Dott 07

Design Event is an annual festival in the North East providing the public with an opportunity to see cutting edge work by regional, national and international design talent. It also provides designers in the region with a platform to showcase their work and profiles the North East as a creative hub of designers and creators. 2007 is Design Event's third year and with support from Dott 07 and Culture 10 the festival grew bigger and better than ever!

Design Event also brings the chance to see behind the designs and discover the processes, concepts and ideas that have shaped the final works.

A full round up of DE07 events can be found on the DE07 flickr page.

For the first time Design Event produced a talk series, in association with NESTA, offering people the chance to get up close and personal with established and emerging talent working in design today. If you missed the talk series you can download the audio here.

DE07 took place between 11 - 28 October 2007.

DE07 Exhibitions:

Taylor Made
29 September 2007 - 20 January 2008
Alexander Taylor is one of the Top 10 Designers in Britain. This selling exhibition will be make up of 21 piece of contemporary furniture and designs for the home, dating from 2000 to work in progress. Included within the display will be Alexander’s Fold Lamp for which he won 'Young Designer of the Year' and 'Best Lighting' at the Elle Decoration awards 2005.
The gallery will also be showing Emile Galle and the origins of Art Nouveau.

The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham
Monday - Sunday 11:00 - 17:00
Adults £7 concessions £6

One Off Factory
‘One-Off Factory’ in Sunderland brings together three exhibitions concerned with prototyping three-dimensional design. The projects address the problem of how bespoke design can enable solutions to be customised at an individual level, and offer prototypes for future R&D.
This is explored at the levels of costume, furniture, environment and identity.

One Off Factory: Decompression Chamber
12 October - 11 November
‘Decompression Chamber’ brings together leading designers and artists who create bespoke micro-structures. Each work is a unique newly commissioned environment offering visitors a place for contemplation. Each is also a one-off spatial and material experiment ranging from the ultra-low tech and readily available to the most high-tech engineering by MacLaren. In every case, visitors are invited to enter the space – which becomes akin to a ‘temple for one’, in the words of one contributor. By enclosing or enveloping us, the environments become either protective or claustrophobic; they can offer sensations not only of intimacy but intimidation.

Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Fawcett Street, Sunderland
Disabled Access
Monday and Wednesday 9:30 - 19:30
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 9:30 - 17:00
Saturday 9:30 - 16:00
FREE

One Off Factory: Mathias Bengtsson
6 October - 18 November
Commissioned by National Glass Centre for Design Event 07 and produced in partnership with Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, this is the first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom of Mathias Bengtsson’s furniture and includes a carbon fibre seating system built in experimental proportions as its centrepiece. Bengtsson is internationally renowned for his innovative, highly sculptural design and custom-built furniture which is made to match individual body contours.

To compliment this exhibition, National Glass Centre has also commissioned new work by another Danish artist, Anne Vibeke Mou, featuring pieces in glass as well as dense, graphite drawings.

National Glass Centre
Liberty Way, Sunderland
Disabled Access
Monday - Sunday 10:00 - 17:00
FREE

One Off Factory: N55 - No Borders Campaign
19 - 26 October
N55 is a design collective based in Copenhagen. Their work encourages and enables people to live sustainably by working together and sharing resources. No Borders Campaign is a new commission, which reconsiders regional, national and international iconography. Fresh heraldry and flags have been designed, iconic buildings adapted and the British national anthem has been given a makeover! No Borders Campaign aims to question the legitimacy and value of established borders. The new designs promote the cohesion that exists amongst our diverse population and between our cities, countries and continents. Look out for new flags flying from flagpoles in the region.

Reg Vardy Gallery
Ryhope Road, Sunderland,SR2 7EF
Disabled Access
Tuesday 10:00 - 20:00
Wednesday - Friday 10:00 - 18:00
Saturday by appointment
FREE

Design for Science
13 September - 28 October
'Design for Science' features three components. First is a series of three new commissions by multimedia designer Daniel Brown; leading lighting designer Paul Cocksedge; and graphic designer Andy Altman, exploring the public perception of scientific progress. Curated by Shirley Wheeler at the University of Sunderland, the exhibition also brings to public attention the post-war archive of drawings, sketches, models, computer graphics and animation from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge available to the public for the first time. The third component is an exploration of designs produced for the 1951 Festival of Britain, which proved a landmark in British design history. Also featured will be ceramics, jewellery, illustration, textiles, animation and graphics of winning entries from the National Design4Science Student competition. Supported by the Welcome Trust.

