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Client: Taiping
Design: Dean Brown (Fabrica) 
Photography: Paul Graves
Date: May 2013

Reservoir Rug takes inspiration from flowing water - collecting in a series of wall mounted containers, falling fluidly from one to another, eventually pouring out onto the floor and rippling into a deep pool. The concept is inspired by the depth and subtlety of the textile production and expresses the natural potential of a carpet to move gracefully from the wall to the floor, where it typically belongs.  Reservoir Rug is part of of a carpet collection by Fabrica Design Department for Tai Ping, exhibited during Paris Designers Days 2013.

Client: Taiping
Design: Dean Brown (Fabrica) 
Photography: Paul Graves
Date: May 2013

Reservoir Rug takes inspiration from flowing water - collecting in a series of wall mounted containers, falling fluidly from one to another, eventually pouring out onto the floor and rippling into a deep pool. The concept is inspired by the depth and subtlety of the textile production and expresses the natural potential of a carpet to move gracefully from the wall to the floor, where it typically belongs.  Reservoir Rug is part of of a carpet collection by Fabrica Design Department for Tai Ping, exhibited during Paris Designers Days 2013.

Design: Dean Brown & Philip Bone (Fabrica) 
Photography: Gustavo Millon
Date: April 2011 - April 2013

The Mobile Museum is a traveling museum, with contents contributed by people from all over the world. A flatpack timber and steel construction combined with a 2.4 x 1.8 metre footprint enables exhibitions to pop-up, pop-down and move on quickly and easily.

The Museum collection is redefined with every new location exploring curatorial themes that resonate with a sense of place - including family, money, friday, tomorrow and authenticity. The exhibits were selected in response to these themes from an open call to artists, designers and photographers. Since its origins in April 2011 the Mobile Museum was been hosted in Milan, London, Brussels, Helsinki, Luxembourg, Beijing and Hong Kong. 

Design: Dean Brown & Philip Bone (Fabrica) 
Photography: Gustavo Millon
Date: April 2011 - April 2013

The Mobile Museum is a traveling museum, with contents contributed by people from all over the world. A flatpack timber and steel construction combined with a 2.4 x 1.8 metre footprint enables exhibitions to pop-up, pop-down and move on quickly and easily.

The Museum collection is redefined with every new location exploring curatorial themes that resonate with a sense of place - including family, money, friday, tomorrow and authenticity. The exhibits were selected in response to these themes from an open call to artists, designers and photographers. Since its origins in April 2011 the Mobile Museum was been hosted in Milan, London, Brussels, Helsinki, Luxembourg, Beijing and Hong Kong. 

Design: Dean Brown & Philip Bone (Fabrica) 
Photography: Gustavo Millon
Date: April 2011 - April 2013

The Mobile Museum is a traveling museum, with contents contributed by people from all over the world. A flatpack timber and steel construction combined with a 2.4 x 1.8 metre footprint enables exhibitions to pop-up, pop-down and move on quickly and easily.

The Museum collection is redefined with every new location exploring curatorial themes that resonate with a sense of place - including family, money, friday, tomorrow and authenticity. The exhibits were selected in response to these themes from an open call to artists, designers and photographers. Since its origins in April 2011 the Mobile Museum was been hosted in Milan, London, Brussels, Helsinki, Luxembourg, Beijing and Hong Kong. 

Design: Dean Brown & Philip Bone (Fabrica) 
Photography: Gustavo Millon
Date: April 2011 - April 2013

The Mobile Museum is a traveling museum, with contents contributed by people from all over the world. A flatpack timber and steel construction combined with a 2.4 x 1.8 metre footprint enables exhibitions to pop-up, pop-down and move on quickly and easily.

The Museum collection is redefined with every new location exploring curatorial themes that resonate with a sense of place - including family, money, friday, tomorrow and authenticity. The exhibits were selected in response to these themes from an open call to artists, designers and photographers. Since its origins in April 2011 the Mobile Museum was been hosted in Milan, London, Brussels, Helsinki, Luxembourg, Beijing and Hong Kong. 

