This was Robert Hankey’s final year self-initiated design project at Central St Martins. It became the seed that has grown into unu-life, and still has a lot of relevance to unu’s design based investigation of value.
An exploration of how different modes of manufacture affect the social connotations and emotional value that objects possess.
The outcome: Three pens that - through design and its use of workmanship - offer narratives of i) hand-craftsmanship, ii) precision machining, and iii) the marvels of injection moulding. These narratives help to augment each visual language and create products with identities routed in their materiality, increasing owner attachment and extending product endurance.
Exhibited at New Designers 2003 (Islington, London) and The International Contemporary Furniture Fair 2003 (New York, NY)
