Fresh, innovative designs. Be inspired
Surface Design Show prides itself on showcasing innovation and what is new in the world of surface design. Our ever popular New Talent section will this year, showcase more than 30 exhibitors, all brand new to the exhibition this year.
Curated by Chief Creative Director, at Trendease Intl, Jennifer Castoldi, and sponsored by CDUK, New Talent exhibitors can be found on the Gallery Level of the Business Design Centre.
Products on display will include handwoven textiles, acoustic driven design and products that keep in touch with the theme of the show: Mindful Living. Our New Talent exhibitors use new and exciting combinations of materials and techniques that are sure to inspire you and your future projects.
Sauda Imam
Sauda is a multi-disciplinary designer known for her innovative approach to printmaking and handwoven textiles. With a deep passion for celebrating cultural heritage and a love for vibrant imagery, her work embodies a bold and rich storytelling style. Through her artistic practice, Sauda invites us to reflect on our physical and cultural journeys and embrace the beauty that emerges from the merging of diverse influences. As individuals migrate, they carry a piece of each place they have been to, resulting in a unique blend of cultures and identities. Her textiles serve as visual narratives, woven with threads of personal and collective experiences.
Chalita Jaewtrakul
Chalita's collection explores the overuse of plastic consumption. Her research concludes that plastic may not be the primary issue, but in fact our over-reliance on the material and unwillingness to adapt our consumption levels. Her focus in this collection was recycling and zero waste. Looking at both ways to cut out the fabrics and ways they can be combined to reassemble the pieces into finished samples. This process utilises both the positive and negative aspects of the laser cut out pieces to nsure this project doesnt contribute to waste streams.
Flic Studio
Flic is an emerging design studio founded by Borja Sepulcre. Flic focuses on honest design, user interaction and sustainability. Jenga/Playful Luminaires (pictured above) is a versatile collection with a playful character that invites the user to interact with light. Composed of a series of independent cubic pieces that are traversed by a light-diffusing opal central axis, and that can be rotated to 360 degrees, that allow the user to generate interesting plays of light, modifying the visual appearance of the luminaires and thus, giving it a dynamic and sculptural shape.
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Nowshin Prenon
Nowshin's work was inspired by her childhood, more specifically; 'Choi Ritu', a celebration of the six seasons of Bengali Summer. She uses a variety of reversible Dobby and Jacquard fabrics of different weights for fashion, made from silk. The reversible fabric increases its functionality, meaning you don't have to refresh your wardrobe every season! Using fabrics with a variety of weights through layering allows easy flow from day to night throughout all seasons. Giving a sustainable trans-seasonal purpose to the fabrics.
Rosy Napper
Rosy has developed ReCinder, a 100% recycled material made from ash and discarded broken ceramic that has been diverted from landfill. ReCinder is a greener, waste-based alternative to industrially processed clay and it self-glazing, eradicating the need for conventionally mined and environmentally damaging raw materials often used in ceramic glazes. The source of the waste makes each object unique to the location.
Joseph Clinton
Joseph's Bodhran chair has traditional seating elements transformed into large hollow chambers channelling and projecting sounds created by the movement of sitting, body strikes and the ambient noise of the location. His practice centres upon the importance of sound, concentrating on sensory modality: often deemed secondary, superficial or overlooked, to explore methods to reintegrate sound as a design focus.
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Your badge to Surface Design Show will give you access to all of the New Talent exhibitors, as well as the 150+ other exhibitors on the show floor. You can also attend sessions on the Main Stage Programme, and take advantage of networking with new and existing colleagues throughout the show. We can't wait to welcome you to Surface Design Show next month - simply register to attend for FREE here.
