Arik Levi
When Levi was only 27, he left the design shop and surf shop he owned in Israel and ventured into Europe to start design studies. In 1991, he graduated with an Industrial design degree from the Centre Art Europe in Switzerland, with the highest honor of excellence. In the same year he won first place in Seiko Epson Inc. design competition and moved to Japan, where he displayed his own exhibits and joined various design projects of Ateliers, Paris (1992-1994) Meanwhile, he led several design workshops in different universities in Europe. While pursuing his academic studies, Levi designed innovative elements for dance and opera performances all over the world, along with his partners in the versatile design studio Design L and his partner Fifo Leoni. Design L studio operated a broad variety of design projects and aspects – product design, interior design, jewelry and corporate design, exhibition design and stage design. As part of his mutual work with the studio he developed one of the most important technologies in the world for architypes fast building, made for his Belgian client Materialise MGX. His work is part of the company fast manufacturing line: a computer file is being fed into the machine that produces a 3D object sold to the client. Levi was one of the first to use a sophisticated 3D design to design objects in a complex morphology method that is not possible by prior, older technologies methods. This unique collaboration serves as a metaphor for Levi’s approach to life and design, one he defines as “Techno Poetry”. On top of being a scientist and a technology design innovator, he also possesses the soul of a poet. He has two sides to him – one that is constantly ready and excited to discover, invent and learn about scientific discoveries and looking to research shapes and new material and the other is the part that is connected to the joy of creation and the human “touch and feel”. When being asked what’s his biggest passion, he answers: “Surfing. Surfing is what I do best, I’m a man of the sea. I only ended up in design while trying to create items made for surfing and for wind surfing in Israel and Europe.”
Arik Levi
When Levi was only 27, he left the design shop and surf shop he owned in Israel and ventured into Europe to start design studies. In 1991, he graduated with an Industrial design degree from the Centre Art Europe in Switzerland, with the highest honor of excellence. In the same year he won first place in Seiko Epson Inc. design competition and moved to Japan, where he displayed his own exhibits and joined various design projects of Ateliers, Paris (1992-1994) Meanwhile, he led several design workshops in different universities in Europe. While pursuing his academic studies, Levi designed innovative elements for dance and opera performances all over the world, along with his partners in the versatile design studio Design L and his partner Fifo Leoni. Design L studio operated a broad variety of design projects and aspects – product design, interior design, jewelry and corporate design, exhibition design and stage design. As part of his mutual work with the studio he developed one of the most important technologies in the world for architypes fast building, made for his Belgian client Materialise MGX. His work is part of the company fast manufacturing line: a computer file is being fed into the machine that produces a 3D object sold to the client. Levi was one of the first to use a sophisticated 3D design to design objects in a complex morphology method that is not possible by prior, older technologies methods. This unique collaboration serves as a metaphor for Levi’s approach to life and design, one he defines as “Techno Poetry”. On top of being a scientist and a technology design innovator, he also possesses the soul of a poet. He has two sides to him – one that is constantly ready and excited to discover, invent and learn about scientific discoveries and looking to research shapes and new material and the other is the part that is connected to the joy of creation and the human “touch and feel”. When being asked what’s his biggest passion, he answers: “Surfing. Surfing is what I do best, I’m a man of the sea. I only ended up in design while trying to create items made for surfing and for wind surfing in Israel and Europe.”
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