/////////////////////Perpetual Crisis & Design for Obsolescence: April 2009

M A N I F E S T O

Designers exist solely via the simple structure of crisis in which solutions, manipulations and incarnations counterbalance perpetual problems, challenges and obstacles.

We are the mediators of fact that regurgitate inarticulate laboratory knowledge into legible three-dimensional translations.

The majority of ‘designers’ are not inventors or innovators, they are alchemists, perpetually searching for a means to create gold from the bare bones of science. Designers appropriate scientific fact and mediate this immaterial knowledge in such a way as it can perform a practical function to both the ‘user’ and big business.

We represent the lens of elucidation through which science and technology are simultaneously projected back onto the human body.

Wednesday, 29 April 2009

///////////////////////////////JAMIE & I

HANGING THE T-SHIRT CANOPY

Hanging the T-Shirt Canopy from George Fereday on Vimeo.

///////////////////T-SHIRT CANOPY

To consume and occupy the tough, polished surfaces of the Seves showroom, I wanted to create a soft low hanging canopy. This was intended to enhance the sense of closeness in crisis that a lot of our projects has focused on.

x 88 White T-shirts, cut open & re-stitched (35 kgs cotton)

x 5m Velcro

x 3 Sewing Machines

x 3 Days

x 1 seamstress mum