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Zandra Rhodes on pattern, colour, and textiles.
Zandra Rhodes is one of the most recognisable and influential figures in fashion, as well as the founder of the Fashion and Textile Museum in London.
Describing herself as both ‘chaotic’ and ‘fastidious’, she possesses a unique sense of colour and pattern. Over the years, she has dressed some of the world’s most famous people from Freddie Mercury, Elizabeth Taylor, Debbie Harry and Diana Ross to royals including Princess Anne, Princess Margaret and Princess Diana. She has also appeared on TV shows such as Absolutely Fabulous and Masterchef.
Zandra was made a Dame in 2015, while this year, she published an intimate biography, entitled Iconic: My Life in Fashion in 50 Objects, which shines ...
Describing herself as both ‘chaotic’ and ‘fastidious’, she possesses a unique sense of colour and pattern. Over the years, she has dressed some of the world’s most famous people from Freddie Mercury, Elizabeth Taylor, Debbie Harry and Diana Ross to royals including Princess Anne, Princess Margaret and Princess Diana. She has also appeared on TV shows such as Absolutely Fabulous and Masterchef.
Zandra was made a Dame in 2015, while this year, she published an intimate biography, entitled Iconic: My Life in Fashion in 50 Objects, which shines ...
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Aaron Betsky on why architects should stop building (and reuse instead).
Просмотров 18Месяц назад
Aaron Betsky is a US-based writer, educator and critic, who has served as director of the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Netherlands Architecture Institute, as well as a curator of architecture and design at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He has also written over 20 books with subjects ranging from Zaha Hadid, Frank Lloyd Wright, and the Dutch architecture practice MVRDV to the relation...
Nicole Rycroft on viscose and her mission to save the world's endangered forests.
Просмотров 20Месяц назад
Nicole Rycroft is the founder and executive director of the award-winning environmental not-for-profit, Canopy. Since it launched in 1999, the Vancouver-based organisation has worked with more than 950 companies - including Marks & Spencer, Tesco and Puma - to ‘develop innovative solutions and make their supply chains more sustainable to help protect our world’s remaining ancient and endangered...
Mark Hearld on collage.
Просмотров 1202 месяца назад
Mark Hearld is an artist and designer who has a fascination with flora and fauna and has worked in a range of different media - including lithographic and linocut prints, painting, ceramics, textiles and tapestry. However, he is best known for his collage pieces. A graduate of Glasgow School of Art and the Royal College of Art, he has curated installations and exhibitions at York Art Gallery an...
Todd Bracher on light (and designing Net Positive products).
Просмотров 412 месяца назад
Todd Bracher is a US-based product designer who has worked with brands such as Humanscale, 3M, Herman Miller, Georg Jensen and Issey Miyake through his eponymous studio, winning a slew of awards along the way. More recently, he created another company, Betterlab, in which he collaborates with scientists and innovators to, in his words, ‘shape emerging research and foundational technologies into...
Zena Holloway on grass roots.
Просмотров 652 месяца назад
Zena Holloway is a bio-designer and founder of Rootfull, which creates exquisite clothes, lights and sculptures from grass roots. She started her career as an underwater photographer, doing extraordinary high-end fashion shoots, as well as working with the likes of Kylie Minogue, Tom Daley, Katie Price and numerous other celebrities. At the same time, she was capturing the effects of pollution ...
Bharti Kher on the Material Matters podcast
Просмотров 314 месяца назад
To listen to the full episode go to materialmatters.design/Bharti-Kher The podcast is also available to listen to on Apple podcast and Spotify just search Material Matters with Grant Gibson.
Alkesh Parmar on orange peel.
Просмотров 393 месяца назад
Alkesh Parmar is a designer and researcher. Over the years, he has hollowed out champagne corks and turned them into chandeliers, as well as transforming traditional Indian terracotta cups into light fittings. But he is best known for his work with citrus peel in general - and orange peel in particular. Using a material generally thought of as waste, he has created a variety of extraordinary pr...
Sanne Visser on human hair.
Просмотров 63 месяца назад
Sanne Visser is a Dutch-born, London-based designer. She describes herself as a ‘material explorer, maker and researcher’, who is best known for a string of installations and products using human hair. Since graduating from Central Saint Martins a little under a decade ago, she has exhibited all over the world and been nominated for a number of awards. Happily too, she will be one of the stars ...
