Tag: textiles
Charlotte Abrahams selects 40 designers for ‘Spotted’
The 40 new design brands were selected for the originality and quality, but also the commercial viability of their products – the latter being very much part of exhibiting successfully at a trade show. “Spotted just goes from strength to strength and this edition promises to be the most exciting…
Sarah Fennell designs textiles from 3D collages
“Every print begins with a series of relief sculptures which I create from found objects and ephemera which I think have an interesting form or texture. I look for interesting shadows and the way objects interact with each other when carefully curated and composed. I am constantly building my library…
Emily Wiles turns a love of textiles into fluid ceramic forms
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 every one unique. The decorative pieces…
Katherine Plumb’s textiles are inspired by playgrounds
Collarged is a collection of 17 printed textile designs featuring oversized abstract forms in bright primary colours inspired by playgrounds, skate parks and climbing walls. “This collection works to inject a feeling of recreation into interior environments through the use of strong, graphic pattern and placement,” the surface pattern designer…
interview :: forest + found
Forest + Found will be exhibiting at the London Design Fair 22 – 25 September 2016. Register for your tickets here.
out and about :: new designers 2016
New 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…
Aalto University wins award for new cotton recycling technique
Researchers from the School of Arts, Design and Architecture and the School of Chemical Technology at Helsinki’s Aalto University have won the top H&M Global Change Award for a recycling technique that converts waste-cotton into new textiles. The conversion of the existing ‘Ioncell-F process’ to enable the recycling of waste-cotton…
interview :: flock
I first came across Flock when I was interviewing Florrie and Bill founder Amy Cawson, and she told me about a collaboration she had done using their fabric to upholster a chair. Flock works exclusively with recent graduates to create gorgeous printed textiles. Each designer is given a platform to…
interview :: timerous beasties
I first came across Timerous Beasties at Clerkenwell Design Week some years ago where they were showing concrete slabs with highly detailed and floral patterns etched into them. I love concrete and I love juxtapositions, so I was hooked. Better known for their subversive take on the often twee world…
interview :: kate shaw, cordello home
Kate Shaw says she founded Cordello Home out of love: her love for property, mid-century furniture, eclectic interiors, vibrant household objects, and all things Italian – the name Cordello comes from two Italian words, ‘cuore’ which means heart and ‘modello’ which means pattern. I’m a sucker for a anyone that…
interview :: pattern foundry
Founder Richard Rhys describes the Pattern Foundry as “a conceptual factory” where existing ideas and archival materials collide with the new to produce designs. He translates these new pattern-based designs into objects such as ceramics, textiles, carpets, etc. The patterns are stunning and Richard has even worked with one of…
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…
interview :: custhom
I first discovered Custhom’s work at Maison et Objet in Paris at the beginning of this year and was excited to discover they had created an entire range inspired by the Godfather of Dutch Design Wim Crouwel, of whom I am a huge fan. I went to visit Jemma in…
out and about :: pulse london
Pulse London opened at Earl’s Court yesterday, so I popped in to see what was new and shiny. This year’s theme is “First Peek,” so the emphasis was firmly on the “new.” Brand new for Pulse was Ola by Katy Goutefangea (above and last image below). Katy’s simple range of…
creative spaces :: custhom
CUSTHOM is RCA graduates Nathan Philpott and Jemma Ooi and they design innovative high quality wallpapers, ceramics, textiles and stationery. I went for a snoop around their Peckham studio and here’s what I found… Gorgeous, isn’t it? I interviewed the lovely Gemma while I was there, so watch out for…
interview :: sofia lazzeri and alexandra denton
I was fascinated by a half-glass, half-knitted vase I spotted at the Stockholm Furniture Fair in February, so I tracked down designers Sofia Lazzeri and Alexandra Denton to find out more… What’s the most important thing to know about you as a designer? Sofia: The projects I do are usually born from personal fascination, they grow…
interview :: zoe attwell
Zoe Attwell launched her homewares and stationery brand at Home London just last month. She cites 50s design, Lucienne Day, Miró and Scandinavian design amongst her influences, but to be honest she had me at yellow and grey! It was lovely chatting to her at the show, and I was pleased…
interview :: rachel powell
Rachel Powell‘s bold, bright prints have a childlike innocence and make me smile every time I see them. Having bumped into Rachel many times on the design circuit, we decided it was about time we sat down for a proper natter about her work. Here’s what we talked about… What’s…
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…
creative spaces :: wimbledon art studios
For the latest in my series of creative spaces features, artist Fiona Brown very kindly invited me along to see her space at Wimbledon Art Studios and suggested I time my visit to coincide with Open Studios weekend so I could also get a look those of her fellow artists.
out and about :: moquette for london
“…taking images, be they architecture, paintings or nature, and distilling them right down to their simplest form until they became pattern”