https://brownoffice.co.uk/research daily 0.75 2025-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1506091244441-5GUJF2LMPZRQ4GGHK1CG/WATER-Bussey_Zetteler_Dan-Weill-Photography-82.jpg Research https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1405524477388-ORGMA759L4GJRYR7ZVA5/TheTableWithAView_02.JPG Research - THE TABLE WITH A VIEW Design: Dean Brown Date: May 2007 The Table with a View is a bedside table with an embedded screen that displays views of nature. It offers the user the unique & exciting experience of waking up to a view of somewhere beautiful and remote. Accompanying the bedside table is a wireless camera which is placed by the user in an outside location. The camera footage is streamed live to the screen on the table allowing the user to lie in bed and gaze through a tiny window into a remote and secretive place.This piece was the outcome of an exploration into sleeping rituals, as part of my Honors year at University of Dundee. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1591205080630-N22I93LJLKKMG8GHEUOV/image-asset.jpeg Research - THE 7 LAMPS OF MAKING Design: Dean Brown (Fabrica) Photography: Shek Po Kwan (Fabrica) Date: September 2014 ‘The 7 Lamps of Making’ is a design research project that re-visits John Ruskin’s essay ‘The 7 Lamps of Architecture’ (1849) as a guide for 21st century making - translating 19th century craft theory into a contemporary design collection. The project translates Ruskin’s metaphorical guiding ‘Lamps’ into literal ‘Lamps’ objectified as tangible examples of the 7 guiding principles in practice. These critical objects embody and question the enduring principles of good craftsmanship according to Arts and Crafts mantras. Adopting the vocabulary of the 21st century Maker Movement the project renders the principles relevant to makers now - using readily available democratic tools and materials such as 3D printing, LED lighting, laser cutting and kit electronics. ‘The 7 Lamps of Making’ places the Maker Movement in historical context, recognising and disseminating the enduring craft values that underpin making things of quality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1587478852297-83I9T07QXXLYVGGDNGK6/TSS_DeanBrown_OV_Title_A.jpg Research - THE SUPER SUPERMARKET Date: April 2020 Link: A Visit to the Super Supermarket In recent times shopping for food has become some kind of collective frontier. We take for granted the idea that a Supermarket is always stocked but in reality the building and the produce it contains are entirely separate things. Struck by UK wide reports of empty supermarket shelves, this drawing series attempts to visualise the stark distinction between interior architecture and food. Drawn in 3D modelling software and loosely inspired by Tesco Bethnal Green the project is presented as a set of ‘stocked’ and ‘unstocked’ diptych scenes accompanied by animated walkthroughs. Highlighting the perils of panic buying it draws our attention to the unseen producers, delivery drivers, shelf stackers, cashiers and security guards that make grocery shopping possible on a daily basis. Welcome to the ‘Super Supermarket’ and please shop responsibly everyone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1618427189911-QAE9AYCE3BN2M1IYW1YU/EastEnders_BrownOffice_Map_All_01.jpg Research - WHAT IF THE EASTENDERS LOGO WAS REAL? Date: April 2021 A virtual world building experiment mapping the history of East London. The identity of East London is often associated with Shoreditch, Whitechapel or Hackney, yet the East End stretches significantly further east than these well known hot-spots close to central London. The title sequence of the BBC soap opera EastEnders reveals a greater sense of the true scale of the East End, which from ‘E’ to ‘d’ spans Victoria Park to Barking. As a homage to Alan Jeapes’s masterpiece this project asks the question ‘What if the EastEnders Logo was real?’ and how could it be used to communicate the diverse history of East London. Adopting Google Earth as a virtual reality venue enables the EastEnders logo to be writ large across the horizon as London’s alternative to the Hollywood sign, each of the ten letters constructed 95 metres above street level. Places and events of historical significance are mapped out across the face of the typography, making use of the 1370 acres of surface area. Here we re-encounter the smog of the Industrial Revolution, the exotic cargo of the East India Docks and Stanley Kubrick’s Vietnam, filmed in Beckton. Building the project using 3D modelling software in conjunction with Google Earth enables a digitally native mode of practice - less akin to a product and more like a virtual tour or computer game - designed to exist in virtual reality. Within this space there is potential to imagine scenarios that are distinct from reality, through the creation and geo-location of imaginative interventions and novel ways of experiencing them in relation to landscape. This disconnect allows us to explore the potential of a ‘between space’ - to speak about our world, without the constraints and compromises of having to build within it. Overall ‘What if the EastEnders Logo was real?’ uses virtual world building to create an open air museum of sorts. It aims to present the vast and varied history of the East End in relation to real places. Casting light on our far and recent past enables us to understand the forces that continue to shape the landscape and identity of East London today. - “Having lived in East London for 7 years, I’m aware of my status as a relatively new arrival, a symptom of gentrification, rather than a proper East Ender. Throughout 2020 with lots of time on my hands this project enabled me to explore the East End in a fuller sense, through a lot of cycling, reading and 3D modelling. This is my love letter to East London, the story of my neighbours, past and present.” Dean Brown https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1633531669993-RPT3G56O5RKSR5H0TS8X/NewAdventuresInCardboard_BrownOffice_1010533.jpg Research - NEW ADVENTURES IN CARDBOARD Event: London Design Festival Location: Brompton Design District Curation: Jane Withers Studio Date: September 2021 Studio Photography: Brown Office Exhibition Photography: Andy Stagg For the occasion of London Design Festival 2021 Brown Office were invited by Jane Withers Studio to take part in Brompton Design Districts curated programme ‘From Here Onwards’. In response to the theme Brown Office conceived of ‘New Adventures in Cardboard’ as part exhibition and part maker space to explore the potential of repurposing waste cardboard packaging - an omnipresent material, especially so during lockdown. Over the course of the festival in a disused garage in Thurloe Place Mews, Brown Office founder Dean Brown designed, made and exhibited a collection of cardboard objects and furniture to highlight the creative potential of remaking rather than only recycling cardboard. Using simple tools and methods discarded shoe boxes, pizza boxes, poster tubes and delivery cartons were transformed into lighting products, clocks, fans, side tables, kinetic sculptures and a portrait of Dean’s cat Cinnamon who is a cardboard fanatic. All of the pieces were made using cardboard amassed from home deliveries or salvaged from the streets of Hackney. As a raw material, cardboard can be sourced locally and worked without specialist equipment. It is inherently sturdy, malleable, repairable, and lends itself to transformative surface treatment. As a versatile container it is particularly interesting when used to house electronics. In summary cardboard is associated mainly with throwaway packaging and it needn’t be. Re-imagining what’s on our doorstep can point to a less wasteful future. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1630436975069-V44I1P6CDC4F5EKQIQMM/BumpingSpaces_Barbican_P1010122.jpg Research - BUMPING SPACES Client: Barbican & Community Library Commissioners: Helen Tremaine & Rachel Levy
