Andu Masebo is a designer with a background in carpentry, ceramics and metalwork fabrication. With experience rooted in the practicalities of making things, his work is informed by an interest in the way objects come to be, and the wider systems within which they sit.


Andu Masebo

Lola Lely is a multidisciplinary designer and maker based in Poplar, East London. Lola's creative practice bridges the gap between craft and design. She is also the co-founder of WAX Atelier, a socially engaged company that specialises in the manufacturing of handmade candles and plant-based wax products.

Lola Lely

Alison Cooke is a London-based ceramicist who creates projects, objects and installations using clay unearthed from sites of historic and geological interest during processes of mining, engineering or scientific research. Her work revolves around the layers of history below a location, with a particular focus on hidden or underground networks where histories relate to, and impact our lives today.

Alison Cooke

James O'Brien takes his knowledge of root vegetables to a new level with his practice as a potato printing illustrator. He gives food waste a whole new life, by using old potatoes to create amusing illustrations and observations from the world around him.

James O’Brien

Yasmin Lennon-Chong is a designer and re-creator of everyday objects and environments, producing experiential, aesthetic and playful products as a form of spatial engagement and intervention. Her current design approach utilises the application of new material technologies, 3D printing and alternative manufacturing models. 

Yasmin Lennon-Chong

Clara Chu is a London-based multidisciplinary artist and designer. She creates work that re-imagines everyday, mundane objects in our domestic world, mixing mass production with the hand crafted. Visionary and colourful pop accessories challenge what we wear on our bodies, not only textiles but everyday household objects we take for granted, from vegetable peelers to spoons. 


Clara Chu

Elna-Marie specialises in woven textiles and works on a traditional loom out of her Holborn workshop. She balances a combination of neutral and dyed yarns to create a product that has a new and unique character. This novel approach gives every piece a unique, timeless quality.


Elna-Marie Fortune

Josef Shanley-Jackson and Finn Thomson are the minds and makers behind Islington-based art and design studio Mitre & Mondays. Having met at Brighton University while studying sculpture, Joe and Finn have a combined background in silversmithing, house building, fabrication and furniture design. Their objects are made to invite curiosity around the built environment and our relationship to it. 


Josef Shanley-Jackson & Finn Thomson

Savvas Alexander is a designer and maker whose practice advocates a rethinking of the established systems within fashion. By designing solutions that challenge harmful over-consumption, Savvas activates agile production processes that de-centralise fashion making and thinking.

Savvas Alexander

Nathan Joyce is a freelance product photographer, children’s illustrator and occasional packaging designer. Whether he’s photographing food or drawing cartoons, his style always remains colourful, bold & playful.

Nathan Joyce

Emmely Elgersma is a multidisciplinary creative. She blends her practice as a sculptor and ceramist with her additional duties as a qualified football coach in London.

Emmely Elgersma

Zoe Horgan is a knitwear designer based in London. Specialising in future-proofed and sustainable fine gauge knitwear, she works with deadstock yarn in a bid to change the way we think of fashion industry waste.

Zoe Horgan

Ella Rush + Kiah Bibby united to form GUM London. At their core is imagination, novelty and nostalgia. Together, they explore the use of smart new materials and make jewellery products by hand.

Ella Rush & Kiah Bibby

Rush and Bibby were both raised in South London, and both are now students at Central Saint Martins. Rush studies illustration animation, and Bibby studies jewellery design

Nina Jua Klein is a designer and creative director. Her London based collaborative studio spans the design of objects, spaces and visual identities for a wide range of cultural and commercial clients. In an attempt to spend less time at the computer and more time making things, she recently founded Co Projects, developing objects that all have one characteristic in common – they consist of two or more parts that rely on each other to be functional.

Nina Jua Klein

Alexandra Larrabure draws inspiration from her childhood in Peru, exploring how the story of objects left behind by ancient civilizations can communicate so much history. Through experimental yet wearable fine-gauge knitwear and hand-beaded accessories, she translates her own ideas and stories into concrete form through materials, texture, and artisanal techniques.

