Designers Discovered

Each year Heal’s launches a collection to promote innovative work or new and emerging designs and this year’s catalogue includes works by Matt Davis and Adam Fairweather (and partner Rosalie McMillan).

Matt Davis graduated last summer with a Distinction in a Masters of Design degree in 3D Design and Craft.

The ‘Heal’s Discovers 2017’ collection focuses on designs made from unconventional materials and new production processes. 

Adam, who graduated with the same degree in 2005, and Rosalie’s Smile Plastics coffee tables are made from materials including recycle plastic bottles which “transform waste material into a unique and decorative table top".

Matt Davis

Adam Fairweather and Rosalie McMillan

Their Smile Plastics was established as a materials design studio in 2015, launching at the London Design Festival with a range of panels made from recycled plastics. Often you see evidence of the history of the materials with the odd barcode or foil from the lid of a yoghurt pot immersed in the panel.

Matt’s porcelain and bone china bottles, appearing to be virtual, were made working with computers. Multiple stages of software are used to create generative models that are 3D printed and then traditionally moulded and slip cast in liquid clay creating a twenty-first century ceramic collection that challenges the preconceptions of technology and traditional craft.