 Project Partner: Made By Play Project Leads: Karl Toomey & Lizzie Reid 3D Signage Design: Dean Brown with Karl & Lizzie Photography: Dean Brown Date: June 2021 In early June 2021 the Barbican & Community Library in association with Made By Play invited Karl Toomey & Lizzie Reid to embark on a research project exploring loneliness and the role a library could play in helping foster more community connections. The extensive research, conducted through workshops, surveys and phone calls with members of the community, explored the notion of ‘bumping spaces’ (Dr Roger Green, et al 2015) as a way of addressing social isolation in the City of London. Brown Office were invited to join this interdisciplinary team to concept, detail, build and install signage that captured aspects of this research and presented it back to the community as 3-Dimensional landmarks deployed within the ‘bumping spaces’ around the Barbican estate. Our collaborative approach envisioned a signage system that not only prioritises messaging and signposting, but also public participation. Each of the four signs we created were distinctively double sided - one side featuring a quote from a local community member, the other featuring an interaction relating to the quote. Over the course of a two day public study in June 2021 community members were invited to dialogue with the quotes through writing, drawing, photography and mark making. The signs were designed to be tonally approachable and informal, yet fit for outdoor use - composed of a timber construction with powder coated aluminium panels and weighted bases in the form of off-the-shelf buckets. Composing the panels with ‘mismatched’ shapes in bold contrasting colours provided the opportunity to frame smaller shapes within larger shapes, as well as creating internal cut-outs to hold postcards, chalk and an instant camera. Each sign has its own distinct colour-way and panel composition creating an overall impression of an eclectic and colourful family of sorts - each member with a unique character. When deployed within the thoroughfares or ‘bumping spaces’ around the Barbican and Golden Lane the signage became a distinctive and approachable focal point that connected the Library to the community in a tangible and playful way. Day one of our study saw the signs deployed and used within Fortune Street Park, followed by the Barbican Highwalk on day two. During the two day study the four signs collectively had over 1000 views and 250 participant engagements. Furthermore they sparked numerous conversations between neighbours about loneliness, fostering more community connections and the role the Library can play in addressing these issues. Beyond these initial studies the Library plans to use the signage, and the research that informed their design, in future public engagement initiatives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1630439658346-NZNXPC11X0AKLANJNBNS/BumpingSpaces_FortuneStreetPark_2955.jpg Research - BUMPING SPACES Client: Barbican & Community Library Commissioners: Helen Tremaine & Rachel Levy Project Partner: Made By Play Project Leads: Karl Toomey & Lizzie Reid 3D Signage Design: Dean Brown with Karl & Lizzie Photography: O.D. Okoye Date: June 2021 In early June 2021 the Barbican & Community Library in association with Made By Play invited Karl Toomey & Lizzie Reid to embark on a research project exploring loneliness and the role a library might play in helping foster more community connections. The extensive research, conducted through workshops, surveys and phone calls with members of the community, explored the notion of ‘bumping spaces’ (Dr Roger Green, et all 2015) as a way of addressing social isolation in the City of London. Brown Office were invited to join this interdisciplinary team to concept, detail, build and install signage that captured aspects of this research and presented it back to the community as 3-dimensional landmarks deployed within the ‘bumping spaces’ around the Barbican estate. Our collaborative approach envisioned a signage system that not only prioritises messaging and signposting, but also public participation. Each of the four signs we created were distinctively double sided - one side featuring a quote from a local community member, the other featuring an interaction relating to the quote. Over the course of a 2 day public study in June 2021 community members were invited to dialogue with the quotes through writing, drawing, photography and mark making. The signs were designed to be tonally approachable and informal, yet fit for outdoor use - composed of a timber construction with powder coated aluminium panels and weighted bases in the form of off-the-shelf buckets. Composing the panels with ‘mismatched’ shapes in bold contrasting colours provided the opportunity to frame smaller shapes within larger shapes, as well as creating internal cut-outs to hold postcards, chalk and an instant camera. Each sign has its own distinct colour-way and panel composition creating an overall impression of an eclectic and colourful family of sorts - each member with a unique character. When deployed within the thoroughfares or ‘bumping spaces’ around the Barbican and Golden Lane the signage became a distinctive and approachable focal point that connected the Barbican & Community Library to the community in a tangible and playful way. Day one of our study saw the signs deployed and used within Fortune Street Park, followed by the Barbican Highwalk on day two. During the two day study the four signs collectively had over 1000 views and 250 participant engagements. Furthermore they sparked numerous conversations between neighbours about loneliness, fostering more community connections and the role the Library can play in addressing these issues. Beyond these initial studies the Library plans to use the signage, and the research that informed their design, in future public engagement initiatives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1405529448258-MG3LBOYV6T8JMANCQ1HZ/DeathInEverydayLife_02.jpg Research - DEATH IN EVERYDAY LIFE Design: Fabrica Workshop Team Workshop Topic: "The First & Last 7 Days of Your Life" with Mathieu Lehauner Date: June 2010 The project aims to bring the subject of death into everyday life in a light and reassuring way. To appreciate that, sooner or later, we will die can help us to live a more fulfilling life. We have created 2 archetypal everyday objects, that have been subtly changed to make people aware of their own mortality. The project is an outcome of a Fabrica workshop with French Designer Mathieu Lehanneur, focused on 'The first 7 days and the last 7 days of your life'. