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 Love and confessions of a design…
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interview :: alex swain
You can find Alex’s products on the Maker Place – a platform for designer–makers to showcase and sell their work.
Charles Dedman’s reinvents traditional crafts
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 the latest edition of Frame magazine are…
Jode Pankhurst combines playful illustrations with ceramics
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 Love and confessions of a design…
Klavdija Jarc launches multifunctional stool on Kickstarter
The Woodieful Chair is an a-shaped laminated beech object comprising two solid edges at right angles to one another, and four c-shaped slats with spaces in between to enable objects such as books and magazines to be slotted between them. Turned on its side or upside down its functionality…
Catherine MacGruer turns collage into knitted textiles
As well as the key graduate events that happen each Summer, New Designers, D&AD New Blood and Free Range, there are several exhibitions and trade showcases that enable emerging designers to present their collections, sometimes for the first time to potential buyers placing crucial first orders, as well as the…
Childhood favourites inspire Kayleigh Hadley’s illustrations
Design can be as much about storytelling as it is about creating something practical, functional and aesthetically pleasing, and storytelling can exist in anything from a pendant light, a crafted timber chair or a beautiful ceramic dish. For illustrator and editorial designer Kayleigh Hadley, the art of storytelling presents itself…
Studio Haran champions sustainable design
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 Love and confessions of a design…
Weaver Rowenna Mason breathes new life into the ancient craft
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 Love and confessions of a design…
Time out enabled Jennifer Stafford to get back to basics
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 Love and confessions of a design…
Designer-maker Kate Colin transforms paper into intricate 3D forms
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 Love and confessions of a design geek…
Eva Radulova takes a sympathetic approach to mass produced design
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 Love and confessions of a design geek…
Michael Carroll’s furniture combines metal and wood to ingenious effect
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 Love and confessions of a design…
Design PR quits her job to launch ‘Ruthless People’ furniture collection
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 floor light, is made from mild…
Emma Buckley’s graduate collection is defined by experimentation
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 Love and confessions of a design…
look like love :: tom hutchinson
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 Love and confessions of a design…
Iselin Lindmark Dubland’s side table is designed for “lazy sofa days”
Norwegian School of Art and Design (KHiB) graduate, Iselin Lindmark Dubland, has designed Birk, a coffee table with concealed storage for magazines, laptops and television remotes, and a removable tray perfect for TV dinners. The four-legged table is made of birch wood with a one metre by 50 centimetre elongated…
look like love :: sophie cobb
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 Love and confessions of a design…
Kai Venus makes knives from reclaimed carpenters’ saws and chopping board off-cuts
Cornish designer Kai Venus makes his Upcycled Kitchen Knives by mounting blades from used carpenter’s saws onto leftover hardwood from his own range of chopping boards. “The high carbon spring steel used in saw blades provides a razor sharp edge, which it holds for an exceptionally long time,” explains Kai….
interview :: amy isles freeman
Cornish artist and designer Amy Isles Freeman has taken a male-dominated part of the design industry and turned it on his head with her hand-painted hand-turned wooden bowls that celebrate femininity. We talked art school, feminism, and kindly neighbours… How did you get into woodturning? When I graduated from art…
Marcus Kane’s Tempo uses kinetic energy to produce 15 minutes of light
Central Saint Martin’s graduate Marcus Kane has developed a self-powered light that uses kinetic energy to generate 15 minutes of light at a time. Tempo is a circular wall light with an internal mechanic motor inside, powered by a user-operated counter-weight. When you pull down a tab on one side,…
Megan Czaja’s Oblio stool is designed for people who can't sit still
Pratt Institute graduate Megan Czaja has designed a stool for ‘Kinesthetes’ – people who need to be active in order to think. The three-legged maple stool has a seat balanced on a silicone and foam half-sphere, which plugs into a maple convex base, without a fixed connection, enabling the sitter…
Megan Czaja’s Oblio stool is designed for people who can’t sit still
Pratt Institute graduate Megan Czaja has designed a stool for ‘Kinesthetes’ – people who need to be active in order to think. The three-legged maple stool has a seat balanced on a silicone and foam half-sphere, which plugs into a maple convex base, without a fixed connection, enabling the sitter…
Morten Grønning Nielse’s ‘power glove’ enables people to sculpt wood with their fingertips
Royal College of Art graduate Morten Grønning Nielse has designed ‘Happaratus,’ a glove with vibrating abrasive pads on the tip of each finger to enable people to shape hard materials like wood, stone and concrete with their hands. Morten created what he describes as his “haptic power-tool” in collaboration with…
A Day in the Life of the Benchmark Fixperts Resident
In this week’s column, Fixperts Resident Maya Alvarado shares another day looking for fixes at British furniture manufacturer Benchmark – this week she hunts for puffball mushrooms, makes a new handle for the fridge in the workshop kitchen, and meets up with local resident Mrs Ellis to talk about her…
Julian Jay Roux takes a year out from Design Academy Eindhoven to learn his craft
Design Academy Eindhoven student Julian Jay Roux has taken a year out from his Industrial Design course to complete a one-year Contemporary Craft BA at Plymouth College of Art in the south west of England to explore the relationship and distinctions between design and craft. The designer’s graduate project,…
Ellie Birkhead’s ambiguous brushes highlight Britain’s threatened crafts
University of Brighton graduate Ellie Birkhead has developed a collection of handmade brushes with ambiguous functions to draw attention to declining trades in the UK. The Brushes collection, which includes a double-headed brush, a circular brush with bristles pointing towards its centre, and a brush that fits onto a fingertip,…
Daniel Durnin’s Waterbed provides floating accommodation for London’s tourists
RCA graduate Daniel Durnin has designed a boat that allows visitors to the capital to ‘camp’ on its canals and rivers. The wooden-framed boat features two bicycle-style wheels at the back and a smaller wheel at the bow to enable easy manoeuvring on land. A canvas cover reflects the tents…
A day in the life of the Benchmark Fixperts Resident
In Maya Alvarado’s second weekly column for confessions of a design geek, she shares another day in the life of the Fixperts Resident – this time she develops her own Fixperts project, creates some more storage for Benchmark, and a chance encounter on a bridge leads to a potential FixPartnership……
A day in the life of the Benchmark Fixperts Resident
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, a new storage system for metal…