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Expert handcrafting and high-end design make a beautiful couple, don't you think? |
Local design and manufacturing company Bocci has a glass-blowing studio on site. It's pretty awesome to watch their high-end chandeliers be created right in front of you.
The manufacturing process, often involving expert hand-craftsmanship whether in glass or other mediums, is as important to the design team as the final design. As they say, "Bocci's philosophy is that the form of an object should relate directly to the manner of its making. Instead of inventing form, we focus on inventing a process, and the process in turn yields form."
And now Bocci is looking to produce a couple of three- to four-minute videos on the making of two of their products. To gain a fresh perspective, they're having a contest to find a videographer. Here are the details, in Bocci's words:
Please submit a video, maximum 30 seconds in length, about the "making of" a fried egg. Upload your video to YouTube and check "unlisted" in the privacy setting, then email the link of your video and your C/V to eggs@bocci.ca no later than February 1, 2011. Judging will occur in the first week of February by a panel consisting of Bocci's board of directors (including Creative Director Omer Arbel), and the results will be announced on February 7th. The two final "making of" videos need to be complete no later than April 1st, 2011.The winning candidate will receive a $5,000 fee (Canadian funds) and one sample of each of the pieces filmed, in exchange for the production of our two “making of” videos. The winner will also receive travel to and from Vancouver, living expenses (if required), and a modest reimbursable expense budget (to be discussed at a future date) for equipment rentals. Bocci already owns a Panasonic AG-HMC150 PU camera which may be employed to gather footage. The winning candidate will be credited in all of Bocci’s promotional material, including the debut of one of the two videos at Rossana Orlandi’s Gallery during the 2011 Milan Design Week.