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1405525525036-3SHU9BYOP8FEOM2KW1FF/Hit_O_Meter.JPG Research - HIT-O-METER Design: Product Design Research Team, University of Dundee Date: August 2009 I contributed to Phase 1 of Bespoke - a Research project conducted by the Product Design Research Studio at the University of Dundee. Bespoke is a multidisciplinary project investigating how digital systems and devices can increase social inclusion and improve lives, using Preston as a live case study. I contributed to the design and manufacture of the “Research Hit-o-Meter” - essentially a cross between a village fete activity and a cultural probe, which engaged Preston community members in social debate through playful community activity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1405522820444-V149KLHD3NR2EZ7IW0QS/Offshoot_byDeanBrown_2.jpg Research - OFFSHOOT Design: Dean Brown (Fabrica) Date: February 2013 Offshoot is a proposal for a public intervention that draws the invisible line between a tree and the wooden stool it may eventually become. The hanging mobile is suggested as an extension of the tree itself, growing through the steps of the production process, branching from a cut log into component parts and finally a useable stool. Bringing transparency to this process pays tribute to a tree as an abundant resource, and asks us not to take it for granted. Offshoot is an outcome of a Fabrica workshop with Martino Gamper, and is inspired by graffiti artists who bring politics, data visualization and discussion into our neighborhoods and public opinion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1406236063803-XI8NE1YRLN0REO3EJX5N/image-asset.jpeg Research - PROSOPON Client: Ericsson Design: Dean Brown, Angelo Semeraro, Gaston Lisak, Tomas Pichardo, Akshataa Vishwanath (Fabrica) Date: January 2014 A sketch proposal created during a 3 day Fabrica workshop with Ericsson, speculating on the future of networked communication. Prosopon aspires to tease social media content out of our devices and into domestic space, by means of networked storage furniture with embedded nano projectors. https://brownoffice.co.uk/products daily 0.75 2022-09-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1405509941487-TW6J30UXRYKA9V4LS5P2/Dillema_DeanBrown_03.jpg Objects - DILEMMA Design: Dean Brown (Fabrica) Photography: Shek Po Kwan Date: January 2014 An uncertain table piece that can be used as fruit bowl or a cake plate. It acknowledges a personal dilemma: to eat healthily or to indulge. Without being judgmental, it presents two alternative ways to enjoy food. HOW TO USE 1. Fruit bowl assembly – mount the ceramic piece (bowl side up) on the wooden stick with the wooden platform at the base. Insert the wooden peg in the hole to hang bananas, grapes etc. 2. Cake plate assembly – mount the ceramic piece (flat side up) on the wooden stick with the wooden platform at the base. Fix the extra wooden platform on top of the stick. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1474970166283-4E784LN3F0TWWQQPD7TC/TransitVases_02_DeanBrown.jpg Objects - TRANSIT VASES Design: Dean Brown Date: September 2016 Inspired by how wine bottles are packaged and transported, the collection of 4 Vases uses the wooden packaging box as an integral part of it’s design and movability. Made in Italy and exhibited for the first time in London, the logistics of delivery from country to country informed the design concept, becoming an explicit and endearing challenge - designing Vases with transport in mind. Fashioned in oak, leather, brass and free blown borosilicate glass, the four objects explore the fusion of a box and a vase - enabling new compositions that introduce a clock and a table top as useful travel companions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1501942804861-URRXJGQRFXKOQQYTTQLH/DeanBrown_TreeNess_01.JPG Objects - TREE-NESS Client: Schloss Hollenegg for Design Curator: Alice Stori Liechtenstein Photography: Federico Floriani Date: May 2017 The collection takes inspiration from the Forests and Timber Yards of Austria, where tree’s are synonymous with the national identity, both as a feature of the landscape and as an architectural building material. Thinking of tree’s as source of natural beauty and as a resourceful construction material offers an interesting duality to create a collection around - a group of objects that depict the poetic yet practical nature of trees. Responding to the exhibition theme of ‘Morphosis’ therefore became about translating wood as an essential material into new products and experiments that embody diverse kinds of ‘Tree-ness’. The core building blocks of this endeavour being cylindrical wooden dowels and 3D printed Bamboo, chosen as an opportunity to bring together artisanal making and ‘Hackspace’ type manufacturing into a single collection. Adding and subtracting from these core materials became a resourceful and exploratory way to express different kinds of trees, and different kinds of purposes. The bowls, boxes, shelves and other homewares of the collection are suggested as useful objects and, furthermore souvenirs that illustrate the transformative and resourceful qualities of trees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1405518305050-BNR3AX9PSIVPZ8YV169B/SharedBaseFamily_DeanBrown_Fabrica_Secondome.jpg Objects - SHARED BASE FAMILY Client: Secondome Design: Dean Brown (Fabrica) Photography: Gustavo Millon Date: September 2010 A Vase, a Fruit Bowl and a Cake Plate, all with a sense of hierarchy between above and below. The glassware collection strived for a visual tension between sameness and individuality, expressed through a common base form and variations of transparent, green and ribbed borosilicate glass. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1405632530668-W9LNK4IPUURRMDTVXIQY/VillaNechiRug.jpg Objects - VILLA NECCHI Client: FAI Design: Fabrica Design Team Date: April 2012 A site specific collection by Fabrica Design Department for Villa Necchi - a 1930’s Villa in the heart of Milan. Using the historical inhabitants and the Portaluppi architecture as a point of inspiration the team created 23 unique objects to feature in every room of the house. These items were proposed as a contemporary counterpart to the vintage interior, interpreting details of the villa, and its three inhabitants as an artistic muse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1405514210376-2AC6W0SQ1L3E80WXDGL3/Still_Lights_PlateLife_byDeanBrown_1.jpg Objects - PLATE LIFE Client: &Foam Design: Dean Brown (Fabrica) Photography: Alberto Ferretto Date: July 2012 Plate Life - a domestic still life drawing inspiration from the fundamental principles of photography, composed of a frame, a subject and a light source. The piece draws comparison between a photographic umbrella & the everyday dish rack, positioning two ceramic bowls and a light-source in a state of interdependency - the larger silvered plate directing the light source back upon itself. Plate Life is part of the ‘Still Lights’ collection, by Fabrica Design Department for &Foam photography gallery in Amsterdam. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1405516299610-53GPY2AUBYY6WVII7LSW/DrawingGlass_Measurements_DeanBrown_02.jpg Objects - MEASUREMENTS Design: Dean Brown (Fabrica) Photography: Marco Zanin Date: September 2013 The codes and conventions of technical drawing are embedded into the glass itself - represented as annotated dimension lines that convey height and diameter. The statement is ironic, considering the drawings are made 1:1 scale, and the dimension lines are dissociated with their numerical values. The piece is part of the ‘Drawing Glass’ series - a collaboration between Fabrica Design team and the master glass blower Massimo Lunardon. Here conventional manufacturing drawings are dismissed in favour of creating expressive 1:1 sketches. In doing so it reframes the relationship between between designer and maker, establishing a more ambiguous and free dialogue akin to a co-authorship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1415031305707-W70F99ZQW42JOXVE6UAG/BoxCraft_by_Dean+Brown_ARCOBALENO_W0A0213.jpg Objects - MAKESHIFT TRAY Design: Dean Brown (Fabrica) Photography: Marco Zanin (Fabrica) Date: November 2014 Link: L'ArcoBaleno The distinctiveness of this object is the bringing together of the artisanal and the industrial, juxtaposing folded sheet aluminium and hand carved wood. Its use-fullness is somewhere between a tray and a box for holding most things and to be comfortably held. