Kingston Market House
Today sees the launch of ‘Work Shop’ a retail project from Kingston University.
The launch takes place between 4.30 and 8 PM.
The Work Shop is part of the activity in around the town centre supported by Kingston First and Includes products from Nuu, All Lovely Stuff,, Rosemary Anrude, James Shaw, Kenyon Yeh, as well as products from alumni and staff of the university. Read More…
Quantam Parallelograph
We were delighted to award a New Designers associate prize to Patrick Stevenson-Keating from the Univerity of Dundee for his Quantum Parallelograph project. The device explores the possibility of alternate lives and encourages people of all ages to become involved in physics. Read More…
Stuart Melrose collaboration with Puff & Flock
Stuart Melrose – Surface
We were delighted to get out of London the other day and along to the Opening of Stuart Melrose: Surface at the the Willis Museum in Basignstoke.
Not only does the exhibition feature several example of Stuart’s very refined Corian Furniture but also collaborations with graphic artists Kev Munday, andDroog 79, as well as textile collective Puff & Flock.
We were particularly delighted to see the work with Puff & Flock as the collaboration came about as a result of the United presentation we put together for United Business Media as part of Interiors 2010 at the NEC in Birmingham back in January 2010.
The work looks stunning and deserves to be see as wide an audience as possible. The exhibition continues until July 23rd Read More…
Virgin Lounge Wallpaper
Virgin Holidays will open its second dedicated lounge for leisure passengers at the start of next month, a 400sqm facility at Manchester airport featuring a kid’s room, gaming zone, free wifi and hot and cold buffet.
The new lounge is located within Manchester’s Terminal 2, and joins the group’s existing facility at Gatwick airport.
The lounge was created by our graphic designer Paul Mcanelly and our friends Lazerian Read More…
New Designers
Since our launch in 1998 Designersblock has provided support, advice and showcasing opportunities for new businesses and graduating students starting out on their professional careers. This year we have teamed up with New Designers to offer one graduate a fantastic package of support that includes exhibition space, mentoring and desk space at our Shoreditch offices.
The prize will be awarded on the 7th July during week 2 of New Designers. Now in its 26th year, New Designers at the Business Design Centre in Islington is unrivalled in Europe in bringing together such a broad cross-section of fresh, new design talent under one roof. Every July, over 3,500 newly graduated designers, representing the top 200 UK design courses, come together at New Designers to meet industry employers, media, trend predictors and a design hungry public.
Designersblock 2000 - St Pancras Chambers
Designersblock are now accepting applications from exhibitors wishing to take part at our 14th annual London show. The event runs from the 22nd to 25th September 2011 and forms part of the London Design Festival. We shall be announcing our venue on the 1st June 2011. Read More…
Built By Hive
Built by is a collaboration between Vanessa Harden and Kevin Hill together they have created a custom designed beehive that allows them to collaborate with honey bees to create bespoke products. Read More…
Hendzel and Hunt
Designersblock friends Jan Hendzel and Oscar Hunt of Studio Hendzel & Hunt have put together a 24 hour design challenge based around the idea of sustainability and locality.
The event will take place on May the 6th and there is still time for you to take part. Read More…
The New English 08
We are absolutely delighted to confirm the participation of The New English at our show in Ventura Lambrate. We came across the New English a couple of months ago when we were looking for people for our Wall of Great China project. Read More…
Vanja Bazdulj - Rough and Ready
Rough & Ready is an experimental furniture morphology inspired from exploring the potentials of the imperfect, unpredictable, the flawed, the unfinished `finish` look aesthetics and Independence in work process. Focusing on exploring ambiguous forms and materials out of context it is questioning our worlds standards and views on commodities and their value. Created form a material compound of wool and rubber. Read More…
