!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hello! the cupboard is being horribly neglected as it’s all systems go on work deadlines >>>! So currently I’m eating up Christmas biscuits, drinking coffee and sitting here (ABOVE!) trying to make some prints!! A first week of Jan deadline is SO MEAN! Im must confess this is a photo from when I moved in -its currently like sitting in a black glittery bomb site…
See you on the other side for some excellent, interesting posts, promise.
We have been having a brilliant time this year, thanks to everyone for reading the blog, submiting amazing work and listening to our endless plans for what we want to do after one too many!
We’ve now been plotting for 6 months and so our plans have changed slightly and become clearer. We feel like the project now has 2 phases>>>>
Phase one = collecting. Collecting designers, makers, products, illustrators, research, inspiration in ideas and visually. This has come out in the blog and with all the people getting involved.
We’ve also focused our eye in to one-off objects, limited editions, handmade/hand finished objects.
Phase two next year is all about popup shops, shows and spaces to show/sell! We really want to make it work and to promote new design, and it looks like its going to happen hurah! Interesting spaces, an investment of cash, and some wicked new people supporting the idea look good for next year!
The more diversity of talented people the better, so send us your work ASAP you lazy sods….
Have a super jolly Christmas time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Designer-maker Quay Hoang has always been interested in the mix between art, design and digital process, and normally combines this exploration with an insane amount of laborious hours to make truly beautiful work.
Finding her inspiration in people and their experiences of nature in the context of the urban, her new exhibition at the Brockwell Lido cafe is the perfect setting!
Check out these pictures from the exhibition below::
There’s nothing better than a post Christmas brain clearout in some freezing air, so pop down to check out the exhibition and a bacon sandwich from the 29th December…
its like, a desert man with shiney glasses, on the moon and fergies having a lay down in the jungle, and then there’s a moon elephant a space ship and a shiney prism, and then the scary man is not in it and you think, well where is he? and then it turns out hes singing at the SUN!
Sandra Backlund hails from Stockholm, where she makes beautiful, sculptural knitwear, using small units to build up bigger designs.
She’s also a big promoter of handcraft, which is interesting for such a contemporary aesthetic :::::: as SB says>
“The handimade process and the handmade feeling is … very significant. I am interested in almost every traditional handicraft method. It is the real thing and everything the modern fashion industry is not. “
Yiying Wang has gone one step further with her work, not only creating characters, accessories and a whole load of stationary, but her own WORLD noodletown!
After graduating from CSMs MA course, YiYing has collaborated with Donna Wilson among others, and has had work in MOMA, Topshop and Magma/. LOts of fun times, go on, take a pencil case to school!
RIBA announced the prize winners of its president’s student medals for this year last week -check it out! For the uninitiated (i.e. me!) part one is like a BA, part 2 equiv of MA…
work above by PAscal Bronner (UCL), (Wen Ying Teh (AA London) & Anam Hassan (University Grenwich)
I seem to find the link between technical solution and the bits of jazz that make up an architectural drawing really satifying. So inspiring, not only for the work and concept but for the presentation.
I’m off to tea and make this morning! Got confused and thought it was next weekend (stupid) so this post is very unconcidered, but i can’t wait to see all the stands!
heartzeena cushions
hat by Jennifer Levet
Roddy and Ginger
heartzeena lavender bags
There’s events, workshops and of course selected designers, where hopefully my Christmas shopping list will be helped! All are small companys and designers, hand printing and crafting their products, score.
