Farm members Alexena Cayless and Giles Miller have been working with a group of young participants in a series of workshops for Design Upon a Time. Design Upon a Time at the Design Museum is part of London 2012 Cultural Olympiad programme Stories of the World which presents exciting new museum exhibitions across the UK, created by young people.
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Designer in Resident Giles Miller has been commissioned by exclusive drinks brand Bombay Sapphire to create a batch of pulp Martini glasses for a late night event at the V&A next month.
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The Hospital Club 100 Brave New Future Awards
The Hospital Club, in association with The Independent Newspaper, is searching for the most influential people in the creaive and media industries. The emphasis is on nominees current contribution and importance not celebrity status, bank balance, titles or past reputation.
Six of the Designers in Residence: Asif Khan, Jethro Macey, Giles Miller and Adrian Westaway, Bethan Wood and Freddie Yauner have been nominated in the Emerging Design category.
The people with the most votes will make it in to the final Top 100 list which will be published with The Independent newspaper on July 7th. This final list will contain the top 5 emerging and top 5 established names for each industry.
Voting closes on Friday 25 June.
Find out more about the awards and vote for one of our Designers in Residence
Best of Luck!
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The Designers in Residence installation at Clerkenwell Design Week is open until 9pm tonight. Its the last day of the festival, so come down to meet a few of the designers and see their current work and projects.
Entrance is Free.
Find the Designers in Residence installation in the Farmiloe Building, 34 St John Street, EC1M 4BE.
Images by Luke Hayes
A selection of Designers in Residence from 2007 - 2010 will be exhibiting at the three-day annual festival Clerkenwell Design Week, which runs from 25 - 27 May 2010. The Designers in Residence will be stationed in the Farmiloe Building on St Johns Street, where you can see their work from 10am - 9pm every day of the festival.
The Designs In Residence at Clerkenwell Design Week are:
Sarah Angold - sarahangold.com
Farm: Guy Brown, Alexena Cayless, Sebastian Hejna, Giles Miller
Asif Khan - asif-khan.com
Jethro Macey - jethromacey.com
Marc Owens - marcowens.co.uk
Adrian Westaway - vitaminsdesign.com
Bethan Wood - woodlondon.co.uk
Freddie Yauner - freddieyauner.co.uk
Entrance is free. Find out more and register for entry at: Clerkenwelldesignweek.com
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Designers in Residence Marc Owens, Giles Miller and Freddie Yauner (Designer in Residence 2008) talk about life as a designer; their education, inspirations and ideas as part of the Design Museum Learning programme Creative Futures. The progamme offers work-related learning and career pathway options for students aged 14-19 in schools and colleges across selected boroughs studying Design & Technology, Art & Design and Creative & Media at levels 2 and 3.
The designers also shared their stories with students by presenting a talk and answering a profile questionnaire. Find out more about the programme on the Creative Futures page.
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Particle from bethan wood on Vimeo.
Here is a short video from Designer in Residence Bethan Wood of her work 'Particle' which was displayed in the Design Museum earlier this year.
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Cheaney Chair designed by Alexena Cayless.
This chair was inspired by the traditional skills and materials of midlands based shoemakers and saddlery companies. These companies work in areas of the UK renowned for these manufacturing industries and all of their work is made by hand by skilled craftsmen and women.
The chair is a development of Alexena's ‘Fly Tip’ collection and was originally found discarded on the street. It has been reupholstered with leather brogue patterns handcrafted by Cheaney Shoes in Northamptonshire and tweed.
www.alexenacayless.co.uk
Giles Miller has completed the design and production of a new collection of brass products. Work on the collection culminated during Giles’s residency at the London Design Museum as part of their designers in residence programme, and the new range was shown during the Milan Furniture Fair in April.
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