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Clerkenwell Design Week 2013 movie

Clerkenwell Design Week 2013: designers including Patricia Urquiola, Ab Rogers and Jay Osgerby talk about their participation in Clerkenwell Design Week in the first of a series of movies we filmed during the event.

We spoke to designers at showrooms across the central London district, plus Farmiloe Building and House of Detention hub locations, which all make up Clerkenwell Design Week.

Clerkenwell Design Week 2013

In the movie, Jay Osgerby of design duo Barber Osgerby explains why the area is suited to hosting the event: “[Clerkenwell] is where all the architects and designers are based, it’s the perfect environment to show new work to an audience who’s really interested in it.”

“It brings a level of energy to a fantastic central location,” adds designer Ab Rogers.

Clerkenwell Design Week 2013

This fourth edition of the annual event saw the largest exhibitor and visitor numbers, though PearsonLloyd partner Tom Lloyd thinks it still retains a compact local atmosphere.

“I think Clerkenwell is maturing into a great design event,” he says. “I think its size is very nice, I think people like the intimacy.”

Clerkenwell Design Week 2013

Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola discusses why she likes exhibiting in the British capital: “Being in London always means to be involved in the work we are doing, [promoting] a new product and meeting new people,” she tells us. “London always gives you something else.”

Also in the movie, Giles Miller talks about his target of reflected pixels installed in front of a medieval gate “to stamp Clerkenwell on the map”.

Clerkenwell Design Week 2013

This year’s Clerkenwell Design Week took place from 21 to 23 May.

We will be publishing interviews with some of the key designers exhibiting at this year’s show in the coming weeks.

The music featured in this movie is a track called Octave by Junior Size, released by French record label Atelier du Sample . You can listen to more Junior Size tracks on Dezeen Music Project.

Photographs are by Jim Stephenson.

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Multi-Tasking Chairs

Song Seung-Yong imagine de superbes chaises au design singulier faisant office aussi d’échelle ou encore d’étagère. En réinterprétant et en repoussant l’utilité de la chaise, le designer coréen propose de merveilleux objets appelés « Object-E », « Object-B» ou «Object-O ». A découvrir dans l’article.

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Shanshui City exhibition by Ma Yansong

Ma Yansong of Chinese studio MAD is exhibiting architectural models and sculptures in a Beijing courtyard to illustrate his vision for a future city inspired by nature and shaped by human emotion (+ slideshow).

Shanshui City exhibition by Ma Yansong

The exhibition centres around an architectural model of Shanshui City, a new urban development proposed by MAD for Guiyang, China. Inspired by a concept first developed in the 1980s by Chinese scientists, the city is named after the Chinese words for mountains and water and is intended as a model of how cities and their inhabitants can reconnect with the natural world.

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In an accompanying book, Ma Yansong explains: “The city of the future development will be shifted from the pursuit of material civilisation to the pursuit of nature. This is what happens after human beings experience industrial civilisation at the expense of the natural environment.”

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Shanshui City

The Shanshui City exhibition also contains more than 20 models and artworks added to further demonstrate the importance of nature and human emotion in architecture. They include a skyscraper with gardens on every level and a village of apartments blocks in the Huangshan Mountains.

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All of the models are nestled amongst bamboo stems, stone walls and pools of water in the Qing Dynasty courtyard garden of the WUHAO design store in Beijing, which houses seasonal installations by young designers and brands.

Shanshui City exhibition by Ma Yansong

Ma Yansong leads MAD alongside partners Dang Qun and Yosuke Hayano. See more architecture by MAD on Dezeen, including a museum for wooden sculptures and a pair of curvaceous twisted skyscrapers.

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Ma Yansong’s “Shanshui City” Book Launch and Exhibition Held in Beijing

On June 6, 2013, Ma Yansong’s “Shanshui City” exhibition officially opened; the exhibition is displayed in a Qing Dynasty courtyard garden at Wu Hao in Beijing. More than twenty architectural models and works of art are scattered around the ancient courtyard. Among rocks, screen walls, bamboo groves, pools of water and beneath the sky, the scale of each piece varies and collectively they form a futuristic utopian urban landscape.

