A little while back, we announced that for the 4 weeks leading up to London 2012 we’d be featuring British talent. Design GB we’d called the project – rejoicing in our nations proud heritage in design, from Westwood and McLaren’s punk vision, to Thomas Heatherwick’s envelope pushing architecture… and everything in between. We called for submissions, stated we were hoping to unearth talent that wasn’t from the same old melting pot (i.e London), and stipulated that we were looking for design that poked fun at convention. And we got a varied response, in fact, the response was so varied, that we started to question whether the word ‘design’ was broad enough to cover the talent our country has to offer. We toyed with ‘Talent GB’, but that sounded like Simon Cowell had something to do it it… so, here it is; Create GB.
We’re still looking for more entries too, we literally want the pages of We Heart to be brimming with Great British Creativity from 2nd July ’til 27th July, when the Olympics begin, so, whether you’re a fashion designer, a food designer, an illustrator, an artist or a performer (and anything in between), students to OAPs… get in touch.
Contact us on [email protected], and follow the conversation on #creategb
Anthony Dickens’ Tekio
Photograph, Jim Stephenson
Destroy t-shirt,
Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood
UK Pavilion, Shanghai Expo 2010
Heatherwick Studio
Image © Iwan Baan
Unknown Pleasures cover art,
Joy Division, Peter Saville and Chris Mathan
iPod first generation,
designed by Jonathan Ive
© Apple Inc.
Luke Insect
Norman Foster’s Gherkin
Lightning & Kinglyface
Photography © Steve Harries
Pop Will Eat Itself: Very Metal Noise Pollution,
designed by The Designers Republic™
Image from North West is Best
Matador chair & footstool in brown
leather, designed by Terence Conran,
Content by Coran Collection
Featured at Terence Conran – The Way We Live Now
Showing at the Design Museum
