From The Young Designers

1. Divine Insulation

how old do you have

to be to be

a young designer?

determined to move

away from design

in a literal sense

starting up like people do

the wall has exploded

pink sheets of fibreglass

insulation spill out

over an open safe

your poise curled

into the softness

against a knotty

hardboard backdrop

silver platforms

with a smock

athwart a diagonal

expression

your discomfort the

pose belies a sudden

lapse of balance

to a burst carton

an empty bottle

designed by Renzo Piano

dress by Sabyasachi

2. On the Rails

ground zero dressed

by Comme des Garçons

having cut his teeth

design life now

I like things

that are not

designed

I want to design

a sports stadium

it lacked one object

that changes the

paradigm

sliding down the

banisters at the

monument

really I just want

to design houses

TER PATH STA

a scarf

tight wound

round the neck

3. Rearguard Basement Action

a giant ribbon of torn

cardboard sashays through

the basement spectral

term done to a turn

over zero turned down

round the corner sheet

metal stacked in palettes

wall dividers tracks and

skirting upended in oil

drum by APC

by Longchamp

Calvados on Long Island

found herself playing a

key role in how the world

functions after working

on potential schemes

small-scale residential

foam-board assemblages

in the daily work of

high-end housing

influenced by the past

all have potential to

fulfil my dreams

with patchworks

with patterns

4. Dome Head

a hot snake of wood

above a concrete wall

falters down to domed

skylights on which you perch

sparrow-like sans noose

dressed to kill tho’

the sharp drainpipe look

down aside through the

ventilation other clothes

are his own clothes

he owns his own clothes

a concept as much as a

studio

I like to keep my hand

in a new chapter a

reunion between decoration

and design

my leg has become

a tie-pin

I’m going to launch

a new range of scarves

early last year

I’m praying to receive

a self-conscious interiors

commission

it’s the space between

my knee and my ankle

connected to my teeth

Versailles Overdose

Chinese Industry

5. Natural Selection

a series of playful

projects stints at

Fabrica studios

a virus reunion

I like to invent

my own trends

I’ve been working

each object comes

out differently take

this traffic cone

handy for parking but

one twist and it’s a

foot prop, a pit prop

a tooth pick

a shooting-stick

more people move

pull me into my

arena by Marc

by Marc Jacobs

the method man

in a designated

hi-hat area

my deckchair in

a building site

is practical and

waterproof

I am ambitious

well-nourished

hungry

6. Due for completion

he hit me hell well-strung

between the neck embrace again

loose noose

paw it up to begin with

poster over scaffold

a thousand party poopers:

found, categorised, reconfigured

a chandelier for Swarovski

confiscated sharp items

party poppers

no-step

rocket launch pad water tower

metal bars on breeze blocks

sex, death and disease by

Tyler Speed

7. Head-quarters

we bust back onto the

back stage to be regaled

by a mess of drums

beguiled by blue flex wound

round their middles local cultures

installed cookware for British

council Sanjay Leela

Bhansali could help us

grow as a design office

a return of down turn

craftship rack of bars

against stencilled chopboard

hourglass suspension protects

the bulb

of our strong

our strong

cultural identity

beautifully made