Alexandra Larrabure Villavisencio

Self-taught in the practice of pattern cutting and sewing, Abiola Onabule has always expressed herself artistically through fashion. Her brand produces exuberant, colourful and structurally experimental pieces that incorporate fabrics traditionally used in Nigerian textile culture, such as Aso Oke and starched, crisp cottons.

Abiola Onabule

Inspired by a range of sources including indigenous art, folk art, and mid-century French and Italian ceramics, Stephanie Sommet makes collectible objects in clay through her ceramics studio, Maison S. Sommet. Working by trial and error, her playful relationship to her material is essential to her work, and she loves the idea that the soul of a project is linked to its material origin, location and environment.

Stephanie Sommet

Furniture designer and carver Thomas Wheller graduated with a degree in Industrial Design, and his carved objects and furniture are shaped by experimentation in materials, processes and forms. Working in wood and other materials, he often purchases timber from local suppliers, or scavenges offcuts from local alleyways, parks and skips.

Thomas Wheller

Womenswear designer Lily Rose is passionate about creating elevated essentials that don’t harm the planet. Under her label lr.d, she is inspired by the needs and demands of everyday life, creating versatile garments that can be worn from day to night and across the season and using stock or low MOQ fabrics.

Lily Rose Dambelli

Founder of Ex-A Studio, Elliot Andre Greenfield uses 3D printing technology to create unisex silver jewellery. His work is inspired by futuristic elements, technology and the great unknown, and he sources his metal materials in and around Hatton Garden.

Elliot Andre Greenfield

Focusing on locally sourced materials and production to create a more streamlined and sustainable supply chain, David Searcy’s work is inspired by the physical constraints of his materials. His loose furniture items, lighting and homewares are distinguished by an aesthetic that is clean, simple and direct.

David Searcy

Armed with a Masters in fine sculpture, Jesse Flood-Paddock makes objects, videos and prints in a range of natural and synthetic materials, some of which have been discarded and others that are raw, including timber, steel, and leather from local merchants. She is interested in the way a product engages with the space around it and with its user.

Jesse Flood-Paddock

Joseph Ellwood is a multidisciplinary designer working to create bespoke furniture and objects, and the founder of Six Dots Design in London. The goal of his practice is to create locally produced, hand-made versions of the various objects we all use on a daily basis, from chairs and tables to candelabras and ice buckets, seeking to shift consumerist tendencies away from a polluting globalist model.

Joseph Ellwood

Inspired by memories of her native city of Florence, Italy, Claudia Lerario’s design practice draws on the intricate forms and details found in tiles, vintage books and mythologies. Playfully fusing classic cuts with whimsical prints and patterns, designs from her studio Lecló feature a juxtaposition of deadstock fabrics from Florence and unique materials from local London shops.

Claudia Lerario

The three members of Architecture and Ideas Studio CAN, Mat, Walid and Malltwen create architectural extensions to private homes, exhibition design, public artworks, and furniture design, and often utilise materials in surprising ways. Drawing inspiration from a wide cultural pool that includes architecture, art, and sculpture, their work focuses on the specific cultural history of each project.

Mat Barnes, Walid Bhatt and Malltwen Freeman

Annalisa Iacopetti’s career as a designer began while working with blown glass in Murano, Italy, and her fascination with that material has never lessened. Approaching design with the scientific interest of an alchemist, her work explores the magic of materials and how they relate to the natural world.

Annalisa Iacopetti

Mario Serrano Puche is an accessory designer based in London. Educated in both architecture and experimental design, he uses digital tools like 3D printing and visual coding to translate the shapes and textures of today’s zeitgeist into geometric form. Under his studio, Body Amplification Devices, he creates sustainable footwear and accessories through 3D printing.

