Greengaged

A few months ago, Greengaged curator Anna Gerber and the team at Three Trees Don't Make a Forest were invited to visit London's “local” paper mill: Tullis Russell in Fife, Scotland. Joined by Sion Whellens of Calverts and Luke Nicholson of More Associates, Anna explains how 'the trip made a real impact on us all and got us thinking a lot about how industrial processes are instrumental to and in everything we design. Inspired by the trip, and as part of the Crafting Mass Production event for this year’s Greengaged at the Design Council, Gerber gathered a team of designers to spend the day at Workshop’s new letterpress studio in East London last week.

The intention for last week’s letterpress day and the Design Council event next Thursday is to look at the idea of how craft sensibilities and values can be used within a mass production context, in a bid, Gerber explains; “…to re-engage designers with industrial and manufacturing processes. We’d like to show not only that this sort of thing is happening, but that it’s possible and most of all, that it is sustainable.”

Collaborating to produce a publication, the designers were challenged to create designs, using any tools in the workshop studio but without using text in their outcomes. Workshop are now in the process of producing the publication in an edition of 500, which along with a video screening of the craft and transportation methods, will be given away at the Design Council on Thursday 24th September.

Anna Gerber, Nat Hunter and Alexander Cooper, Rose Gridneff, James Allen and Varvara Zaytseva of Workshop, were joined last week by; Adam Cheltsov (Sara De Bondt Studio), Anna Fidalgo (Crispin Finn), Sanky Sankarayya (All of Us / D&AD), Lawrence Zeegen (Kingston University), and Greengaged competition winners and graphic design graduates, Matt Mear and Holly Webber.

To see a sneak preview of the day last week, visit out letterpress flickr album, and register your place now for greengaged's Crafting Mass Production day next week.