Congratulations to Department of Industrial Design graduates Greg Paskalov, Michal Kleiner, Segev Kaspi, Tair Almor, and Bar Cohen, whose projects will be featured at the Lost Graduation Show in Salone del Mobile, Milan’s highly anticipated design fair.

The Lost Graduation show will showcase 170 student graduation projects from 48 design colleges worldwide. Selected from among 300 other design departments, Shenkar’s Department of Industrial Design is the only Israeli representative at the show.

Developed during the pandemic (with guidance from Michal Fraifeld), Michal Kleiner’s graduation project “Three’s Company” is the result of the designer’s personal search for comfort in her lockdown life. The project is a series of three products: a hot water bottle, a sourdough starter container, and a kit for growing plants. All three products require water and work together as one system.

Michal Kleiner’s graduation project (photography: Michael Shvedron)

Greg Paskalov will be showcasing “Space Hands,” a speculative design for robots built for setting up bases on the moon. The robots were designed to emulate living beings as closely as possible, with joints that move in natural angles, internal skeletons, and silicone skin. The resulting intuitive user experience is meant to reduce the alienation felt by astronauts during extended stays far from home in stress-inducing conditions.

Greg Paskalov’s graduation project (simulation)

Project “Forest Ranger Druids” (advisor: Daniel Leibowitz) aims to start a public debate about the high concentrations of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere and the importance of reforestation. Shenkar graduate Segev Kaspi developed a series of robotic forest rangers tasked with replanting and maintaining a sustainable forest. Each robot has its own role in managing and preserving the forest, and their actions change based on the forest’s needs.

Segev Caspi’s graduation project (simulation)

Tair Almor’s “Project Hypatia” (advisor: Ravit Lazer) began with questions about representations of women’s bodies and sexuality, and about the role female designers play in society—what is feminine design, and what does it mean to design for women?

Almor explains: “I invited women to take part in my creative process. “100 women aged 19 to 76 participated in my project. I asked them questions about nudity, pain, pleasure, observing the body, and intimacy with others. From each woman’s answers, I made a molded ceramic vase. Each slice in each vase gets its shape, color, and size based on a woman’s answer to a question. Thus, each woman has a unique, personal vase.”

Tair Almor’s graduation project (photographer: Ori Shifrin Anavi)

Bar Cohen’s project “Sand to Sand” (advisor: Yoav Ziv) is a series of beach toys that provides an alternative to the traditional beach play experience, encouraging people to forego the use of plastic and help fight pollution. The toys dissolve in water within a few hours, returning to the sand from which they came, completing the cycle and leaving no ecological footprint.

Bar Cohen’s graduation project (photographer: Bar Cohen)

At the top of the page, from right to left: Tair Almor’s project (photographer: Ori Shifrin Anavi), Greg Paskalov and Michal Kleiner (photographer: Michael Shvedron)