Arts Thread: Design MART’s Innovative Product Design

Design Event Presents is a new initiative launched as part of this year’s Design Event MART exhibition. For Presents, 8 creatives from the realms of product, jewelry, illustration and textile design have been commissioned to produce an exclusive edition of a new product to be premiered at the opening of the festival.

Ayme Firzgerald’s wild and colorful designs are an immediate eye-catcher. For the exhibition Ayme has produced a new range of vibrant, digitally printed cushions which feature patterns taken from her Floral Floral and Boutique collections.

Military medals, emblems and other wartime relics were the source of inspiration behind Claire Baker’s mixed-media jewellery collection. Recycled paper, vintage army linen threads and offcuts have all been incorporated into her designs which are historic but with a modern twist.

David Irwin, who won the award for Best Interior Product at the Design Event MART award ceremonies, is displaying his Mining Lamp designs – contemporary updates of the early Davy lamps used in the Hebburn Colliery back in the early 1800s.

Another award-winner, Neil Conley (who won the won the One Year On Award at this year’s New Designers exhibition) is showcasing his dimmable interior table lamp made from amberised borosilicate glass. The piece is is like a living preservation of Thomas Edison’s filament bulb, displaying the bulb’s transition from functional object to design icon.

Visit the Design Event site for full listings of the festival running October 14-18 2011.

Ayme Fitzgerald 
Claire Baker 
David Irwin 
Neil Conley

Exhibition photography by Helen Stevens

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