Ella Doran on Art and Design for the Interior

As part of her ongoing commitment to the Great Recovery Project  of the RSA , Ella has just participated in the Great Recovery's latest design residency - below film maker Paul Wyatt's short d...

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Almost ready! The love seat waiting for Charlie to put the casters on. Here's a close up of one of the finished front crochet legs. Except for the blue bit at the bottom and the pink at t...

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It's been the 4th day, and I am excited as we are back to my key piece for the week, which we hope to have complete before our talk on Wednesday at 4pm in Seminar Room 3, just a few steps do...

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If you are new to this blog, please find the background of our collaborative project with Galapagos Designs  and The Great Recovery (RSA) on the London Design Festival events web page and on ...

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Day 2: Kyla McCallum of Foldability  joined us to make her folded origami pieces from my printed fabrics of abstracts from the corrugated roof tops of Iceland. We started with the logistics ...

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  We opened our live 'workshop' yesterday in the Learning Centre on Level 3 of the Victoria and Albert museum. It was just as busy as we were expecting it to be, with lots of interesting n...

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  We are drawing very close to my collaborative event  at the Victoria and Albert Museum with Lucy Mortimer of Galapagos Designs and the Great Recovery (RSA)for the London Design Festiv...

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If you follow my blog, you know that I did the first shooting for my series of art projects around bikes and participatory urbanism last November. (You can read up on the open call here , if yo...

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'Tour de France 2014 through Hackney Eyes' WHAT IT IS ABOUT: To celebrate photography, shared excitement, participatory urbanism, the love of bikes and the creative Borough of Hackney wi...

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We are about to launch our first ever wallpaper book. Getting together the in situ images was hard work, but also a lot of fun, some of which I'd like to share with you, for your entertainment a...

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I am very excited that the collection I have been tweeting and instagramming about in the last couple of weeks has now been launched by TATE ! Read on for a bit of background and some close-up...

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So we have returned from our first trade show of 2014, HOME London, and have been busy sorting out all our orders and new contacts from the show. The response to the new products has been beau...

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I have just received these pictures from Paul Vowles of WovenGround . He has been at the factory in India where my first Bicycle rugs (from my Bikes of Hackney collection) are being made ...

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To all our customers, colleagues, and friends. Thank you for all your business, support and encouragement this year. We wish everyone of you a restful, loving and happy time this Christmas, ...

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I'm often asked about my way of working and so I thought I share the process around a private commission for a roller blind 'mural' (2.20m x 4.5m) I've just finished and feel very happy about wi...

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  Following on from my last blog post I have been reflecting on my Bikes of Hackney series and have decided that I would like to shift the focus from the solitary rather 'handsome' bikes...

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A beautiful thing has been unfolding over these past few months thanks to the connectivity of Instagram . I have made contact with the owner of one of the bikes that I photographed to create the...

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Below are a few of my pics from this year's London Design Festival .... ... starting with my 'Geo Carved' rug on WovenGround's stand at The Design Junction 2013 . Detail of Fe...

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I was delighted to be asked to redesign BoConcept’s iconic Imola chair for their charity auction for the benefit of Kids Company at the London Design Festival 2013 . When I received the Imo...

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Here are a few pictures of my exhibition at trade show Maison et Objet in Paris - last week. Vintage Bicycle rug produced by WovenGround - I have designed 2 rugs for this season to complemen...

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  Moleskine and the London Design Festival have invited over 70 London-based designers to participate in the Moleskine Sketch Relay 2013  (exhibited at the V&A Museum from 14th - 22nd Sept...

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  Welcome to my new collection 'POP ART GOES DESIGN' - with my subject: 'THE CAMERA'! Below is a bit of background on what I have been working on these last few months in preparation to ...

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  If you have not been already and you are in, or coming to London, do go to this, it's wonderful!  Be prepared to queue - and have a plan as you only get 5 minutes to be in the picture!...

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