This article was published 10 years Widdershoven will appear at the opening of the academic year on 06 September to say goodbye to students, teachers and staff, and will attend the official opening of the Broken White exhibition – a cooperation between Design Academy Eindhoven and the Van Abbemuseum –…
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out and about :: new designers 2016
This article was published 10 yearsNew Designers Week One focuses on craft – mostly ceramics and textiles – and Week Two focuses on product and furniture design. This year the standard was exceptionally high – here are our founding editor and roaming reporter Katie Treggiden’s top picks… This article was…
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interview :: heather scott
This article was published 10 yearsYou can find out more about Heather and buy her products at The Maker Place. This article was published 10 years
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interview :: gabriel tan
This article was published 10 yearsWith thanks to Beton Brut for the images with coloured backgrounds and to Charlie Schuck for the images with white backgrounds and for those of the Shaker village. The products pictured are: Stove Chair and Domino Peg Rail, Brethren Bench, Brethren Door Stops, Petal Baskets…
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Tom Dixon creates co-working space in Clerkenwell church
This article was published 10 years “One of the conundrums of St James, Clerkenwell is that it has a very imposing outside but a very welcoming inside,” he says. “All sorts of people live in Clerkenwell, but still one [group of people] alluded us – and one that is more…
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interview :: alex swain
This article was published 10 yearsYou can find Alex’s products on the Maker Place – a platform for designer–makers to showcase and sell their work. This article was published 10 years
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Maya Alvarado creates a new shelving system for local charity shop
This article was published 10 years This week, Benchmark’s resident Fixpert, Maya Alvarado teams up with Benchmark’s cabinetmaker Max to fit the Red Cross fix, they bring pre-fabricated parts on site and prepare the new storage system ready for use… 09:00: It is Saturday morning, having collected the materials and tools…
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Charles Dedman’s reinvents traditional crafts
This article was published 10 years As a designer myself, I know what a challenge it can be to come up with new ideas – and sometimes the imagery and ‘inspiration’ at every turn just makes it worse. The days of the excitement and anticipation of waiting your turn to thumb through…
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Clerkenwell Design Week adopts new ‘spine’ layout
This article was published 10 years Having written an article for the Clerkenwell Post about the ‘masterplan’ for 2016’s Clerkenwell Design Week, confessions of a design geek editor Katie Treggiden was better placed than most to navigate the new ‘spine’ layout of this year’s festival, so forewarned and forearmed, she…
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Studio Haran champions sustainable design
This article was published 10 years Kate Brewer, founder of Look Like Love, profiles a different new designer every week. With the tagline “support, nurture, promote” echoing confessions of a design geek’s own “discover, champion and inspire” and a similar commitment to advocating for emerging talent, the parallels between Look Like…
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Soho House launches co-working spaces for creative industries
This article was published 10 years I’m sure not everyone gets quite as excited about good interior design as I do, but there is definitely something about the space you work in that affects the way you work. I spent a very production afternoon working at one of the many…
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interview :: silje nesdal
This article was published 10 years I met Silje Nesdal both in Oslo for the 100{ff546b69e23b1524d799f96c6ba7a638e1f677053b0a2a1568b05315fd5f8fc7} Norway preview and then again at 100{ff546b69e23b1524d799f96c6ba7a638e1f677053b0a2a1568b05315fd5f8fc7} Norway itself during the London Design Festival last year. I immediately loved her style and her approach to design, so this interview has been a long time coming….
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Michael Carroll’s furniture combines metal and wood to ingenious effect
This article was published 10 yearsKate Brewer, founder of Look Like Love, profiles a different new designer every week. With the tagline “support, nurture, promote” echoing confessions of a design geek’s own “discover, champion and inspire” and a similar commitment to advocating for emerging talent, the parallels between Look Like Love…
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Design PR quits her job to launch ‘Ruthless People’ furniture collection
This article was published 10 years Lisa McMillan, formerly of leading design PR agency Camron, has turned her back on a career in public relations to launch a six-piece furniture collection, entitled Ruthless People. The collection, which comprises a dining table, a stool, two mirrors, a side table and a…
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Students at Aalto University create 14 different chairs from blackened ash
This article was published 10 years 14 Product and Spatial Design Masters students at Finland’s Aalto University School of Arts, Design, and Architecture each responded to the brief for a café chair to be made from the same material – blackened ash – resulting in 14 different prototypes. Kuu by…
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interview :: studio haran
This article was published 10 years I met husband and wife team Studio Haran on my travels during confessions of a design geek’s Cornish Design Season at the end of last year. Falmouth University graduates Joel and Helena design and make sustainable furniture and lighting from their farm courtyard workshop. They…
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interview :: moupila & friends
This article was published 10 years I visited Moupila & Friends, a design shop in Belgium’s Dikkelvenne a couple of years ago and was struck by the ingenuity of a pair of designers combining a workshop, an office, a weekend shop and their home all in one hardworking space. The…
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Carl Austin’s furniture is made using traditional boat-building skills
This article was published 11 years Having moved to Falmouth from Leicester 11 years ago to pursue a lifelong dream of working with wooden boats, three years ago Carl Austin changed careers again, this time putting his boat-building skills to good use in designing and making outdoor furniture. His oak…
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A day in the life of the Benchmark Fixperts Resident
This article was published 11 years Maya Alvarado is the first Fixperts Resident, looking for fixes from British furniture manufacturer Benchmark’s Berkshire workshop. In this weekly column she’ll be sharing a day in her new life every Monday. Today we hear about her first day, including adventures on a bicycle,…