Case Study: Lindsay Bloxam

Case Study: Lindsay Bloxam

How did Bloxam get into designer-making?

"Lindsay Bloxam's first studies were in embroidered textiles. By the end of her postgraduate studies she had already established a form of style and decorative lighting that was to become the key to her success as a designer-maker."

How does Bloxam address the relationship between designer-maker and context (e.g. designing for a service or product)?

She knows what people want from talking to them, asking them questions. She took a lampshade around to buyers and asked them what they thought, Their feedback taught her that colour way very important as it would have to fit in with peoples home's. 

Where and how does Bloxam sell and promote her work?

She sell's and promotes her work at trade shows, her own small shop, she mainly focuses on commission work as she says it is 'stressful, exciting and experimental.'

What virtues does Bloxam link to designer maker?

"Hard worker, Self-motivation, Flexibility, Perseverance is very important." She say's that as a designer-maker you have to do every job from being the project manager to the cleaner, She has to not be bossy but to drive people. You also have to be firm with  the clients. "You have to be good with people, Keep the dialogue going, While all the time at the back of your mind are deadlines and difficulties."

Gale, C. & Kaur, J. (2002). The Textile Book. Oxford: Berg.