5.5 designers

Profile of 5.5 designers

Business Name

5.5 designers

Location

France

Services

Product Design

Website

http://www.cinqcinqdesigners.com

Principal(s)

Vincent Baranger (born La Roche sur Yon, 1980)

• Bac Arts Appliques a Montaigu, Licence d'Arts Appliques, ENS cachan ACI, DSAA design produit a l'ENSAAMA Paris. Graduated in 2003.

Jean-Sebastien Blanc (born Nimes, 1980)

• ANAA a Nimes, BTS et DSAA design produit a l'ENSAAMA Paris, DEA CPI a L'ENSAM Paris.
• Graduated in 2003 (for DSAA) and in 2004 (for DEA).

Anthony Lebosse (born Caen, 1981)

• Bac Arts Appliques a Caen, BTS design produit a La Souterraine, DSAA design produit a l'ENSAAMA Paris. Graduated in 2003.

Claire Renard (born Poissy, 1980)

• MANAA, BTS et DSAA design produit a l'ENSAAMA Paris, DEA CPI a l'ENSAM Paris. Graduated in 2003 (for DSAA), and in 2004 (for DEA).

Philosophy

5.5 designers is a design studio of research and consulting, it has been created in 2003 by Vincent Baranger, Jean-Sebastien Blanc, Anthony Lebosse, and Claire Renard. Their first project, « Reanim », which gave birth to the object medicine, had a strong impact in the design scene.

Far from focusing only on shaping object, the 5.5 designers force themselves to a conceptual rigour and a permanent doubt on what is their designer status.

Therefore, they are standing in each of their creation for honest and accessible consumption alternatives, which implies a truly will to sublimate the ordinary. Because of this approach, tinted with humour and simplicity, brands and editors (from luxury ones to large audience ones) ask them to conceptualize produces and sceneries for their spaces. This type of responsible and optimistic design has reached, in three years time, a large panel of national and international institutions who have either exhibited or acquired their creation.

The city council of Paris awarded them with the "Grand prix de la creation" for the whole of their work.

Background

• Founded: 2004
• Offices: 1
• Design team: 4

Key projects

• Reanim, Nimes; France, 2003, design exhibition
• Lafayette VO, Paris, France, 2004, shop furniture design
• Ouvriers-Designers, Limoges, France, 2005, design workshop in Bernardaud porcelain manufacture, and exhibition.
• "Oberveur du design", Paris, France, 2004 and 2005, exhibition scenography
• "Mobilier a jardiner", Paris, France, 2006, products design, outdoor furniture
• "Tete a Tete » exhibition, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2006, exhibition scenography
• Participative installation " bring your brick to the building" for the "Rayons Frais" festival, Tours, France, 2006.
• "Furniture bases", La Ferte Vidame, France, 2006, design of outside furniture
• Wallpaper Games collection, Paris, France, 2006, products design, wallpapers collection.
• La Cuisine, Negrepelisse, France, 2007, design of Pique-nique areas

Key publications

• "5.5 designers", monography, pyramyd, august 2007
• International Design Year Book, Patricia Urquiola, Laurence King Publishing, mai 2007
• Furnish, Furniture and Interior Design for the 21st Century, DGV, mai 2007
• & fork, Phaidon, mars 2007
• Design & Designers Francais, editions IFA, janvier 2007
• One hundred and one things to do, by Kesselskramer, Bis, Netherlands, 2006
• Le design, hier, aujourd'hui, demain mode d'emploi, elisabeth Couturier, Filipacchi, France, 2006
• Designer's Design, Gap, Japan, 2006
• Living Trends, future concept Lab, 2006, Francesco Morace, Italy, 2006
• Design & Imitation, editions IFA , France, 2006

Key awards

• 2007, "Grand Prix de la Creation de la ville de Paris"
• 2007, First Price of the design contest "The Heart of Venice" in the category glass contener.
• 2006, Purchase of the F.N.A.C of the range of remedial accessories Reanim
• 2006, LABEL VIA 2006 for "ouvriers-designers", Bernardaud foundation
• 2006, LABEL VIA 2006 for "furniture to garden", B-ton design
• 2006, LABEL VIA 2006 for "portecintre", La Corbeille editions
• 2006, special Mention at the International Zepter contest