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1423511458101-D3JEOXISL3RC78Q8CQVO/ATIPICO_09.jpg Objects - A TABLE Client: Atipico Design: Fabrica Design Team Photography: Marco Zanin (Fabrica) Date: January 2015 Link: A Table Atipico collaborates with Fabrica to design À TABLE, a tableware collection that celebrates the collective dining habits spanning a diversity of countries worldwide. The result is an eclectic collection that represents the craft qualities associated with “Made in Italy” enriched by global touch points brought by Fabrica’s international design team. Eleven countries were considered and analyzed for the collection: China, Egypt, England, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Morocco and Scotland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1635427040274-028PRKFI8N32IEZBYEMD/EVT_Blur_BrownOffice_7243.jpg Objects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1655138921078-LWMRUCUV1UF6R9Q4W6TJ/Fabrica_CampariSoda_Speaker_02.jpg Objects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1663526129618-OG7B2MOWUP2DR8QHJ1TS/08.-Winnie-the-Pooh-Wall-Clock-2_photo-by-Zuketa-Film-Production.jpg Objects - WINNIE THE POOH CLOCK Client: R for Repair Commissioners: Jane Withers Studio & Hans Tan Project Partner: Design Singapore Location: Victoria & Albert Museum Photography: Zuketa Film Production Exhibition Design: Nice Projects Date: September 2022 Upon the invitation of Jane Withers Studio, Hans Tan and Design Singapore, Brown Office were invited to participate in the second edition of ‘R for Repair’ inviting designers from the UK and Singapore to repair adored but damaged objects donated by members of the public. The exhibition takes place during London Design Festival 2022 at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Brown Office were tasked with repairing a rather charming but time-worn Winnie-the-Pooh Clock, owned by the Yip Sisters, based in Singapore. Our approach to creative repair was framed by our appreciation of the clock's international credentials. A clock created by the Walt Disney Company, based on a British cartoon character, manufactured in China, assembled in Thailand, and presented by a Japanese businessman to the Yip Sisters in Singapore (as a family housewarming gift) can be considered a truly global artefact. As well as reinstating the clocks basic functionality our approach to creative repair was to deconstruct the product components and introduce two extra clock movements, enabling the product to not only display local time in Singapore, but also indicate related time in Burbank, California and ‘100 acre wood’ East Sussex - the home of Walt Disney and Winnie-the-Pooh respectively. In doing so we emphasised the world-wide narrative that brought this curious object into existence. The re-design sees the clock stripped back to its essential parts and recomposed in a taller narrower ‘grandfather clock’ profile, mounted onto a powder coated aluminium panel. Such an adaptation not only makes space for two extra clock and pendulum movements - more importantly it also accentuates the products natural charm - allowing Tiger, Eeyore, Piglet and Pooh to all make some moves at the Victoria & Albert Museum and beyond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1405512258463-YPHNZ85GD8LFGH0YA8A9/UpliftingCarafes_DeanBrown_00.jpg Objects - UPLIFTING CARAFES Client: Secondome Design: Dean Brown (Fabrica) Date: April 2012 The ritual of drinking together is synonymous with lifting the spirits. The contents of the carafes - Chianti, Prosecco, balsamic vinegar and olive oil - are at the centre of the concept elevated in height and status, whilst the transparency of the glass fades into the setting. The impression is of a levitating liquid, raised above the surface of the table, celebrated and for celebrating. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1405514894671-31C80LTS4F7Y4NL7E7D9/SkyLine_wind_point_by_Dean_Brown_4.jpg Objects - WIND POINT Design: Dean Brown (Fabrica) Photography: Alberto Ferretto Date: July 2012 Wind Point, an object for measuring and appreciating the wind. A wood surface catches the wind, a point indicates direction, and linear structure depicts the four compass marks. Wind Point is part of Skyline, a new collection by Fabrica Design Department for Brera Garden Floor event, orgnised by Listen Agency, in Milano Scala Hotel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1405515682208-WKB5USUKEW4X4NH11J72/AnalogueBox_DeanBrown002.jpg Objects - ANALOGUE BOX Client: Granville Gallery Design: Dean Brown (Fabrica) Photography: Gustavo Millon Date: October 2011 A box concerned with varying degrees of privacy. Small precious objects are placed inside and covered over by placing building blocks over the entry way. The box is never simply open or closed, instead there is a sense of the analogue in the way it slowly closes over, through incremental intervals of openness and secrecy. Analogue Box was commisioned by the Granville Gallery for the exhibition Les Coffrets Aux Secrets (Secret Box) in Paris. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1405516916799-KX7A36OKG0KEBMI5U69Q/ShieldhallLamp_DeanBrown_01.jpg Objects - SHIELDHALL LAMP (ORIGINAL) Design: Dean Brown (Fabrica) Photography: Gustavo Millon Date: April 2010 A frosted glass sphere protrudes from a ceramic cylinder, like a distorted sphere of light. The asymmetry of the light source implies the object has a certain direction, or a slight persona. In a practical sense this feature lends itself to being positioned in a corner, perhaps on a desk or in an alcove. In an aesthetic sense it gives the object a bit of character https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1405518322496-SLHCNOZHBEOJLAQPIYBC/Complementaries_DeanBrown_Fabrica.jpg Objects - COMPLEMENTARIES Client: Secondome Design: Dean Brown (Fabrica) Photography: Gustavo Millon Date: April 2011 For Secondome Gallery, Salone del Mobile 2011 Collection . An arrangement of interdependent oak wood panels and glass pipes. Each element has a particular property, reliant on the other to be complete. Together the parts support each other structurally and aesthetically - adopting a slender, poised position, ready to hold and highlight its contents. The language is derived from irrigation systems, based on the principle of sharing resources underneath the surface. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1405520032669-QDJ6MVXYFBMB2XTFKWFX/audio-can-300-dpi-%286%29.jpg Objects - AUDIO CAN Design: Dean Brown Date: November 2009 The Audio Can is a playful re-working of the portable sound system, re-using the humble baked bean can to house a small loudspeaker,amplifier and audio input. The generic designmakes it an appropriate output for an mp3 player or laptop and is most suited to domestic or public space. It offers excellent sound quality and can be used as a battery powered single speaker or can be ‘daisy chained’ together to create a surround sound system. The product includes a removable green, yellow or grey label, a 9V battery and an audio cable with standard 3.5mm connectors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1405511035037-AG7E1L7YV8B6NF1WQ4BH/Shrines_Goodd_01.jpg Objects - SHRINES Client: Goodd Credits: Dean Brown, Callum Brown & Namyoung An Photography: Keith Hunter Date: September 2013 A collection of contemporary Shrines retain the character and iconography of the traditional commemorative shrine, while adopting new contents that apply to modern living. The four micro furnitures are loosely associated with the typologies of a cabinet, a shelf, a vase and a dresser, to venerate