Curated by Lewis Duckworth, a young London based designer, Design Everything has a mission to support creatives transform their concepts from sketchbooks into tangible projects. Design Everything emphasises community engagement among young designers and organisations, encouraging collective creativity. This approach leads to new interpretations and discoveries, expanding individual thinking and fostering growth through networking and cooperation.
This year as part of London’s Design Festival, Design Everything has invited 19 London-based designers to collaborate with the vibrant cultural hub and record shop, Kindred.
Designing for an active space like Kindred means creating objects with function at their heart. A list was formed of various objects and furniture that the Kindred space would benefit from being introduced or altered to meet its daily multifunctional use. Objects were categorised into form and function, and each designer was encouraged to pick an object to redesign, allowing them to explore and expand upon their own practice.
Designers were given complete creative autonomy to re-imagine and transform the Kindred space through these objects. They were encouraged to engage with the working space and community ethos of Kindred through collective creativity and social interactions. The results will become a permanent part of Kindred’s shop and will be exhibited in a showroom above, available to see and order during London’s Design Week at Kindred’s Clerkenwell shop.
The exhibition will take place over the 7 days of London Design Week at Kindred. Each designer had total creative control over how they approached this brief, providing insight into their personal and design ethos. The outcomes range across various materials, including steel, aluminium, wood, ceramics. The 19 designers involved in the show are listed below.
Charlie Boyden, Eden Bunce, David Chen, Sammi Cherryman, Lewis Duckworth, Louis Eager, Millie Harris, Oliver Hawkes, Jacob Marks, Esme Macgregor, Alex Martin, El Murphy, Eddie Olin, Tabatha Pearce Chedier, Jake Robertson, George Richardson, Calum Stevens, Jessica Tremaine, Thomas Wheller.
Objects which will be made to exhibit and sell:
Display Table, Street Bin, Outdoor Bench, High Stool with Backrest , Record Dividers for Genres, Laptop work Desk, Incense holder, Vinyl Listening Station, Can Crusher, Book Stand, Record weight, Display cabinet, Shelving, Book ends, Business Card Holder, T shirt Hangers, 7” Record Crates, Book ends, A-board for outside, 12” Record Crates, Shelf above laptop work desk, Sticker, Tray, Coat Hook, Ashtray , Vase, Misc Tray, Stool, Coat Stand.
Kindred first took form in 2018 operating as a club night across London’s most loved small capacity venues. Their quarterly nights are now held at South Bermondsey’s Ormside.
Contributors:
George Boyce, Jonny Lee, Jake Martin, Luca Muscia, Claudia Rao Hackett, Harry Smithson, Izi Thexton
Contact:
Info@designeverything.org