MANUFACTION at LDF 2020

MANUFACTION debuts at LDF 2020, showcasing a range of prototypes resulting from bespoke residential projects under the brand IN-FILL. MANUFACTION invites you to explore these prototypes and imagine how they can be customised ad adapted to different spaces and situations. 

At LDF 2020 Manufactions range of prototypes will be on show in a workshop environment. Each piece is an iteration from our practice that applies scalable and modular design principles with digital manufacturing processes to meet individual client requirements. We invite you to explore these prototypes and imagine how they can be customised ad adapted to different spaces and situations. 

MANUFACTION is a South London based design and making studio undertaking bespoke commercial fit-outs, spatial installations and residential furniture and storage solutions. Formed in April 2019 by Joshua Dean, the name MANUFACTION was coined to capture ‘the act of doing’ and to celebrate ‘the value of making’.

Driven by a restless capacity for creative production, Josh has created MANUFACTION to be a vehicle that could absorb and support not only his own future endeavors but those of others who like him seek out opportunities and avenues for design to shape the world. He has built MANUFACTION on three core principles of adaptability, functionality and simplicity, He encourages his team to create solutions to problems, spaces and situations and look for ways of making that are pragmatic, versatile and iterative. 

Josh sought out formal training in graphic design at Kingston University which broke down barriers for what could and should be considered when designing. The prospect of exciting yet immaterial design delivery within the world of graphic design left Josh looking for opportunities to act and design physically.  He went on to shadow a carpenter on a build of a bespoke conversion for an architect in Sydney Australia and was hooked on the ability to conceive of an idea and see it come to life and then be used, interacted with and cherished. 

Subsequently, he has combined years of high-pressured interior fit-out experience with a personal and committed interest in digital manufacture to arrive at IN-FILL, a bespoke yet agile design service for contemporary storage solutions and spaces within the home. IN-FILL intends to enhance spaces through substantial joinery solutions that are designed, manufactured and installed through efficient and sympathetic processes.