LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL 2011 SARAH BLOOD
From her studio in the north east of Eng- land, Sarah Blood has created works for exhibitions throughout the world, including Europe, Honk Kong, the UAE and the USA. Her piece for Lux Craft comprises a series of porcelein spheres joined by neon tubes, the interaction of the two materials creating appealingly intense points of light. Much of Blood’s work includes neon, both on its own and with other media like concrete and stoneware ceramics. “I love the con- trast of the neon with those visually dense materials,” she says.
JOHANNES HEMANN
Johaness Hemann’s pieces represent the energy of a storm and the forces hidden within it. Using specially constructed ‘storm boxes’, he blasts a mass of Styrofoam bits around, allowing them to stick to an adhesive core that has been introduced into the space. By reapplying the adhesive and repeating the process, organic forms slowly build.
Hemann studied product design at the Offenbach Academy of Art and Design and is currently based in Germany. As well as experimenting with the form of lighting fixtures (such as 2010’s Catalpa clip light and ‘light/2’ pendant) he has used his storm box technique to the creation of furniture pieces.
www.johanneshemann.com
Her work responds to personal experiences such as memory and mortality and questions the definition of strength and permanence.
www.sarahblood.com
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DESIGN X 10
Lux Craft, part of the Origin show, invited their pick of ten designers to show a selection of their lighting pieces.
LOOP . PH
Loop.pH is a London based art and de- sign studio intervening at an urban scale to re-imagine life in the city. The studio was founded in 2003 by Mathias Gmachl and Rachel Wingfield to create a new design practice reaching beyond specialist boundaries, mediating between digital and biological media and facilitating participa- tory design and urban crafts.
Loop.pH specialise in the design and fab- rication of ephemeral textile architecture and living environments, working with
communities to engage them with the works being created.
Their installations can be seen in the per- manent collections of the Museum of Mod- ern Art (MoMA), NY and the V&A Museum, London. Vortices Lace, their new work for Lux Craft, is a conical web of electroluminescent fibres that glow with constantly changing waves of green light: a mesmeric dance of gently trickling lightning.
www.loop.pH
Photo: ©Sophie Mutevelian
Photo: ©Sophie Mutevelian
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