FAT

Fashion. Architecture. Taste.

'FATs design, installation and gallery based projects explore the potential of objects to perform as critically engaged entities. Through material, form and use they develop a culturally rich approach where design is not only a solution to a problem but a way of describing the contemporary world.'


Fat is a pretty interesting design group, who are based in architecture but do a bit of design work too... 


The bit about ' a way of describing the contemporary world' caught me! And I think this what I am trying to do, or this weeks theme, trying to map and represent the dead and empty spaces in Manchester.
I am going to try and get hold of snowcrete and use plaster and maybe see what setting flour paste achieves...


Konran SHOP.


A few objects were made for the Konran Shop in London...

'FAT's Konran Shop was a range of products exhibited and sold at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Recognisable icons of design - Philippe Starck's Juicy Salif, the ipod, Alessi coffee pots - are crudely remade in clay. Lumpy, slightly grotesque and functionally useless, the pieces satirised our obsession with accumulating designer objects for the home, 

FUNCTIONALY USELESS. Makes me think about the telephone exchanges -LOST functions, DEAD FUNCTIONS. And makes me think about the non places, car parks, train-stations; the functions are to wait, strange transitional places and periods. 

Its all quite repeitive, the function, and the aesthetics of the places, which relates back to a little comment by E.H on the minimalist period of industrial, identical serials and systems

'Such systems were hardly rational, serial art is another way of repeating absurdity'

It is all absurd!