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 Mette Kahlos The chairs are all…
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out and about :: new designers 2014 part 2
Last week I wrote about New Designers Part 1, and this week it’s time for Part 2. New Designers is an annual showcase of design graduates’ final projects and I was particularly keen to see the work that had come from the furniture, product, spatial and industrial Design courses. Here…
out and about :: new designers part 1 2014
New Designers is the annual showcase of over 3,000 graduating design students’ final projects, split across two weeks. I went along to Part 1 specifically to see the textiles and ceramics. The first thing I spotted was Sophie Southgate‘s Landscape // Colour. Sophie starts a one-year graduate residency at Cardiff’s…
out and about :: central saint martin’s degree show 2014
I love this time of year. Design students all over the country present their final projects in a grand finale of three years’ work. The excitement is palpable and it’s a real treat to meet the designers of the future. New designers still believe in the impossible, and that’s quite…
out and about :: central saint martin's degree show 2014
I love this time of year. Design students all over the country present their final projects in a grand finale of three years’ work. The excitement is palpable and it’s a real treat to meet the designers of the future. New designers still believe in the impossible, and that’s quite…
interview :: malin bobeck
I met Malin Bobeck at the Stockholm Furniture Fair‘s student and graduate showcase, Greenhouse. I was immediately captivated by her experimental projects using light technology in textiles, Droplet and Liquid. I had to find out more… What’s the most important thing to know about you as a designer? That I’m…
out and about :: new designers one year on
After the fabulously talented top ten from New Designers last week, here are my top three from New Designers One Year On. This is the section of the show that focuses on designers who either graduated a year ago, or have been in business for less than a year. Curated…