GET IT LOUDER (UK Exhibits)
London Guest City programme of Beijing Design Week
Talking Innovation
Design UK Front Page
IYDEY 2007 Award
IYDEY 2006 Award
Design in the UK
Design UK Virtual Exhibition
Wokmedia
Wokmedia is a design partnership between Michael Cross and Julie Mathias who met while studying Design Products at the Royal College of Art. They graduated in 2004 and are now both research associates at the RCA while running Wokmedia with interaction design collaborator Wolfgang Kaeppner. On the strength of their RCA degree show, their work has been shown in group and solo installations at the Design Museum; in the British Council’s lighting exhibition Twinkle, twinkle in Tokyo, Moscow and Istanbul; and in Great Brits: the New Alchemists, the second collaboration between the Design Museum, the British Council and Paul Smith for the Milan Furniture Fair in 2005. Cross and Mathias believe that the best design stems from a desire to reproduce something; usually an emotional feeling or a physical sensation. Flood, a collection of light bulbs and cables immersed in glass vessels of water, reproduces our fear of electricity and water mixed, and projected them into the media spotlight immediately following their graduation show in 2004. Sprinkle, their randomly-scattered “carpet” of wool clusters, reproduces the joy of scattering things with abandon. Blow, the fan you activate by blowing, reproduces your action by blowing back at you. The Lunaganga shelf reproduces a vision of twigs and branches breaking the surface of a flooded landscape in Sri Lanka.
