This article was published 10 years Do you lose precious minutes every morning looking for your keys? Have a daily 7.30am panic about where your train ticket is? Andrea Mestre has created Totem, an organising system that keeps essentials at hand to save time and reduce stress in the mornings. Standing approximately…
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Andrew Cunningham’s homewares are made from timber off-cuts
This article was published 10 years Rejecting mass production methods, Norfolk based designer-maker Andrew Cunningham has designed a collection of home accessories created entirely from reclaimed and sustainably managed English and tropical hardwood offcuts that larger companies can’t use. “Function is a major feature of my designs as well as a clean uncluttered…
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Emma Johnson designs Brutalist-inspired ceramics
This article was published 10 years Emma Johnson’s latest collection, entitled Atro City, takes inspiration from the often heavy and asymmetric forms of Brutalist architecture. She has re-imagined the aesthetic with a fresh and modern approach, creating a series of simple ceramic forms. The collection comprises a tea pot, cup and…
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Ann Kristin Einarsen’s planters are inspired by salt and pepper pots
This article was published 10 years Ceramics designer Ann Kristin Einarsen has based her latest collection, Rolla, a series of functional planters, on the Plus Salt and Pepper Grinders designed by Oslo-based design trio Norway Says for Muuto. The two-tone planters’ rounded forms comprise two elements, a base to hold water,…
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Heather Scott’s wall-mounted plant stand elevates the humble houseplant
This article was published 10 years Designer-maker Heather Scott has created a wall-mounted plinth to display plants, working with Falmouth based plant studio and shop Toro. The brief was to change the way that house plants are presented, moving them from floor or tabletop to eye level by somehow affixing them to the…
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Native & Co’s Mu collection celebrates cedar wood
This article was published 10 years Furniture and tableware brand Native & Co launched their latest collection entitled Mu at September’s London Design Festival. The collection, comprising six designs, celebrates the natural qualities of cedar wood, highlighting the grain in a variety of shapes from a simple circular platter and traditional…
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Troels Flensted creates a ceramic collection without using clay
This article was published 10 years Troels Flensted’s Poured Collection is handmade in Copenhagen and created by combining a mineral powder and water-based acrylic polymer. Various coloured pigments are added to the mixture before it is poured into a mould. The marble-like effect is unique to each smooth, polished piece,…
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Bethany Stafford designs building blocks for grown-ups
This article was published 10 years Bethany ‘s sculptural collection of ceramic block forms, entitled Brutalist Inspired Ceramics, comes in a range of contrasting and complementary colours, ranging from orange and petrol blue, to mid-grey and putty. The individual ‘Block Forms’ are bound with ‘Banded Forms’ (coloured elastic bands) that create…
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Emily Wiles turns a love of textiles into fluid ceramic forms
This article was published 10 years Emily Wiles has used her background in textiles to create a series of delicate porcelain pieces that take on the form of softly draped material. The folding and draping process used in textile and garment construction is the starting point for each piece, making…
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Violeta Kozlova’s jewellery releases perfume as it moves
This article was published 10 years Violeta Kozlova’s work focuses on traditional methods of crafting jewellery, creating folded, metal shapes in geometric forms. Once soldered into shape, each is powder-coated in either white, light or dark grey, and then finished with gold or silver leaf. Her first collection comprises pendants, rings, bangles,…
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Life drawing influences Samantha McNamara’s Ink ceramics
This article was published 10 years Comprising a series of thrown clay vessels and dishes, Samantha McNamara’s collection is available in a range of mini coloured clusters in white, blue, violet, green and blush. Each colour-way combines the muted hues with a contrasting band or line, which enables them to…
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Tandem’s space-saving furniture hangs from the walls
This article was published 10 years Comprising four individual pieces – a wardrobe, a desk, a shoe rack and seat, and a storage shelf – the Hanging Collection combines birch plywood with different facing materials including oak, melamine and desktop linoleum in a range of colours for a personalised look and feel. The…
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Francesca Moutafis makes six ceramic forms from two moulds
This article was published 10 years The new designer’s graduate collection, entitled Ambiguous Tableware, comprises six different clay vessels, each available in one of three earthy colours, and glazed on the inside only. As a group, they resemble archetypal tableware, but individually their simple, open forms defy definition, enabling the user to determine…
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Olivia Post’s interactive light is inspired by a spinning top
This article was published 10 years The spun copper and turned oak lamp has been designed to be positioned in two ways – either resting on the wooden part and directing ambient light upwards, or resting on the metal part and directing task lighting downwards. In either position its rounded…
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Day Design Co’s ceramics are imprinted with wood grain
This article was published 10 years Forest of Ceramics is a collection of vessels made from semi-porcelain casting slip and decorated by hand. Because Daisy uses locally-sourced timber to create the grain pattern in the clay, each piece is unique. When the collection is arranged in a group, the reason for…
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Holly Kemp’s ceramic collection is based on three simple forms
This article was published 10 years The final forms each incorporate a strong angle sitting either inwards or outwards, allowing multiple pieces to sit together in pairs or sets. The considered proportions, each with the same datum line, highlight the geometry further. The controlled, minimal aesthetic is off-set by the soft pastel shades…
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Emma Graney’s lights pair cast concrete with hand-blown glass
This article was published 10 years Taking inspiration from both nature and architecture, Emma Graney created the lamps’ block-form bases in three simple geometric shapes, off-set by fragile glass shades. The use of the traditional filament bulb, also available in a variety of different styles, adds a layer of warmth…
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Forest+Found use nature to guide their craft
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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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…