Client: Uniqlo
Design: Dean Brown with Anyways
Photography: Joshua Preston
Date: January 2017

A series of Interior installations for Uniqlo's UK Flagship Store that celebrated the HeatTech Range. We partnered with the creative agency Anyways to deliver a warm and engaging retail experience that lead shoppers from street level to the concept Attic.  The three key areas - Window, Title Wall and Display Tables struck a balance between evocative and informative. Shoppers were invited to bask in the warmth of HeatTech whilst learning about its technical benefits.

Client: Uniqlo
Design: Dean Brown with Anyways
Photography: Joshua Preston
Date: January 2017

A series of Interior installations for Uniqlo's UK Flagship Store that celebrated the HeatTech Range. We partnered with the creative agency Anyways to deliver a warm and engaging retail experience that lead shoppers from street level to the concept Attic.  The three key areas - Window, Title Wall and Display Tables struck a balance between evocative and informative. Shoppers were invited to bask in the warmth of HeatTech whilst learning about its technical benefits.

Client: Uniqlo
Design: Dean Brown with Anyways
Photography: Joshua Preston
Date: January 2017

A series of Interior installations for Uniqlo's UK Flagship Store that celebrated the HeatTech Range. We partnered with the creative agency Anyways to deliver a warm and engaging retail experience that lead shoppers from street level to the concept Attic.  The three key areas - Window, Title Wall and Display Tables struck a balance between evocative and informative. Shoppers were invited to bask in the warmth of HeatTech whilst learning about its technical benefits.

Client: Uniqlo
Design: Dean Brown with Anyways
Photography: Joshua Preston
Date: January 2017

A series of Interior installations for Uniqlo's UK Flagship Store that celebrated the HeatTech Range. We partnered with the creative agency Anyways to deliver a warm and engaging retail experience that lead shoppers from street level to the concept Attic.  The three key areas - Window, Title Wall and Display Tables struck a balance between evocative and informative. Shoppers were invited to bask in the warmth of HeatTech whilst learning about its technical benefits.

Client: Uniqlo
Design: Dean Brown with Anyways
Photography: Joshua Preston
Date: January 2017

A series of Interior installations for Uniqlo's UK Flagship Store that celebrated the HeatTech Range. We partnered with the creative agency Anyways to deliver a warm and engaging retail experience that lead shoppers from street level to the concept Attic.  The three key areas - Window, Title Wall and Display Tables struck a balance between evocative and informative. Shoppers were invited to bask in the warmth of HeatTech whilst learning about its technical benefits.

Client: Uniqlo
Design: Dean Brown with Anyways
Photography: Joshua Preston
Date: January 2017

A series of Interior installations for Uniqlo's UK Flagship Store that celebrated the HeatTech Range. We partnered with the creative agency Anyways to deliver a warm and engaging retail experience that lead shoppers from street level to the concept Attic.  The three key areas - Window, Title Wall and Display Tables struck a balance between evocative and informative. Shoppers were invited to bask in the warmth of HeatTech whilst learning about its technical benefits.

Client: Uniqlo
Design: Dean Brown with Anyways
Photography: Joshua Preston
Date: January 2017

A series of Interior installations for Uniqlo's UK Flagship Store that celebrated the HeatTech Range. We partnered with the creative agency Anyways to deliver a warm and engaging retail experience that lead shoppers from street level to the concept Attic.  The three key areas - Window, Title Wall and Display Tables struck a balance between evocative and informative. Shoppers were invited to bask in the warmth of HeatTech whilst learning about its technical benefits.

