ABOUT

Graduated from the Design Academy of Eindhoven in the Netherlands and then re-established in France since 2019, Lucas Zito is a designer whose practice focuses on an in-depth study of ecological and recyclable materials combined with new technologies.

His work is specialized in the design of lights through 3D printing with plastic produced from corn starch, manufactured in Europe.

His approach concerns both aesthetics and functionality, in the most eco-responsible way possible and the perspectives of his practice evolve according to his social environment as well as his convictions.

The production process and the techniques behind each product fall mainly in the digital realm. The production moves primarily from digital creation to digital display, while the creation takes place in a space closer to impact and emotion.

Although the workflow is a predefined protocol, the output is never preconceived. It's like the setting is a one-unknown equation where putting different unknowns to get different outputs. The search for the ideal compromise is the common thread in the works.

PHILOSOPHY

A significant effort is dedicated to ensuring functionality as a primary aspect of the products, alongside aesthetics. During the process of creation, the balance between the two comes by itself, in a very natural way.
Mistakes and imperfections take a lot of credit. Sometimes, it doesn't matter how technical the work is, the serendipity of finding something that works, often better than the original idea, takes precedence over the original idea, if there is one. Moreover, there's usually no definite idea, the process itself guides the work.

SUSTAINABILITY

In the design process the interest goes over the aesthetic properties of the objects. Doing in-depth studies is challenging, discovering the properties of each material and their industrial circuits, recyclability, and sustainable usability. The use of a specific material takes always into account the possible recycling, also to avoid accumulating different materials. One of the most used in his works is the PLA: a bioplastic made from corn starch, which is the best combination of aesthetics and circularity that he could find. Even though this is the problem of our global society with materials such as plastics, it is also the strength of this material; not all thermoplastics are very easy to recycle, cost-effective, and have more than one or two recycling cycles.

FABRICATION 

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