Eighty-two objects from the collection, both choice (a beachscape by the French Symbolist Odilon Redon) and mundane (a plastic hamburger, designer unknown), are arranged single file, sparking a domino effect of optical associations.
Her finds include exclusive products from Italian plastic furniture designer Kartell and artsy, textile-focused Brooklyn, N.Y., clothing label Ace & Jig.
Clariant's ColorForward guide, which aims to help plastic product designers and marketing professionals to 'make more informed colour choices', is now in its tenth year, while PolyOne's InVisiOSM colour and design service was launched in 2013 [ADPO, July 2013].
"We're no longer obsessed with something like, 'How much stuff can we make in plastic?'" both designers noted with a tongue-in-cheek grin.
Reinforced plastics offer designers of ship propellers a new approach to design and manufacture.
But in some windows, women have recently been replaced by plastic mannequins in designer clothes.
The signature double-buckled schoolbags come in every colour – from traditional to fluoro and metallic, from transparent plastic to exclusive designer collaborations.
From the spongy pink tailoring that opened the show, through mesh dresses and shiny plastic coats, the designer did not put a foot — in the transparent-heeled shoes — wrong.
The (variously) one-eyed, one-horned, purple, red and green people eaters called Uglydolls are among the most successful of a new wave of vinyl, plastic and plush "designer toys".
He or she might have a body made of flesh or plastic, but the designer might also be a virtual being living inside the computer of a still more advanced form of intelligence.
The transparent plastic of the designer's very early shows, displayed as dry-cleaner covers on a Paris wasteland, did a tour of a gilded salon as a chic and sleek trench, or the same effect was used for a semitransparent jacket and pants.