Client: Uniqlo
Design: Dean Brown with Anyways
Photography: Joshua Preston
Date: January 2017

A series of Interior installations for Uniqlo's UK Flagship Store that celebrated the HeatTech Range. We partnered with the creative agency Anyways to deliver a warm and engaging retail experience that lead shoppers from street level to the concept Attic.  The three key areas - Window, Title Wall and Display Tables struck a balance between evocative and informative. Shoppers were invited to bask in the warmth of HeatTech whilst learning about its technical benefits.

Location: SESI Lab, Brasília
Date: November 2022
Artist: Joao Wilbert
Conceptual & Physical Design: Dean Brown
Architectural Design: Mutabile
Hardware & Software Engineering: Jim Bailey (RRD Labs)
Soundtrack: O Grivo
Visual Design: Bee Grandinetti
Project Management: Ezequiel Asnaghi
Content Direction & Production: Aline Xavier (88 Produções)
Content Copy Editor: Juliana Kalil
Content Production Support: Kamala Ramers, Laura Coggiol, Lara Delgado, Luiz Fortini, Urik Paiva, Brenda Macedo, Carol fonseca, Clara Delgado, Hudson Vasconcelos, Klauss Yuka, Luiza Garcia, Matheus Torres, Artur Souza
Photography / Videography: Rafael Carrieri

Timepiece is an instrument created as a reflection of our time for SESI Lab - a Museum of Art, Science and Technology situated within a renovated Oscar Niemeyer building in central Brasília.

The installation consists of seven totems, composed from aluminium, travertine and a matrix of LED screens - arranged in a semicircle alluding to a sundial. The materiality and presence of the piece brings together elements that are both technological and primitive. Timepiece is the result of an open and participatory process, in which people from all over Brazil answered questions about the passing of time - communicated, via the installation, to the visitors of SESI, as screen based typographic stories and animations, complimented by an immersive soundscape.

Client: Google
3D Design: Dean Brown
Interface Design: Google Creative Lab
Date: June 2018

We partnered with Google Creative Lab to create a series of Digital Easels; which formed part of a public installation – showcasing a unique drawing experiment. The series we developed was approachable and informal - inviting to be drawn upon by adults and kids alike.

Whimsical in concept, yet rigorous in manufacture, the Canvas embraces the demands of public events - structurally robust, yet compact and movable. The design is sympathetic to tech integration, discretely accommodating power, cabling and cooling elements within its ventilated base unit.

The design references the silhouette of the classic painters easel, with hardwood detailing and a height adjustable canvas mount to accommodate drawing from a sitting or standing position. These time honoured features are juxtaposed with tubular steel, as a nod to the technical in a device that ultimately celebrates the future potential of drawing.

Client: Google
3D Design: Dean Brown
Interface Design: Google Creative Lab
Date: June 2018

We partnered with Google Creative Lab to create a series of Digital Easels; which formed part of a public installation – showcasing a unique drawing experiment. The series we developed was approachable and informal - inviting to be drawn upon by adults and kids alike.

Whimsical in concept, yet rigorous in manufacture, the Canvas embraces the demands of public events - structurally robust, yet compact and movable. The design is sympathetic to tech integration, discretely accommodating power, cabling and cooling elements within its ventilated base unit.

The design references the silhouette of the classic painters easel, with hardwood detailing and a height adjustable canvas mount to accommodate drawing from a sitting or standing position. These time honoured features are juxtaposed with tubular steel, as a nod to the technical in a device that ultimately celebrates the future potential of drawing.

Client: Google
3D Design: Dean Brown
Interface Design: Google Creative Lab
Date: June 2018

We partnered with Google Creative Lab to create a series of Digital Easels; which formed part of a public installation – showcasing a unique drawing experiment. The series we developed was approachable and informal - inviting to be drawn upon by adults and kids alike.

Whimsical in concept, yet rigorous in manufacture, the Canvas embraces the demands of public events - structurally robust, yet compact and movable. The design is sympathetic to tech integration, discretely accommodating power, cabling and cooling elements within its ventilated base unit.

