Slovakian studio came up with an idea to show Czech and Slovak craftsmenship in cooperation with contemporary design. Creating a typical crafts piece, in addition to a unique product of nowadays design, MEJD Studio shows the very traditional way of pottery making in the shape of jar cut in two different products – ceiling light and table bowl. For the other line of LOADING (local added in global) collection, they work with the brass metal spinning and welding and transform the technique into a minimalistic object. In this case, designers work with the same principal of “cutting” shape (sphere) on two pieces and this way creating upper light and bottom bowl.
Jars, cut to create ceiling and bowls, take the morphology from one of the most known shapes in ceramics. By „cutting“ the bottom part, there appears an inner space, where the light is placed. The bottom product then can serve as a bowl on the table, right under the light. The other brass lights and bowls are welded together with the bounding frame, the upper half serves as a shade of the light while the bottom can be used as a bowl. Being embedded inside of a bar frame, the line refers to the principle of museum exposed ancient artefacts in bounded glass cubes or blocks. Minimalistic form and shiny polished brass surface refer to the Modern age – the birth of the great Bauhaus.
MEJD Studio is aimed at product design and is represented by Štefan Nosko and Katarína Beličková, both currently working in Bratislava. Their creation is a search for new solutions and insights into product design, creating objects, which in addition to functional and aesthetic sites offer some kind of added value in terms of ideas, stories and links to other fields of social life and lives of people in general. The main aim of the authors is to create objects of ordinary life, inspired by this ordinaries but to achieve extraordinary results. The LOADING project was exhibited at this year´s London Designjunction and will be on display at Bratislava Designweek.
