Design Week
New Designers Selection
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Furniture Design
Fri, 25 Sep 2009
We have got used to designers thinking in either 3D or 2D, with product and pattern coming from different sides of the studio. What is remarkable about graduates at the moment is an increasing ability to switch between the two. It is always exciting to have a graduate in the design studio, because their imagination has enormous capacity to surprise us. Particularly when the graduate shows as much raw talent as last year’s winners, Naoko Kanehira and Niina Kuosmanen.Focused ...
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Jewellery & Metalwork Design
New Designers Selection
The Goldsmiths’ Company, founded in 1327, is one of the Great Twelve Livery Companies of the City of London, and today not only operates the London Assay Office, but continues to play an increasingly important role in supporting the jewellery and silversmithing industry, assisting with the technical training of aspiring craftsmen and promoting excellence in design and craftsmanship.The Goldsmiths’ Company has supported New Designers for more than nine years and provides ...
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New Designers Selection
New Designers Selection
In previous years, Upper Street Events has run its New Designers Selection exhibition as a feature within the London Design Festival.
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Product Design
New Designers Selection
With the exception of the odd self-illuminating suspender belt, there was a distinct lack of glamorous and hedonistic products emerging from the product design colleges and universities at this year’s New Designers exhibition. Given the current climate this is hardly surprising. There were also few, if any, aesthetic or design language trends emerging. But what I did find inspiring was just how big a conscience the vast majority of product design graduates portrayed in their choice ...
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Spatial Design
New Designers Selection
As a discipline, it is interesting that design, in all its aspects, is both a trendsetter and a trend follower.Trendsetting is driven initially through a small number of visionary individuals, progressively attracting a following until the once-unique becomes the norm. Similarly, design developments will often mirror demand, through an increase in aspiration to emotional fulfilment, or to respond to a social or commercial need.There was a big growth in entries ...
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Textile, Fashion & Accessory Design
New Designers Selection
At Harlequin we see New Designers as a showcase for the country’s innovative and inspirational young designers. We have sponsored an award here for the past four years, and see our support as a way of investing in the designers of the future, while showing our commitment by encouraging and promoting emerging creative skills.As anticipated, the 2009 New Designers was an inspirational event. It showcased a wide variety of work, from intricately and beautifully etched florals ...
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Visual Communications
New Designers Selection
For the past couple of years at New Designers, Sky Creative has presented its Green Award to the graduate who best demonstrates how ecological and environmental issues can be efficiently addressed.With greater availability of eco-friendly materials and techniques that don’t add to the ozone layer, it is encouraging to see designers embracing the traditional processes of yesteryear. However, the fun really starts when their results are thrust into the many digital domains, ...
