Hi everyone !

 

Today, Drawn returns to its presence at the Paris Design Week and its exhibition at Now! le Off ! Let’s go back on the event !

Drawn : Zoom in on the Paris Design Week and Now! le Off !

For those who don’t know this fair and this exhibition, here are some explanations ! 😉

The Paris Design Week is a fair which gathers 300 participants each year, belonging to the design universe. Organized in the Docks, in the City of Fashion and Design, for and by design fans, it is punctuated by various exhibitions and evenings.

During eight days, Paris then becomes the international capital city of design and turns into a true designers village. Indeed, more than 100 designers, 200 galleries, design schools, workshops and creation studios, from across the world, present the best of contemporary creation !

So, the Paris Design Week represents with the D’days (in which Drawn also participated), a main design event.

The Paris Design Week also features Now! le Off, which brings together the design forerunners.
This flagship event of the fair is devoted to the New Talents of Design, who exhibits their prototypes. The exhibition also hosts the Emerging Editors, who present their models already on the market or close to commercialization.

Now! le Off also stands for a great opportunity to mobilize the young designers around the Rado Star Prize France contest, whose aim is to support them and highlight their talent.

The Now! le Off exhibition thus represents a true springboard for the emerging young creators, editors and designers, from all around the world.

Drawn exhibits at Now! le Off for the Paris Design Week !

From last 5th to 12th September, Drawn had the opportunity to be one of these young creators and has thus exhibited its creations at the prestigious Now! le Off exhibition.

So, we want to warmly thank all those who came admire our work !

Thank you as well to the organizers, who received us in the City of Fashion and Design ! Thanks to you, Drawn was able to exhibit its creations, which are the result of several years of work and passion.

And for those who didn’t get the chance to come and see our work, here are some pictures :

Once again thank you for coming and seeing Drawn’s creations ! We hope we will see you soon on other exhibitions !

And if you love our creations, know that you can purchase them on our online shop !

We will return to you soon for more news about Drawn ! 🙂

YES! 3 monthes old and already 3 show up = Now : Drawn @Paris Design Week

Drawn will present its creation to Now le Off! show during Paris Design Week!

Please come freely to visit Cité de la Mode et du Design – 34 quai d’Austerlitz, 75013 Paris from Sateurday Septembre 6th at  2:00pm to Saturday September 13th till 7:00pm

Please foolow that link for all detail : http://www.parisdesignweek.fr/en/participant/drawn/

We will be happy to welcome you at our booth to xhow you our process, our offer and present also our first line of furniture.

Moreover, during full week, we will be exposing some piece of furniture at  Chai Muraz which is 15 minutes walking from our exhibition.

On Friday September 12th, from 8:00 pm, we will celebrate this meeting week.

To receive invitation, you need to show up at our booth :

http://www.parisdesignweek.fr/en/eventdetail/drawn/134/

It was a fantastic experience, but all great things come to an end: we’re on our way home from MakerFaire Paris today. What a first edition of the event it was… We’re utterly exhausted, but oh so happy!

Bringing Galatea to Paris and properly setting her up in time was a major challenge for the team (Sylvain Charpiot, producer, and Samuel Javelle, scripter) – no efforts were spared to make it happen.

Since the inception of Drawn, Sylvain has kept in mind the wise words spoken by Steve Jobs at his 2005 Standford University conference * and translated them into the following steps :

• Safely setting up and connecting Galatea to its power and data inlets – Sylvain learnt a lot about clean and clever welding at an early age as he was setting up his first company, specialized in security alarm systems.
• Sylvain used all his experience-based knowledge gathered since age 11 as a member of student associations – this played out in a mind-bogglingly successful, last-minute kind of way. See for yourselves:

1. Drawn was officially founded on June 13th  of this year
2. The Drawn brand was born the same day
3. Hauling eyebolts welded onto the robots’ chassis the same day
4. Drawn @ MakerFaire Paris T-Shirts delivered to us on June 16th
5. Rust-proff coating applied to the the podiums on June 15th
6. Event-related flyers delivered to us on June 17th
7. Booth structural elements delivered on June 17th and installed on June 18th
8. Freshly-printed business cards delivered to us in Lyon on June 18th , only a day before our departure for Paris!

• Sylvain organized the transportation of 2 podiums weighing in total 4,5 tonnes – his commissionning engineer experience gathered during a work experience at Air Liquide in scandianvia carrying and assembling elements weighting a few hundred of tonnes came  in handy!
• Sylvain’s good star, which has followed him around throughout his life thanks to meditation, also played a part in the process  : Galatea did not want to start on friday morning and then suddenly, for no explainable reason, jolted into action. And truck with door locking issues which somehow, the next day, just starts responding properly again…
• And many other little but oh so meaningful things…

What an extraordinary adventure!

Special thanks to the MakerFaire Paris team for their logistical support and organizing skills, as well as their unfailing availability during the entire event. An extra special nod to Sylvain Clenet, the Event Manager, to Jean-Batpiste Le Clec’H, the Project Leader, and of course to Bertier Luyt and his nice team!

Galatea was surprinsingly docile and efficient during these 2 days! Even in our workshops a few days earlier, she didn’t behave that well!

This allowed the whole Drawn team (Samuel, Galatea and Sylvain) to truly shine in this first edition of MakerFaire Paris, by winning no less than 7 Makers of Merit awards from VIP members of the event!

What an outstanding outcome, especially considering the people who gave us the awards! Here’s their list:

1. Omar-Pierre Soubra, Director at Trimble
2. Mathieu from the lefabshop team
3. Margaux Duteil from the lefabshop team
4. Unidentified member, but the award had this message attached to it: “Wonderful Job!”
5. Sherry Huss, Vice-president at Maker Media inc – MakeZine
6. Jay Melican, Maker Czar at the New Devices Intel Group
7. John Bacus, product Management Director – Building construction, Architecture at Trimble (Sketchup)

This show was also the opportunity for Drawn to meet and present its activity to all visitors, including very influential visitors such  as :

Here are a few souvenir pictures :

Photo credit : Raphaël Creton

* Sylvain warmly recommends watching this Steve Jobs video,  but also to practice Yoga and meditation ….

This Thursday, Galatea travelled all the way from Corbas (Lyon region) to Paris, and arrived at the 104 exhibition hall at midnight.
Our robot had to beforehand be fitted into a sturdy steel base in order to be able to operate safely in front of the events’ visitors.

Do note that this is a 1.2-ton piece of equipment!

A transportation company was found and contracted at the last minute – it wasn’t too hard to convince them to give us a hand at such short notice: they really liked our project!
Thanks to the AVLM team and especially Aurélie Belhocine, Stéphan Moreau and Philippe Amoroz, our amazing truck driver!
We would also like to thank AITB company for putting us in touch with the very affordable services of AVLM.

In order to equip our stand and allow MakerFaire Paris visitors to admire Galatea, we had to design and build our own plexiglass – safety for all, as well as a 360° view of Galatea at work! Thanks to SP team, especially Nicolas, Cédric Perrin and his sister!

The flexibility and availability of these service providers, as well as the great forklifting job provided by the Marmonier Team (not to mention the supply of various fastening equipments) contributed to a speedy and stress-free installation of our dear robot. Marmonier, thanks again – you’re definitely a great partner to have by our side…

This friday at 4pm, we were ready to launch Galatea and test her in this new environment!

One minor hiccup  is to be noted: Sylvain, scatterbrained as he can be, forgot Galatea’s key in Lyon and had to go back as fast as possible to return in time for the launch. Thanks to Laurent Martinez’ team for their help in this matter.