Squirrel rug for Node at Design museum

Tuesday 26 February 2013

I was delighted to be asked by the fantastic Chris Haughton to contribute a design to his Rug project Node.
Node was set up as a non-profit social business. They make high quality hand-made hand knotted, fair trade carpets and will be for sale in the Design museum as part of Fair Trade Fortnight. You might recognize Chris Haughton, as he is an illustrator and author of wonderful collection of children's books... I Love them. - Oh no George, and A bit lost. see more here ttp://vegetablefriedrice.com/
here's a few pics of my rug being made.









 It's amazing how they make these images, I love this picture of the squirrels eyes emerging.  To see the final rug, they will be on show at the design museum as I have mentioned. see more events below.

NODE launch at the DESIGN MUSEUM



come to the public opening in the DESIGN MUSEUM all day on saturday or the kids workshop on sundayfor the launch party5th March 6-9.30pm in the Design Museum, London
Please come along to see the collection. There are a limited edition of 10 rugs by each of these amazing  artists.Beatrice Alemagna | Sanna Annukka | Lesley Barnes | Petra Borner | Chamo | Benji Davies | Chris Haughton | Clayton Junior | Jon Klassen | Micah Lidberg | Joe Magee | Geoff McFetridge | Neasden Control Centre | Patternity | Craig Robinson | Serge Seidlitz | Marcroy Smith | Kevin Waldron | Donna Wilson

In addition to the launch night, the collection is open to the public at the events below:

Fri 1st March

Design Overtime evening event in the gallery where the rugs are installed.Drinks and music in designmuseum after hoursChris Haughton will do a short talk (15-20min) about how the project happened

Sat 2nd March 

Gallery open all day 10-17.45Sun 3rd March Chris Haughton book launch and workshop for kids in the gallery alongside the rugs Come down for a reading of A Bit Lost, Oh No George and see the new fair trade puppets and toys.2.00-3.30pmFree with museum entrance. Booking not required.
designmuseum.org/families/workshops

Mon 4th March 

Pecha Kucha Night: Fair Trade theme -Where I will be talking about my work.

Talk is from 19.30 to 20.45. Drink afterwards until 21.30PAID EVENT Buy tickets here:designmuseum.org/talksTUESDAY 5th March 


Here's a vimeo of the making of the project http://vimeo.com/chrishaughton/node 

5 comments:

  1. Oh, that's wonderful, Donna! I love seeing it being made! Have fun at this great event! Wish I could make it.

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  2. love seeing how it was made! cute work as always!

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  3. too far for me unfortunately...
    but I love Chris Haughton!

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  4. It is really great designing Donna.

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