Christopher Labrooy, a young UK based designer from Scotland, after completing his studies at in London’s Royal College of Art, he rapidly became a leader in the field of 3D graphics and product design. His first pieces came about when he began to visualize ideas for products and furniture that were way outside of his price range.
Today, his enviable Client List is as diverse as his inspiration and includes giants such as Microsoft to organizations like the New York Department of Transport. This is a designer who cannot be categorized, in the same way that his work can rarely be identified as a product of digital manipulation or simply a photograph of cleverly arranged objects. He is fascinated by the connection between typography, architecture, product design and visual art and one of his main inspirations is the work of Frank Gehry, one of the architects he pays homage to in a series of typography in which the names of the architects are illustrated through their architectural style.
He constantly collects illustrations of things that attract him which he keeps in a folder and after editing he decides whether to begin a project through conventional sketches or through a 3D digital medium before he begins to create, in his words, ‘useless beautiful objects’ from familiar items into typographic and sculptural form. His skill at product design is renowned as his design for a marble felt chandelier has become a design classic and has gained a place as a permanent exhibit at the Design Museum in London. At first glance, light hearted and whimsical, his work contains intricate details and the occasional subliminal message which pokes tongue in cheek fun at society at large!