The design references the silhouette of the classic painters easel, with hardwood detailing and a height adjustable canvas mount to accommodate drawing from a sitting or standing position. These time honoured features are juxtaposed with tubular steel, as a nod to the technical in a device that ultimately celebrates the future potential of drawing.

Client: Daikin
Photography: Shek Po Kwan
Design: Fabrica Design Team
Date: April 2014

A conceptual representation of temperature for Milan Design Week 2014. Visitors were invited to participate in an immersive laboratory of hot and cold where they encountered a series of multi-sensory artistic and sculptural installations that “give shape” to air.  Among the works exhibited, a kinetic installation in which moving illustrated feathers evoke the seasonal migration of exotic birds; meanwhile, tropical plants take shape in a series of ice compositions creating a path throughout the space. Venus and Neptune, respectively the hottest and coldest planets in the Solar System, become the inspiration for an acoustic experience, built from sampling the climatic sounds of these contrasting planets. 

Client: Daikin
Photography: Shek Po Kwan
Design: Fabrica Design Team
Date: April 2014

A conceptual representation of temperature for Milan Design Week 2014. Visitors were invited to participate in an immersive laboratory of hot and cold where they encountered a series of multi-sensory artistic and sculptural installations that “give shape” to air.  Among the works exhibited, a kinetic installation in which moving illustrated feathers evoke the seasonal migration of exotic birds; meanwhile, tropical plants take shape in a series of ice compositions creating a path throughout the space. Venus and Neptune, respectively the hottest and coldest planets in the Solar System, become the inspiration for an acoustic experience, built from sampling the climatic sounds of these contrasting planets. 

Client: Daikin
Photography: Shek Po Kwan
Design: Fabrica Design Team
Date: April 2014

A conceptual representation of temperature for Milan Design Week 2014. Visitors were invited to participate in an immersive laboratory of hot and cold where they encountered a series of multi-sensory artistic and sculptural installations that “give shape” to air.  Among the works exhibited, a kinetic installation in which moving illustrated feathers evoke the seasonal migration of exotic birds; meanwhile, tropical plants take shape in a series of ice compositions creating a path throughout the space. Venus and Neptune, respectively the hottest and coldest planets in the Solar System, become the inspiration for an acoustic experience, built from sampling the climatic sounds of these contrasting planets. 

Client: Daikin
Photography: Shek Po Kwan
Design: Fabrica Design Team
Date: April 2014

A conceptual representation of temperature for Milan Design Week 2014. Visitors were invited to participate in an immersive laboratory of hot and cold where they encountered a series of multi-sensory artistic and sculptural installations that “give shape” to air.  Among the works exhibited, a kinetic installation in which moving illustrated feathers evoke the seasonal migration of exotic birds; meanwhile, tropical plants take shape in a series of ice compositions creating a path throughout the space. Venus and Neptune, respectively the hottest and coldest planets in the Solar System, become the inspiration for an acoustic experience, built from sampling the climatic sounds of these contrasting planets. 

Client: Daikin
Photography: Shek Po Kwan
Design: Fabrica Design Team
Date: April 2014

A conceptual representation of temperature for Milan Design Week 2014. Visitors were invited to participate in an immersive laboratory of hot and cold where they encountered a series of multi-sensory artistic and sculptural installations that “give shape” to air.  Among the works exhibited, a kinetic installation in which moving illustrated feathers evoke the seasonal migration of exotic birds; meanwhile, tropical plants take shape in a series of ice compositions creating a path throughout the space. Venus and Neptune, respectively the hottest and coldest planets in the Solar System, become the inspiration for an acoustic experience, built from sampling the climatic sounds of these contrasting planets. 

