LabCraft in TENT

This weekend I helped out with the Craft Council's new LabCraft exhibition, which previewed at the design show TENT in Shoreditch, London. It was a pretty cool exhibition, looking at how modern digital 'crafts' like CNC routing, CAD and rapid prototyping, are beginning to be utilized by designer-makers. There were some witty interpretations of this contemporary theme, for example Michael Eden's Babel Vessel #1 used a QR code as a central part of its design. Digital also met natural in Nina Tolstrup's Branch Out, where branches had been scanned in and then recreated in iron using CAD. Textiles weren't left out either; digital prints made appearances, and textiles structure were blown up to reveal exquisite levels of detail and new perspectives in both Gary Allson and Ismini Samanid's Woven Wood and Chae Young Kim's Knitted Room.

The LabCraft exhibition will be going on tour from the end of next month. I suggest checking it for a good dose of innovation and beautifully designed and made objects. You can find more details on the Craft Council and LabCraft websites.

Checking out the rest of TENT, one thing particularly stood out to me was headpieces by Honoyo. Cyberpunk style eat your heart out!

Alas, I did not get to the Craft Council's Origin show, that was happening just around the corner at Spitafields market. Did anyone see it?

Ange x