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t: +44 [0] 77 9887 5334
e: info@studioaltshift.com
Visiting / Studio Address:
Rear of 2, Belfast road, London, UK, N16 6UH
Mailing Address
Unit B, 2 Leswin Place, Stoke Newington, London, UK, N16 7NJ
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)
Marking the Forest, Architectural Association Visiting School, Oregon, USA, August 2012
Invited Designers
Mobile Pavillion, Shodoshima, July 2014 (In collaboration with Hiroko Shiratori and Markus Bergstrom)
Creators in Residency, Design East Trienalle
Chin Chin Laboratory, Nitrogen Ice-Cream Shop, Camden, London, UK 2010
Interior, Furniture, Lighting and Design Direction
You’re Getting On My N.U.R.B.s, Corian Furniture, Padova, Italy 2011
(Sponsored by DuPont and in collaboration with Jordi Canudas)
Furniture Design and Manufacturing Strategy,
Stories, Co-Working environment and Café Bar, Broadway Market, London, May 2013
Design Direction, Signage, Interior, Furniture and Lighting
Kate Nash Set Design, World Tour 2010
Concept, Design and Fabrication
FOLD, Lighting, Loose Threads Exhibition 2013
Invited designers, Material Experimentation and Fabrication.
T&M Ash Tables, Max and Benito, Vienna
Furniture Design and Production
Founded by Shai Akram and Andrew Haythornthwaite Studio Alt Shift is a design studio for material research and production of spaces and objects.
The studio uses narrative as a means to initiate briefs and explores ideas through process-led material investigation. They were invited to discuss their 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.
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).
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).
Their work is held in the permanent collection at the Design Museum, London and MoMA, New York and has been published internationally. The pair also enjoy teaching onto under-graduate and Masters programs at a range of institutions including UAL and the RCA.
INVITATIONS/WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES
Fixperts Super Salon, Kingston University, Presenter and Round Table, June 2015
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)
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)
BOOKS
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)
EXHIBITIONS / PARTICIPATIONS (last 5 years)
Collective Intention, Depot Basel, Basel, June-August 2015
Loose Threads, Modular:Blanc, London, September 2013
Design East, Conference & Workshop, Osaka, Japan, September 2012
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
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