Julian Mayor graduated from the Royal Collage of Art in 2000, worked in California for IDEO design and in London for Pentagram, befor he started to exhibit his own works. These design studies and objects have been shown worldwide, such as at the V&A London, Rossana Orlandi Milan, FAT Galerie Paris and 21st21st New York. The Westminster Council in London comissioned Mayor in 2005 to design three stainless steel benches behind the Tate Britain Gallery. In a collaboration with year 6 students from the nearby Millbank School, Julian encouraged the students to create their own responses to the site by looking at its historical and social context, which he translated into a series of steel triangles that reflect the changing light and atmospheric conditions in the park. Another project of Julain Mayor are his chair series, such as Impression and Empress. While the Impression chair is a sectioning of a mapped seating happing of a person, then digitized and realized from the graphic model, the other example, Empress, every stick was cut by hand and glued together one by one. For this chair, the inspiration came from the stay in San Francisco between 2000 and 2002, where he was impressed by the scale and grids of the streets and buildings in the large American cities. Mayor tried to relate to their scale and to search for a human space there and developed the chair’s form out of a model of a seated human.
Kleine Wundertüte
(Kleine Wundertüte is a collection of all wonderful things that we come across in our every-day life. The project is based on the idea to document, connect and share interesting information from different kinds of media.)
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