Glass seen at New Designers

There is an innately seductive quality to glass. Charlotte Broadley, from Edinburgh College of Art, showed a collection called Deteriorate based as you may have guessed, on origami and the imperfections of a process of transformation. For me it was all about the geometric rawness of quartz and crystal.

Jo Mitchell from the University of Sunderland presented completely different work based on her PhD research, trapping bubbles within glass in a controlled manner. These “tadpoles” remind me also of the small pharmaceutical phials my grandmother used to break open You can just make out he construction of a figure below – the quality of air transformed from absence to presence.