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14th to 19th of April 2010

.MGX by Materialise shows the Krizant.MGX by Michaella van Vuuren in their booth at the Via Tortona n°19 in Milan at the next Salone del Mobile!

From April 11 until April 16, .MGX will be exhibiting the Chrysanthemum as the Krizant.MGX at the Light & Building trade show in Frankfurt, Germany - the world's leading trade fair for architecture and technology professionals.

1-8 April 2010 Festival artist at the KKNK!

Michaella Janse van Vuuren and Lucas Thobejane selected as joint festival artists of the Klein Karoo National Arts Festival.

Photographs by Paul Boulitreau

18 March-18 April 2010 Collateral group exhibition

Collateral group exhibition at the Fried Contemporary Gallery. A Collaboration with Gordon Froud.

26-28 February 2010 Design Indaba Expo exhibition

A big thank you to everyone who visited the Design Indaba Expo stand. We had a very successful show!

February 2010 The Goldfish pendant

In the spirit of the belle epoch, the pendant is in the shape of a fish swimming through a coral reef. It has been manufactured in yellow gold with gemstones set in the coral. The pendant is eye-catching and dramatic, a piece of nostalgia reminding the wearer of the precious resources of our oceans.

The Goldfish in coral pendant in 9kt yellow gold, colour differences were plated in Rhodium and 18kt gold. Set with green Peridot cabochon gemstones. The jewellery is designed using specialised 3d computer design programs. The gold objects are made by "growing" the physical object in wax using a Solidscape wax printer. The physical wax object is then cast in gold using a lost wax casting process.

24-26 February 2010 Design Indaba conference Platinum pin

It was a great honor to design this year's Design Indaba Platinum pin awarded to all the speakers at the conference.

December 2009

A great article on my work in DESIGN> magazine Design Magazine No 15 January 2010 Pages 264 to 269, read the article online and here.

The Birdman, Fishtales Box and other artworks exhibited at the Oppitafel Group Art Exhibition at ARTSPACE warehouse.

September 2009

Sculptures on show at the Art Association in Pretoria. The exhibition opens on the 6th of September 2009, come and join us at the opening 17:30 for 18:00.

Moveable sculpture sintered on EOSint

The Birdman movable sculpture by Michaella Janse van Vuuren from Michaella Janse van Vuuren on Vimeo.

ZCORP 650 Color 3D prints

The sculptures were designed and colored on computer using Zbrush and Rhino. A Zcorp Zprinter 650 3D color printer was used to print the objects, sculpture and colour all in one go!

Exhibition and 3D print run in September 2009

New sculptures will be shown at the Art Association in Pretoria. The exhibition opens on the 6th of September 2009, come and join us at 17:30 for 18:00. A print run will follow where you can place orders for both the new and previous works. Please send an email if you want to be reminded of these dates (info@nomili.co.za)

September 2009 NOMILI's Sequin swirl earrings one of Michelle Constant's favorites!

Read the article in BusinessDay WANTED magazine

July 2009 Nomili takes to the skies

Sit back fold away your tray table and read an article on NOMILI in Juice the Mango in flight magazine.

22 July 2009

NOMILI featured on the South African television program Artcha 22 July SABC 2. Catch the rerun on Sunday 26 July 13H00 SABC 2.

Wonderful articles on NOMILI published in the Design Indaba magazine and Conde Nast House and Garden!

June 2009

The orders are in. Thank you for your support, it was great fun to receive the 3D orders and send the packages!

31 May is the deadline for placing your 3D print order.

9 April to 4 June 2009

NOMILI at Open Lab 3.0 : Addictlab's temporary Lab Space.

The international creative think tank Addictlab has partnered up with the Design Quarter in Johannesburg to set up its next ‘Open Lab’. The temporary space will show a selection of South African creative talent to Design Quarter’s large audience, but also create unique brainstorming possibilities for third parties interested in new concepts & ideas. Come and see NOMILI's designs at this exciting exhibit.

