Jason Bird has been the Founder, Creative Director, and Managing Director of Luxxbox since 2006. There, he designs and manufactures furnishings, lighting, and objects for each residential and business use. A protracted and assorted profession has allowed Jason to channel his personal model’s distinctive aesthetic of city design utilizing unconventional supplies, industrial finishes, colours, and manufacturing methods.
Jason’s profession in architectural lighting launched in Australia. He then relocated to the US and designed for a number of main producers, gathering a great deal of expertise alongside the best way. Once he made the return to his personal follow, Jason centered on designs that embodied a visible show of power by the exploration of adverse house. Then he saved pushing the boundaries to create an individual model assertion.
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“When I was in school I always loved art, but was also fascinated by engineering,” he recalled. “I remember going to a career day and discovering industrial design and it seemed to all fall into place. Design seems at the crossroads of art and engineering.” Jason added how he feels “lucky that my work is my passion and design is so interwoven into how I live so it has never felt arduous.”
But given the prospect to return and do it over again, he mentioned he’d select to focus extra on typical visible artwork. “It would be interesting to step into a creative space where the process wasn’t about producing something commercially or at scale, but just creating art for art’s sake. To have the time and space to explore visually and materially.”
Jason’s data of lighting design and manufacturing have seen him obtain worldwide awards and accolades for large-scale public and customized lighting installations in Los Angeles, London, New York, Tokyo, and Australia. Meanwhile, Luxxbox has change into a serious producer exporting to Asia, Europe, and North America.
We’re completely satisfied to have Jason Bird becoming a member of us for this week’s Friday Five!
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1. Marcel Breuer’s Wassily Chair / Eames’ Lounge Chair Wood
Both of those designs have at all times fascinated me. In my design follow I’m at all times methods to use supplies and manufacturing processes in new methods, and these are each basic examples of this idea at work. The innovation of bending metal to make furnishings was so unconventional on the time. Likewise forming plywood for a chair. These days, each are ubiquitous concepts, however they have been actually sport altering at their launch.
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2. Northern California
I’ve lived in Northern California on and off for a lot of years. It is part of the world that basically resonates with me. There is rather a lot which is harking back to home in Australia, however on the similar time it has a definite sensibility that I’m drawn to. The local weather, climate, meals, the using, and the panorama are all so inspirational, however there’s additionally an exquisite sense of group and compassion in regards to the locals.
3. Music
It in all probability sounds very cliche, however music has at all times been a think about my inventive course of. You may name me a pissed off musician, and I nonetheless play a bit with my youngsters. I feel that discovering new music, discovering new expertise, going to reside gigs is absolutely energizing. A present favourite is Fred Again. Fred Gibson is simply endlessly optimistic and the best way he mixes sound with video and efficiency is so revolutionary.
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4. Travel
I journey rather a lot, each for work and pleasure, and I attempt to make every journey embody a bit of each. There isn’t any higher method to refresh your mindset. Getting publicity to new views, speaking to designers and business individuals, and new angles is absolutely necessary. The key to persevering with to create innovatively is just not getting blinkered by the setting instantly round you.
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5. Family
My kids actually encourage me, nonetheless as young teenagers, watching them study and develop. Teaching me issues day by day. Being challenged by the longer term, however working by that and projecting their higher, optimistic view of the world. I hope that having design as an affect of their life will assist them remedy life’s challenges. After all, everyone seems to be a designer.
Work by Jason Bird and Luxxboxx:
Cono Photo: Courtesy Luxxbox
Tessell Photo: Courtesy Luxxbox
Cono Photo: Courtesy Luxxbox
Georgina Photo: Courtesy Luxxbox
