The MAN MADE and BC-AD group of works are a series of experimental design studies contemplating and elaborating on prehistoric stone tools. Due to organic decay, lack of documentation and language, many questions remain surrounding our earliest existing objects; how exactly were they used? What was their true purpose in evolutionary terms? What role did aesthetics play?
This project looks at man’s first and longest-lived tools through the craft of Knapping, 3D scanning, and digital printing, as well as the more industrialized rubber-dipping and silver electroplating.
Present are both speculative thoughts on halving and reflections on contemporary issues such as branding, agronomics, courtship, manufacture and consumerism as well as survivalism.
Design studio
The studio was formed in Israel in 1996 with a wide view of the Design discipline and the belief that actions and interactions in diverse fields generate superior design. Projects in Industrial Design, Furniture and Lighting Design, and Interior and Exhibit design diffuse into one another thereby transferring approaches, channeling ideas, and pushing technologies and esthetics in new directions. Investigations and experiments in design are incorporated seamlessly into the studio’s working format of the south Tel-Aviv studio, thereby maintaining a design dialogue in both academic and professional realms.
Ami Drach (1963-2012) and Dov Ganchrow are both graduates (1991 and 1992, respectively) of the Industrial Design Deptartment at the Bezalel Acadamy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. Professor Ami Drach served as the Head of Bezalel's Industrial Design Department 2004-2008, and Dov continues to teach there as a senior lecturer.
