Jeremy Brown has taken a back seat from design since graduating. ‘At the moment I’m building a 53-foot yacht in Devon with some friends.’ 2008 will mark his return, however, as he heads off to Paris to ‘get on with some real work.’ But for Brown, real work could very easily have taken a very different route. ‘I've always been keen to take objects apart and occasionally put them back together again, but I didn't realise I could (almost) make a living from it until I was in my early 20s. I was working in a bunch of different bars building up little sketchbooks when a friend suggested I do an art foundation, and, as they say the rest is history.’
And Brown is not the only one who owes a debt of gratitude to the said friend. His final project was in collaboration with Architects for Humanity on a seating module for Crisis, a charity who looks after the homeless. ’It was refreshing to design something with real purpose, and not conceptual,’ says Brown, who is all for design with a conscience.
His dissertation was on emergency relief after a crisis, and prompted an invitation from UNHABITAT to Geneva where he met with various NGOs and governments to share ideas. But for now, we’re full of praise for BagChairBag, Brown’s solution to seating and security at festivals. The inflatable bag doubles up as a chair so that you can rest weary festival feet while never losing sight of your belongings.
Would most like to work with:
'It would be great to work with Cinq-Cinq, their work is very clever.'
INFORMATION
School
Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication, London
Graduated
2007