Sunderland Museum and Winter Garden
Disabled Access
FREE

Adam Pointer
28 September - 11 November
Durham-based Pointer spent his early years in New Zealand and Nottingham working on ‘colouring in’ books given to him by his mother (he was a junior ‘colour in’ champion in 1984 and 1985). Pointer’s digital prints capture the melancholic beauty of the urban landscape evoking a wistful sense of poetic landscape within a city.
Since graduating from art college in 2001, he has become one of the country’s leading graphic artists receiving a D&AD New Blood award and more recently, with nexus productions, a D&AD Gold Award for the ‘Grrr’ TV commercial for Honda UK.

National Glass Centre
Liberty Way, Sunderland
Disabled Access
Monday - Sunday 10:00 - 17:00
FREE

Plastic Recycling Factory
19 - 28 October
The recycling factory developed by Cohda Design is a series of industrially modified machinery that will be fed by domestic plastic packaging waste (such as bottles bags and food trays), and will then be re-formed back into useful designs almost instantly! The sustainable event will on public display for 10 days and will be used to generate a series of handmade recycled plastic seating designs, taking the form of an evolving exhibit. Early designs from the process are receiving wide acclaim and were a huge hit at New York’s furniture fair earlier this year; but this is the first opportunity to see the process behind the work.

Fire Station, Pilgrim Street, Newcastle upon Tyne
Disabled Access
FREE


Launch 2007
20 - 28 October
19 October (Preview Party)
Fire Station, Pilgrim Street, Newcastle upon Tyne
Disabled Access
10:00 - 18:00

Launch is a maverick design exhibition held annually in Newcastle upon Tyne. Over the past three years it has established itself as one of the North’s biggest 3-d design showcases. 2007 sees the event returns to the decommissioned fire station in the heart of the city which will be transformed into an inspirational showcase of product and furniture design. Expect to see the latest offerings from a selection of the region’s leading design talent including a live public recycling design factory and an interactive illustration exhibition. All work on show will be available to buy or commission.
£TBC

If You Could…
‘If you could design anything to improve the way we live, what would it be?’.
This was the question posed to a host of designers including Rob Ryan, Andrew Rae, and Jeremy Ville. See what they came up with and add your own response to the exhibition.






Fire Station Opening Party 19 October 18:00
This year’s event promises to pull out all the stops, expect an eclectic assortment of creativity, live music and entertainment all set in the unique and inspirational surroundings of the decommissioned fire-station. This event is Ticket Only.

Contains
19 - 28 October
Ever thought about the ‘ingredients’ that go into making the stuff you invite into your home?
CONTAINS explores the stories behind the products we use every day - the people who make them, the materials they use, the energy consumed, the miles travelled - in an innovative, inspiring and accessible exhibition that shows how design can make a difference.
CONTAINS houses 100 thought-provoking, sustainable designs from cutting-edge UK designers. You can find the exhibition in shipping containers at Newcastle’s Monument - you can’t miss it!

Newcastle’s Monument
Disabled Access
FREE

From The Earth We Came...
11 - 28 October
From the earth we came… sites new work by three illustrative artists from the fashion and design sectors within the overlooked seams of urban spaces.
Daisy de Villeneuve, Lucy Maclauchan and Steven Wilson new works highlight intricate ornamental features and the colonisation of man-made structures by plants, through subtle design interventions and new illustrations applied to the cities’ surfaces.
From the joins of buildings, where walls meet pavements, up windowsills, on the edges of steps – this work will pour forth, growing like ivy, inviting us to consider the beautiful in the mundane, the ornate in the everyday.

Various locations across Newcastle Gateshead
FREE

Our Friends in the North
12 October - 10 November
Will be a high profile graphic design exhibition focusing on designers who have either trained, worked or were originally from the North East. Designers involved include:
Alaric Hammond - Insect
David Malone - Malone Design
Mark Blamire - Blanka / Neue
Michael Place - Build
Paul McAnelly - Hawaii Design
Peter Chadwick - Popular
Phil Sims - Neighbour
Richard Fenwick
Richard Short - Studio Lobster
Vaughan Oliver - v23

Exhibitors will also be asked to produce a piece of work reflecting how the North East has influenced both them and their work. There will also be a series of talks and film screenings alongside the exhibition.

