Tent Digital; Michael Eden, Lab Craft
September 23-26 sees Tent: London take over the Truman Brewery for its multi-faceted design show. ARTS THREAD previews the event and picks out some of the talents to visit.
Tent London: Preview
New Designers – Contemporary Applied Arts highlights
Bethany Walker, De Montfort University
As the boundaries between different aspects of contemporary applied arts are being increasing blurred, we look at the graduates at New Designers who work across ceramic, wood, metal, glass and a variety of natural and synthetic media.
New Designers – Ceramics & Glass highlights
Daniel O'Riordan, Bath Spa University
This year proved to be a celebratory year for the area, as ceramic-led designers scooped both Winner and Runner-Up BDC Awards at the show. ARTS THREAD has a look at what’s on display.
MA Ceramics & Glass, RCA, London
MA Ceramics & Glass; Amy Hughes; Edmond Byrne, RCA
The Ceramics & Glass graduates at London’s Royal College of Art enjoyed the benefit of the natural light-filled main gallery space at the college this year, which gave added lustre to a sparkling show.
Noho Design District 2010 New York
Icosa pendant light, Rose Menuez; Satsuma light, Jonas Damon
Noho Design District launches its first design presentations alongside the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) and New York Design Week, running from May 15-18 2010.
Event organiser Sight Unseen has brought together design brands, local businesses and retailers, emerging and established designers to open pop-up stores, exhibitions, open studios and much more. ARTS THREAD looks at a few of the opportunities open to visitors.
Venice 2132 by Merel Karhof, Milan Design Week 2010
Thirty days Acquamarine, Merel Karhof
The Fondazione Claudio Buziol, founded by Italian label Replay, plays host this week in Milan to Venice 2132, an exhibition by four ex-RCA students chosen by Martin Gamper.
The four, Fabien Cappello, Merel Karhof, Lucia Massari and Bethan Laura Wood have been artists in residence of the foundation for three months, living in Venice with a studio space located on the city’s Canal Grande. The aim of the three months was for the designers to create works which demonstrate their personal ideas as developed against the inspirational backdrop of Venice and its traditions. ARTS THREAD looks at the projects created by Merel Karhof.
Total Table Design by Kiki van Eijk and Studio Scholten & Baijings, Milan Design Week 2010
Table Palette Model & Sketch, Kiki van Eijk
The Total Table Design project which premiered at Dutch Design Fair Object Rotterdam earlier this year came to Salone del Mobile Furniture Fair in Milan this week. In the exhibition Dutch designers Kiki van Eijk and Studio Scholten & Baijings (Stefan Scholten and Carole Baijings) present their visions for the art of dining.
Konstfack from Stockholm at Spazio Rossana Orlandi, Milan Design Week 2010
Amber chair, Jaeuk Jang
The Savage Mind is a show featuring seven students from Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design of Stockholm at Spazio Rossana Orlandi during Milan Design Week April 14-19 2010.
Ivar Björkman, president of Konstfack explains the idea behind the works of young talents in the show: “The age that we are living in stretches back to the origin of human beings, irrespective of whether we are modern or not. In his book The Savage Mind, French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss explains that there are no fundamental differences in how we think between primitive peoples in the Stone Ages and ourselves nowadays”.
Fabrica at the Milan Salone Del Mobile 2010
Down Side Up Glass Cabinet & Large Glass Cabinet
Fabrica, Benetton’s communication research centre presents various off-show design events during Milan’s International Furniture Fair.
Hotel RCA at Milan Design Week 2010
Hirsutio Vase, Giles Miller, Design Products graduate 2009; Coffee stool, Aysenaz Toker, Design Product student 2009, RCA
The Royal College of Art Design Products department presents Hotel RCA April 14-18 2010 during Salone del Mobile in Milan. Professor Tord Boontje, Head of Design Products at the Royal College of Art in London, will be presenting work by 90 students and recent graduates of the MA course at the exhibition Hotel RCA located in over 900 square metres of a disused factory in Lambrate – the old industrial district of east Milan.
The Honeybee and the Hive, Contemporary Applied Arts, London
John Ward, caa exhibition poster; left - Our Future Hours, Zoe Arnold, foregd - Rebecca Catterall, backgd - St. Ambrose's Reliquary, Michael Ruh
The Honey Bee and the Hive brings together the work of 28 designers who have all responded to the brief set by guest curator Wendy Ramshaw CBE RDI on the subject of the Honey Bee and the Hive. Wendy notes that ‘Bees, it is said, are the most studied creatures on the planet after man.’
Ceramics and Glass: RCA work in progress exhibition, London
Sigmund Freud''s Dream Catching Apparatus (Reproduction) 1910, Louis Thompson
December saw the annual work in progress exhibition at London’s Royal College of Art (RCA) of final year MA students of ceramics and glass. ARTS THREAD went along to take a look.
This&That and Imaginaires, Fabrica at ToolsGalerie, Paris
This&That Cow & Bike Horn, photos by Tak Cheung/Fabrica
Fabrica, the Benetton Group’s communication research centre, has been invited by the ToolsGalerie to present for the first time in Paris its latest collection of glassware and ceramics.
Upcoming designers in Ceramics and Glass at 100% Design London, LDF
Melted Lights, Marie Retpen; Kaspa ceiling lights, Ilsa Parry
ARTS THREAD looks back at new ceramic and glass designers from 100% Design held this autumn in London.
Marie Retpen is from Denmark and specialises in blown glass. Marie graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2008 and for this autumn’s show brought her new Melted Lights. Due to the technique applied, each light is unique in the way the folds form at the rim of the light. The light comes in black, blue or can be coloured to order.
Royal College of Art for Waddesdon Manor 2009
High Tea or Chai Tea? glasses, Jasleen Kaur
Royal College of Art (RCA) students from the School of Applied Arts have created a selection of products for the historic house Waddesdon Manor.
Making – The Future 09, Nottingham Trent University
Janet Westwood, BA (Hons) Photography; Making – The Future 09
Making – The Future 09 at Nottingham Trent University brings together work from recent BA and MA graduates from the School of Art and Design, plus the
School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment. Look out for fashion, knitwear and textiles, ceramics, jewellery, glass, photography, graphics, multimedia, product and furniture design.
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