Mario Serrano Puche

Using both digital and hand-made techniques, Rosie Stonham creates functional design objects that engage with various craft traditions. Her work is inspired by nature and the human body, and explores personal narratives, mental health, and the idea of embodiment.

Rosie Stonham

The recipient of The Metallic Funds inaugural Fashion Design Programme, Pokuaa Ansere works to celebrate being Black and British, particularly within Southeast London, through her mens fashion label Kwaku Joseph. Creating bold and beautiful pieces across a range of garments, she explores concepts such as heritage, nostalgia and pride and gives them form using recycled or deadstock materials.

Pokuaa Ansere

Inspired by her mixed Caribbean, Italian and English heritage and club culture, Gina Corrieri repurposes secondhand and deadstock materials into fresh fashion and accessories. Drawing on the colours and textures from her upbringing, she designs vintage crochet and lace mats, and bags made from trousers.

Gina Corrieri

Izzi Valentine was taught the beauty of artistic expression by their mother, a textile designer, and they learned how to use a sewing machine at a young age. Their creative spirit has always been expressed across disciplines, from creating jewellery and accessories featuring reclaimed materials to designing bespoke costumes for queer musicians and performers, and even working on wearable electronics.

Izzi Valentine

Working to create a cohesive range of products that together establish an inspirational world, Matan Fadida believes in the power of local communities. For his furniture, homewares and garments, he sources materials from fabric stores on Goldhawk Road, or a North Greenwich foundry, where he gathers scrap metal.

Matan Fadida

Born and raised in London, Andrew Eastmond makes functional, useful garments that improve the experience of the wearer. Inspired by vintage pieces from his own archive and his London upbringing, his simple designs for Eastmond Apparel are shaped by a nostalgia for the style, music, and culture of old-world London.

Andrew Eastmond

A multidisciplinary creative whose production includes set design, art direction and furniture, Jaclyn Pappalardo has a penchant for seating, framing chairs not only as functional objects, but as a study of body, shape and language. Her practice is material and process based, exploring new techniques and materials, like using metal to create unconventional upholstery. 

Jaclyn Pappalardo

After training as an illustrator, Industrial Designer Charlie Humble-Thomas realised he craved the physicality of three-dimensional design. Through his homewares, light and furniture, he consistently explores the efficiency and functionality of industrial objects, and his designs are the product of a hand-made approach that  incorporates many stages of sketching, modelling, prototyping and physical testing.

Charlie Humble-Thomas

Meet Ambra Dentella, designer and researcher based in London. She is the co-founder of GoodWaste, a design and material research studio. Her design practice is fuelled by a deep fascination with materiality. Her work aims to honour the innate beauty of materials, as well as to transform spaces and experiences through their presence.

2023 London Participants

Alexandra Larrabure Villavisencio

Knitwear and Textile Designer

Abiola Onabule

Fashion Designer

Stephanie Sommet

Ceramicist

Thomas Wheller

Designer and Maker

Lily Rose Dambelli

Fashion Designer

Elliot Andre Greenfield

Jewellery Designer

David Searcy

Industrial designer

Jesse Flood⁠-⁠Paddock

Sculptor

Joseph Ellwood

Designer

Claudia Lerario

Fashion Designer and Creative Director

Mat Barnes, Walid Bhatt and Malltwen Freeman

Members of CAN

Annalisa Iacopetti

Furniture and Installation Designer

Mario Serrano Puche

Accessory Designer and Architect

Rosie Stonham

Sculptor and Designer

Pokuaa Ansere

Fashion Designer

Gina Corrieri

Fashion designer

Izzi Valentine

Multidisciplinary Maker

Matan Fadida

Product and Fashion Designer

Andrew Eastmond

Clothes maker and Tailor

Jaclyn Pappalardo

Furniture Designer

Charlie Humble⁠-⁠Thomas

Industrial Designer

Ambra Dentella

Designer and Researcher