Dual City Courses - London Barcelona

Rock Galpin and Emili Padrós

Who should attend?
Anyone interested in product and furniture design and who is considering future studies in the subject and wants to add to their portfolio. You might also be a student or professional working in architecture, interior design, product design, decorative arts, graphic design or fine art and looking for a fresh approach to working in 3D.

London (9 day course)

Monday 25 June to Thursday 5 July

This course will begin in London by introducing you to interior furniture design and the skills required when combining both studio and workshop disciplines. It is the perfect opportunity to practise the leap between ideas and three-dimensional reality, where this introduction to modern furniture aims to stimulate and encourage personal creative thinking. You will be pushed to move your ideas on through sketching and experimentation, taking a concept to a stage when it can be realised in a three-dimensional form. You will learn model-making and basic workshop skills to create a scale model. This course is about experimentation with concepts, but also about the practical side of design, such as grasping an idea of basic batch production processes and ergonomics. This is a practical design course and the emphasis will be on design and making rather than on the history of furniture design, although there will be reference to it.

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Independent Travel (4 days)

Friday 6 July to Monday 9 July

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Barcelona (9 day course)

Tuesday 10 July to Friday 20 July

When you arrive in Barcelona you will explore the use of the most effective tools to create innovative designs along with its application in designing and producing public-space furniture. You will move on to understand the current market for new materials and technologies and their application. You will be working on observation exercises and analysis tools of the habits and rituals of people in public spaces, and studying the fundamental role of the final user for the product development and examine the influence of society on public-space design, including eco-sustainability and recycling. You will investigate spatial typology and the definitions of space, including ‘hybrid’, ‘versatile’, ‘minimal’ and ‘ephemeral’. New materials, their characteristics and applications will be explained along with new furniture for new needs. You will analyse new trends in furniture for exteriors from different perspectives and their relations with space and nature, and a project will be developed using the street as a case study and with such a perfect combination of a Mediterranean city with so many incentives such as Barcelona in the middle of summer time.

Topics covered
• Furniture design and idea generation
• Presentation skills and model making
• Latest-generation technology and materials and their influence on new concepts
• Getting familiar with new furniture types

London - Rock Galpin founded Studio Orange in 1995 that gained international acclaim and became an established design and supply company, designing and supplying furniture, lighting and giftware product designs. In 2005 Galpin founded Rock Galpin Studio (Rock Galpin Limited) developing his career under his own name establishing himself as an award winning international designer with a blue chip client roster. 15 years later and with 20 years experience Galpin has developed his studio into a highly respected design agency providing clients with a multidisciplinary design capability. Services now include graphic, website design and brand identity and development, product design (specialist in giftware), Interior Architecture (including visitor centres, restaurants, bars, retail shops and exclusive private residencies), adding to the core business practise of modern furniture design (own brand and client own brands).

Barcelona - Emili Padrós, Master of Arts in Industrial Design by the Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design. He previously studied industrial design in Barcelona’s Elisava Design School. Together, with Ana Mir, he founded Emiliana Design Studio in Barcelona. They experiment with new typologies and research for expressive and structural potential of materials in a wide variety of design projects. Emiliana has received several awards and their works have been exhibited in different international museums. They also have curated and designed exhibitions in Spain and abroad.