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John Wood, Paul Harrison, ‘Device’, 1996.

John Wood, Paul Harrison, ‘October '97’.

John Wood, Paul Harrison, ‘Six boxes’, 1997.

Mike Petts, ‘Green’.

Andreas Schwanda, ‘High Tea’.

Tom & Angel Zatorski, ‘The Last 3600 Seconds Of Wasp’, video installation (still).

Louise Hailey, ‘Untitled’, (research series 1), latex and fairylights, 2001.

Hugh Russell, ‘Construction No. 10’, oblique view detail, MDF, hardwood moulding, acrylic, 63x70x7cm.
Photo: Blow-Up.

Arwen Banning, ‘On your marks’.

Jessika Worrall, ‘Six Islands’.

Graham Holland, ‘Manchester no.1’, digital print on aluminium, 4x2ft.

Shin and Tomoko Azumi, ‘Wire Frame Chair & Stool’, produced by Meshman in the UK.

One of the featured makers on the Arts Council of England's Working with Industry brochure. The series of wire frame furniture inspired by the technology of the shopping basket and 3D computer drawings. Functional and stackable, the aim of this design was to create furniture that does not giving an oppressive feeling even when in a small room. In 1998 this design was a finalist in the 100% Blueprint Design Award and won the Design Week Furniture Futures Award in 1999. It is also included in the permanent collection of the Stedelijk Museum in the Netherlands and Manchester Art Gallery. Contact: www.azumi.co.uk

‘Estruso pendant and floor standing lampshade light’.
Photo: Julien Boussamba.
Contact: www.damdesign.it Featured on the Mazorca website, an organisation that promotes manufacturing relationships for designers in London's East End. The Estruso lampshade is made of extruded plastic and was created at the Tom Dixon Domus Design Factory at the Salon del Mobile in Milan 2001. Damdesign explore new materials and technologies in developing product lines, an approach that is supported through relationships with manufacturers. Small design companies are burgeoning in the East End, although many still need the support of organisations such as Mazorca to source industrial contacts and provide selling opportunities.

Susan Bleakley, ‘Work produced during the Public Arts Laboratory Project’.
Photo: Susan Bleakley.
Susan Bleakley worked at Tarmac Topmix during the Public Arts Laboratory project organised by Liverpool Manchester Design Initiative. LMDI offers a free 'matchmaking' service helping commissioners identify the right creative for their project, and also offers advice on commissioning processes. The Public Arts Laboratory was a one off project funded by the Arts Council A4E fund that linked artists with industry partners to explore and experiment with new applications of materials and processes. The project culminated in a touring exhibition in 1999-2000.

Hub Design, ‘Bowl (batch production)’.
Photo: Cameron PR.
Hub design tableware that is batch-produced by Staffordshire and Derbyshire manufacturers. Andrew Tanner and Anna Thompson, who founded the company in 1998, initially prototyped the work themselves and received a high level of interest at One Year On at the New Designers show, Top Drawer and 100% Design. Their lines are produced in Staffordshire, and designer Wayne Hemmingway recently wrote in Ceramic Review, that "hub could steal a march on the larger manufacturers".

Tatsumi Orimoto, ‘Breadman’.

Georges Boulard, ‘France’.

Piece for 'Land, Sea and Skye' at the Sound of Ramsay

John Kippin, ‘Leamington Spa’, 2002.

David Lock, ‘Pandaboy’, acrylic, oil, pen on canvas, 4'x4', 2001.

Andrew Miller, Duncan McAfee, ‘Decimal clock’, (altered clock), 2002.

Jo Gorner, ‘etched copper panel’, 25x25cm.
Photo: the artist.

Michael Pinsky.
Photo: Ian Beeck.
Viewed from balcony

Ivan Morison, ‘Fruit and vegetable stall’, St George Street, Norwich, 2002.
Photo: Dan Tombs.

Mali Morris, ‘Lime green sweep’, acrylic on canvas, 25x31cm, 2001.

Abbie Hunt, ‘After Angela Thirkell 272 x 2 deconstructed books’.