BCC Student Chosen to Make & Design Awards for Clerkenwell Design Week
Clerkenwell Design Week is the leading design festival for the UK, showcasing a broad range of crafts and creative practices. Taking place from 25-27th May, the event hosted over 16 exhibitions for over 450 different brands. Whilst the BCC was not involved in the exhibition side of things, we were involved in another, more unique, way.
The physical awards for CDW were designed by one of our students, Henry Marks. Henry is currently in his second year of our Full Time Furniture Design & Making course and has been at the BCC for almost two years now. Students on our Furniture Design & Making course learn traditional joinery and furniture making techniques through multiple modules, including wood machining and wood turning. Henry put these skills to good use by designing and crafting these awards in collaboration with Moe Redish, a furniture maker based in Brighton.
This year CDW was supported by the American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC). The main focus of AHEC is to regulate and promote the full range of American Hardwoods exported overseas. To recognise this partnership, the designs were made out of American Cherry, Henry explains his though process below:
“The ‘ah-ha’ moment came when I stopped thinking about the object as a traditional trophy and instead approached it as a sculptural response to woodworking processes, once I allowed the geometry to be shaped by machining, offsets, rebates and voids created through making, the design became much more resolved and authentic to the material. I was interested in exposing both long grain and end grain within the final form, allowing tonal variation and texture to become defining visual features of the object.”
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