Posts Categorized: Other Projects
100% Design Satellite Project
In 2002 Chaplins of London, Berners Street, launched a satellite project for 100% Design. A collaborative exhibition between Cappellini, one of the world’s leading contemporary design houses, British designer Paul Smith and artist Brad Lochore, which won a 100% Design Award for best off site exhibition. The collaboration was a coming together of reason and irrationality, of history and the contemporary, of present and memory, and all marked by irony.
Brad Lochore’s ‘Sound Stage 1’ 2000 was exhibited centre-stage amongst Cappellini’s iconic pieces such as the wooden Chair by Marc Newson and the 1964 Fronzoni table, side by side with pieces from Milan furniture fair 2002 including Piero Lissoni’s Soft upholstery system and classics such as the Rive Droite chair in Pucci fabric and Jasper Morrison’s Pad collection. Along with Paul Smith’s creative and whimsical British design, continuing the collaboration that had began the spring before with Paul Smith’s designs for the Cappellini Mondo collection.
‘Shadow no. 89’, 1999 and ‘Shadow no. 122’, 2000, from the series of paintings of shadows cast by real and imagined windows, blinds and objects, playing on our notions of reality and fiction, slightly out of focus as though suffused in filmy evanescence, resonated with Paul Smith’s motif of logs for Cappellini’s Mondo range.
HS Projects was invited to collaborate with Chaplins, Paul Smith and Cappellini. This was part of a series of collaborations between Chaplins and HS Projects between 2002 – 2006 and the second occasion Brad Lochore collaborated with Paul Smith.
‘Footprint’, An Employee Engagement Project
‘Footprint’ was an employee engagement project with the Photography Department of Central St Martins. ‘Footprint’ explored the similarities and differences of film and digital photography, investigating the two mediums and different techniques through a series of lectures and three short projects. The lectures examined, amongst others, travel photography, composition and technique, fashion photography and Victorian photographic processes and pinhole cameras.
The first project explored the effect we have on the environment and how our actions affect others. The second project investigated marks, textures and movement through photography as a fine art medium, whereas the third project described a journey and looked at how, we and others, react in the same environment. This was also examined through looking for the mundane, which upon closer examination is found to be intriguing.
The overall aims of the projects were to provide an opportunity for inter-departmental interaction outside of the normal work environment while enhancing the participants’ general creative skills and technical competence. ‘Footprint’ provided the participants with guidance in taking photographs and generally encouraged their creativity and enthusiasm to continue to enjoy taking more and better images.
‘Footprint’ was commissioned by HS Projects and funded by Insight Investment.
‘Inside Out’, British Council Athens
HS Projects was invited by British Council, Athens and the Hellenic Migration Policy Institute (IMEPO) to participate in ‘Inside Out’, a two day conference in March 2006, part of an ‘Arts and Intergration’ initiative, examining ways arts can contribute to urban regeneration and undoing social exclusion in Greece and the UK.
For ‘Inside Out’ we delivered a series of workshops on how to commission, design and manage artist led workshops, exploring issues of integration and communication between different community and ethnic groups as well as issues of identity and representation. Our approach was that of a ‘Master Class’ where the conference participants were ‘walked’ through the structure of a typical example of a visual arts workshop programme themselves. The approach was designed to make it easier for them to implement a workshop programme when working wtih socially marginalised groups, especially with children and young adults, with the aim of encouraging self-esteem and improved self-image leading to greater integration.
At the end of each session there was a discussion to help crystallise the results, this was accompanied with information sheets.