A group of 13 designers has come together to present a diverse selection of projects all themed around water during this year's London Design Festival.
Each designer has produced a new work for the 13 Ways with Water exhibition, addressing the substance's material properties in their own individual manner. Some have focussed on its movements and optical effects, while others have explored its calming auditory properties.
Reflections by Dean Brown
As a result, the show features a range of works incorporating ceramics, robotics, lighting, and interactive installations, which are on display as part of London Design Festival at the Copeland Gallery in Peckham until 24 September 2017.
The group of designers were only given the single-word subject as their guideline. The show's organisers ? Unit Lab, Dean Brown and Kirsi Enkovaara ? felt that the more open the brief, the more diverse the results would be. Fenster Farm by Simon Denzel
"We consciously kept the theme open, to let each designer carve out their interest from the myriad possibilities," said Mike Vanis, co-founder of Unit Lab. "The designers have a diverse range of backgrounds and disciplines, so we're going to get very different interpretations on the theme."
The water-influenced pieces on display are meant to emphasise how vital the element is to both nature and humans, bringing attention to the "essential yet invisible" substance that, according to Vanis, is so fundamental that everyone ...