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London Design Festival 2012: 100% Design Emerging Brands

10.09.12 | By
London Design Festival 2012: 100% Design Emerging Brands

Craig Foster

A small section of 100% Design was dedicated to Emerging Brands. Here are my top five…

Craig Foster

Craig Foster’s Kurk Lamp was inspired by taking lamps apart and realizing how many unnecessary components and materials are used – the average was 30. He said: “The aim of Kurk was to use the minimum number of parts, without compromising on the personality and character of the product.”

Arthur Analts

Launched at Clerkenwell Design Week in May, these handy shelves are designed by Arthur Analts as a place to empty your pockets when you come in the front door, making sure you don’t lose things like keys and change before you come to leave again.

Lorna Syson

I’ve been a fan of Lorna Syson’s work since I met her at the very first 100% Design I ever attended, so she’s become a bit of regular favorite.

Lorna Syson

At this show, she was launching a cushion made with 75% wool and 25% stinging nettles – you can just about see the green flecks in the image above – making it completely biodegradable.

Lola Lely

The Potluck Series by Lola Lely included these rather gorgeous portable stools in beech, walnut, ash, tulip and steel.

David Irwin

And last but not least, David Irwin was presenting his personality-filled M Lamps, inspired by the miner’s lamps and heritage of the North East of England; and his EXTL Lights for Deadgood. I just sung the praises of these products in a previous post.

David Irwin

Katie Treggiden is a purpose-driven journalist, author and, podcaster championing a circular approach to design – because Planet Earth needs better stories. She is also the founder and director of Making Design Circular, a program and membership community for designer-makers who want to join the circular economy. With 20 years' experience in the creative industries, she regularly contributes to publications such as The Guardian, Crafts Magazine and Monocle24 – as well as being Editor at Large for Design Milk. She is currently exploring the question ‘can craft save the world?’ through an emerging body of work that includes her fifth book, Wasted: When Trash Becomes Treasure (Ludion, 2020), and a podcast, Circular with Katie Treggiden.