Rebecca Wilkinson's work showcases the often invisible labor of design, addressing its devaluation due to detachment from the designer. Her practice includes various media, including self-published books and performances that critically examine these themes. Her project, Common Dimensions, focuses on furniture design, compiling interviews with industry makers. Wilkinson employs a methodology inspired by Fluxus and Sol Lewitt, using structured instructions to initiate creativity, believing in the communication of ideas through minimal means. The end goal is to create a clear visual language with reduced distractions.
A lot of Brooklyn-based graphic designer and visual artist Rebecca Wilkinson's work is about 'making visible, the oftentimes invisible labour of design'. This subject of work itself is central to Rebecca's practice and is often what the designer is exploring across a range of digital and analogue mediums: self-published books, video essays, workshops, experimental publications, and performances.
Rebecca usually finds herself writing a set of instructions before settling in - a preoccupation with rules and parameters as springboards for creativity that's loosely inspired by the Fluxus artists, especially Sol Lewitt's famous instructions for wall drawings. This methodology has its roots in the designer's belief that 'most ideas can be communicated visually through simple intentional moves'.
Rebecca's incredibly thorough research project on all things chairs: Common Dimensions manifests as a platform and series of self published works that present interviews with a range of furniture designers and makers on their practice.
Rebecca believes strongly that the work of design is increasingly devalued as a result of its increasing detachment and disembodiment from its producer (the designer). Seeing the person making the work is key to reimagining the structures and material conditions under which this work is produced.
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