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18 September - 8 November 2008
OKAY Studio is a collective of individual designers sharing a bit more then a workspace. Each has broken their own ground, with some also working for leading design studios while others work on consultancy projects. But they share the drive to generate self-initiated projects, produce work with their own clients and exhibit in galleries and museums internationally. This will be the first curated exhibition of the group. Coming from different countries, they all met while studying at the Royal College of Art Design Products course, and have continued working alongside each other, sharing resources and sometimes collaborating on client work and exhibitions. Under The Same Roof will be a unique insight into the way this group has set up their way of working in London. The exhibition will transform the Aram Gallery into a series of ‘rooms’ that will represent the working spaces of each of the members of the studio, reflecting on how they operate successfully as colleagues rather than as a branded consultancy. Collectively, the exhibition will explore how, just as in London, many different approaches to life and a creative existence are possible under the same roof offering insight into the ambient ongoing process of being a designer in London today. The ‘roof’, or ceiling, of the gallery will be a unique installation of drawings, sketch models, workshop jigs, failed projects and other studio ephemera that form each of the members daily studio existence. Under The Same Roof will show the work of: Shay Alkalay, Tomas Alonso, Jordi Canudas, Mathias Hahn, Peter Marigold, Yael Mer, Oscar Narud, Hiroko Shiratori and Jorre van Ast. The Aram Gallery is delighted to invite these nine emerging professionals to exhibit new and yet unseen work and promises to deliver an exciting addition to the Gallery’s award-winning programme from previous years (Stage by Jaime Hayon, 2006 London Design Festival Icon Magazine Trail, Best In Show). Curator: Daniel Charny
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OKAYstudio in DNA FORM London!
dna epitomises the thinking behind FORM – exploring the common ground between art and design. It provides visitors with the chance to discover – and buy – the work of up-and-coming talent as it
explores art, applied arts, and design.
Some of the most dynamic work being created in art and design consciously blurs the boundaries that traditionally divided art from applied art and applied art from design. And just as the definition of ‘design’ or ‘art’ is becoming fuzzy so is the definition of ‘designer’ or ‘artist’. Key artists are becoming important players in the field of design and the art world is taking more interest than ever in
contemporary design.
In selecting the work for dna we sought to reflect the values and virtues that this diverse group share. So while they draw on, or borrow, the language of other disciplines, what almost all have in common is their commitment to skilled techniques, to the innovative use of materials and to truly contemporary design and aesthetics.
OKAYstudio in Spain!!!
Parallel to the installation for the EFIMERA event in Madrid, OKAYstudio will present most of its work with an exhibition at the Instituto Europeo di Design in Madrid.
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Jorre
is showing his Clampology and Brass Ensemble projects at the 22+2 exhibition organised
by Richard Hutten and Ann Maes during the Dutch Design Week 2007 in Eindhoven,
20-28th October
FFFS de Admirant
Emmasingle 3
5611 AZ Eindhoven (across the street from Witte Dame)
http://www.dutchdesignweek.nl/
OKAYstudio at Boxfresh Boxfresh
20-23 September 2007 |
After their successful first show during this year’s Cologne Furniture Fair, OKAYstudio teams up with Boxfresh in Covent Garden for it’s first appearance on home soil.The cosmopolitan group represents a range of approaches to designing, but shares a common goal: the desire to collaborate within and beyond the studio. OKAY will be showing a diverse selection of furniture and interior products. | |
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Alonso
Designers in Residence 2007 Design Museum Shad Thames London SE1 2YD 12 September to 14 October 2007 Open 10.00-17.45 Daily |
Tomás
has been invited to take part in the Designers in Residence exhibition organised
by the Design Museum that will open on the 12 of September and will go on during
the London Design Festival until the 14 of October 2007. This is a new annual exhibition, in which emerging product and furniture designers are invited to transform areas of the museum with their work, it aims to provide a springboard into the design world. The 2007 Designers in Residence will be: Sarah van Gameren, Chris O’Shea, Tomás Alonso, Richard Sweeney and Finn Magee. Tomás will transform the Design Museum Café into an indoor patio by using his home greenroom system in combination with his table and benches and the new 5degree stools. Customers will also have the opportunity to use stamp, the recyclable aluminium cutlery. |
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Marigold Grandmateria Gallery Libby Sellers Temporary Exhibition Space 1-5 London Design District Exhibition Road, London SW7 11-7pm each day of the London Design Festival and Frieze Art Fair (11-14 October) |
Gallery
Libby Sellers presents Grandmateria, an exhibition of new design commissions from
emerging designers,all of whom are exploring materials and forms that challenge
and excite our expectations of design. |
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| Oscar
Narud New Moves Aram Gallery 110 Drury Lane Covent Garden London WC2B 5SG Private view; September 19th, 7-10 PM. |
Oscar Narud
is working on the exhibition design creating a 3D illustrated office landscape
to showcase over a hundred new and classic lights. The ‘New Moves’ exhibition celebrates the legacy of the ‘angle poise- lamp’. Alongside 30 classic lights, students and recent graduates from the Royal College of Art, in collaboration with Artemide, will be presenting their ‘take’ on the angle poise through 70 new prototypes. |
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Alkalay, Mathias Hahn, Hiroko Shiratori & Jorre Van Ast Gradual Sir John Lavery Studio London Design District 5 Cromwell Place, South Kensington SW7 2JB 19 September Private view 20 September |
Exhibition of Royal College of Art Graduate students from the last three years curated by Martino Gamper. The emphasis of the exhibition is to reveal the process through generating and experimenting rather than finishing and polishing the work. Using the space as a experimenting and laboratory space where either new work or existing work can be developed further. | |
| Mathias
Hahn The Superdesign Market ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, SOUTHBANK CENTRE PART OF THE LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL FRIDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 6pm-9pm SATURDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 10am-7pm SUNDAY 23 SEPTEMBER 10am-6pm |
Following
the successful launch of the Super Design Market at the Truman Brewery during
last year’s London Design Festival, Scarlet Projects will again present
the Super Design Market at the London Design Festival on Friday 21, Saturday 22
and Sunday 23 September. This year it will be held in The Ballroom of the newly
refurbished Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, the ‘hub’ of the
London Design Festival for 2007. With Martino Gamper, Gitta Gschwendtner, Michael Marriott, Jordi Canudas, Tim Parsons, and many more |
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