PVC HANDBLOWING PROJECT by Kodai Iwamoto
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PVC HANDBLOWING PROJECT | Kodai Iwamoto
DESIGN NOTE
Art projects that designers create with their own hands
An approach that adds new value to industrial commodities
photography : Kodai Iwamoto
words : Reiji Yamakura/IDREIT
PVC HANDBLOWING PROJECT is an art project that Kodai Iwamoto, a product designer, has been working on since 2018. Iwamoto realized how easily our values and perspectives change over time, and he was exploring ways to increase the value of the items around us. Then he remembered the thermoplasticity of the PVC pipes he often used to make prototypes and began working on them.
He creates all of vases with his own hands. The procedure is first to heat the pipe with an infrared heater to soften it and then blow it from one end. Currently, three variants have been released, one with moulds and one without.
DETAIL
Kodai Iwamoto demonstrated his procedure at pop-up event in CIBONE Tokyo in August 2020.
The artist occasionally use custom-made moulds to create a shape with texture.
A new prototype with moulds.
CREDIT + INFO
Name: PVC HANDBLOWING PROJECT
Artist: Kodai Iwamoto
Material: PVC pipes
