Form&Seek London Design Fair2017
Form&Seek will be part of Dutch Pavilion at London Design Fair on 21-24 September 2017
Form&Seek exhibitions always show a consideration to new crafts, material and processes.
With this upcoming show Form&Seek explores the theme of "Openness" where we focus on what designers with a vision of across borders and cultures, make and design in order to shift attitudes and cultures for the a more inclusive future. Form&Seek explores the idea of Dutch design, not through a national lens but as an attitude and way of thinking.
For the first time ever Form&Seek launches its own collection during London Design Festival as well as a producing and selling platform, enabling consumers and retailers to purchase original and innovative crafted goods from a curated collection founded and run by designers.
The Form&Seek collection focuses on new developed processes and contemporary, globally local craft techniques. Interesting, innovative materials and processes play a key role in the pieces by Form&Seek. Each item tells a story through the way it has been made or the impact it has on our daily lives.
Our new collection expands on a wide range of crafted products from conventional products prototyped with new technologies to products that play with natural formations and uses of material. Each thought provoking, poetic design object has a strong character and personality with the personal mark of the maker.
Thomas Nathan
Thomas Nathan (* 1987, DE), designer based in Eindhoven, NL, is working at the interface of design, media and art. He holds a Master degree in Social Design at the Design Academy Eindhoven (2016). Pre- viously, he studied Audiovisual Media in Stuttgart, DE. As a crosser of disciplines, his main interest is the interconnectedness of design and mentality. Besides a focus on objects, his body of work includes graphic design, video animation and scenography. Nathan took on roles in cul- tural projects like the theatre play 'Yossel Rakovers Vendung tsu Got', performed at the Jewish Museum Berlin (stage projection, with Büro Achter April, 2014), or the magazine FROH! (videos, 2011 – 2013). Working for clients like BOSCH and Mercedes-Benz (graphics and video, with STERN+HUBER and Büro Achter April, 2012 – 2014) he gained experience with large-scale enterprises. Nathan's objects have been on show at the Dutch Design Week 2016 and have been published in ELLE Decoration NL. In 2017 Nathan exhibits i.a. in Brussels (Fra- cas Gallery), Rotterdam (OBJECT 2017), Munich (International Craft Fair) and Milan (Design Week, 'Age of Man' show with Form&Seek).