采访：澳大利亚工业设计师汤姆·斯凯汉。

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Australian Design Studio SKEEHAN Reveals Major Rebrand & New Products.

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I was always heading towards ART and DESIGN growing up. I grew up in a creative family, some of my earliest memories are working with my dad at his drafting table. I was very fortunate from a young age to be supported to pursue a career I enjoyed.

It took a few years before I formally studied industrial design. I worked for a Furniture maker for a few years and also a Contract furniture company. I was surrounded by the industry I wanted to be part of but didn’t have the formal skills to bring it all together. I enrolled in Industrial Design and fell in love with the process and deep material research.

After graduating I turned down a job offer at Breville to start my own studio. After countless failed products, spending everything on shitty trade fair booths ‘sleeping in the car each night’, entering competitions, pitching to brands etc, I finally landed a product with Stylecraft. This commercial pathway to distribute my product opened up new doors and cash flow opportunities to grow the company to what it is today.

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SKEEHAN materiality and design process expressed in a series of concept images.

+ How do you characterise your design sensibility and your aesthetic? And is there something that’s fundamental to your practice, your philosophy and your process?

A lot of the aesthetic in my work comes from the material or process of manufacturing. Exploring materials and methods of production often form the finer details and overall vision of the project.

I have always admired the work of and Tadao Ando. From the start of my career, I would look to their methods and mantra’s and try and incorporate it into each design brief. Celebrating the process of creating work that is paired back over and over again until you have a form or language that feels honest and free from the unnecessary – this combined with a deep desire for everything to be as functional as intended. Naoto’s involvement with MUJI is a testament to this.

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Nave lounge and single seaters by SKEEHAN.

+ How do you go about establishing a concept and an overall direction for your collections? Do you have a certain process that you always follow?

These days we have a more formal process for each project. The overall project goals and brief is at the core of every project. Over the past few years, we have built-in larger overall research and material investigations into the brief. This early developmental stage of the project allows us to learn collectively about process and materials. We do extensive model making, heaps of sketching, weird experiments and connect with manufactures and other designers. For me, this is a very free and exciting part of the process – the sharing of ideas in a safe creative space and pushing the team to take some risk.

We then move through a more rigid developmental/product stages. It is built into every product we design, having an analysis of the materials and the lifecycle of the product helps define its longevity and purpose. It’s very important to consider why you are doing this project and hopefully adding value to peoples lives and telling an honest story.

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