Shanshui City exhibition by Ma Yansong

The pieces on display range from a fish tank to the conceptual model of the “Shanshui City” which represents a proposal of hundreds of thousands of square metres in size. All the pieces exhibited express the sentiment of humans towards nature and depict the “Shanshui City” as the social ideal of the future. The newly issued book “Shanshui City” – released simultaneously with the exhibition – is an important turning point for Ma Yansong’s ten years of architectural practice and theory.

Shanshui City exhibition by Ma Yansong

In the book, he says: “The city of the future development will be shifted from the pursuit of material civilisation to the pursuit of nature. This is what happens after human beings experience industrial civilisation at the expense of the natural environment. The emotional harmonious relationship between nature and man will be rebuilt upon the ‘Shanshui City.'” This small brochure illustrates the young Chinese architect’s ideals concerning futuristic habitation. “It would be a great pity if the vigorous urbanisation could not breed new urban civilisation and ideal.”

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The famous Chinese scientist Qian Xuesen proposed the concept of “Shanshui City” in the 1980s. In view of the emerging large-scale cement construction, he put forward a new model of urban development based on Chinese Shanshui spirit, which was meant to allow people to “stay out of nature and return to nature.”

Shanshui City exhibition by Ma Yansong

However, this idealistic urban concept was not put into practice. As the world’s largest manufacturing base, a large number of soulless “shelf cities” appeared in contemporary China due to the lack of cultural spirit.

Shanshui City exhibition by Ma Yansong

Qian Xuesen pointed out that modern cities’ worship of power and capital leads to maximisation and utilitarianism. “Buildings in cities should not become living machines. Even the most powerful technology and tools can never endow the city with a soul.”

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Absolute Towers

To Ma Yansong, Shanshui does not just refer to nature; it is also the individual’s emotional response to the surrounding world. “Shanshui City” is a combination of city density, functionality and the artistic conception of natural landscape. It aims at composing a future city that takes human spirit and emotion at their cores.

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Huangshan Mountain Village

In the opening forum of “Shanshui City,” a round-table dialogue was held with the participation of Liu Xiaochun, Li Xianting, Bao Pao, Wang Mingxian, Jin Qiuye and Ma Yansong, leading to be, undoubtedly, a historic moment. Perhaps the “Shanshui City” ideology is the very progress that China’s urbanisation can contribute to the world.

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Talent Spotters: Brighton

Over the course of this year’s degree show season, CR readers will be guest blogging reviews of shows up and down the UK (and beyond). Clare Plumley visits this year’s Brighton shows

Sunny Brighton, and actually, it really is today which means I get a bit of peace and quiet to meander around this year’s Brighton Degree Show in a little late afternoon sunshine.

The first work to really make me beam (and with a suitably Brighton colour palette to kick this off with) is ‘Data Analysis: Smarties’ (below), a room full of colour prints, showing the amount and colour ratio of smarties found in varying package sizes. These are by Printmaking graduate, Sophie Newman. Being a data visualisation junkie I really want to leave the building with one of these beauties tucked under my arm.

She presents more data analysis prints on the ground floor based on student surveys of the university’s performance with titles such as ‘94% satisfaction’ (shown top).

I find more food related works in 3D Design. Poppy Wilson St James presents a series of objects which bring into question the origin of the food we consume and how those products impact on us. She has made jelly moulds of pigs trotters, sweets in the shape of rotting teeth and promotes the nutritious value of bugs and insects.

 

Earlier this year I saw a preview of 3D Design student Isobel Goodacre‘s work as part of the Brighton Science Festival. She investigates geographical and interpersonal boundaries, and I was intrigued by her app which presents invisible wi-fi signals as tangible floating objects.

 

Another online investigation came in the form of ‘Google Christ’. Illustration graduate, Philippe Nash, on a quest to find Christ, his/our souls online, has presented a wall full of his search results. He has also asked others to send in pictures of themselves disguised as Jesus. This raises all sorts of interesting questions regarding the sanctity of an image, information, truth and personal belief.

His very own floor based shrine (full of paper and felt-tip pens, naturally) contains the lovely ‘Book of Grateful’ in which we are invited to write about or draw the things we are grateful for. A drawing of ‘love and brokeness’ (below) was an entry that caught my eye.

