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.
New Age of Trichology
Human hair is a natural resource that will continue to increase in the future since the world population is rising rapidly. The UK alone ‘creates’ around 6.5 million kilograms of human hair waste annually, which mostly ends up in landfills or slowly decays in the environment. This causes several problems for the environment and human health, such as the release of toxic gasses or choking the drainage systems. However, human hair has many valuable properties; it is high in tensile strength, thermal insulation, flexibility, oil-absorption and it is lightweight. The New Age of Trichology, a project by Dutch material designer and researcher Sanne Visser, explores the pure potential of hair as a raw material for design, reducing waste, environmental problems and the pressure on other non-renewable materials. The project consists of a range of utilitarian objects that help demarcate a system–all the way from the collection of hair, through to the end–its application. The New Age of Trichology reflects Visser’s core interests as a designer–material innovation, sustainability and future thinking.
Designer:
Sanne Viser
Material:
Hair