Margate Drawers

This piece, by Zoe Murphy, caught my eye when I saw it on the flyer for the 2009 New Designers Awards Preview.

A former printed textiles student from Loughborough University, Murphy creates imagery inspired by her seaside home town of Margate and uses it to print onto recycled interior products. For this piece, a 1950s chest of drawers has been re-veneered and adorned with drawings from the Margate seaside. Dense patterns and imagery, inspired by Formica cafés, adorn the front and the linings.

I particularly like and way Murphy uses the inspiration she takes from her home town, responding directly to a spatial environment and translating its characteristics to surface colour and pattern – translating 3D spatial features to 2D decoration.

Find out more about Murphy at http://www.zoemurphy.com/.

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Come In / Go Away

A witty and attractive typographic exercise, this doormat uses a spatial concept to invite… or turn away… your visitors, depending on its orientation.

Available for purchase at:
http://www.gnr8.biz/product_info.php?products_id=599

BERNAIS, Melissa. 2009. ‘Come In / Go Away Doormat – Sam & Jude’. Covet & Want. Wearables, Hangables & Edibles: Wanted, Bought, Made [online], 01/07/09. Available at: http://icovetandwant.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/come-in-go-away-doormat-sam-jude/

Simple

An obvious, simple, elegant solution to an everyday annoyance, designed by Royal College of Art graduate Min-Kyu Choi... another of those "I wish I'd thought of that" moments!

BATES, Anna, 2009. 'RCA student radically improves the UK plug'. iconeye [online]. Available at: http://www.iconeye.com/index.php?view=article&catid=1%3Alatest-news&layout=news&id=3864%3Arca-student-radically-improves-the-uk-plug&option=com_content&Itemid=18# [accessed 02/07/09]