EXPO MILAN
You Make The Park
For Expo 2015, Milan becomes a “melting pot” of thousands of travellers from all around the world, facilitating an international dialogue around sustainable futures and respect for the planet.
What comes from the earth goes back to the earth. Based this principle, Fabrica has joined the conversation by creating a collection of simple, outdoor furniture using 100% recyclable and re-purposed materials: cork, terracotta & wood.
Each piece has been assembled using components of each material, and can be easily disassembled without harming the purity of each one.
The materials can then be revisited, repurposed or recycled for future use. Through this collection, we create a public space that evolves with the seasons, as a multi-cultural junction. We encourage visitors to move the furniture around, inspiring participation in a conversation around “what makes a park?” — a way to invite visitors to make the park truly their own.
Animation:
Marlene Wolfmair
Sound Design:
Giacomo Mazzucato
Product Design:
Nikita Bhate, Giorgio Gasco, Pascal Hien, Alex Rothera, Daniel Rous
Graphic Design:
Elise Santangelo
AIRBNB
House-warming
»Housewarming« is an exhibition by fabrica x airbnb for Salone del Mobile 2015 in Milan, Italy
from April, 14th to 17th, at Palazzo Crespi
Marlene’s project is influenced by the age-old Austrian tradition of Jause, a late-afternoon snack eaten at home or as a picnic. Jause is packed into a colourful linen cloth knotted together to form a picnic bag, or Jausensackerl.
Guests were invited to choose snacks made at Palazzo Crespi and Marlene knotted them into a Jausensackerl so visitors could take a piece of this hospitality home.
The pattern was inspired by the landscape where Marlene grew up: the Mühlviertel. The region is part of an area full of granite stone. The platonic cubes with a generated granite stone texture were created in 3D. A light source is reflected in each of the 20-sided icosahedrons, which are arranged in isometric view. The technical aspect reflects the character of a shaped stone and the precision in working with computer generated images.
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Airbnb, the world’s leading community-driven hospitality company, is partnering with Fabrica, to create ‘Housewarming’, an experiential installation for the 2015 edition of Salone del Mobile. Airbnb and Fabrica’s partnership celebrates the connections that guests and hosts experience through sharing a home, and how these unique relationships begin with a simple welcome. Following a successful collaboration at the London Design Festival 2014, Airbnb’s installation at Salone 2015 further showcases its commitment to design as a driving force behind the company.
Visitors to the installation in the Palazzo Crespi, will see the creations of 19 international designers who have interpreted the concept of welcome. Guests will be invited to interact with the designers, who will be installed in different parts of the Palazzo. From the experience of a very British tea time to the Indian ritual of lighting lamps, visitors will leave with a sense of belonging to this Milanese home and the cultures each of the Fabrica designers represent – a feeling which is central to an Airbnb experience.
The Airbnb community is renowned for providing access to incredible spaces, and Palazzo Crespi is no different. Originally built to celebrate the coronation of Napoleon Bonaparte, along with the other buildings on Corso Venezia, the space reflects the period’s Baroque style and is an enchanting home steeped in Milanese history. ‘Housewarming’ will allow the public to experience Palazzo Crespi, a private home, for the first time through a series of creative activations.
Insights by monocle:
Head of Fabrica Design Studio:
Sam Baron
Idea & Design:
Marlene Wolfmair
Exhibition Photographer:
Cristian Castelnuovo
Further photography:
Marco Zanin
DAIKIN
FU-HA
Fabrica and Daikin, the Japanese multinational and world leader of indoor climate systems, present “FUHA” on April 14-19, at Salone del Mobile 2015, Milan, Italy.
FUHA is a multisensory artistic layout with a multitude of creative stories that give shape to air.
“FU” and “HA” are two traditional Japanese onomatopoeic expressions reminiscent of the sound of human breath.
“FU” recalls the sound of blowing on something to cool it, while “HA” imitates the sound of exhaling, open-mouthed, to warm something. Using this concept as their starting point, the young researchers at Fabrica created a setting in which the air is the designer. Through ten different installations in which air manifests its existence in the form of sound, weight or substance, visitors come into contact with the invisible, thus turning the intangible into physical interaction.
The 3D generated videos for each expression show the topic MOTION. FU represents a directional movement of air. HA describes a wider, softer expression which is animated similar to water ripples. The colour temperature changes according to the visibility of the letters.
The videos were presented on two 46-inch monitors.
Head of Fabrica Design Studio:
Sam Baron
Idea & Creation:
Marlene Wolfmair
LES SENS DU BEAU
Infinite Growth
A flower goes through a never ending growth. There is neither a starting nor ending point but there are beginnings and endings through change. Change offers new chances in life. To describe beauty we need to know how ugliness looks. Constant change makes beauty. If things never change life would stand still. Standstill causes death, therefore beauty is growth.
