Kelly Sant

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Research esteem

           

arts research University of Brighton

Grants and awards

2008 - 2010

  • Faculty Research Support Fund (FRSF) June 2008
  • ‘Breaking the mould: Hybrid Investment Casting’  to create a hybrid investment casting system using digital forms and moulds and casting and hand finishing forms in casting materials such as polymers, bio resins, and elastomers. Kelly has used the fund to create a collaborative partnership with leading Direct Digital manufacture system producers, Stratasys-Fortus USA

2003

  • Selfware Style- Politics of Identity competition exhibition, Kratz (City of Culture 2003), Austria with Indri Tulusan. April

2002

  • Finalist for Premio Macef Design awards, Milan. October
  • Crafts Council Bursary 100% Design, ‘Marriage of Materials with Perspex TM. September
  • Prix Arts 2002 Interactive/Information Arts awards. September
  • Shortlisted for The Fundoshi Experience exhibition, Boffi Bains, Paris. June
  • Short-listed for Oxo Peugeot Design awards. May
  • Short listed for Dazed and Confused Magazine Wearable technology competition. April
  • Short-listed for: BTP/Monument Public Art Commission 2002. March

2001

  • Shortlisted for Helen Hamlyn Research Centre, Design for Our Future Selves competition, RCA. June
  • Orange Competition winner with Indri Tulusan - wearable electronics £1000.000. June
  • Tom Bendhem Fund drawing award for materials £500.00. May
  • Kenny Yip Foundation Award £500.00, for design considering medical context, September

Citations and reviews

2009 - 2010

  • Living Etc, June 2009 p.135 featurung Big Clips by Mark Garside
  • Monda Arc magazine #05 2009, p.116 ‘Lighting gallery’ Zi(PP) Light
  • Exhibition Catalogue: Faculty of Arts and Architecture celebrates 150 years of art and design education in Brighton. Jan - Mar: an exhibition From Art School to University: Art and Design at Brighton 1859-2009 accompanied by a catalogue featuring ‘lord of the Flies’ for CULT
  • F5 magazine (Russia), ‘Stationery Gigantism’ , number 29, Sept p.24

2008

  • Junior Magazine, ‘Thoroughly Modern’ the Modern Design Issue, p.40, Feb
  • The Independent Magazine, Sat 23 Feb, Design and Interiors, ‘Little Treasures’, p.52, featuring pink luminous Big Clips and Genius Pads
  • Who’s Jack Magazine, issue 13p.40 and issue 14 p60 & 61 ‘C.U.L.T’ by Josh Spiro featuring our CULT project and ‘Lord of the flies’
  • Plan magazine, p.65 & p.90 featuring Genius pads and Lord of the Flies for CULT

2007

  • On Office, issue 05, March, ‘news’ p.22 featuring Genius Pads
  • Grazia Magazine, ‘100 amazing gifts’, Grazia Gift Guide, Dec 03 2007

2006

  • Platinum Magazine, July 2006, p.68 2006
  • Art 4d, p.100, number 131, Oct 2006, Article ‘Silicone Valley’ featuring Giant Belly Button Chair

2005

  • Intramuros magazine. ON September 2005, for the 20th birthday of Intramuros magazine (Paris) editor Chantal Hamaide created a British Design Special Edition

Citations and reviews for research portfolio

Intelliskin

  • Platinum Magazine, July 2006, p.68 2006
  • The Scotsman: 'Style Turns Bionic' by Jonathan Trew, Tuesday, 19 November 2002
  • The Observer and Daily Record, November 19 2002
  • 'Prix Arts' exhibition catalogue, Germany, September 2002
  • Selfware magazine - featured shortlisted ‘Skintillate’ project, Gratz, Austria
  • Dazed and Confused - wearable electronics awards
  • FX magazine - featured Orange wearable electronics award winners for Intelliskin
  • Design Week – ‘Gelling Together’ Intelliskin. Published: 19 July 2001 Featured article: 4 designers that work with silicone rubber Incl. Kelly Sant, Rem Koolhaus and Phillipe Starck
  • Royal College of Art Degree Show catalogue and Design Products catalogue, 2001 June

Campaign chair

  • Time:Frame exhibition catalogue, and introductions by John Miller of Furniture Works and Grant Gibson (Editor Blueprint magazine)
  • Blueprint, Jan 2004 'Young gifted and realistic', Review of the time:frame exhibition. Features Discovery and Hidden Cabinet by Grant Gibson
  • Radio 4, Shop Talk, 30 Dec 2003, 'Minimalist' interview with Terry Noakes on how the rise of minimalist interiors and changing rooms decor has affected the reproduction furniture industry
  • The Guardian Weekend Magazine, 29 Nov 2003, 'Joint Forces' interview and photos taken at the workshop of Terry Noakes (Richard Shed, Alex Taylor and Terry Noakes). Explains the background behind time:frame and shift by Caroline Roux
  • The Independent Magazine 15 Nov 2003, 'Interior Notes Rip It Up',Discovery Drawer featured in review of time:frame exhibition by Caroline Wingfiel
  • Icon magazine, Nov 2003, 'Hidden Cabinet' featured in review of time:frame exhibition by David Taylor
  • Blueprint magazine Nov 2003, 'Time to get in the frame', introducing time:frame exhibition and the Shift group of designers to the masses

Juries, committees and editorial boards

2010

  • Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Mooncup Ltd

    The Faculty of Arts' School of Architecture and Design has entered a Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Mooncup Ltd, Brighton, running over 27 months in 2009‐12. The KTP is worth a total of £126,529, and is funded externally through the Technology Strategy Board. The academic  team include Dr Catherine Harper, Toni Hicks, Kelly Sant , Jenny Hassall,  Lyvia Royd‐Taylor, Dr Lyuba Mikhalovska and Dr Mark Jones (Head of the Collaborative Training Centre).

2008 - 2010

  • Faculty Research Support Fund (FRSF) June 2008

    ‘Breaking the mould: Hybrid Investment Casting’  to create a hybrid investment casting system using digital forms and moulds and casting and hand finishing forms in casting materials such as polymers, bio resins, and elastomers. Kelly has used the fund to create a collaborative partnership with leading Direct Digital manufacture system producers, Stratasys-Fortus USA.

  • Design London, April - June 2008

    Design London is part of the innovation triangle, which blends design (represented by the Royal College of Art), engineering and technology (represented by Imperial College Faculty of Engineering) and the business of innovation (represented by Imperial's Tanaka Business School). It has initial funding of £5.8 million from HEFCE and NESTA). www.designlondon.net.

    As part of Design London's commitment to design-led innovation, they provide the opportunity for the project teams who applied to the Design London Incubator to meet with a selection of engineers, designers, business development people and potential business mentors. Our aim is to facilitate introductions that, where fitting, will lead to either formal or informal associations that complement the venture teams' knowledge and experience.

    Kelly Sant, Arash Kaynama, Jonathan Blaker and Alexander Bismark were Short listed for Design London’s incubator programme and participated in business mentoring and development sessions run by MBA staff for their highly interdisciplinary materials platform.  Working on applications, production systems, markets and business models for ‘WARI PH1’ a polymer foam made of 80% air. Participation in Design London followed on from Arash and Kelly’s WARIBASHI seminar and workshop with the PaCE group at Imperial College London in April.