Well this is where our foray into curation began. Ian and Joss were frustrated and annoyed by the endless exhibitions of chairs, and other straight, standard design. They felt the work that had got them excited and inspired was getting missed.
Presents
DesignersBlock : London 2007
Bag stuck in a tree
Ed VinceA bag stuck in a tree is merely a bag in the wrong context.
Play & Display
Ian AtkinsRecreating the tactility and ritual of music collecting.
Newton’s Breakfast
David WilsonNewton’s Breakfast is an interesting way to store and display eggs by combining two familiar objects.
Medical Heirlooms
Tamsin van EssenThe jars become containers for disease, rather than holding the cure.
Flect: Magic Mirror
Will GurleyUsing a magic wand children and adults can manipulate the optics of the mirror, when play is done the optics return to an ordinary functional mirror.
Beat Blinds
Will GurleyThese wooden window blinds have a secondary purpose as a musical instrument.
Etiquette Set
Ed VinceA complete packaged dining kit including instructions which allows the user to enjoy an à la Russe dining experience in any context, regardless of class or wealth.
Alter Ego
Alex HinnerskovA Pocket Mirror Camera that allows you to indulge yourself through the flashes and poses on the catwalk of life.
Androgynous Doll
Dan ChenOur recognition of what constitutes as a man or a woman heavily depends on appearance.
The Italic Poster
Eivind S. MolvaerA new format of poster.
No Robots Please!
Alan OuttenHow can we foster future innovation and design? Armed with this and other questions I enter the primary school classroom dressed to impress (and inspire) in my white laboratory coat.
Restless
Joss DebaeThis project celebrates human behaviour in everyday life by inducing destructive fidgeting.
It’s Alive!
James KingThe symbolisation of eccentric invention.
Door Appendage X
James R FordJames R Ford is a British artist whose practice is concerned with loss of innocence and the endearment of the loser.