23rd September 2016

Studio Makgill gives Camille Walala some tables. Creativity ensues.

As we’ve noted before, Studio Makgill aren’t your average graphic designers, recently taking their considerable creative talent into the world of product design by developing a colour palette for H Furniture’s WW Chairs, on show at designjunction this week. But that’s not the only foray into furniture they’ve got going on…

At Clerkenwell London’s Design Undefined show, Studio Makgill are flipping things on their head. This time, rather than taking someone else’s product and playing with Pantones, they’ve designed their own pieces of furniture, handed the prototypes over to print artist Camille Walala and left her to get creative with the colour.

The Field Table and matching benches are the result of Studio Makgill’s efforts to create easy-to-produce, affordable set of furniture that – because they can be assembled from two sheets of 8x4 timber are virtually waste-free. Camille has taken two sets and transformed them into explosively coloured, geometrically patterned inhabitants of her ‘Walalalounge’ – the Memphis-inspired chill-out space she has created for the Clerkenwell London show.

Check out the before and after snaps below…

Image credits: Above 1: Field table and benches by Studio Makgill - Photography by Dan Weill, Below 2: Field table and benches by Studio Makgill, 3: Field bench by Studio Makgill (unassembled), 4: Photography by Dan Weill, 5. Camille Walala sketch book - Photography by Dan Weill.