Celebrating its first birthday this autumn, OK Do has lived, worked and travelled in many places and different contexts over the past year. Currently based in London and Paris, we took a moment to reflect on our collaboration in the borderlands of home and work, different disciplines, cultures and environments. …(more)
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"For the OK Talk brunches, we asked the guests to bring over a breakfast ingredient each so that we can cook together with them in the morning and sleep more during the night."
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"By applying artistic perspectives to scientific processes and results, it is possible to make science more approachable – and perhaps more useful for the lay people."
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When asked why Armi Ratia decided to base Marimekko in Finland out of all places, she stated that she was "not amused by easiness".
Series: Borderlands
Borderlands looks at the crossing of boundaries between design, art and other fields. It explores our increasingly ambiguous professional identity, often connected with varied locations,
people and modes of practice.
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Borderlands
Borderlands – A Discussion on Experiments in Working
Projects Series: Borderlands / 12-11-2010 -
Borderlands
Archive of Interesting Work – Observations 1-3
Diary Series: Borderlands / 19-10-2010I guess I read it on the wall of Centre Pompidou: “It’s what I do that teaches me what I’m looking for.” What OK Do set out to explore from the very beginning was the roles and methods of the ‘new designer’, and like Pierre Soulages (1953), the French painter behind the quote, we started by doing. Constantly revisiting the topic on a conceptual level, too – most recently in a discussion about the contemporary ambiguity of a designer identity at one of the OK Talk events in London or an article about being sick with design – and coming across presentations, exhibitions and publications around the evolution and redefinition of the field, we decided to document our (quite random) observations. This is the first entry in the Archive of Interesting Work that consists of philosophies, thoughts and proposals, mapping out different aspects of creative history and future. …(more)
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