Art & Design

Ruth Whiting

A painter, whose diverse body of work is characterized by sumptuous, luminous color.

Tim Elverston

A designer, maker, and artist since his earliest memories, his most powerful interests have always revolved around our atmosphere and flight.

Above, Attraction, an oil painting by Ruth Whiting.

Above, the WindFire Cursor Kite. Designed by Tim Elverston. This highly controlable kite brings the operating system back into the natural world.

About WindFire Designs

History

WindFire Designs was founded by Tim Elverston and Ruth Whiting. Initially, our focus was on making kites as products. Soon we found that kites designed specifically as products seemed wholly unfullfilling. Their intimacy and magic became lost in a race for pricepoints and cost. Innovation was suffocated by perception of cheap and standard, and universal. We began to repair kitesurfing kites. During this time, we started to make kites for ourselves. We fell in love with the outlandish, the time-consuming, the fine and precise. Finally, we were making the instruments of the wind we had always dreamed of.

Philosophy

Cultivate your insanity, but listen to your materials
— Ruth Whiting —

The eye is often mightier than the calculator.
— Tim Elverston —

So often, what we need turns out to be what we already have. If we take the time to think, the solution is within arm's reach. We must add the information of thought to the materials we understand.

The Praying Mantis

Our first project together — January 2001

Concepts to reality

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