La croissance de la fleur est sans limite. Ni point de départ ou d'arrivée, mais des commencements et des dénouements à travers l'évolution. L'évolution offre de nouvelles chances dans la vie. Pour décrire la beauté, il nous faut savoir à quoi ressemble la laideur. L'évolution permanente crée la beauté. Si rien ne changeait, la vie serait immobile. L'immobilité entraînant la mort, la beauté est la croissance.
Exhibited at Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne
»LES SENS DU BEAU«
March 12 - April 12, 2015
biennale-design.com/saint-etienne/2015
Curator:
Sam Baron
Direction & Creation:
Marlene Wolfmair
Sound Design:
Francesco Novara
Exhibition Photographer:
Sandrine Binoux
FABRICA
Yellow Tote Bag
Fabrica is full of competing contrasts. Light versus shadow. Old versus new. Convention versus innovation. A constant stream of new Fabricanti joins the research staff, while veterans graduate to new opportunities. No day is ever the same as the last.
These contrasts and changes feed our creativity.
This bag celebrates this energy by re-envisioning the iconic architecture of Tadao Ando, the legendary Japanese architect who designed Fabrica in 1994.
Available at:
store.fabrica.it/products/fabrica-yellow-tote-bag
Bag Design:
Tomomi Maezawa
Video Concept & Creation:
Marlene Wolfmair
Sound Design:
Giacomo Mazzucato
ATIPICO
À Table
The table nowadays is a melting pot of different cultures, customs and traditions. The contemporary palate seeks increasing involvement in multiethnic culinary experiences and the dining table is the physical space for meetings and exchanges. This is the driving concept behind À Table, a new collection of objects and accessories for the table – plates, bowls, glasses, baskets, carafes, cutting boards, cutlery and linen – designed by
Fabrica for
Atipico and to be previewed at
Maison et Objet, Paris, from 23 to 27 January 2015.
Entirely Made in Italy, À Table is inspired by the food habits and nationalities of the young creatives at Fabrica. The designers took their inspiration from countries such as China, Egypt, England, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Morocco and Scotland. The result is an eclectic yet coherent collection in which, thanks to a strict design, different materials (ceramic, wood, metal, glass and fabric) are used seamlessly and in which every single detail is studied to coordinate the various pieces both aesthetically and in their daily use.
The product catalogue had to be sent to print when half of the prototypes haven't been ready yet to take pictures from. There was a need for quick renders which are printed in the final catalogue:
After also the photographs (by Marco Zanin) have been taken, Marlene created renders with the same arrangement to challenge realism in photography and computer generated images in 3D - see the two pictures right below:
Head of Design Studio:
Sam Baron
3D Renderings:
Marlene Wolfmair
Product Designers:
Giorgia Zanellato, Pascal Hien, Nikita Bhate, Tomomi Maezawa
UNITED COLORS OF BENETTON
United Dreams
This is a visualisation of a dream. The text and location were given by a dreamer unknowingly,
then this video was imagined. It is part of several artworks and installations for the »United Dreams« exhibition at
Fabrica.
Direction & Creation:
Marlene Wolfmair
Sound Design:
Francesco Novara
MOLESKINE
Four Steps of Creation
Inspiration, Research, Sketching, Prototyping -
a series of four short videos created at
Fabrica for
Moleskine's exhibition at
Salone del Mobile 2014, Milan, Italy.
Direction:
Alessandro Bertelle
Photography:
Coleman Guyon
Post Production:
Marlene Wolfmair
Animation:
Tomás Pichardo
Sound Design:
Davide Cairo
Voice:
Alejandro Sajgalik
DUBAI
Smart City
The smart city of the future will have integrated sensors, advanced services, and intelligent citizens. This exhibit takes visitors up a simulated lift (elevator) to the 110th floor of the world’s new tallest building; the Burj Al Emirat. As they step out, visitors are greeted with floor-to-ceiling view looking out at the future of Dubai as a smart city.
Augmented reality overlays highlight various smart city improvements, focusing as much on the social and environmental innovation as much as the technological.
Smart electrical grids channel power in real-time to the areas that need it the most, automated drones deliver key services and packages, self-driving vehicles transport goods and people safely, and universal sensors enable new forms of social interaction and business opportunity.
museum.governmentsummit.ae
One of six topics at the exhibition »The Museum of Future Government Services«
by the Government Summit, United Arab Emirates, 10.02. - 12.02.2014
a project by Fabrica & Tellart
3D Generalist & Compositor:
Marlene Wolfmair
Information Design:
Hendrik Hohenstein
Graphic Animation:
Alessandro Bertelle