#maker'sprocesses

Wolverhampton duo Pottinger and Cole are furniture designers, but they are moving their practice into exhibition design. In addition to exhibiting in Made in the Middle Pottinger and Cole were selected to design and build the exhibition display. These images show the development of the designs.

Here's a great video by Jon Williams. Jon is exploring the potential of creating interactive ceramic pieces which promote the natural acoustics of the material. The videos show the assembly of two of his pieces.

Here's Jon's second video.

Another video, this time closer, showing the laser cutting used for Janette's work.

Janette Matthews employs a combination of digital and hand techniques in her work for design and production.  Janette creates her three-dimensional fabric designs by laser-processing as it would be impossible to achieve the precision of cutting on textiles by any other way. Here's a film of the laser cutting process.

Clare Willard develops her ideas though sketching and model making, then layering card, mark making and photography. She then develops her designs further in Adobe Illustrator so final lines can be laid out with pinpoint accuracy. The wood and coloured laminate is then cut with laser or a CNC router, grouping pieces of the same colour together.