Client: Daikin
Date: April 2014
Credits: Fabrica Design Team

A conceptual representation of temperature for Milan Design Week 2014. Visitors were invited to participate in an immersive laboratory of hot and cold where they encountered a series of multi-sensory artistic and sculptural installations that “give shape” to air.  Among the works exhibited, a kinetic installation in which moving illustrated feathers evoke the seasonal migration of exotic birds; meanwhile, tropical plants take shape in a series of ice compositions creating a path throughout the space. Venus and Neptune, respectively the hottest and coldest planets in the Solar System, become the inspiration for an acoustic experience, built from sampling the climatic sounds of these contrasting planets. 

Client: United Colors of Benetton
Design: Fabrica Design Team
Photography: Emanuele Tortora
Date: December 2012

Objet Coloré is a retail display system for United Colors of Benetton, by Fabrica Design Department. The project is a way of distilling the values of Benetton into store furniture that highlights and complements apparel and accessories. The systematic approach allows different elements of collection to combine and scale across window and in-store situations.

Client: United Colors of Benetton
Design: Fabrica Design Team
Photography: Emanuele Tortora
Date: December 2012

Objet Coloré is a retail display system for United Colors of Benetton, by Fabrica Design Department. The project is a way of distilling the values of Benetton into store furniture that highlights and complements apparel and accessories. The systematic approach allows different elements of collection to combine and scale across window and in-store situations.

Client: United Colors of Benetton
Design: Fabrica Design Team
Photography: Emanuele Tortora
Date: December 2012

Objet Coloré is a retail display system for United Colors of Benetton, by Fabrica Design Department. The project is a way of distilling the values of Benetton into store furniture that highlights and complements apparel and accessories. The systematic approach allows different elements of collection to combine and scale across window and in-store situations.

Client: United Colors of Benetton
Design: Fabrica Design Team
Photography: Emanuele Tortora
Date: December 2012

Objet Coloré is a retail display system for United Colors of Benetton, by Fabrica Design Department. The project is a way of distilling the values of Benetton into store furniture that highlights and complements apparel and accessories. The systematic approach allows different elements of collection to combine and scale across window and in-store situations.

Client: Grand Hornu Images 
Design: Fabrica Design Team
Photography: Gustavo Millon
Date: May 2011

A knife, train journeys, a brooch, a beer glass and a book collection are just some of the revealing objects that have inspired Objet Préféré, a unique collection, comprising 15 installations, was created following a workshop between the Fabrica design team and the staff – craftsmen, technicians, office workers – of the Grand-Hornu Images cultural centre in Belgium. Site Visits, interviews and photographic sessions on the theme "Favourite Objects" or “Objet Prefere” led to the creation of 15 narrative artefacts that were made for, with and about the Grand-Hornu Images staff themselves. The resulting site-specific exhibition challenges notions of curation and the role a museum can play as a holistic resource from inspiration through to making.

Client: Grand Hornu Images 
Design: Fabrica Design Team
Photography: Gustavo Millon
Date: May 2011

A knife, train journeys, a brooch, a beer glass and a book collection are just some of the revealing objects that have inspired Objet Préféré, a unique collection, comprising 15 installations, was created following a workshop between the Fabrica design team and the staff – craftsmen, technicians, office workers – of the Grand-Hornu Images cultural centre in Belgium. Site Visits, interviews and photographic sessions on the theme "Favourite Objects" or “Objet Prefere” led to the creation of 15 narrative artefacts that were made for, with and about the Grand-Hornu Images staff themselves. The resulting site-specific exhibition challenges notions of curation and the role a museum can play as a holistic resource from inspiration through to making.

Client: Grand Hornu Images
Design: Fabrica Design Team
Photography: Gustavo Millon
Date: May 2011

A knife, train journeys, a brooch, a beer glass and a book collection are just some of the revealing objects that have inspired Objet Préféré, a unique collection, comprising 15 installations, was created following a workshop between the Fabrica design team and the staff – craftsmen, technicians, office workers – of the Grand-Hornu Images cultural centre in Belgium. Site Visits, interviews and photographic sessions on the theme "Favourite Objects" or “Objet Prefere” led to the creation of 15 narrative artefacts that were made for, with and about the Grand-Hornu Images staff themselves. The resulting site-specific exhibition challenges notions of curation and the role a museum can play as a holistic resource from inspiration through to making.

