Transit Scarves
The foundation of trade is the idea that once something is taken out of its original context and placed in an environment where the object is more scarce, it acquires a higher value. This simple idea has been utilised in many different areas from creative work to information technology where methods of re-contextualisation and dispersion of an idea forms a critical element of the system. Transit Scarves are made in Italy using Chinese silk, the two ends of the Silk Road. Each scarf is both a fashion accessory as well as a depiction of an often overseen yet crucial component(packaging) of the logistics that our modern life relies on.
Study O Portable
Study O Portable, founded by Bernadette Deddens and Tetsuo Mukai, is a research based practice that makes objects about the designed environment, and our relationship to the cultural landscape that enables it. We are interested in the transitional nature of our ideas towards objects and the work often catalogues various, and sometimes disparate notions associated with certain ideas and objects and proposes other potential for the mundane and ordinary.
Since 2009, the work of Study O Portable has been presented internationally at various places such as Design Miami, London Design Festival, Design Parade, Gallery FUMI, Caroline van Hoek, Phillips de Pury & Company, Pavilion of Art and Design as well as institutions such as Design Museum, Asia Culture Center, Museum of Comtenporary Art Santa Barbara and Design Museum Ghent among others.
- 2018 Designers of the Future, Swarovski/Design Miami
- 2013 Emerging Design Studio of the Year, Icon Magazine