So,
the world is your oyster and the Northern Design Festival is open and ready to be
explored. Here is just a sample some of the things you can do this weekend. Enjoy!
Here's the full Northern Design Festival guide.
Exhibition from 10 - 20 October
B&D Studios
A
showcase of the work and expertise of Attaya Projects, a Newcastle-based
digital media arts company specialising in interactive art installations,
consulting in physical interaction design and workshops on creative
technologies. Workshops are on from 11am on Saturday (over 8s) click to book
your free place.
Attaya
Projects will inhabit the living space of B&D Studios, redecorate it with
interactive installations and a chill-out salon area, propose creative workshop
activities and welcome visitors with a nice cup of West-African Attaya tea.
open this weekend
& next weekend 10.00 – 18.00
Lime Street Gallery
Y I pop up shop
will be showcasing some of the North East's greatest design talent. A rare
opportunity to purchase purely locally designed products with a range of items
for sale, a one off event that should not be missed. The pop up shop aims to
provide a great shopping experience whilst also supporting the designers
involved, who gain 100% of the profit made with no shop mark up. Therefore, any
purchases made will support and nurture local talent and help keep it local! Designers include RASKL, Helena
Seget, Jamie Fry and of course Westergaard designs.
Sage Gateshead
Craft
Cube:Research is an experimental display environment developed by the Craft
Council UK in collaboration with designer and researcher Dr Jayne Wallace
exploring the boundaries of contemporary craft and its relationship with
digital technology. Fascinating objects using digital media to explore
dementia, this is a though-provoking installation.
Specific events in Sunderland:
National Glass Centre Sunderland
Premiering at
the National Glass Centre, Constructions is a mid-career solo exhibition by
Jeffrey Sarmiento, supported by a publication and an international tour.
His sculptures combine digital design, printing and glass to express the
complexities that underpin cultural identity. He builds his objects from
waterjet cut, silkscreened and kilnformed glass, using the material's
properties to manipulate the interplay of image and object.
open 12 Oct, 10.00 – 17.00 and 14 -
18 Oct, 09.00 – 17.00
Design
Centre Gallery, Uni of Sunderland
Andrew
Richardson, Carl Gregg and the design work of Roger Thomas examines the use of
computation within the context of creative practice, exploring the process of
using computer code as a way of making artifacts using the 'raw material' of
programming language and digital interaction.
National Glass Centre,
Sunderland
Create: Digital
presents the work of twelve internationally significant designers who combine
creative impetus with digital technology. The exhibition explores the potential
of digital materials and manufacturing processes in the creation of entirely
new types of product. The exhibition will include innovative pieces from
designers including: Andrew Tanner, Bethan Laura Wood, Dominic Wilcox,
Interaction Research Studio, Issey Miyake, Michele Gauler, Michael Young, Silvia
Weidenbach, Tord Boontje, Timorous Beasties, Victoria Spruce and Tom Dixon. The
exhibition will include; product, surface, jewellery and lighting pieces
created using a range of digital processes such as 3D printing, coding,
computer aided design, CNC, digital printing and laser-cutting. Look out for
GPS shoes, an LED display to direct the prayer of nuns and an urn containing not
your mortal ashes, but your digital remains . . . fascinating.
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