We made it
We Made It: Furniture Designer & Maker Laszlo BeckettSaturday, 21 February 2015
South Londoner Laszlo Beckett is someone for whom design, manufacture, craft, and indeed art, are fairly arbitrary divisions within the creative process. His furniture combines the hyper-modern - particularly in his signature pixellated decorative... Read more... |
We Made It: Set and Costume Designer Lise MarkerSaturday, 14 February 2015
Danish-born Lise Marker is the perfect example of someone for whom a heirarchy between art and craft is an anachronisitic irrelevance. With work spanning fashion, film, theatre, fine art, music and more, she is a designer, conceptualist and maker,... Read more... |
We Made It: The Bogányi PianoFriday, 06 February 2015
A concert grand piano is a compendium of trees. Traditionally, the piano case is made of laminated layers of maple and mahogany. Then you’ve got your pine bracing, beech legs, pine keybed with more beech and maple, a... Read more... |
We Made It: Factum ArteFriday, 19 December 2014
With its team of artists and craftsmen Factum Arte resembles the workshops of old, the rhythmic clatter of hammer and chisel a sound that has rung through city streets for centuries. But alongside the painters and sculptors are software designers... Read more... |
We Made It: Publisher and Curator Amelia GregoryFriday, 12 December 2014
Although her background is in mainstream magazines, Amelia Gregory always wanted to produce something more personal - from which urge the unique and intimate Amelia's Magazine was created. Now she has brought crowdfunding into play to allow the... Read more... |
We Made It: Bex Burch, Dagaare Xylophone-MakerSaturday, 06 December 2014
Bex Burch is a percussionist with a classical training at the Guildhall School of Music. First visiting Ghana as an undergraduate, on the recommendation of a Ghanaian friend, she initially felt very uncomfortable there, but gradually grew to love... Read more... |
We Made It: Salmon Smoker Ole Martin-HansenFriday, 28 November 2014
Food, of course, is one of the places where the principles of our We Made It series are often best expressed. And in a culture where value is increasingly put on hand-crafting and traditional methods, few have an approach that is as purist and... Read more... |
We Made It: Beardyman's Beardytron_5000mkIVFriday, 21 November 2014
Beardyman, aka Darren Foreman, began his musical career as a beatboxer, becoming in 2006 and 2007 the first performer to win two UK beatboxing championships in a row. He’s always been interested in the use of technology to create original sounds,... Read more... |
We Made It: Sub Pac Inventor John AlexiouFriday, 14 November 2014
Our aim in creating We Made It was to look at the way that invention, design and fabrication are every bit as integral to the arts world as aesthtics, concept and genre. This week's profile couldn't show that any better: over on the Bruichladdich... Read more... |
We Made It: Make-up Artist Nina PratleyMonday, 20 October 2014
It's easy to forget among the pile up of high-tech and high-concept flash that Hollywood films still depend on handiwork and hard graft from all kinds of trained craftspersons. On the Bruichladdich Site, Katherine McLaughlin meets one member of this... Read more... |
We Made It: Modelmaker Robbie EdwardsMonday, 13 October 2014
Sawdust in your hair, paint on your face and fingers that look like they’ve never seen a tap: such is life as a model-maker for movie special effects. Work is grubby and relentless until the shots are done and everything looks “real” – and none is... Read more... |
We Made It: Photographer Brian David StevensSunday, 05 October 2014
Photographer Brian David Stevens has contributed to theartsdesk before, most notably with his subtly powerful gallery of Scottish dunescapes with a piquant political edge. Over on Bruichladdich's site, Joe Muggs talks to him about his latest project... Read more... |