Robert Stephenson Centre, Sussex Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3PD

Daniel Johnston: It’s a Beautiful Life
5 September - 10 November
‘Daniel Johnston: It’s a Beautiful Life’ is the first major UK solo exhibition of work by the US musical cult legend, and will present over 40 of his drawings alongside early tape covers and rare 7” record sleeves. The exhibition will show drawings from 1981 - 2006, representing a body of work that links themes in his visual art and music: the alter-ego, fear, innocence, corruption and redemption. 2006 saw the inclusion of his work in the Whitney Biennial and the release of Jeff Feuerzeig’s documentary ‘The Devil and Daniel Johnston’.

alt.gallery (entry via alt.vinyl) 61/62 Thornton Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4AW
mail@altgallery.org
Monday - Saturday 10:00 - 18:00 / Thursday 10:00 - 20:00
FREE

Thick as Thieves
18 - 27 October
Reluctant Hero present Thick as Thieves a graphic interpretatation of what we see as the unravelling of the icons and symbols that we grew up with. As we forge ahead into this new and unsettled world, once comforting symbols such as the Milk Man, Monarchy, Government, Post Offce etc. are being dismantled and in their place are rapacious supermarkets, corporate crookery and feral teens weaving their geometry of menace around haunted estates. Yet all is not bleak Thick as Thieves is at it’s core a celebration of the a region, a people and their resoloute strength in maintaining dignity through adversity.

Electrik Sheep
Pink Lane, Newcastle upon Tyne
Monday - Saturday 10:00 - 18:00
FREE

ie : Creating Innovation Through Education
ie, is an exciting cross education authority project between Blyth Community College, St Bedes, Lanchester and Monkseaton Community High.
The philosophy behind ie, is to provide a platform for encouraging and promoting ‘creative innovation through education’. The project focuses on a number of creative students from each school , who are contributing to collaborative ‘real life’ design challenges set by leading design companies and retailers; H & M , Elbo and Moderato.

Newcastle Arts Centre, Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne
Monday - Saturday 9:00 - 17:00
FREE

Urban Translation
27 October
Northern Architecture have brought together urban designers, architects and other creatives to develop a tour of Newcastle’s architecture and public spaces that unwraps some of the design decisions that have shaped the fabric of the city. The tour will focus on significant periods in time that have impacted on the built environment, both recent and historical, and examine how politics, fashion and zeitgeist have influenced the way the city looks, the way it functions and the way it feels.
Book via the Northern Architecture website.
14:00
FREE

Delight in Design
20 October - 28 October, daily
31 October - 17 November, Wed - Sun
Join Designed & Made and the best of the North East’s contemporary designers and makers, to experience the pleasure of making. You will be invited to reflect on: the value and meaning of objects; what stimulates and motivates us to make; how we become attached to things we treasure; and, how we can identify with the designer-makers’ creative process as they explore local, ecological and social contexts.
Made objects will be dramatically presented at a dinner party with a difference. They will be displayed at a unique dining table in our exhibition space, which will double as a dinner party venue to discover the delight in dining.
You will get the chance to co-create hand-made objects with skilled professionals, enjoy handling materials, learn new skills, transform old objects and more. Check the DE07 website for details of workshops.

LIVE Theatre
Level 1, 27 Broad Chare, Quayside, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3DQ
Open 12:30 - 18:00
Disabled Access
info@delightin.co.uk
FREE

Looking North: Visual Culture from Post-war to Present Day
15 September - 4 November
A major retrospective exhibition exploring the impact of visual culture in the North East since 1945.
Including design, art, fashion, photography, film and architecture, the exhibition will feature paintings by Richard Hamilton and Victor Passmore, clothes by Scott Henshall and architectural models of major North East landmarks.
A partnership exhibition with the University of Northumbria.

The Shipley Gallery, Prince Consort Road, Gateshead
Monday – Saturday 10:00 - 17:00
Sunday 14:00 - 17:00
FREE

READesign
Inspire has commissioned a mobile design exhibition; READesign in collaboration with The Keelrow Bookshop in North Shields. Three contemporary designers; Fiona Thompson, Michael Armstrong and Ellen Bell will design an iconic domestic item using classic design books for inspiration. The items will be restricted to white so that a fourth artist Lindsay Duncanson can translate imagery from the books onto the objects. The project emphasizes the inspirational importance of the book to contemporary artists and designers and how the designers of the past have influenced contemporary design.

Design Film Programme
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art
A specially curated film package by film and new media curators Cinefeel relating to the theme ‘How do we want to live?’. The programme will include animations, digital shorts, motion graphics pieces, architectural visualisations and music videos which explore this theme.
FREE

Design Event 07 forms part of North East England's world-class festival and events programme.