the everyday rituals and artifacts of personal significance. As open platforms they invite to be furnished with a much loved book, a freshly cut flower or a bottle of your finest, to name a few.     https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1436780236329-CZK2VNCJE695VR7M1605/AMatterOfColour_DeanBrown_Sevres_Vase_Chaumont30_Mayodon31.JPG Objects - A MATTER OF COLOUR Client: Sèvres - Cité de la Céramique Design: Dean Brown Photography: Gerard Jonca Date: June 2015 A collection of 14 Vase’s consisting of porcelain, 24 colour pigments, free blown glass and powder coated aluminium. Starting by selecting classical forms from the extensive Sèvres archive, each of the 14 unglazed Vases are adorned with colour. As a celebration of “work in progress” the colour pigments, considered as the final step in the finishing of porcelain, are held in and around the uncoated vase, collected in glass containers that form handles, lids and decorative features. The viewer is encouraged to imagine the white form transformed by the colour, invited to make their own interpretation of the potential between the object and the unapplied colour. https://brownoffice.co.uk/selected daily 0.75 2025-10-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1727800970037-T0RBEZWJF6F4K3Y8QQ7S/3---DDF-Exhibition---Lost-and-Found---Brown-Office---Fullsize---Grant-Anderson.jpg Selected https://brownoffice.co.uk/installations daily 0.75 2025-11-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1501707544151-6UIC56HUIO927XJ1QLUE/Anyways_Uniqlo_AIRism_EditedDrafts_03_Dean.jpg Installations - UNIQLO AIRISM Client: Uniqlo Design: Dean Brown with Anyways Photography: GG Archard Date: April 2017 Interior installations for Uniqlo's UK Flagship Store to celebrate the Uniqlo Airism Range. We partnered with the creative agency Anyways to deliver a light and lively visitor experience at street level and continuing in-store. The 311 Oxford Street flagship project marked a 2nd Chapter follow up to our HeatTech installation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1673696745680-WZSKNUF9CD1AHV1JO9MM/Timepiece_JoaoWilbert_SesiLab_0176.jpg Installations - TIMEPIECE 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1749558453187-YGFENYILJ26R6TWUPNBK/DH_Installation_BrownOffice_04.jpg Installations - ENERGY HEALTH ENGAGEMENT HUB Client: Design HOPES Commissioners: Sonja Oliveira & Natalie Bamford Photography and Install: Martin Campbell Date: February 2025 Energy Health Engagement Hub is an installation exploring the connection between patient health and home energy usage commissioned by the University of Strathclyde’s Architecture Department as part of Design HOPES, a research project supporting a green and just transition for NHS Scotland. The installation was designed for deployment within a Glasgow hospital; to engage healthcare professionals with research into energy use in the home and the implications this has on a patient's health outcomes (e.g. fuel poverty). Hospital staff, when encountering the installation, were invited to respond to questions using red stickers and postcards. The form and materiality of Energy Health Engagement Hub came about through carefully studying the hospital environment wherein it was deployed. The design response was then to develop a space that explicitly contrasted with the furniture and signage familiar within a hospital environment. In doing so, the installation stood out as something visually striking and legibly of a different purpose within a healthcare setting. In terms of colour the bold yellow and red highlights were evocative of energy and noticeably absent in a predominantly pale hospital environment. The graphical elements prioritized clarity and ease of engagement using a mono typeface that suggested academic research purposes. As a pop-up installation designed to move easily within hospital settings, the structure was created from aluminum strut profiles, upon which custom 3D printed elements such as signage mounts, sticker dispensers and pen holders were attached. Such an assembly solution was lightweight, quick to mount and dismount, and responsive to adaptation and repair. The Energy Health Engagement Hub was first deployed within an NHS hospital over a four-month period, and the numerous engagements it created with healthcare professionals forms the basis of new research regarding the significant connections between health, home and energy usage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1727800493460-CI8C6H33C894S051A31P/3---DDF-Exhibition---Lost-and-Found---Brown-Office---Fullsize---Grant-Anderson.jpg Installations - LOST & FOUND Location: Dundee Design Festival 2024 Curator: Stacey Hunter Photography: Grant Anderson Date: September 2024 In an era where we are grappling with the dual concerns of wastefulness and unfettered technological progress, Lost and Found casts light on the creative potential of hybridizing the old and the new. In response to the Dundee Design Festival theme of multiplicity Lost & Found looks to things recently defunct, be they considered wasteful, obsolete or undervalued, and re-imagines their potential in encounter with 3D printing. The ongoing series of installations and consumer electronics products are composed from diverse types of ephemera (postcards, pendulums, glassware, flora, pizza boxes) contained within a highly adaptable and re-usable framework of 3D printed components animated with mechanical movement and flourishes of bold colour. As well as being materially resourceful the pieces are created to also be logistically resourceful in terms of install, transportation and de-install - where the entirety of the installation can be transported inside a suitcase, eliminating the need for freight transportation. Overall Lost & Found aims to depict an eclectic, resourceful and alternative vision of now that pieces together technologies and antiquities. In doing so it invites us to value the accumulative power of harmonizing the past and present, as a critique of a wasteful and resolutely futuristic tomorrow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1405242953306-I11LJ42FY13CN5XPPOIJ/MobileMuseum_DeanBrown_PhilipBone_01.jpg Installations - MOBILE MUSEUM 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1405204510859-V02X61RFF7MORFO9SAX1/Hot%26Cold_Fabrica_13.JPG Installations - HOT & COLD 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1405248621487-Z005FVICSIARZEAFF80M/Objet_Colore_05.jpg Installations - OBJET COLORE 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1405242556699-N0B1MO5XJFU4G71PJFLU/ReservoirRug_DeanBrown_Fabrica_Taiping_01.jpg Installations - RESERVOIR RUG 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1405244515006-PJPRMGSZWW29H1CY8L9G/LeParfum_GrandHornuFabricaCollection05.jpg Installations - OBJET PREFERE 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1655736526328-O09EHZWOUL9AM2ILR3QY/Google_DigitalCanvas_BrownOffice_02_Front_Full_ScreenOn%2Br2_small.jpg Installations - DRAW TO ART - DIGITAL EASEL Client: Google Creative Lab Type: Interior Installation 3D Design: Brown Office UX 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 easel 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. Our Digital Easel for Google references 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1487807041916-OBQOZWAZ1CLT0855X8O9/Uniqlo_HeatTech_AnyWays_DeanBrown_01.jpg Installations - UNIQLO HEATTECH 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1761037444318-5VIRN05GC0B06HDTZUSC/DesignHopes_Ward2045C02EMonitor_BrownOffice_01_4671.jpg Installations - WARD 2045 CO2E MONITOR Client: Design HOPES Commissioner: University of Dundee Principal Designer: Brown Office Creative Technologists: