New Job

I started work today as an intern product designer on a project called Foldz. Working on fittings and furniture for a shoe retailer.

Very exciting as this is my first job as a designer since graduating.

New Website

I have completely re written my website as the previous one somehow got a virus.

It's currently very simple, and I will keep adding to it.

www.naomiwinters.co.uk

Belgrade

Im currently in Belgrade, Serbia. I have been to a few quite good museums and gallerys here, and they even have their own design week. It's not a place I would automatically have thought would be a design hotspot, but it seems quite good. Mainly graphic design, they have a few independent gallerys and then main ones that host various events. There is currently some installations all around the city.

Exhibition during design festival

Date for your diary, 23rd September- the private view for my exhibition in Shoreditch during the London Design Festival. Exhibition is on until 28th September.

A group of product and furniture designers who all recently graduated from Kingston University with a diverse range of products.

Fiona Zobole

20/20 Vision? is the piece of work pictured below by textile artist Fiona Zobole. She is visually impaired and her methods of working are intrinsically linked to her loss of sight and her related experiences.
Her work challenges the sighted viewer to interpret the printed text presented to them. The tactility of the printed text draws them to explore further, yet gives no real clue as to the meaning of the words, and remains visually inexcessable.
http://www.fionazobole.co.uk/

Fun House

Fun House is an exhibition currently showing at the Hayward Gallery.In the emerging British artist Matthew Darbyshire's installation Funhouse, a fairground attraction is remade using the design language of 21st Century British public architecture. Is this a people's palace, or a very contemporary house of horrors?

Paris

I went to Paris for a long weekend last weekend. Was really nice did lots of the typical touristy things. Went to the Pompidu Centre, which the museum bit is actually free to EU students so that was nice. Also open until 9pm which is a nice contrast to London where everything closes at 5pm.

the end of my degree!

Have now finished my entire degree! Scary stuff.

Handed everything in, it has been assessed by the external examiner, even had our degree show. Now just have to wait for the results. Feels nice to have everything finished and I think it all looked quite good.

degree show

Degree show was last week at Kingston Uni, and went very well. Lots of people came to see our work, nothing was too badly broken, and everyone seemed to have a good time. All taken down now ready for the next exhibition which for me is New Designers in July.

Below are images of my work during the show.

saatchi gallery

Currently showing at Saatchi gallery is Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture.

I havn't been to see many art galleries recently, most of what I have been going to see is more product related, so I quite enjoyed to contrast of this exhibition. 

Below are a few of my favourites.