We need your help!
Who are we?
We are Koa Pham, Ania Marciniak and Madeleine Duflot, three young designers. We all come from different countries and met during our Product Design studies at Central Saint Martins in London.
Atma Collective has featured us on their blog, have a look to get to know us a bit better!
What is our aim?
We want to create more emotional design, more functional art.
We want to increase people’s well-being through the environment they live in and experience. Since art belongs to everyone and design is everywhere, we want to bring art closer to everyday life through design.
We want to let people express their creativity, embrace forms and colours on a daily basis, as well as let them be comfortable and free in their movements and bodies.
We want to enhance the relationship between design and people, make emotional bonds with furniture possible.
What is our project?
Into-form is a piece of abstract furniture, since it sits between art and design, and has no defined function: you can do whatever you want with Into-form. It is composed of five forms that perfectly slot and fit together, enabling you to create a composition which is either functional, sculptural, or both at the same time. Every new assembly becomes a new whole, a new sculpture, a new form you can sit, lie or sleep into: Into-form was broadly inspired by the concept of gestalt. The possibilities are endless!
Into-form fits both private homes and public spaces, such as hotels, museums or office halls.
We have been working on this project since May 2017, made a first 1:1 prototype, exhibited it at 21st Faith show in October 2017 in London…You can follow our journey on our Instagram ilco_design!
Where will the money go?
All of your donations will firstly support us in making a new, perfect model of Into-form to present at Salone Satellite. The first prototype enabled us to see what we needed to improve.
For this new model, we will use foam instead of stuffing to achieve rounder shapes. It will also make the forms slightly lighter, hence easier to move around.
We will use proper upholstery cotton velvet, layered with calico, in order to have a smoother surface and a more durable piece of furniture. The upholstery will be made by a professional that we are glad to have found already. - 4 000€
Secondly, your donations will help fund our participation in Salone Satellite. - 3 050€
If we are lucky enough to raise beyond that amount, we will be able to finance the patent protecting the concept of Into-form. - 1 025€
Lastly, if there is still some money left (seriously??!! Oh guys!!), we will use it for all the extra costs around this project and adventure, such as transport of Into-form to Milan, the stand design, the production cost of all the great perks, a contribution to Koa’s airplane ticket, who is travelling from Vietnam, etc. and fresh flowers on our stand!
How do we thank you?
To thank you for your precious help, we prepared a number of perks that we hope you will like and enjoy!
For 5€, we will send you a digital personalised thank you Into-form image via email.
For 10€, you will get a set of 4 postcards of Into-form and a thank you card signed by the 3 of us, OR a big postcard that we will sign and send to you from Milan, so experience the adventure you are contributing to, with a beautiful stamp from the city…
For 15€, you will receive a beautiful A2 poster of Into-form signed by the 3 of us.
For 20€, we are pleased to send you the White Square tote, hand-sewn by Koa’s cousin, with a signed thank you card.
For 23€, you can choose between two A3 totes, perfect to fit many useful things at the same time, large folders or groceries. They also both hold a signed thank you card and are hand-sewn by Koa’s cousin.
For 25€, we are ever so pleased to send you the Black Square tote, hand-sewn by still that same cousin of Koa, with a signed thank you card.
For 50€, over six months, we will send you 6 beautiful postcards of Into-form with updates on our adventure, from wherever we are, Vietnam, Poland, France or London. You will also get an A2 signed poster, and your favorite tote to chose among the 4 models!
For 70€, you will get many perks for less…That’s a proper deal! We will send you the A2 signed poster, 1 A3 tote of your choice, 1 Square tote of your choice, the set of 4 postcards and the big thank you card sent from Salone Satellite, Milan!
For 100€, we will make a 1:10 model of Into-form especially for you, because you really deserve it, and send a signed A2 Poster and Thank you card with it. There are 5 early birds on this perk! If you are quick enough, you will get it all for 80€…
And last but not least, for 1 500€, we will give you our very first full scale prototype of Into-form. It is not perfect, wears a few scars and patches, but was made with unconditional love, patience, and excitement. We would be very happy to offer it to an art and design enthusiast who understands its fragility as well as its value, and who would take great care of it.
Everyone who contributes will also have their name written on our Thank You Post on our Instagram, ilco_design.
If you wish to donate more than the perk you fancy is worth, you can simply order the perk you want, re-do the same process a second time, and make a donation (at the very top, pink rectangle, 'back it') or chose another perk you like! You can contribute as many times as you wish to... How cool is that?
All the perks will be sent after the Salone Satellite, so the three of us can sign every poster and postcard. Only the big Thank you card and the first of the six postcards will be sent during the event, from Milan.
How else can you help?
If you can’t donate money, sharing our project with your family and friends is also of invaluable help!
If you are a blogger, a journalist, an influencer…feel free to talk about it or get in touch with us via our instagram ilco_design or via e-mail at hello.ilco.design@gmail.com!
Thank you!
We would like to thank all of you who support our project, it means a lot to us.
Thank you Tram for the beautiful pictures, thank you Gramatik for allowing us to use ‘Swing of Justice’ in the video, thank you Trang Jenny for being our awesome Tote-model, and thank you to all our friends and relatives who have been supporting our work so far.
Thank you so much to our parents who are showing us great support and help all the way, since the very beginning.
See you all at Salone Satellite, 17-22 April 2018!
♥ Koa, Ania and Madeleine ♥