November @ ACO. | Printed Plywood with VaryLab | Daniel Eatock Studio Visit
PRINTED PLYWOOD
This month has continued along the path of working on smaller projects in the workshop. I spent time working with Tanguy from VaryLab exploring screen printing onto plywood.
The objective is to create a stool that can be used in our respective studios and one you could have for your own home. Combining Tanguy’s background in graphics and printmaking with my photographic images and functional object design.
The general form takes its shape from a street traffic cone, crossed with the steel kick step stools I remember finding in offices or a supermarket I worked in as a teenager.
For both of us it is about understanding how each others processes work. The screen printing process needs to be done in a specific order and from my side how components are cut, finished joined together. It’s all learning…
I have been taking the 1/4 scale mock ups home to allow my mind to keep noticing details in the evenings and having them set out on my workbench during the day.
A process that is familiar to most designers but feels new to me as someone who has created larger bespoke furniture to specific deadlines for the past years.
I can’t pack up a large desk or wardrobe to pop in my living room so refining on Sketchup (3D modeling software) is the main focus of my workflow until now.
I hope to share more updates from myself & Tanguy towards the end of the year. You can see more of his work on Instagram: @varylab
ACO. SPACES - DANIEL EATOCK
"A Collection Of… Spaces" explores the workspaces of creative practitioners through conversation and photography.
Each episode uncovers how studios, workshops and home projects shape ideas, processes and creativity.
This episode of is with Daniel Eatock an artist and designer.
I visited Daniel in his home studio in Lower Clapton in East London. A space which each room has its own studio function for ideas, physical making, cooking a meal or sharing time with friends and family.
I'd rediscovered Daniel's work recently through a show as part of London Design Festival where he made skateboards decks inspired by the shape of swimming pools titled 'Alvar Wave and the Ripple Effect’.
I then spent an inspiriting Saturday morning looking through Daniels website on which, he has chronologically shared ideas, realised exhibitions and created opportunities for collaboration going back to 1991. It connected with me through a wide mix of photography, concepts for furniture and ideas of projects yet to be fully realised.
From there I discovered he had created the platform the website was built on called Indexhibit. A platform I'd spent many hours building my own websites on around 2007 and helped to start my time as website designer after university building websites friends and tutors photography portfolios.
Daniel’s work is highly conceptual, a word that might feel daunting without seeing it in action, but at its core it’s about generating ideas, sharing them, and seeing how they can evolve, whether in an instant or over the course of a few years.
I hope you enjoy the conversation and I encourage you to take time to look at his huge archive of work on his website.
Enjoy!
