Successful UH IAD students in the Design Factory competition:
Katie Kennedy
Thaarani
Jay Scott-Henry
Sarah Maciver
WELL DONE!! Another successful year at the Design Factory for our course!
Extract from letter / Design Museum/Design Factory:
"Dear Students,
Design Factory 2012-13 – Your Submission
I hope that you have found your participation in the Design Factory project to be a rich and inspiring experience this year. Over March and April, your work has been reviewed in-depth through a competitive judging process led by Oscar Wanless and Attua Appricio (SILO) and Keith Harrison, (ceramic artist, recent V&A Ceramic Resident and MA 3D Design course leader at Bath Spa University). Please find their detailed feedback attached to this message, which I hope you will find very useful.
As a result of this process, we are delighted to inform you that you have been selected by the Judges to take part in this year’s exclusive Design Factory Symposium".
Tuesday, 24 September 2013
Wednesday, 20 February 2013
Polypropylene workshop with Polly
Images from the polypropylene workshop 19th February 2012 generating ideas and creative process - work in progress.
Tutor: Polly Palmer
Tutor: Polly Palmer
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
Developing work through experimenting and taking (serious) risks
LINK TO DESIGN MUSEUM'S DESIGN FACTORY:
http://designmuseum.org/universities/design-factory extract from the website:
HAND MADE – HIGH TECH: materials, processes, exploration, adaptation
in a world saturated with ‘stuff’ how do designers generate innovative and surprising solutions?
What is the most important tool of the designer; the ability to look afresh and find inspiration and innovation from unusual and unexpected sources? An open and risk taking approach to the design process? There is of course no right answer and to quote
Design Factory takes its inspiration from the multidisciplinary nominations and exhibits in the exhibition Designs of the Year. This year, we have worked with Attua Aparicio and Oscar Wanless from studio Silo whose design practice centres on experimentation with industrial materials and processes, adapting them to a more craft approach. Silo look at how industry makes things, trying to find a simpler and more expressive way, seeing new potential.
The impetus of the project is to develop your engagement with the opportunity for risk taking and play afforded by the design process. Developing new processes and approaches which optimize or perhaps subvert materials and techniques often leads to the most innovative and exciting work. For many designers it is often the creative practice and process of design that gives rise to the most surprising and innovative results and ideas – play, risk taking, exploration and experimentation".
You will research and develop concepts on this year’s Design Factory topic. There will be a
visit to the Design Museum in London with Polly Palmer on Tuesday 12th February 2013. Please look at the location map on the Design Museum website for instructions.
DESIGN FACTORY Submission to tutors / MODULE SUBMISSION 25th February
Inspirational links (ongoing list):
THOMAS HEATHERWICK: http://www.heatherwick.com
Experiments/Work in Progress - students please email images for posting
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