 

There is more soul-searching around the corner from film-maker Theo Davies in “I Could Have Been So Much Better: the acute social awkwardness of being a virgin”. It’s a very intimate, rather uncomfortable, up-close portrait, and is very funny. I highly recommend a watch, and, sexual content ‘with bacon’, that’s an image hook. He’ll go far.


 

Regarding portraiture, I’m rather drawn to the striking portraits on the ground floor by Photography graduate Tom Field, very topically, looking at the issue of gay marriage and identity.

 

Robyn Aubrey takes photographs of herself alongside her sister, beautifully presenting the closeness and tension that often resides between siblings.

 

Photography graduate Angela Murray‘s photographs are lit like Dutch Golden Age paintings and have a clarity and scale which draws me in. These portraits, mainly of children, are based on ideas of Jungian psychoanalysis, science and alchemy.

 

Back in the Graphic Design and Illustration department I’m really impressed by the interpretation of children’s drawings by Jamie Eke. He takes their drawings and works them up in his own style, it’s clever, original and very insightful.

 

Illustration graduate Kathy Lam produces very strong, dark drawings of animals exhibiting hidden human attributes, she had some very cute cut-out animal business cards too, which were a nice touch. The work on her website and blog is playful and diverse, I can see a lot of potential for animation there somehow, go check her out.

 

I was delighted to stumble upon a series of Maggie placards entitled ‘Tweets and the Streets’ by Graphic Design graduate Jo Satchell. In addition to making me wistful for student days of old they highlight the power of twitter for political commentary. Each placard contains a tweet including such gems as “I don’t even like milk anyway” and “Hang on, she was responsible for Mr Whippy”. Great stuff.

 

Other type-based work within the Graphic Design department which grabbed me was by Sam Greenway, who has created a typeface from his own fractal vector. He also used the typeface to produce abstract prints which are quite beautiful, I imagine these have almost unlimited permutations. www.behance.net/samgreenway or

 

The Fine Art Department had some slick design going on too in the form of their catalogue entitled ‘Unbound Bound’, presented on a large table with individual sheets for the visitor to collect, curate and pull together in any order they like. Very smart and engaging, it made for a striking display.

 

Just down the corridor I popped my head in to check out Digital Music and Sound Arts. It was a lovely wind down to the show. I came across a wonderful stop-motion animation called ‘Sounds Are Objects’ by Leon Radschinski-Gorman which follows a trail of ink as it winds itself around and over a variety of surfaces. The ink picks up the resonance and perceived sound of each object as it goes. Lovely, poetic, watch it here.

 

I like a little minimalism so was lulled even further by Sound Arts graduate Rebecca E Davies who likes to create sound via the imagination. A print on the wall invited me to imagine ‘the sound of thinking about an object thinking’. Her work is about ‘listening through inaudible media’, so, whilst ash moved around the space via inaudible sound coming from white speakers, so too, feathers and inaudible singing bowls were set up atop speakers.

So, I left the building, sadly without that smarties print tucked under my arm, but entered the throng of Brighton on a Friday night with ‘the sound of thinking about an object thinking’ whirring through my mind, well, that and ‘bacon’. All in all ‘94% satisfaction’.

Clare Plumley
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Many thanks to Clare. If you would like to review a degree show in your area, please let us know here


Pink Floyd fans may recognise the cover of our June issue. It’s the original marked-up artwork for Dark Side of the Moon: one of a number of treasures from the archive of design studio Hipgnosis featured in the issue, along with an interview with Aubrey Powell, co-founder of Hipgnosis with the late, great Storm Thorgerson. Elsewhere in the issue we take a first look at The Purple Book: Symbolism and Sensuality in Contemporary Illustration, hear from the curators of a fascinating new V&A show conceived as a ‘walk-in book’ plus we have all the regular debate and analysis on the world of visual communications.

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Talent Spotters: Newcastle Fine Art

Over the course of this year’s degree show season, CR readers will be guest blogging reviews of shows up and down the UK (and beyond). Here, Andy Welsh of MBL Solutions visits the Newcastle Fine Art Degree Show

I was lucky enough to visit the biggest-ever Newcastle Fine Art Degree Show, at the beautiful Hatton Gallery. What I discovered was a complete takeover of every available space, with paintings, sculptures, film and more. It is no surprise that these exhibitions are the most visited in the gallery’s annual calendar.

