TBC-2 Lighting And Furniture, London - 2017
Bar Interior, Exterior Design, Direction and Installation. Furniture and Lighting Design and Fabrication.
Patterns, Bar, Club and Terrace, Brighton, UK, 2015
Bar Interior, Exterior Design, Direction and Installation. Furniture and Lighting Design and Fabrication.
AHEC with Okay Studio, Exhibition, London, UK, September 2014
Exhibition Design, Fabrication and Installation
The Book Club, Restaurant and Bar, London, UK, 2010
Creative Direction, Interior, Furniture and Lighting design.
GAP, Visual Merchandising, Milan, Italy 2012
Design, Fabrication and Installation(in collaboration with Oscar Narud)
Tolou Screen, AHEC, London, UK, September 2014
Kinetic Installation (In collaboration with Peter Marigold)
Studio Alt Shift is a design and research studio for spaces, furniture and lighting.
We cover all stages of projects from design direction and concept development to on-site installation, fabrication and project management.
The studio specialises in translating abstract ideas into physical proposals, and works across a range of audiences covering residential, commercial and temporary interior spaces such as experimental installations and exhibition design.
Studio Alt Shift is a london based practice founded in 2006 by Shai Akram and Andrew Haythornthwaite.
Projects actively seek to uncover visual, spatial and material languages that are specific and particular to our clients. We are able to achieve these results by working directly with fabrication industries, collaborating to discover new contexts, applications and audiences for their processes and materials. The outcomes form the unique narratives of the spaces we design.
We have been invited to discuss this approach in an interview by LSN Global and shared this ideology at international conferences and workshops – most recently Moscow Design week, by the British Council.
Our clients range from private commissions, to independent businesses, to established manufacturers. The design studio works with clients across the entire process from conceptual direction to final production and installation. Completed projects range from physical outcomes such as commercial interiors (The Chin Chin Laboratories, London), furniture ranges, (Bench Seats and Things, produced for The Book Club with Turners and Moore), exhibition design (AHEC | SKN gallery) and product ranges (Acland Homeware, NZ). Research-based projects include conceptual / visualisation proposals (ThinkDO Camp – Marks and Spencers, UK), invited residencies (ARCO Furniture, NL) and experimental material research (Corian DuPont, IT).
Works are held in the permanent collection of the Design Museum, London and MoMA, New York and has been published extensively internationally. Akram and Haythornthwaite also enjoy teaching onto under-graduate and Masters programs at a range of institutions including University of the Arts London and the Royal College of Art.
SELECTED INVITATIONS/WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES
Royal College of Art, Guest Critic, Examiners and Platform Leader, 2016-present.
IKEA in Collaboration with Byreddo and the RCA, Invited Tutor, March 2018
Leverhulme Grant, Winner, January 2018
Fixperts Super Salon, Kingston University, Presenter and Round Table, June 2015
AHEC (American Hardwood Export Company), Invited designers April 2014
British Design Days (Moscow), Workshop And Talk, Invited by The British Council, November 2014
Wildlife Photographer Of The Year (Natural History Museum) – Trophy Design Selection Panel October 2014
Interior Design Awards At Free Range – Judging Panel July 2014
Middlesex University, BA (hons) Design Crafts, Validation Panel. May 2014
Pecha Kucha, Interior Educators, Talk, London July, 2013. In Collaboration (with Andrew Haythornthwaite)
Design East, Conference & Workshop, Osaka, Japan, September 2012
Marking the Forest, Architectural Association Visiting School, Invited Participant, Oregon, USA, August 2012
Lago SPA, Padova, Italy, February 2011 Invited designer- furniture. (with Andrew Haythornthwaite and Jordi Canudas)
Disney, Italy, February 2011, in collaboration with DuPont, Invited designer – room set.(with Andrew Haythornthwaite and Jordi Canudas)
Consequences, Workshop, Camberwell University, May 2011
Shai Akram & Andrew Haythornthwaite, Talk, Camberwell University, March 2011
Okay Studio at IED, Conference, December 2010, Barcelona. (with fellow members of Okay Studio)
Arco, Winterswijk, Holland, July 2010. Invited designer (with Andrew Haythornthwaite)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Interior Futures, Royal College of Art- Chapter Submission (Shortlisted for publication in 2019)
Lets go out! Interiors and Architecture for Restaurants and Bars, Gestalten, 2012 (Project featured: The Book Club)
Delicate – New Food Culture, Gestalten, August 2011 (Project featured: Chin-Chin Laboratory)
INTERVIEWS
Design East, Osaka, September 2012 (Film, Key Topic: Design East Workshop)
LS:N Global, London, July 2011 (Film and Online article, Key Topic : Narrative approach to projects)
Sight Unseen, London, February 2010 (Online article, Key Topic: The Making of… The Book Club)
SELECTED STUDIO PROJECTS
The Book Club 02, Bar Interior, Furniture Design, Lighting Scheme, Exterior and Design Direction, London, October 2017
Unit B, Domestic Interior and Art Direction, London, January 2017
Max and Benito, Furniture Design, Vienna, January 2017
Patterns, Bar Interior, Exterior and Design Direction, Brighton, June 2015
AHEC for SKN gallery, Exhibition design, London, April 2014
Marks & Spencers, ThinkDo Camp, Concept and Direction, London, August 2013
Stories, Bar Interior and Design Direction, Broadway Market, London, May 2013
Nasir bureau, Furniture Design, London, UK 2011
You’re Getting On My N.U.R.B.s, Furniture Design, Padova, Italy 2011
Saw Horse Furniture Design, Queen of Hoxton, London, UK 2011
Automated Marquetry Furniture Design Winterswijk, Netherlands, 2010
Kate Nash Set Design, World Tour 2010
Chin Chin Laboratory, Interior and Design Direction, London, UK 2010
The Book Club Bar Interior and Design Direction, UK 2009
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS / PARTICIPATIONS
Leverhulme Scholar Showcase, Egg, Bath, October 2018 (in progress)
Forest of Imagination, Installation, Bath, July 2018 (in progress)
Collective Intention, Depot Basel, Basel, June-August 2015
AHEC (American Hardwood Export Company), April 2014
Loose Threads, Modular:Blanc, London, September 2013
Marking the Forest, Architectural Association Visiting School, Invited Participant, Oregon, USA, August 2012
Mantelpiece, Milsom Place, Bath, UK, November 2011
Okay Arco, Brompton Design District, London, September 2011
Okay Arco, Vivid Gallery, Rotterdam, June 2011
You’re Getting on my N.U.R.B.s, Apartmento, Lago House, Brera Milan, April 2011
Tron Designs Corian, Padiglione Visconti, Milan, April 2011
Hit the Nail on the Head, Novalis Gallery, Turin, December 2010- January 2011
Okay Studio en BCN, Exhibition and ‘In Conversation’, Otrascosas de Villarrosas, Barcelona, December 2010- January2011
The Visitor : Co-curator and Exhibitor TBC Gallery, London, 2010
Arco invites Okay Studio, Invited Designer, Arco, Netherlands, June 2010
Designers vs. fruit and vegetables: Food Marketo, Milan April 2010
Apartmento, Lago House, Milan, April 2010
Okay, , Mother Space, London, September 2009