Little Tranquility |
Good design is innovative. Good design makes a product useful. Good design is aesthetic. Good design makes a product understandable. Good design is unobtrusive. Good design is honest. Good design is long-lasting. Good design is thorough down to the last detail. Good design is environmentally friendly. Good design is as little design as possible. |
Deborah Hopson Wolpe comes from a more traditional understanding of typography. Her functional ceramics are hand-thrown and use Albertus to engrave the surface, a typeface designed by her father. She plays with the formal grid structure and loops the viewer’s eye to follow the curves of her work as the type traces the outline of the hand thrown form. « I bought one of these for Mum and Dad’s anniversary