It is worth noting that the students have curated the show, created and managed the publicity and also part funded it. This level of professionalism and dedication was even extended to ensuring that this year’s event had its own branding, a beautifully designed catalogue (shown above), promotional posters and a useful microsite.

For those in London, a selection of work will be on show at the Embassy Tea Gallery at the end of June.

Freya Cromarty
If the Hatton Gallery was just about managing to accommodate the huge amount of student’s artwork on show, Freya Cromarty’s silver pin sculptures refused to be contained. Like a futuristic, ever-expanding organism, her work could be seen emanating from ceilings and in corridors throughout the exhibition.

 

Ellie McCulloch
One of my favourite spaces at the show was by Ellie McCulloch, which included several mirrored Perspex shapes, beautifully lit and incorporating intricate patterns and text. Centered around the notion of memories, Ellie successfully created a space that encourages you to remember and reflect.

 

 

Martha Aynsley
One thing that I did reflect on while in Ellie McCulloch’s space, was the fact that my wife and I have recently had our first child. Martha Aynsley was able to capture the beauty of pregnancy perfectly, with huge oil on canvas paintings. Having photographed my wife throughout her 9 months, I can understand the desire to document this experience. However, not only did Martha do that, I think her paintings were also able to convey some of the intimate emotions that people can feel during this time.

 

 

Harry Peck
In a side room, halfway down some stairs was Harry Peck’s “Philanthropic Fun Fair”. In a grubby and run down setting, stalls included Donation Darts and a Wheel of Misfortune. The whole thing was a bit unsettling, thought provoking and successfully played upon my own self-satisfied feeling towards the random and sporadic donations I’ve made to charity.

 

Georgina Witts
With a quote by Andy Warhol to introduce her work, Georgina Witts takes a fresh look at those controversial figures in the news that are enjoying more than their 15 minutes of fame. Her most successful piece in my opinion was a crate of 6 black milk bottles emblazoned with the words “Thatcher’s Milk”. As we reflect on Margaret Thatcher’s life and career, this simple, striking and timely piece of work, perfectly illustrates the demise of free school milk; one of her most controversial decisions.

 

 

Hannah Denney
Readymade lines is an incredible concept by Hannah Denney. Through the use of some simple black electrical wire and clear nylon thread, Hannah has taken line drawings away from their simple existence on a flat surface and brought them to life, existing as their own floating structure. This provides a unique opportunity to view an artist’s drawing from any angle and distance that you wish.

 

 

Adam Laing
I am a huge fan of artwork that incorporates grids and repetition so Adam Laing’s work had a good chance of appealing to me. He creates really interesting juxtapositions, by diligently ordering the messy, random bits of waste he finds around studios.

 

 

 

Rebecca Blessington
The decision to display Rebecca Blessington’s “Elusive Ground” on a huge scale was definitely a good one. I found myself getting completely lost in each image, trying to work out why everything seemed to be so familiar and unfamiliar at the same time. Somehow, Rebecca has managed to turn what could have amounted to nothing more than a series of medical images of the human body, into something so much more.

 

Siti Munirah Yusop
Finally, Siti Munirah Yusop’s collection of miniature paintings of everyday life provided a fitting end to my time at the exhibition. With such a tiny canvas to work with, I was really impressed with what Siti managed to convey in each painting and the unusual colours and slightly abstract style somehow worked well together. It would be a series that I would be interested to see develop into a full visual diary of Siti’s life.

 

Many thanks to Andy. If you would like to review a degree show in your area, please let us know here


Pink Floyd fans may recognise the cover of our June issue. It’s the original marked-up artwork for Dark Side of the Moon: one of a number of treasures from the archive of design studio Hipgnosis featured in the issue, along with an interview with Aubrey Powell, co-founder of Hipgnosis with the late, great Storm Thorgerson. Elsewhere in the issue we take a first look at The Purple Book: Symbolism and Sensuality in Contemporary Illustration, hear from the curators of a fascinating new V&A show conceived as a ‘walk-in book’ plus we have all the regular debate and analysis on the world of visual communications.

You can buy Creative Review direct from us here. Better yet, subscribe, save money and have CR delivered direct to your door every month.

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