People / Notbadnotbad
Jack Kirk & Cyrienne Buffet. We are an emerging design studio. We met whilst studying industrial design at Central Saint Martins and never stopped working together since then. And after a couple of years in Finland we are now back in the UK. We work across furniture, exhibition, and spatial design, operating from humble beginnings, tight budgets, limited industrial access, and materials taken largely as found. A preference for mono-material thinking runs through our work, turning constraint into clarity. We believe good design doesn't require excess and should be fun (when possible).
Baked Stool
My design outcome is a set of furniture (a stool and a lamp) made from recycled HDPE moulded in recycled fabric. This project has been shaped by limitations at every stage. The aim was to make plastic moulding accessible (break industrial, cost, spatial and equipment limitations or embrace them). To do so I used recycled materials and created a process that doesn’t need industrial infrastructure. The designs are moulded in a domestic oven, are non-toxic and the moulds themselves can be made at home by hand with a basic sewing kit or a sewing machine.
Romu ( tray )
I started making furniture during my masters course in Helsinki. As my studies ended and I prepared to move back to London, I had a lot of scrap wood, yet very little time to use it and we all know how even scrap material can be precious to a starting designer. So I made a simple object by laminating the offcuts into a 2mm thick plank, then cutting and assembling it into a tray. The process took less than a day. People around me loved the tray so much that I now turned it into a small collection, giving them away as gifts. I named the trays Romu, Finnish for scrap, and the collection became the Romus. Now back in London, I’ve carried more offcuts with me across the move, and I’m currently making Romus using tools borrowed from my partner’s uncle’s beekeeping shed.