Category: Travels by Design

GRADUATE DESIGN
Times are challenging for everyone right now but for last year’s design & applied arts graduates, the ‘real world’ has been particularly tough. Helen Voce catches up with three of the graduates she profiled last summer in DES, to see how their worlds are shaping up.

Episode One – The life & times of the Sanquhar Glove. Helen Voce’s first dispatch in a series that explores place and making from around Scotland.

GRADUATE DESIGN
For her final dispatch on place & making, Helen Voce has travelled online to view this year’s degree shows across Scotland to report on contemporary responses to the local. Summer 2020.

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

Episode Three – The Grimsay Boat, its making & its history. Helen Voce heads to the Western Isles in her latest dispatch on boat-building

Episode Two – The Orkney Chair, its history & its making. Helen Voce, in her second dispatch exploring place and making from around Scotland, talks to Kevin Gauld, the celebrated chair-maker.