Make Works: Kate Colin

We've collaborated with Make Works to showcase the stories behind our products. Today we meet designer Kate Colin who works with paper to create homeware, lighting and installations.

Kate works out of her home studio in Partick in Glasgow. Her designs are folded out of paper to create beautiful geometric, three-dimensional forms. Find out more about her practice and background in the video below.

Kate's fascination started with her dad who was a mathematician. He would hang polyhedron models around the house and Kate wanted to have go herself.

The exclusive lampshade Kate made for us was inspired by the building itself.

The tools she uses are quite minimal: Kate uses rulers, scoring tools and sometimes a bone folder.

Kate sources her paper from Britain where possible and being environmentally friendly is important to her.

Make Works Collaboration

To help tell the stories behind some of the wonderful collaborations in our shop, we have been working with leading Scottish design studio Make Works.

Originating in Scotland and extending throughout the UK, Make Works now have an international reach, including regions in the UAE and Sweden.

Make Works source local manufacturers, workshops and materials, beautifully capturing the people behind them and making them available through their open access platform. Since 2013, Make Works have visited and documented almost 200 factories and manufacturers, encouraging those in the creative industries to have work made locally or independently.

With their profound knowledge of Scotland’s creative industries and talent for storytelling, Make Works are the perfect partner to showcase a selection of our retail collaborations.