Category: DES

Jack Brindley opened Pavilion Pavilion last year in Glasgow. Both a studio for his own practice & a gallery, it’s a place where the territory between contemporary art & objects of use is explored.

Archie Brennan was arguably the most inventive tapestry weaver of the 20th century. Here designer, Beca Lipscombe celebrates his work & spearheads a fundraising campaign by Edinburgh’s Dovecot Studios to present a show of Brennan’s work.

July 2020

Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen this year present a Virtual Degree Show. Here we are guided to the work of some stand-out graduates by artist Brandon Logan, product designers, Yellow Broom and Neville Rae of designer makers, Old School Fabrications.

This year’s degree shows aren’t in happening in physical spaces but they are very much alive & kicking online. So go explore! Here Briana Pegado, Rachel Adams & Harry Morgan lead the way to ECA’s Graduate Showcase.

DESign ONline signposts interesting things to do . . . sit on a park bench, enjoy the view & visit Scotland’s degree shows online.

Architect Jude Barber discusses thinking afresh, motivation & her recent announcement of her candidacy to become president of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

For her final dispatch on place & making, Helen Voce has travelled online to view Scotland’s degree shows to report of contemporary responses to location.

Since launching in April, DES our new online journal has roamed widely in its coverage of design, art & architecture & more. As we now take a pause, Design Exhibition Scotland founder, Susanna Beaumont wonders what next . . .

Summer days & the great outdoors . . welcome to DESign Online’s numerous & outstanding playlists, including Brigitte Bardot & Serge Gainsboug, singing the brilliantly languid Bonnie & Clyde from 1968.

Thanks to support from Outset Contemporary Art Fund through their Outset Transformative Grant, Inverleith House, which sits at the heart of the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, is to be transformed in to Climate House. Emma Nicolson tells us more.

‘Spatial practitioners’, Daniel Fernández Pascual & Alon Schwabe founded Cooking Sections in 2013. Here they discuss Climavore, their project on the Isle of Skye & why what we eat should focus our minds on food supply chains & ecosystems.

Episode 5 In her latest dispatch looking at place & making, Helen Voce heads to the Outer Hebrides to explore the history & the success of Harris Tweed

Explore Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design’s Graduate Showcase with Lucy Byatt of Hospitalfield & Agency of None.

Explore GSA’s Graduate Showcase with Lucy Grainge, Moira Jeffrey & Kate Morgan.

Ed Hollis heads in his imagination to Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerala & wonders what lies behind a set of sacred doors.

‘But suddenly you touched my heart.’ Suzanne Ewing recollects The Burrell Collection, its architecture & location, & asks when and how we got distracted from this essence of architectural ambition and achievement?

Helena Britt celebrates the printed textiles of 80s Glasgow School of Art graduate, Fraser Taylor and the formation of The Cloth a brilliantly vibrant design studio

Episode Four – Bute Fabrics, its history and very contemporary collaborations with artists & designers including most recently, Ilana Halperin. Helen Voce reports from the island set in the Firth of Clyde

From a football stadium to a transplant unit, Peter Womersley is arguably the architect behind many of Scotland’s most notable 20th century structures. Brian Robertson celebrates Womersley & asks why his work is not more widely recognised

‘Our fingertips contain a density of nerve endings and their differentiation is almost comparable to our eyes . . ’
Stuart Bennett explores touch in our new touch-adverse era