The third edition of the Material Matters fair opens in 12 weeks, and visitor REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! https://lnkd.in/g__APcse We have an outstanding lineup of exhibitors for 2024. The full line-up is building on materialmatters.design: https://lnkd.in/grXrxz-R To kick-off a series of exhibitor spotlights, we're delighted to welcome rootfull back to the fair. Founded by Zena Holloway, Rootfull is an award-winning material innovation company that weaves plant roots to make textiles and products. This fusion of biology, craft, and design results in intricate pieces that intertwine sustainability, creativity, and natural artistry. The company will be exhibiting a range of root lamps and interior pieces on our top floor. The Material Matters fair runs from 18-21 September at Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf. #materialmatters #materialinnovation #LDF24
Material Matters
Media Production
Exhibition and podcast exploring the role of materials in creating a better future
About us
Material Matters is a cross-media platform aimed at designers, architects, manufacturers and makers that investigates the importance of material intelligence, and how the materials we use will shape our lives in the coming decades. - Over 100 episodes of 'Material Matters with Grant Gibson' ar available on all podcast platforms - The Material Matters fair will take place at Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf 18-21 September as part of the London Design Festival
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https://materialmatters.design/
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- 2-10 employees
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- London
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- Privately Held
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- 2021
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Do we need a debate about the future? The one we missed when oil was discovered. Ernest Scheyder advocates one in the last in the current series of Material Matters with Grant Gibson and in his book, The War Below. https://lnkd.in/ez46_T-X #materialmatters #materialmatterspodcast #designpodcast #design #podcast #materialintelligence #MM24 #MM2024 #materialmatters2024
The latest series of the Material Matters podcast comes to a close with Ernest Scheyder. Ernest is an author and senior correspondent for Reuters. His new book, The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives, looks at the impact of the green transition in the US – and, more particularly, the tensions over the increasing need to mine for metals to decarbonise the grid (and power a plethora of devices) against the nation’s desire to conserve the environment. The book illustrates how materials effect geo-politics and the urge for energy security, inform the national debate, and impact at a very local level. It also suggests that becoming more sustainable is anything but straightforward. In this episode we talk about: why lithium and copper are vital to our futures; where the materials are mined and processed; ‘material colonialism’; how the pandemic changed perceptions of our supply chains; why some mineral-rich nations are excluding the US; the role of China in the 21st century global economy and the withering of US hegemony; the new ‘green arms race’; why mining is in a ‘perpetual state of decline’; the tension between local needs and global desires; the role of religion and conservation; child labour in the Democratic Republic of Congo; the ‘dualistic’ policies of President Biden; and Scheyder’s issue with leaf blowers… Safe to say quite a lot of ground is covered (rather than dug). To listen search for Material Matters with Grant Gibson on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or our website: https://lnkd.in/ez_zaHzR
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We couldn’t be happier that Sarah Myerscough Gallery sponsored the latest episode of the Material Matters podcast with the excellent Adi Toch. The gallery represents a distinguished group of contemporary craft and design artists, specialising in material-led processes with a focus on wood and natural materials. It also curates a fascinating programme of exhibitions. If you hurry you’ll catch its latest show, which investigates the relationship between clay and the body and includes an impressive roster of ceramic talent, including: Julian Stair, Mella Shaw, Luke Fuller and Aneta Regel. Meanwhile, to listen to Adi on the podcast search for Material Matters with Grant Gibson on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or our website: https://lnkd.in/eXeS5cSA Early Bodies runs at the Sarah Myerscough Gallery until 1 June. Images by Anwyn Howarth
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Sponsored by Sarah Myerscough Gallery, the latest guest on the Material Matters with Grant Gibson podcast is metal artist Adi Toch https://lnkd.in/eW7TQ3F3 #materialmatters #materialmatterspodcast #designpodcast #design #podcast #materialintelligence #MM24 #MM2024 #materialmatters2024
Looking for something to do over the long weekend? There’s a new episode of the Material Matters podcast out with the brilliant Adi Toch. Adi is one of the world’s most fascinating metal artists, who over the years has buried her pieces for months on end before digging them up, and even made them react to sound. She has also exhibited around the world from the FOG Design Art fair in San Francisco with Sarah Myerscough Gallery to Make Hauser & Wirth in Somerset. In this episode we talk about: her extraordinary studio and sharing with two other leading metal artists; the relationships she has with different metals; her creative process and her use of ‘ghosts’; why the pandemic was hugely creative; her fascination with mirrors; how metal communicates through sound and ‘screams’; burying her pieces for months; growing up in Jerusalem; getting rejected from design school; and how the Gaza crisis has impacted on her identity. We’re delighted that this episode has been sponsored by the wonderful Sarah Myerscough Gallery. The gallery represents a distinguished group of contemporary craft and design artists, specialising in material-led processes with a focus on wood and natural materials. If you visit its Mayfair showroom right now you’ll see, Earthly Bodies, which investigates the relationship between clay and the body, with work from the likes of former Material Matters guest, Julian Stair, Luke Fuller and Mella Shaw among others. It’s ace. To have a listen search for Material Matters with Grant Gibson on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or our website (link in bio).
