Tenderproduct's Traverse Tourist (London Design Festival 2010)
Tenderproduct and Tenderpixel present, in conjunction with the London Design Festival, a play on practice incorporating the global in the local. The Traverse Tourist exhibition invites artists and designers from several countries to create a limited edition object for Tenderproduct. These items will be installed in the shop’s window. Additionally, Tenderpixel’s Collector Showroom, in the basement of Tenderproduct, will become a multi-media exhibition where the artists and designers present an art-object(s) from their practice. Traverse Tourist plays with the lure of the local within a global metropolis and hyper-connected world. Souvenirs become blurred as practitioners simultaneously explore both product object and art object–all from the perspective of having called London home. Artists and designers are Akiko Ban, Lizzie Cannon, Sunshine Frère, Jang-Oh Hong, JL Murtaugh, Keh Ng, Tarpan Patel and Jenny Pickett.