Product Design - Homewares
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Description
This award recognises a component or overall product. Consideration given to aspects that relate to human usage, aesthetics, selection of components and materials, and the resolution of assembly, manufacturing and the overall function.
Current entries
'In the Spirit'
Product Design - Homewares
I have been on a journey, discovering the infinate possibilities within the discarded manufactured bottle. I began with the easily accessible beer stubby, washing, cutting and using heat to open it out to become the simplest of re-usable forms, the tumbler. I became inspired to use more of the bottle, cutting the tops off to make beads now glorified in my new jewellery collection (launching Design Made Trade July 2012). Currently I am focused on the spirit bottle. Cultural heritages are captured within intricate embossings, forms are dynamic and striking, colour is purposful and seductive. It has been important for me to take time to appreciate the ready-made and work with what exists. I was naturally attracted to the dramatic form and lines of the Sambuca bottle, it screamed of elegance. I worked to create a set, attempting to rekindle a culture of style our grandparents would appreciate.
Banana Basket
Product Design - Homewares
An array is a systematic arrangement of objects. The morphology of this collection is based on a single based profile rotated around a point. The z-axis is then manipulated with the sinusoid function y(t) = A • sin(?t + ?). Variations to the axis location produce differentiated effects and volume, in this case the Banana Basket.
Suspension Range
Product Design - Homewares
The Suspension Range was designed as an exploration of white space. Through the deflation of blown glass, colour forms a negative space, a seemingly suspended form. The range is designed for each piece to be reversible, create varied levels of interest when used at the table.
Group Hugs and Trio of Dip Sets
Product Design - Homewares
The project started with ideas from an exhibition titled Fruitful. The theme of the exhibition was family connections. I created pieces that talked about my large family and how families are connected and leave traces and imprints on each other, and the ceramic pieces that were made carried the idea that like in a family you can go off and be independant and on your own but there is alway a place to come back to, a place where you fit. My aim became to take these exhibition pieces to a place where they were not only beautiful and unique, but functional as well. I have always been fascinated with how functionality adds another dimension to art work, and often more problems to be solved. I find myself more satisfied in the end with a piece of work that has this extra dimension.
BLUE LINE EDITION - felt owl mobiles
Product Design - Homewares
The BLUE LINE EDITION mobiles were intended to provide a sculptural focal point within the interior utilising the ceiling and vertical space beyond as a decorative element, thereby allowing a layering of elements such as lighting, furniture and paintings.
Timber Circle Shelf
Product Design - Homewares
Bride&Wolfe make things they want to see in their own home. Beautiful and practical, our steam bent Australian hardwood Circle Shelves become a frame for the customers' own treasures and collectibles.
Totem Collection Bedding
Product Design - Homewares
Harvest Textiles design and hand print a contemporary range of bedding using our Totem Collection designs. The range is hand printed in-house at our Melbourne studio on 100% certified unbleached organic cotton using waterbased inks and includes doona covers and pillowcase sets.
Nordic Cuckoo Clock
Product Design - Homewares
The Nordic Cuckoo Clock was a self generated project. I was originally creating collages that featured a stylized bird character I called ‘retro bird’. The collages had a 1970s’ style colour palette and combined old buttons with pages from vintage children's books. The collages seemed to lend themselves to other applications. I liked the quirkiness of the traditional cuckoo clock and decided to create a contemporary interpretation of this classic timepiece.
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- Premier's Design Awards
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