Posted by Audrey Lee on November 9, 2010
Kluster are proud to feature a series of awe-inspiring designers selling wares at the Finders Keepers Spring/Summer Markets at Sydney’s CarriageWorks this December.
Put simply, Fold Studio is a collective of young designers from Melbourne. The culmination of their creative efforts is a series of finely crafted wooden products, ranging from necklaces to coasters and waste-paper bins. With their first ever Finders Keepers Spring Summer Sydney market stall just round the corner we asked one of the designers, Roslyn Campbell, to give us the lowdown.
Covered: Three friends, same goal, using environmentally thoughtful materials and expanding the business.
Audrey Lee: Tell us a little about your design background. When did you first decide to venture down the path of producer of creative wares?
Roslyn Campbell: Myself, Patrick and Laura all met in the furniture department of UTAS Fine Arts School a couple of years ago. Then we decided to move to Melbourne to study Furniture Design together at RMIT. We are just about to graduate. Hooray! We have always had a knack for designing and creating things, but recently decided to try our hand at making an income from it too.
AL: What can visitors expect from your stall at The Finders Keepers Spring/Summer Markets this December? Is this your first Finders Keepers stall?
RC: I have a range of hand-made individual necklaces, Laura has some cleverly designed geometric coasters and Patrick has a very elegant flat-pack wastepaper basket. We hope to develop a few more home ware products such as fruit bowls, table runners and planter boxes in time for the market (once our final uni projects are finished next week).
And yes, it's the first time we are having a stall at Finders Keepers.
AL: Is there a common theme or focus in your designs and are they influenced by your personal style?
RC: Our education has had a large focus on environmental principles, so we endeavour for all our products to be designed elegantly, but also using materials efficiently. The necklace range was initiated from off-cuts of timber someone in our collective workshop had thrown in the bin, and since then has evolved, but there is still no waste! Our designs are definitely influenced by our own personal styles. Every necklace I make I have trouble giving away, because I want to keep it for my own personal collection!
AL: What can we expect from you, post Finders Keepers Sydney Markets?
RC: We aim to give the business more time after we graduate, work on our website and Etsy stall, develop a larger range of products and hopefully appear at more Finders Keepers Markets in the future.
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