The Hoppy is now for sale! For sales information contact Dark in Belgium or Illum in the Netherlands.

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Buckminster fuller

Launch party at Remagen

Dark threw a great launch party at Remagen at the Neumarkt. Everybody had a great time with a good dj and a lot of beer and vodka-red bull.

 

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Press material

 

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Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller (July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American visionary, designer, architect, and inventor.
Fuller was most famous for his geodesic domes, which can be seen as part of military radar stations, civic buildings, and exhibition attractions. Their construction is based on extending some basic principles to build simple tensegrity structures (tetrahedron, octahedron, dodecaëder and the closest packing of spheres). Built in this way they are extremely lightweight and stable. The patent for geodesic domes was awarded in 1954, part of Fuller's decades-long efforts to explore nature's constructing principles to find design solutions.

It's a winner


We are proud to announce BOO'S HOPPY has won a prestigious “Chicago Athenaeum GOOD DESIGN Award”.

Black Hoppy

Hopp now also in Black

 

Concept

soccer ball

The hoppy is based on the mathematical principles of the truncated icosahedron better known as the soccer ball. It consists of 32 faces, 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons.

misc

Hoppy presentation at Remagen

Together with Remagen, Dark presented the new Dark collection, among which our new Hoppy.

 
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