VAST Date: October 2025 The Ward 2045 Co2e Monitor is a speculative device designed to be installed in a 2045 Hospital Ward of the Future. The monitor collects and visualises data from waste, water and energy streams, helping NHS staff and patients to understand the levels of carbon emissions produced in their ward. Users may observe carbon emission data in real time, review daily, weekly and monthly emission reports, or participate in a data quiz that invites them to estimate the ward’s carbon output whilst comparing their assumptions with real time data. The Ward 2045 CO2e Monitor was designed specifically for use in an NHS hospital ward environment. Extensive research and in-context testing informed a device that blends seamlessly into the ward setting, is easy to move, and remains simple to use for both healthcare professionals and patients. Its interface is accessible from standing, seated, or bed-bound positions, ensuring comfortable interaction for all users. The device is currently exhibited in ‘Design HOPES: From Hope to Health’ at the V&A Dundee until 8th February 2026 after which it will be deployed in hospitals across Scotland to encourage debate around sustainable practices, as a means to drive change and meet net zero targets. Ward 2045 Co2e Monitor was developed in collaboration with the Green Ward Tool kit team and VAST for DesignHOPES Green Transition Ecosystem Hub, funded by the AHRC Future Observatory. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1761221562142-CBD60O4LU1SRWQ2M2E26/025-StepByStep-069.png Installations - STEP BY STEP  Client: Point Two five Location: London Design Festival Photography: Tian Khee Siong Date: September 2025 Step by Step is a modular display system inspired by brickwork, designed to showcase the jewellery pieces of Point Two Five during the London Design Festival 2025. Each of the twelve 3D-printed brick assemblages was uniquely composed to highlight the specific qualities of individual pieces—brooches, rings, necklaces, and earrings. Each brick was accompanied by an LED light source, allowing the compositions to take on a sculptural quality through the interplay of form, colour, and illumination. The installation was conceived in response to the constraints of presenting an exhibition within the narrow ascending four-storey stairwell of the Wax Building, a former Victorian factory characterised by brick interiors and exposed pipework. While display systems often aim for quiet, neutral solutions, Step by Step was intentionally bold and characterful, designed to enter into dialogue with both the jewellery and the surrounding architecture. Step by Step showcased works by Studio Mama, Sebastian Bergne, Daniel Eatock, Theodora Alfredsdottir, Jamie Wolfond, Wendy Andreu, and Studio 0.25 https://brownoffice.co.uk/interiors daily 0.75 2022-08-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1405247393313-JHIDUML653A13GFDYJS8/Colors_London_Exhibition_05.JPG Interiors - COLORS EXHIBITION: DESIGN MUSEUM LONDON Client: Colors Magazine Design: Dean Brown with the Colors Team Date:April 2012 Exhibition Design for “Happiness and Other Survival Techniques” at the Design Museum, London. The exhibition focused on the current 2011/12 issues of Colors Magazine, under the umbrella theme of “Survival Guides”. Working collaboratively with the Colors Team the goal was to create an exhibition space that embodied the values of Colors Magazine. With this in mind the overall tone of the exhibition was of lo-fi optimism, using simple timber construction, and a primary colour palette, lifted directly from the magazine identity.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1562594213193-KAFYFQUEB3ZSBBQJ9KTW/SometimesKitchen_DeanBrown_Ad_Mensam_sandahl1.JPG Interiors - SOMETIMES KITCHEN Client: Schloss Hollenegg for Design Curator: Alice Stori Liechtenstein Photography: Simone Sandahl Date: May 2019 The kitchen is presented as a transformable unit that offers the potential to be useful when it needs to be, and hidden when it’s not. Constructed from local Austrian ‘abete’ timber it elevates the essentials through pleasing and novel opening and closing techniques. Located within the castle’s guest turret it reveals its purpose through a series of horizontal and vertical doors and hatches that offer a degree of flexibility between open and closed. The largest door creates a room dividing effect, with the smaller doors within the door functioning as a serving hatch or small breakfast bar. An open-top roof raftered roof brings in natural light and views to the ceiling frescoes of the surrounding room. The highly textured exterior surface is composed of over 150 wooden spheres arranged in a lozenge shaped grid composition. Door handles, ropes and wheels punctuate the surface pattern, as a tactile invitation to manoeuvre the abstract exterior and reveal an inner purpose. The transformative nature of the kitchen creates a destination and openness when the kitchen is in use. When not in use it becomes a closed cabinet - the vibrant internal clutter of appliances and ingredients taking the viewer by surprise as a cupboard becomes a canteen. Overall ‘Sometimes Kitchen’ acknowledges the ritual of cooking & eating as an occasion that is befitting of a change in perspective. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1561324225524-CA3JJ3EK5MHEVL1BX7MU/Depop_DeanBrown_Area_027.jpg Interiors - DEPOP HQ ENTRANCE FURNITURE Client: Depop Design: Dean Brown Photography: Tian Khee Siong Date: April 2019 A custom furniture series to furnish the entrance area of the Depop global headquarters in East London. The bespoke collection combines a no-nonsense approach to functionally with a strong sense of brand storytelling and includes a Reception Desk, Storage Cabinets, Bookshelf, Packing Station, Stool and Outbox. Created to suit the diverse requirements of a 150 person ‘FashTech’ workplace, with employee expertise ranging from Fashion to Coding. The scale and scope of the office users therefore dictated an inclusive and simple design language that strikes a balance between cultural and industrial. Manufactured in powder-coated steel and ash wood the items embody the visual language of the Depop brand through the predominant use of bright red, interspersed with touches of black. Designed to work within the Depop brand guidelines, the furniture was conceived as a physical extension of the App - inspired by the idea of an infrastructural layer or framework to create within. Overall the project challenges the empty anonymous corporate entrance hall that feels disconnected from the identity of a company, and instead establishes the Depop entrance area as an authentic and useful part of the workplace. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1405245685375-KACCS46D35ZQAW8LKH57/TheArtOfKnit_01.jpg Interiors - THE ART OF KNIT Client: United Colors of Benetton Design: Fabrica Design Team Date: August-December 2012 The Art of Knit, for United Colors of Benetton, is a new type of pop-up experience in the heart of Soho, New York City. Here you will find a world of knit, color and creativity—the definitive story of the Benetton brand. The converted garage space is a vivid mix of retail, gallery and craft workshop knitted together by Fabrica. A vibrant color spectrum of apparel & accessories is framed by an explosion of wool-covered curiosities, artworks and illustrations. Such an environment challenges conventional ideas of a clothing store, where dolphins, cactus, neons and sex positions are all welcome. