Start-ups challenging tomorrow. As the environment changes, the concept of work is also changing. Previously, a big company used to make and sell things, but now, individuals begin to make creative goods and services. Startup the Future is an exhibition that shows the vision for the founder and the direction for small design company. Now 3D printing and startup is getting more attention not only from the business side but also from the cultural side. In this exhibition, this phenomenon is introduced including start-up founding cases, developed products and creative works of designers.  

Gwangju Gazebo by Michael HansmeyerGwangju Design Biennale

The “Gwangju Gazebo” demonstrates how innovations in both fabrication tech-nologies and design tools can make new architectural worlds tangible.

9 to 6 by EMART 24 by Hong Seung-hyeGwangju Design Biennale

convenience store dark shadow of capitalism, which has marked its place as an inevitable part of our lives. it shows somewhat playful&optimistic installations which fuse the languages of art&design.

From Here For Here #1 From Here For Here #1 by Ariane PrinGwangju Design Biennale

The project includes main issues: Create useful products specific to a site from the waste generated there; The legitimacy of creating new objects by keeping the enjoyment of making without the guilt.

From Here For Here #1Gwangju Design Biennale

The pencil

RUST RUST by Ariane PrinGwangju Design Biennale

The RUST range is created by mixing metal particles originating from key cutting and other metalworking workshops across London, with gypsum and acrylic.

Playhouse PlayhouseGwangju Design Biennale

Playhouse is an interactive education program which allows children to produce creative works and materialize them using a 3D printer.

Fanfare by Park JihoonGwangju Design Biennale

Magpie house project. Magpie house project. by Sungkyunkwan UniversityGwangju Design Biennale

Magpie house project,the ecology-inspired project,is an objet that tries to interpret robustness and comfort of a magpie’s nest in the nature from the integrated perspective of design and engineering.

3D Printing Lab 3D Printing Lab by FAB365Gwangju Design Biennale

Unlike existing products,the showcased items do not need any support and assembly, or they do not know the limitation of size, because they are printed via various types of 3D printers.

Holster hack Holster hack by Dov GanchrowGwangju Design Biennale

the Holster Hack design project was designed under the backdrop of the politically/ideologically driven violent reality on Israeli city streets.

Man Made Man Made by Dov GanchrowGwangju Design Biennale

Man Made is a series of hand-axes which combine rocks sourced from the Negev Desert in southern Israel and plastic handles created with 3D printing.

3D Printed Light (2017) 3D Printed Light (2017) by Kim KihyunGwangju Design Biennale

3D Printied Light is deigned based on the study of efficient modeling of 3D printing technology (fused deposition modeling, FDM) for mass production and approaches to graphic design of 3D structure.

#FriendlyStrangers #FriendlyStrangers by Vincent GuimnGwangju Design Biennale

In the age where people can meet and make friends transcending time and space thanks to the Internet and social media, the artist chose the theme of “conditional meeting.”

Credits: Story

Curator
Choi Mi-kyoung

Sul Sanghun
Lee Hyunin
Khahasuwan Puchong

Moon Jisoo

Choi Eunji

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