Oliver Heath on the Material Matters with Grant Gibson podcast
Просмотров 164 месяца назад
In this episode Grant talks to Oliver about: his fascination with biophilia and how it affects his practice; its core principles and history; why sustainability is about more than counting carbon; problems with architecture education; his issues with clay; the importance of evidence in his design approach; how wood effects the heart rate; being average at school; getting famous on Changing Room...
Bharti Kher on material alchemy and her fascination with bindis.
Просмотров 93 месяца назад
Artist Bharti Kher was brought up in England before moving to India almost on a whim in the early ’90s. Since then, she has established herself as a major player on the international art scene. Her sculptures talk about women’s place in society and the female body. She has a fascination with mythology and mixing the real with the magical, as well as a profound interest in materials and found ob...
Oliver Heath on biophilic design.
Просмотров 133 месяца назад
Oliver Heath is a designer, architect, author and one of the world’s leading advocates for biophilic design. Along with his team and the sustainable platform Planted, he currently has an exhibition at the Roca Gallery in South London, which focuses firmly on bio design - illustrating what it is, why it’s important, and how it can be used in the spaces we inhabit. Oliver has been a fixture on ou...
Ernest Scheyder Material Matters pod clip
Просмотров 55 месяцев назад
This is a short clip from the Material Matters with Grant Gibson podcast in which Grant spoke with Ernest scheyder. To listen to the full episode go to materialmatters.design/podcast
Ernest Scheyder on lithium, mining, and the politics behind going green.
Просмотров 73 месяца назад
Ernest Scheyder is an author and senior correspondent for Reuters. His new book, The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives, looks at the impact of the green transition in the US - and, more particularly, the tensions over the increasing need to mine for metals to decarbonise the grid (and power a plethora of devices) against the nation’s desire to conserve the env...
Adi Toch on metal screaming
Просмотров 327 месяцев назад
In the most recent episode of the podcast Adi Toch is being interviewed by Grant and explains how Metal communicates. To listen to the full interview search Material Matters with Grant Gibson on apple podcasts or spotify or materialmatters.design/podcast.
Jonathan Smales talks about placemaking and cricket
Просмотров 147 месяцев назад
Jonathan Smales talks about placemaking and cricket
Adam Yeats on the Material Matters podcast
Просмотров 207 месяцев назад
Adam Yeats on the Material Matters podcast
Human Nature's Jonathan Smales on mining the Anthropocene, and building in timber and Hempcrete a...
Просмотров 73 месяца назад
Human Nature's Jonathan Smales on mining the Anthropocene, and building in timber and Hempcrete a...
Bert Frank's Adam Yeats on manufacturing in post-Brexit Britain.
Просмотров 53 месяца назад
Bert Frank's Adam Yeats on manufacturing in post-Brexit Britain.
Ptolemy Mann on colour, weaving, and painting.
Просмотров 243 месяца назад
Ptolemy Mann on colour, weaving, and painting.
John Tuomey on the optimism of a derelict site and Dublin's development
Просмотров 3010 месяцев назад
John Tuomey on the optimism of a derelict site and Dublin's development
Fairphone's Bas van Abel on repair, longevity, and conflict minerals.
Просмотров 133 месяца назад
Fairphone's Bas van Abel on repair, longevity, and conflict minerals.
Sara Grady and Alice Robinson of British Pasture Leather on the supply chain of leather.
Просмотров 2011 месяцев назад
Sara Grady and Alice Robinson of British Pasture Leather on the supply chain of leather.
John Tuomey on his childhood in rural Ireland, becoming an architect, and his beautiful memoir, F...
Просмотров 33 месяца назад
John Tuomey on his childhood in rural Ireland, becoming an architect, and his beautiful memoir, F...
Sara Grady and Alice Robinson on making ethical leather.
Просмотров 53 месяца назад
Sara Grady and Alice Robinson on making ethical leather.
Florian Gadsby Pod clip- January 2024
Просмотров 1911 месяцев назад
Florian Gadsby Pod clip- January 2024
Florian Gadsby on clay and becoming a potter.
Просмотров 143 месяца назад
Florian Gadsby on clay and becoming a potter.