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1406024835507-HYC70Z2TXEDQU69EEBN8/UCB_Office_Interior_07.jpg Interiors - BENETTON GROUP OFFICE INTERIOR Client: United Colors of Benetton Furniture Design: Dean Brown (Fabrica) Graphic Design: Catarina Carreiras (Fabrica) Photography: Marco Zanin Date: July 2014 A vibrant and eclectic Office Interior for the Benetton Group’s communication team, comprising a custom furniture collection, graphic interventions and a large-scale wall composition mixing past and present United Colors of Benetton campaigns and cultural artefacts. The interior was sensitively composed to compliment the mood of the original Tobia Scarpa architecture, introducing a brighter palette of colours and a diversity of private / communal working areas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1462541911862-442EZV84K16MCK0OUUWU/TheArchiveAndRumpelkammer_02_DeanBrown.JPG Interiors - THE ARCHIVE & THE RUMPELKAMMER Client: Schloss Hollenegg for Design Curator: Alice Stori Liechtenstein Photography: Federico Floriani Date: May 2016 The Archive and the Rumpelkammer is an interior installation for showcasing the vast and varied treasures of Schloss Hollenegg. It is born out of the desire to visualise the complex and layered history of a 10th century castle and its inhabitants. It is inspired by two ways of thinking about conservation in an attempt to portray an abstract time line through tangible objects. The notion of the ‘archive’ is an organised and chronological approach to displaying things, that has a clear time hierarchy and defined sections to present objects as historical artefacts. The ‘rumpelkammer’ by contrast is eclectic, chaotic and fluid. At the centre of the work is a small elevated desk and stool, allowing an individual to dwell and think within a surrounding of inspiring artefacts, old and new. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1610717282451-X0XW3HCQRK4HQ8D1LEEG/170.JPG Interiors https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1661256619658-VX494CBSIYOMN6SIK8IB/MotH_Recollect_BrownOffice_LauraBlair_01.jpg Interiors - RE:COLLECT Client: Museum of the Home Curation: Amy Foulds & Louis Platman Exhibition Design & Identity: Brown Office Object Photography: Theo Deproost Exhibition Photography: Laura Blair Date: May 2022 The design of Re:Collect exhibition takes inspiration from a museum archive, and invites visitors to experience the behind the scenes activities of a Museum collections team. Central to this idea is an archive shelving system capable of hosting a vast array of museum artefacts, numbering in their thousands over the course of the exhibition. This distinctive exhibition feature framed an interesting design challenge - to create a flexible and responsive display solution capable of hosting hammers, top hats, chisels, ball gowns and everything in between. The colour palette of the display, featuring industrial blue racking and bright green colour blocking, established a bold point of difference from the historical objects. The graphic identity continues the notion of an archive - referencing museological standards including diagrams, labels, and a plug and play caption system allows object descriptions to be frequently removed and replaced using paper archive labels and magnetic fixings. As well as the collection objects themselves, within the space the tools and methods of collecting are laid bare around a dedicated study table where visitors can comment on objects that have value to them, as well as understand the stages an object goes through from acquisition to disposal, depicted in the 'Life of an Object' infographic. In response to the theme of re-collecting, and a commitment to sustainable practice more generally, the strategy prioritised reuse, where all of the main display elements will be repurposed beyond the exhibition. Therefore the design decisions focused on sourcing and elevating ‘standards’, as opposed to bespoke manufacture, and re-appropriated existing museum furniture where possible. Overall Re:Collect strives to lift the curtain on how museums collect, and consider the future of their collections, in an authentic, joyful and participatory manner. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1406024675900-PDFH5J8JK1BVNT0P6OVU/Pieces_of_Work_Composition_B.jpg Interiors - PIECES OF WORK Client: United Colors of Benetton Design: Dean Brown (Fabrica) Photography: Marco Zanin Date: July 2014 "Pieces of Work" is an assortment of office furniture that aspires to be useful, but not overly formal. This inclusive collection of objects includes a sofa, coat stand, coffee table, lamps and table dividers as well as the conventional desk. Such items give a more personal sense of a working day, reinterpreting the Benetton vocabulary as a diverse and adaptable office landscape to custom furnish a Benetton Group Office Interior. https://brownoffice.co.uk/park-furniture-london-fields daily 0.75 2015-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1448576361652-Y1DIUTDPSESKF33FNCZS/ParkFurniture_LondonFields_DeanBrown_01_GS.jpg Park Furniture: London Fields https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1448576361652-Y1DIUTDPSESKF33FNCZS/ParkFurniture_LondonFields_DeanBrown_01_GS.jpg Park Furniture: London Fields https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1448576234167-1IAVEMK7X7Y9X02YWEKY/ParkFurniture_LondonFields_DeanBrown_02_GS.jpg Park Furniture: London Fields https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1448576373627-CYX4RAPZICRV2YPFVT4F/ParkFurniture_LondonFields_DeanBrown_03_GS.jpg Park Furniture: London Fields https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1448576432720-20M25C10UE7BZCFX18IP/ParkFurniture_LondonFields_DeanBrown_04_GS.jpg Park Furniture: London Fields https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1448576578837-HQCIYEODR0X0ONIQ08RN/ParkFurniture_LondonFields_DeanBrown_05_GS.jpg Park Furniture: London Fields https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1448576582655-6XQG6VFREIG2VX73MUR4/ParkFurniture_LondonFields_DeanBrown_06_GS.jpg Park Furniture: London Fields https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1448576719907-JXXRCUB8DVFVPEVXEK44/ParkFurniture_LondonFields_DeanBrown_07_GS.jpg Park Furniture: London Fields https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1448576675121-KX7EEM4C0OILU1YEXQ1Q/ParkFurniture_LondonFields_DeanBrown_08_GS.jpg Park Furniture: London Fields https://brownoffice.co.uk/socialstorage daily 0.75 2023-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1459251848151-U8JNX3HBCCP6XZXPL1SG/SocialStorage_animation_med.gif Social Storage, Unread Messages - SOCIAL STORAGE Date: March 2016 Link: Six Thirty Presents Unread Messages Exhibition: The Aram Gallery In the good old days, our shelves carried vast CD collections and our wardrobe doors were adorned with holiday snaps. These personality-defining aspects have since been drained from our homes and siphoned discretely into Spotify, Instagram, Twitter and the like. Social Storage responds to this contemporary condition, addressing the gap between our online and offline personas, where large facets of our “curated self” are locked inside our devices. Using mini projectors, this furniture collection softens the edges between the online and offline persona, bringing the most relatable aspects of the online experience out of the screen and back into the home. Derived from the most talkable, routine aspects of our online experience, these three pieces of furniture are designed to host music, weather and travel, accommodated within an augmented bookshelf, coat stand and globe. These analogue storage devices make space for the online and offline facets of our personality simultaneously: an umbrella sits next to a #londonweather update, a Spotify Playlist sits next to a cherished souvenir. Social Storage