Monday, 13 July 2009

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/.

‘Talent Zone competition winners.’ DeZeen [online], 21/08/08. Available at http://www.dezeen.com/2008/08/21/talent-zone-competition-winners/ [accessed 13/07/09]

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