9 April to end of June 2009

NOMILI at the opening exhibition of the Craft and Design Centre in Gauteng

The April 9th sees the launch of the Craft and Design Centre Gauteng at Nelson Mandela Square in the space previously occupied by the Sandton Civic Gallery. The Chrysanthemum Centerpiece and sculptures form part of the exhibit.

3 April 2009

Most Beautiful Object In South Africa from Design Indaba on Vimeo. 

3 March 2009

The Chrysanthemum centrepiece wins Most Beautiful Object in South Africa at the Design Indaba 2009!

The Chrysanthemum centerpiece is a reversible design that can function as either a bowl or a candle holder, depending on which side of the design faces upwards.
The centrepiece reflects my passion for the textures, shapes and patterns found in nature. I especially like to interpret those objects that have a repetitive mathematically founded pattern. Some objects are immediately recognisable, such as the Chrysanthemum, others are more abstract. Direct 3-dimensional manufacturing methods, such as selective laser sintering (SLS) used to create the Chrysanthemum allows me to design intricate textures and objects. These textures and objects would have been impossible to execute by hand, yet the centrepiece still retains the beauty and tactile feeling of a natural object.

The Chrysanthemum is directly manufactured with the EOS P380 using the PA2200 polyamide material.

Size 250x250x82mm

29 February 2009

NOMILI at the Design Indaba Expo 2009

We had a great time, lots of friendly visitors and talented designers.

December 2008

The Pine cone light for Addictlab in I.D. Magazine March/April 2009 edition!

BIOGRAPHY: Dr .MICHAELLA JANSE VAN VUUREN

Dr. Michaella Janse van Vuuren matriculated at the Pro Arte High School for Art, Music Ballet and Drama in 1990. Students were given free reign, and Michaella experimented with puppetry, Video installations, body art, and was one of ten recipients of a Santam art bursary. The next few years were spent dabbling with various forms of art, live performance art, mural art, and a course in Desktop Graphics. This introduction to the silent companionship of the computer again led to a first year course in Computer Science at UNISA, which in turn led Michaella to UCT and the Engineering School.

Michaella received her BSc. Electrical Engineering in 1998, with a final year research project where she developed a software program for human eye detection and tracking in video footage. This interest encouraged her to enrol for the Masters degree, focussed on the development of a system for automatic human pose and action recognition in video sequences. The project required that a database be constructed consisting of a professional blue screen studio, 7 cameras and camera operators as well as eight actors. These elements had to be coordinated to produce a 24-hour video database filmed for over 4 hours. Michaella used negative space in her computer vision software to automatically identify the different poses and recognise the actions. During her studies she received a Scarce Skills Scholarship (NRF), National Research Fund Bursary (NRF) and a de Beers Bursary for research in computer vision. Michaella received her PhD. in Electrical Engineering in 2004.

Research work done at the Meraka Institute of the Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) focused on an efficient information and communication system that would enable people with different disabilities to access information and services. It was the collaboration between the different disciplines, centred on the individuals’ needs that Michaella found most exciting during this period.

It was at Bloemfontein, 2007, during a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Central University of Technology that Michaela’s long suppressed artistic talents started to emerge again. The research focused on the development of custom implants using computer-aided (CAD), and computer-aided manufacture (CAM) methods utilizing CT and MR-scan data as reference.

Michaella recognized the amazing opportunities that the 3D printers offered for realizing the following imaginative projects:

March 2009 The Chrysanthemum wins the Design Indaba 2009 Most Beautiful Object in South Africa competition!

The Pine Cone Light, collaboration with Jan van Mol of Addictlab features in ID magazine.

June 2008 KYK gallery’s Artificial Light group exhibition, Pretoria.

March 2008, Open Lab II exhibition at the Design Quarter, Johannesburg.

November 2007 Group exhibition of Pretoria Jewellers at the South African Association of Arts

August 2007 Fiinal selection in the VISI Haute Lumiére Lighting competition.