Client: Grand Hornu Images 
Design: Fabrica Design Team
Photography: Gustavo Millon
Date: May 2011

A knife, train journeys, a brooch, a beer glass and a book collection are just some of the revealing objects that have inspired Objet Préféré, a unique collection, comprising 15 installations, was created following a workshop between the Fabrica design team and the staff – craftsmen, technicians, office workers – of the Grand-Hornu Images cultural centre in Belgium. Site Visits, interviews and photographic sessions on the theme "Favourite Objects" or “Objet Prefere” led to the creation of 15 narrative artefacts that were made for, with and about the Grand-Hornu Images staff themselves. The resulting site-specific exhibition challenges notions of curation and the role a museum can play as a holistic resource from inspiration through to making.

Client: Grand Hornu Images
Design: Fabrica Design Team
Photography: Gustavo Millon
Date: May 2011

A knife, train journeys, a brooch, a beer glass and a book collection are just some of the revealing objects that have inspired Objet Préféré, a unique collection, comprising 15 installations, was created following a workshop between the Fabrica design team and the staff – craftsmen, technicians, office workers – of the Grand-Hornu Images cultural centre in Belgium. Site Visits, interviews and photographic sessions on the theme "Favourite Objects" or “Objet Prefere” led to the creation of 15 narrative artefacts that were made for, with and about the Grand-Hornu Images staff themselves. The resulting site-specific exhibition challenges notions of curation and the role a museum can play as a holistic resource from inspiration through to making.

Client: Grand Hornu Images
Design: Fabrica Design Team
Photography: Gustavo Millon
Date: May 2011

A knife, train journeys, a brooch, a beer glass and a book collection are just some of the revealing objects that have inspired Objet Préféré, a unique collection, comprising 15 installations, was created following a workshop between the Fabrica design team and the staff – craftsmen, technicians, office workers – of the Grand-Hornu Images cultural centre in Belgium. Site Visits, interviews and photographic sessions on the theme "Favourite Objects" or “Objet Prefere” led to the creation of 15 narrative artefacts that were made for, with and about the Grand-Hornu Images staff themselves. The resulting site-specific exhibition challenges notions of curation and the role a museum can play as a holistic resource from inspiration through to making.

Client: Grand Hornu Images
Design: Fabrica Design Team
Photography: Gustavo Millon
Date: May 2011

A knife, train journeys, a brooch, a beer glass and a book collection are just some of the revealing objects that have inspired Objet Préféré, a unique collection, comprising 15 installations, was created following a workshop between the Fabrica design team and the staff – craftsmen, technicians, office workers – of the Grand-Hornu Images cultural centre in Belgium. Site Visits, interviews and photographic sessions on the theme "Favourite Objects" or “Objet Prefere” led to the creation of 15 narrative artefacts that were made for, with and about the Grand-Hornu Images staff themselves. The resulting site-specific exhibition challenges notions of curation and the role a museum can play as a holistic resource from inspiration through to making.

Client: Grand Hornu Images
Design: Fabrica Design Team
Photography: Gustavo Millon
Date: May 2011

A knife, train journeys, a brooch, a beer glass and a book collection are just some of the revealing objects that have inspired Objet Préféré, a unique collection, comprising 15 installations, was created following a workshop between the Fabrica design team and the staff – craftsmen, technicians, office workers – of the Grand-Hornu Images cultural centre in Belgium. Site Visits, interviews and photographic sessions on the theme "Favourite Objects" or “Objet Prefere” led to the creation of 15 narrative artefacts that were made for, with and about the Grand-Hornu Images staff themselves. The resulting site-specific exhibition challenges notions of curation and the role a museum can play as a holistic resource from inspiration through to making.