Our next Forum, to coincide with London Design Week, is a collaboration with a team of recent Masters' graduates from the Design Products course at the Royal Collage of Art. Having taken over our gallery space with examples of their wares in exhibition-cum-store Going Into Business, they've organised the speakers for this forum to coincide with the theme of the show.
This exhibition is motivated by each designer’s entrepreneurial ambition to promote and market their work. As young designers emerging from two intensive years of conceptual and material research and development the question remains: how and where can they sell their work? The designers featured in this exhibition are questioning their place and the providence of their work in relation to the context of contemporary design practice, production and consumption.
This forum will include discussions with three distinct London based designers: Sandra Fruebing, Ed Ward and Peter Marigold. What can they tell us about the advantages and pitfalls of making and selling design?
Designer Peter Marigold has a background in sculpture, theatre and event scenography, which has contributed to his broad range of making skills. Marigold graduated from the Royal College of Art, Design Products in 2005, where he studied under Ron Arad. Since graduating, he has concentrated on furniture design and works with both galleries and manufacturers. Noteworthy commissions include installations for Paul Smith, Bloomberg, the V&A’s Museum of Childhood and Oyuna (Mongolian Cashmere). Marigold’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and he is the recipient of numerous design awards including ‘Designer of the Future’, Design Miami/Basel and Fellowship of the Royal Society of the Arts.
Ed Ward is a designer and product developer who has worked for manufactures such Mathmos, Habitat, Established & Sons and Hay. Ward founded the company All Lovely Stuff, a collection of beautiful, simple, affordable objects, Ward, along with his partner Carl Clerkin, design and source. According to Ward, “If something is truly all lovely stuff then you are going to keep hold of it - and that's much better for all of us.” Ward focuses on the development of lighting and furniture, as well as sourcing and product development, interior projects and commission work.
The work of designer Sandra Fruebing, one of the recent RCA graduates, involves the development of narration in order to explore and reflect upon the relation between individual politics and contemporary society. Her intensive research within the fields of film, literature, everyday social interactions and even studies she's conducted herself are presented in various media – from objects that involve storytelling to the creation of a filmed spectacle. Fruebing’s background is in Industrial Design and Design Psychology.

Please join us on Wednesday 18th September at 7pm. Talk starts at 7.30pm.
Tickets for this event are for £5 and include a free drink. Get yours here.
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