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A fascinating subject for the latest episode of the Material Matters with Grant Gibson podcast: Jonathan Smales, his company Human Nature and The Phoenix: a new type of property development project. The Phoenix, has just won planning permission to be built on the outskirts of Lewes in East Sussex, UK. What makes the development different? The Phoenix will contain 685 homes designed by a roster of fascinating architects working in a variety of carefully considered materials such as cross-laminated timber and UK Hempcrete. It will be vehicle-free, with residents encouraged to use a car share scheme, an electric bike service, or a shuttle bus. It will have amenities including a community canteen, event hall, taproom, fitness centre and makers studios. There will be shared courtyards, parks and green corridors to promote communal living and provide habitats for local wildlife. Architecture critic Rowan Moore recently wrote in The Observer: ‘It looks miraculous in a land where new homes are largely lumpen products of volume housebuilders.’ Jonathan has one of those CVs that makes you wonder what you’ve been doing with your time. Over the years, he has been managing director of Greenpeace, an advisor on sustainability issues to the UK government and he also led the Earth Centre project, regenerating a former coal mine outside Doncaster. In this episode, Jonathan talks to Grant about how he got involved in The Phoenix, his fascination with cities, building in CLT and Hempcrete, mining the Anthropocene, and choosing the project’s architects; why the UK has forgotten how to make places; growing up in a mining village; a school trip to Paris that changed his life; coming up with the idea for the Earth Centre and why it closed so quickly; and his love of punk. The podcast can be found on Spotify, Apple Music, and other good podcast outlets. For additional details, images and to listen directly, click on this link to the Material Matters website: https://lnkd.in/eq2QV9_S #materialmatters #materialmatterspodcast #designpodcast #design #podcast #materialintelligence #MM24 #MM2024 #materialmatters24 #propertydevelopment #architecturepodcast #architecture #thepheonix
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New Episode alert: the latest Material Matters with Grant Gibson podcast features Adam Yeats - Co-founder and MD of leading UK lighting company Bert Frank. Yeats started the brand with designer Robbie Llewellyn in 2013. Since then, it has gone from strength to strength, with a showroom opening in London’s Clerkenwell in 2019, exhibiting at home and abroad, and winning the Elle Decoration British Design Award for Lighting in 2016. The company was also the headline sponsor for last September's Material Matters fair. Craft and material selection have always been intrinsic to Bert Frank, and Yeats comes from a family steeped in making and British manufacturing. So, what’s it like to be an ambitious manufacturing company in post-Brexit Britain? In this episode, Grant and Adam talk about him growing up in his father’s factory, why he lives next door to his workshop, the importance of craft and skill to the company’s products, working with brass, learning his trade - from sweeping the factory floor to running the business. Much of the focus is on how Bert Frank was established and has evolved over the past decade, including how Adam's company rode waves of economic shock, the economic consequences of Brexit and starting a new assembly facility in Belgium. It also touches on the importance of immigration to his workforce and the state of manufacturing in the UK and reveals why Adam always wanted to be a marine biologist. #materialmatters #materialmatterspodcast #designpodcast #design #podcast #UKManufacturing #materialintelligence #MM24 #MM2024 #materialmatters2024
