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RICOTTA design Simone LeAmon

LA PRIMA BALLERINA design Simone LeAmon

Developed in collaboration Ricotta and La Prima Ballerina are the first of many new distinctive lighting products by Simone LeAmon for Rakumba Lighting. Initiating the Rakumba Design Collaborations in August 2010, designer and manufacturer are committed to developing new product ideas with the best design and manufacturing talent in Australia.

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In the air

Helmet Graphics by O.S INITIATIVE

Commissioned by the 2007 FORMULA 1™ ING Australian Grand Prix and the Design Institute of Australia.

Design Simone LeAmon ©

O.S INITIATIVE Team:
Simone LeAmon
Daryl Munton
Luke Hibberd

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A Good Sport - Bowling Arm bangles

Good Sport is an accessory range made with the leather remnants from cricket balls. For decades this leather waste has been discarded in Australia, designer Simone LeAmon continues the practice of fashioning the waste into original product ideas, first established by n+1 equals interdisciplinary studio in Melbourne in 1999.

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I Wish

The I Wish collection of tea light candle beds emerged from a nightly custom performed by LeAmon throughout 2006. Sending prayers for better health to her grandmother LeAmon lit a votive candle every night for 12 months. This practice soon evolved into a quiet, personal ritual producing a brilliant collection of melted forms. Cast in 316 stainless steel with a mirror finish each holder possesses the memory of the votive candle from which it receives its form.

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Lepidoptera

Titled after the insect species of moths and butterflies Lepidoptera draws on the anatomy of a butterfly’s wing to bring purpose to the formal equation of structure, colour and pattern.

A key feature of Lepidoptera is the use of textile remnants and R&D stillage from Australian automotive textile manufacturer Autofab. Lepidoptera shares linkages to the automotive interiors of Holden, Ford and Mitsubishi vehicles manufactured in Victoria over the past decade.

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Supersystem Play

The Supersystem performs the role of a conceptual and visual hinge between the abiding themes of desire, use, comfort and play in view of constructing an environment of objects and images. It is an object – a piece of ‘use-art’ that can be played with to reconfigure soft-micro landscapes for resting, lying, sleeping and dreaming within. Appearing in the shape of an ellipse, it unfolds and comes apart in six varying forms, one must arrange, sit, bounce, balance and rely on the practice of ‘play’ to define its use.

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Moto Showroom: The Return of Desire

MOTO Showroom: the return of desire is an adventure emerging from a dialogue between desire and design. Conceived through the exploration of a design methodology MOTO Showroom attempted to construct the world of the artist/designer’s practice. A strategic organisation of ideas on gender and design are woven though a schema of works transfixed on the image of the motorbike and notion of the artist/designer as ‘racer’. MOTO Showroom embraced the expressive capacities of digital technologies in order to conjoin the modes of art and design practice and reveal design process within a fantastical narrative.