Arts Thread

Above: Beckmans College of Design Furniture and Product Design graduates 2019 1. Isabel Wagner/2. Elsa Ericson Ekdahl/3. Anna Herrmann/ 4. Sizar Alexis/ 5. Mattias Rothman/6. Ellinor Sixtensdotter  

We share some of our favourite projects from the latest batch of furniture and product designers to graduate from Beckmans College of Design. Check out our post on Beckmans fashion graduates to see more of what the class of 2019 has to offer!

Isabel Wagner’s Homeless Objects project began life as a survey, asking participants about their junk drawers and how they relate to them and their contents. The feedback from the survey led Wagner to create a rug and piece of furniture inspired by the contents of a junk drawer. Unlike the contents of a junk drawer, the shape and size of the furniture makes it impossible to hide away, instead drawing the viewer’s attention to it.

Material Goods by Elsa Ericson Ekdahl is a project in glass and metal that examines how fashion can be interpreted, inspire and applied to product and furniture design. The vases Pearly and the table Pleat are intended as parts of a larger collection on the same theme. In the collection the objects will relate to each other through form and material. But they should also be able to combine with other objects without losing their own value.

Anna Herrmann’s Joan is a flexible, wall-mounted light that aims to change the way people interact with wall lamps. The design of the lamp has been created to resemble a flowing line drawing, to further communicate the idea of flexibility and freedom.

BEL by Sizar Alexis is a waste sorting vessel inspired by Brutalist design. ‘I want to create more attractive opportunities for sorting waste,’ writes Alexis.

Mattias Rothman creates playful glassware such as the hand-blown Margarita glass that features an unconventionally wide foot, somewhat mirroring the shape of the glass’ rim and well. Meanwhile, Rothman’s BOW lamp features a glass base that can act as a desk lamp, or be hung upside down from the ceiling.

The way sunlight creates patterns that change and move around interior spaces inspired Ellinor Sixtensdotter’s Light Study project. By melting plastic and glass with different techniques and illuminating them with different light-sources, Sixtensdotter developed a series of solar mirrors which can be hung from the ceiling or from furniture to catch sunlight and reflect colour and shapes onto nearby surfaces.

Learn more about Beckmans College of Design from their website.