Liberty London is his client - that's their retail element
2016 Homes & Gardens Designer Awards winner
He starts off by drawing, pencil sketches
Produces wallpaper prints
Chooses contrasting colours to create drama - dislikes matchy matchy things
Products: wallpaper, cushions, chairs (fabrics), furnishings (dressing tables)
Most of his work is completely hand drawn
Loves twin peaks, horror films, creepy things
Movies inform his work - how the directors use sound and colour to build tension - brings this into his work
Adds colour using paints and digital programmes
Draws to the scale of the final product
DENNIS PARREN STUDIO
Eindhoven based (Netherlands)
Produced the CMYK lamp - first lamp to cast coloured shadow. It started out when he 'pimped up' an espresso machine.
LED's cast sharp shadows and hide the light source
Projects sort of wall papers onto it's surrounding
Made the CMYK bulb - it screws into a standard light fitting
3D prints the frames for the CMYK lamp - it's the easiest way to make such complex frames
Magenta is the colour of life
Use magenta LED's to grow plants hyper efficiently, as the plants absorb almost all of the light, there are almost no reflections of light off the plants
Simulating the sun - human centric lighting
Lowlands 2015 festival. Made a CMYK lamp 20 times bigger
Glow 2014 festival. produced light installation using polystyrene bricks. He programmed the street lights to flash in certain ways, which makes reflects light onto the bricks and makes it look like they're painted in different colours.
LED dotted lamp uses LED strip lights
Carmel College installation
"Curiosity of humans leads to wisdom"
"Learning is forgetting, dreaming is thinking"
You can see the light effect but can't see the light source
He uses the client to make something really awesome. Clients come to him to be inspired.
BLOND & BIEBER - Redefining Colour in Material Research
Berlin based design studio - focusing on textile and product design
Focus of future crafts - craft fused with scientific research
They don't use fixatives in their colours, if they did the colours would go brown due to their properties
ALGAEMY - using micro algae pigment for textiles
Different cultural views of algae
Colour palette comes with different species of algae - red and yellow and green colours - whole spectrum of colours
Use micro algae cells as pigments, they are the colour, which is non toxic
Toxic, chemical inks go into a river in China from the textile factories, which harms the environment. Inks are literally dying the river
They take a laboratory approach
One species of algae changed colour when exposed to sunlight, from green to blue, initially they thought of this as a problem, but then used it as an asset, how people can tell their own narrative through their clothes, put their own print on it. The colour changes to blue slows, and is dependant upon the wearer as to the rate at which it turns, and which areas turn, as to how long they wear it for, what time of day and year they wear it, and whether they wear it indoors or outdoors
Each colour is a different species of algae
Produced a micro algae print outfit - screen printing the colours on the textile - collaborated with a designer
They grow algae and use it to turn into a paste which can be printed with. Filtration takes place too.
They are developing a algae pencil, where you can draw with algae pigment, it's currently a Kickstarter project
SLEEP WITH US - sleep in public places
Wool of standard sheep is a waste product, not the other way around. Everyone wants merino wool for their products not standard sheep
Each sheep breed has a different colour of wool
Shepard sleeps with it outdoors but also wears it as a cloak
They produced a sleep backpack - it unfolds to give comfort and privacy
The colour comes from the material, they don't add colour to follow or create trends
Natsai Chiesa - prints with bacteria
Bril - clock made out of cedar wood and leaves, which change over the year
Teresa Van Dongen - uses fluorescent bacteria in the sea to create colour in a lamp
This Creative Networks talk was so interesting, and completely not what I was expecting. It's amazing how you can make colours out of algae pigment, and how they change over time when exposed to sunlight, it makes me want one!! And a bulb that creates coloured shadows, that's incredible, and would definitely be a centre point of someones hall or bedroom. It was really interesting to see completely revolutionary ways of producing colour, which wouldn't of even occurred to me, and the fact that they've been existing in the world for a few years already is amazing. I just know when that algae pencil becomes available...I want one!
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