false 4 2010-03-08T18:00:00+01:00 105588 106710 302550 2010-01-27T10:00:00+01:00 /system/photos/0051/1485/rosi22_thumb.jpg 2010-01-27T04:00:12+01:00 4 300155 0 105588 Designers in Residence #2 true 2009-09-11T13:00:02+02:00 false http://inresidence.designmuseum.org Designers in Residence is an annual programme where the Design Museum invites five young designers to create site-specific work and transform the ground floor of the museum. Asif Khan graduated as an architect and works from micro to macro across industrial design, furniture and architecture. Past projects include cafés, textiles, furniture, and a canopy, produced collaboratively, for a favela in Recife, Brazil. Other joint projects include a modular lighting system with Peter Liversidge and a sculptural mobile displayed on the catwalk for Osman Yousefzada Spring/Summer show in 2009. These collaborative projects enrich and diversify his practice, reinforcing his ability to adapt cross disciplines and apply his expertise to create new and unexpected results. Bethan Laura Wood’s practice is multidisciplinary; her designs are explorations into material, pattern, and structure. Through her work, Bethan observes the relationship between the user and the object, with an interest in why people discard or hold onto objects. She creates products that explore how different attributes of the mundane can be celebrated and rediscovered, encouraging users to reconnect with the objects that surround them. With a fascination in the everyday mass-produced elements which form the fabric of the city, Bethan is keen to accent the intrinsic qualities of these materials, encouraging the user to appreciate and acknowledge the various facets. Farm describe themselves as “a decidedly British design collective”, consisting of the furniture designers: Alexena Cayless, Giles Miller, Sebastian Hejna and Guy Brown. Distinctive in personality and style, they each excel and specialise in different ways, whilst sharing a similar design language and drawing inspiration from popular British culture. They also strive to challenge the conventions of furniture design. Farm considers materials and production methods as the root of their practice with a commitment to investigating British manufacturing techniques. /system/photos/0051/1485/rosi22_thumb.jpg 2009-09-11T13:01:40+02:00 511485 /system/photos/0051/1485/rosi22.jpg