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A new series of Material Matters with Grant Gibson has launched, and it gets off to a colourful start with artist and textile designer Ptolemy Mann. Ptolemy first received widespread attention with her woven textile pieces, often stretched across a frame and notable for her extraordinary use of colour. More recently, her practice has shifted, and she has turned to painting on paper with fascinating – and inevitably colourful – results. Her latest pieces combine the two, as she paints on her hand-woven artworks. She is currently in the spotlight. Some of her paintings are currently displayed at The Union Club Soho. In May, she will be the sole focus of an exhibition at Cromwell Place, hosted by Taste Contemporary. Adding to her list of accomplishments, her first monograph, featuring a contribution from her childhood friend es devlin, will be shortly be published by Hurtwood Books. In this episode, Grant and Ptolemy talk about why the time is right for her first book, her fascination with colour, being told was a ‘terrible’ painter as a student, taking up weaving, and her love of the craft’s restrictions, learning to stand up for her ideas; unexpectedly creating products for John Lewis; picking up a paintbrush again; how the realisation she wasn’t going to have children changed her practice; why her new works are ‘an act of anarchy’; and growing up with her ‘bohemian’ father. Listen to the episode on the Materials Matter website here: https://lnkd.in/ei7fffn8 or wherever you usually get your podcasts from! #materialmatters #materialmatterspodcast #designpodcast #design #podcast #MMPOD #MMWGG #materialintelligence #MM24 #MM2024 #materialmatters2024
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Congratulations to Jasleen Kaur for her #TurnerPrize 2024 nomination: A guest on Material Matters with Grant Gibson podcast in 2021. Get to know her and her art with a purpose here: https://lnkd.in/e3AEdAmm #materialmatters #materialmatterspodcast #designpodcast #design #artpodcast #MMPOD #MMWGG #materialintelligence #MM24 #MM2024 #materialmatters2024
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One for your Easter podcast list... Alys Bryan of Design Insider in conversation with Dezeen Editorial Director Max Fraser and our very own Grant Gibson discussing 'design in the media'. https://lnkd.in/gv7ZJT-U #materialmatters #designpromotion #podcast #designpodcast #designmedia #editorial
Managing Editor of Design Insider | Moderator and speaker for the commercial interior community.
Let me tell you a little bit more about our guest on Designers' Voice Episode 4: Design in the Media, Grant Gibson. 🎧 Listen to Grant's conversations with Max Fraser here https://lnkd.in/e5vxad-s I’m sure that I’m not the only person who enjoys listening to Grant Gibson speak with such genuine interest, and care, with designers and craftspeople on his thoroughly engaging podcast, Material Matters with Grant Gibson. His conversations straddle the divide between the professional and personal, with listeners learning how guests found their chosen material and how it shaped their lives and careers. In fact, Grant’s podcast episodes have been downloaded in excess of 400,000 times! And, I’ve got to tell you, that my recent favourites have been interviews with Carl Clarkin, Donna Wilson and Polly Morgan. 2022 saw Grant, along with his co-founder William Knight, launch the Material Matters Fair, which will return to Oxo Tower Wharf again this September to investigate how the design industry can address issues around the circular economy and why material intelligence is so important to all our lives. Grant has had an enviable career, editing many of the UK’s highly respected design and craft publications, including Blueprint, RIBA Journal and Crafts. He was the launch editor of the London Design Festival Guide and regularly takes to the stage to interview guests in person at leading international events. 📷 Philip Vile #design #designmedia #dezeen #designersvoice #conversationsondesign #podcast #designpodcast #designtalk #talkdesign #designpress
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The third edition of the Material Matters fair will take place in just six months. Already boasting an exceptional exhibitor line-up, get in touch if you're interested in participating in this year's show. A new Material Matters with Grant Gibson podcast series is scheduled for launch at the end of April. We'd also be delighted to discuss partnership opportunities that enable you to reach our influential and expanding audience. Detail from images from crafting plastics! studio, wicker story, Ana Bridgewater, Alice Kettle, Solidwool and Piet En Hek #materialmatters #materialmatterspodcast #designpodcast #designfair #tradefair #londondesignfestival #ldf24 #materialintelligence #MM24 #MM2024 #materialmatters2024
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