creates a more realistic, well-rounded space for our online and offline tastes, gently nudging these somewhat removed aspects of our personality back into the home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1459251848151-U8JNX3HBCCP6XZXPL1SG/SocialStorage_animation_med.gif Social Storage, Unread Messages - SOCIAL STORAGE Date: March 2016 Link: Six Thirty Presents Unread Messages Exhibition: The Aram Gallery In the good old days, our shelves carried vast CD collections and our wardrobe doors were adorned with holiday snaps. These personality-defining aspects have since been drained from our homes and siphoned discretely into Spotify, Instagram, Twitter and the like. Social Storage responds to this contemporary condition, addressing the gap between our online and offline personas, where large facets of our “curated self” are locked inside our devices. Using mini projectors, this furniture collection softens the edges between the online and offline persona, bringing the most relatable aspects of the online experience out of the screen and back into the home. Derived from the most talkable, routine aspects of our online experience, these three pieces of furniture are designed to host music, weather and travel, accommodated within an augmented bookshelf, coat stand and globe. These analogue storage devices make space for the online and offline facets of our personality simultaneously: an umbrella sits next to a #londonweather update, a Spotify Playlist sits next to a cherished souvenir. Social Storage creates a more realistic, well-rounded space for our online and offline tastes, gently nudging these somewhat removed aspects of our personality back into the home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1459164069278-Z2KP220WDSYNBZEWMI4T/DeanBrown_SocialStorage_UnreadMessages_01.jpg Social Storage, Unread Messages - SOCIAL STORAGE Date: March 2016 Link: Six Thirty Presents Unread Messages Exhibition: The Aram Gallery In the good old days, our shelves carried vast CD collections and our wardrobe doors were adorned with holiday snaps. These personality-defining aspects have since been drained from our homes and siphoned discretely into Spotify, Instagram, Twitter and the like. Social Storage responds to this contemporary condition, addressing the gap between our online and offline personas, where large facets of our “curated self” are locked inside our devices. Using mini projectors, this furniture collection softens the edges between the online and offline persona, bringing the most relatable aspects of the online experience out of the screen and back into the home. Derived from the most talkable, routine aspects of our online experience, these three pieces of furniture are designed to host music, weather and travel, accommodated within an augmented bookshelf, coat stand and globe. These analogue storage devices make space for the online and offline facets of our personality simultaneously: an umbrella sits next to a #londonweather update, a Spotify Playlist sits next to a cherished souvenir. Social Storage creates a more realistic, well-rounded space for our online and offline tastes, gently nudging these somewhat removed aspects of our personality back into the home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1459164064768-PAASKM1E00QZ7TO2LCQL/DeanBrown_SocialStorage_UnreadMessages_02.jpg Social Storage, Unread Messages - SOCIAL STORAGE Date: March 2016 Link: Six Thirty Presents Unread Messages Exhibition: The Aram Gallery In the good old days, our shelves carried vast CD collections and our wardrobe doors were adorned with holiday snaps. These personality-defining aspects have since been drained from our homes and siphoned discretely into Spotify, Instagram, Twitter and the like. Social Storage responds to this contemporary condition, addressing the gap between our online and offline personas, where large facets of our “curated self” are locked inside our devices. Using mini projectors, this furniture collection softens the edges between the online and offline persona, bringing the most relatable aspects of the online experience out of the screen and back into the home. Derived from the most talkable, routine aspects of our online experience, these three pieces of furniture are designed to host music, weather and travel, accommodated within an augmented bookshelf, coat stand and globe. These analogue storage devices make space for the online and offline facets of our personality simultaneously: an umbrella sits next to a #londonweather update, a Spotify Playlist sits next to a cherished souvenir. Social Storage creates a more realistic, well-rounded space for our online and offline tastes, gently nudging these somewhat removed aspects of our personality back into the home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1459163994110-YW4XME0T1VHL2H16MBXO/image-asset.jpeg Social Storage, Unread Messages - SOCIAL STORAGE Date: March 2016 Link: Six Thirty Presents Unread Messages Exhibition: The Aram Gallery In the good old days, our shelves carried vast CD collections and our wardrobe doors were adorned with holiday snaps. These personality-defining aspects have since been drained from our homes and siphoned discretely into Spotify, Instagram, Twitter and the like. Social Storage responds to this contemporary condition, addressing the gap between our online and offline personas, where large facets of our “curated self” are locked inside our devices. Using mini projectors, this furniture collection softens the edges between the online and offline persona, bringing the most relatable aspects of the online experience out of the screen and back into the home. Derived from the most talkable, routine aspects of our online experience, these three pieces of furniture are designed to host music, weather and travel, accommodated within an augmented bookshelf, coat stand and globe. These analogue storage devices make space for the online and offline facets of our personality simultaneously: an umbrella sits next to a #londonweather update, a Spotify Playlist sits next to a cherished souvenir. Social Storage creates a more realistic, well-rounded space for our online and offline tastes, gently nudging these somewhat removed aspects of our personality back into the home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537b8ccde4b09a2c344b5647/1459164025385-18DXSWWV30TEREY7O6SN/DeanBrown_SocialStorage_UnreadMessages_05.jpg Social Storage, Unread Messages - SOCIAL STORAGE Date: March 2016 Link: Six Thirty Presents Unread Messages Exhibition: The Aram Gallery In the good old days, our shelves carried vast CD collections and our wardrobe doors were adorned with holiday snaps. These personality-defining aspects have since been drained from our homes and siphoned discretely into Spotify, Instagram, Twitter and the like. Social Storage responds to this contemporary condition, addressing the gap between our online and offline personas, where large facets of our “curated self” are locked inside our devices. Using mini projectors, this furniture collection softens the edges between the online and offline persona, bringing the most relatable aspects of the online experience out of the screen and back into the home. Derived from the most talkable, routine aspects of our online experience, these three pieces of furniture are designed to host music, weather and travel, accommodated within an augmented bookshelf, coat stand and globe. These analogue storage devices make space for the online and offline facets of our personality simultaneously: an umbrella sits next to a #londonweather update, a Spotify Playlist sits next to a cherished souvenir. 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