Automake website update
September 10, 2008
Automake has updated its website with more images of recent work and improved software. Pay us a visit; www.automake.co.uk
Autonomatic @ Galerie Handwerk
September 10, 2008
Automake @ Hidden Art Cornwall design fair
September 10, 2008
One of Justin Marshall’s CNC routed screens, which was developed as part of his collaborative Automake project http://www.automake.co.uk/, was selected for ‘Hidden Art Curated’ part of Hidden Art Cornwall’s design fair http://www.hiddenartcornwall.co.uk/. Held at Godolphin House during the August bank holiday over 5000 visitors attended this event.
Autonomatic show @ Networks of Design conference
September 10, 2008
We held a small exhibtion of work, including some new large scale CNC drawings, at the Poly in Falmouth, in conjunction with the ‘Networks of Design’ international conference held at University College Falmouth in early Septemeber http://www.networksofdesign.co.uk/
Making it Digital @ Networks of Design conference
September 10, 2008
The ‘Making it Digital’ project held a small exhibtion at the ‘Networks of Design’ international conference held at University College Falmouth in early Septemeber http://www.networksofdesign.co.uk/
Making It Digital Project
September 10, 2008
The project recognises that many designer-makers are locked out of the innovation revolution and are not accessing the available technologies, such as digital manufacturing, new materials and production processes. In order to address these issues, Making it Digital has enabled 11 designer-makers from London and Cornwall to work with the Autonomatic team in order to access and explore the potential of digital technologies available in the Design Centre. With the support that this project offers, participants are developing innovative new products which will be launched in Autumn 2008.
The images below are from an exhibition which was part of the HAC summer design fair at Godolphin House. It showcases work in progress and reveals some of the methods being employed by participants.
Process - the book
September 8, 2008
The design book ‘Process’ is out now – get it, it’s a great read!
Jennifer Hudson has done a really good job gathering material about how leading contemporary designers development and produce their pieces.
Ron Arad, Tom Dixon and Karim Rasheed are among the 50 designers that have contributed to the book, which gives a really good insight into how new materials and processes are influencing the creation of the new designs.
Autonomatic is also represented by a description of the creation process of Tavs’ ‘One Liner’ glass bowls (a design that was also short listed for the Bombay Sapphire glass award earlier this year).
Here is the link to the book on Amazon:
Isabelle and Tavs from Autonomatic were both invited to present at the3D Technologies in the Arts and Crafts discussion day hosted by ‘Centre for Fine Print Research’ (CFPR) at the ‘University of the West of England’ (UWE) in Bristol on the 25th of June.
Partly funded by Hewell Packard, CFPR has an impressive track record of pure and applied research within the subject of two-dimensional printing and now the centre has also expanded it’s research into the area of three-dimensions.
Dr Peter Walters and Dr Paul Thirkell are heading up at 5 year founded project investigating various aspect of research into the use of digital tools in three-dimensional applications.
Other presenters on the day included Steven Bottomly from Edinburgh College of Art, Andrew Folan from Ireland, Bruce Gernard from Central from Saint Martins, Michael Eden from the Royal College of Art, Dave Huson, Peter Walters, Paul Thirkell and research centre leader Steve Hoskins - all from CPFR.
Peter is also acting as external supervisor to Isabel’s PhD and Autonomatic and CFPR are working on establishing much closer links and currently exploring the possibility of doing a joint project in the near future…
CFPR’s web site here: http://amd.uwe.ac.uk/cfpr/
Overall a great day, but whether “I am forever changed, I will never be the same again” - I’m not sure -maybe not, or then again - perhaps I am.
Jerwood Contemporary Makers
June 27, 2008
Drummond’s exhibits include 7 dish forms from his Star Tessellation series and a whisky cup with integrated terrain inside.
The exhibition has been curated by a panel of experts which included the ceramist, writer and curator Edmund de Waal, joined by Swedish craft and design critic Love Jönsson and Amanda Game.
Edmund de Waal comments: ‘As this is the first in a series of Jerwood Contemporary Makers exhibitions we have had the wonderful and challenging opportunity to conceive of it in an entirely new way. Rather than bringing makers together by discipline this exhibition brings seven artists from a diverse range of disciplines into dialogue with each other in the Jerwood Space. All of them are passionate about extending their practice and all of them are advocates for discovering innovative ways in which their art is seen and understood. It is a particularly exciting time for this exhibition to be happening: the applied arts are a thriving area of the visual arts and this is a great opportunity to see beautiful, lyrical, challenging work.’
Jerwood Contemporary Makers forms part of the Jerwood Visual Arts series. Launched in 2006, Jerwood Visual Arts is a series of awards and prizes that celebrate a range of disciplines across the visual arts, including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography and digital moving image.
Jerwood Contemporary Makers is on show at the Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street, London SE1, from 5 June – 20 July 2008
Autonomatic at the Strand Gallery, Aldeburgh
June 16, 2008
Here is an opportunity to purchase some of the results of the research undertaken at Autonomatic.
The annual Aldeburgh Festival is now underway (until to the 29th of June) and Tavs from Autonomatic is contributing by showing glass bowls at the ‘Abstract’ show at the Strand Gallery. Pop by and have a look, or pop by and buy!
The gallery, which are showing some Europe’s best glass artists (such as Tobias Møhl and Massimo Micheluzzi) is open from 9.30 - 1pm and 4.30 - 7pm during summer months and the rest of the year: Tuesday – Saturday 10 - 1pm and 2 - 5pm (or by appointment)
More info here http://www.strandgallery.co.uk
Alternative if you find yourself in the West Country you can always find examples of Katie, Tavs and Drummond’s work for sale at the Wills Lane Gallery in St Ives: http://www.willslanegallery.co.uk/
