Established in 2006 by young Dutch Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta the project DRIFT explores how design can be rethought fundamentally by using the newest technologies, thereyby paying attention to the evolutionary developments in nature and human culture. They are aiming for a combination as perfect as possible of knowledge and intuition, science fiction and nature, fantasy and interactivity.

Several of their objects are reacting on as well as scrutinising human behaviors and since they believe that light expresses emotions in a very direct way it has become one of their favorite mediums: The size of the lamp ‚Oil Light‘ depends on the quantity of the diaphanus miniature nylon oildrums it is composed of. This amount varies according to the daily crude oil prize - when one barrel costs USD 100 the lamp comprises of 100 pieces.

The light objects of their ‚Fragile Future‘- series are dealing with the amalgamation of nature and technology: The delicate seed vessels of dandelions are directly connected with a circuit and LEDs, four ‚Dandelights‘ are shaping one modul.

A light sculpture can be composed of up to fifty moduls, overgrowing a wall like the natural dandelions are overgrowing a meadow.

Also the seating sculptures entitled 'Ghost Collection' play with the light. A futuristic, amoeba- like chair design, which cannot as yet be realised for lack of technical feasibility, has been emulated by millions of air bubbles inside a massive angular throne made of perspex.

By the means of an ingenious combination of computer aided design - in short CAD - and laser technology DRIFT is able to create an intangible design, only visible by the reflections of light on each bubble. The two from Eindhoven are pushing the boundaries of the imaginable and doable with their innovative designs, but their vision of the future is full of poetry and positive energy.