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Meet Torsten Sherwood in our latest Design Museum video

Date
26 September 2014

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One of the best things about this year’s Designers in Residence is that it takes big ideas and makes them accessible to the gallery-going public. Nowhere is this more obvious than in Torsten Sherwood’s work, which looks at disrupting traditional patterns of play with a new kind of interlocking building block that reimagines the basic functions of LEGO. Not only can you see how Tortsen’s ideas developed at the show, you can also have a go yourself which adds a fantastically fun element to proceedings.

For the next in our series of video interviews filmed in the run-up to the exhibition opening, we went into Torsten’s north London studio to meet him, see his space and see how it was all coming together.

A sculpture made of overlapping, scale-like discs in shades of red and orange. It forms a tall, tapered tower that stands on a white plinth alongside several loose discs. On the wall behind, a quote in pale text reads, “Any combination is possible, and because you’re not trying to find the solution to a pre-set problem defined by a particular geometry it feels more intuitive, curious and basically, playful.”
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Torsten Sherwood’s work at Designers In Residence 2014 (Photo by Luke Hayes)

A person stands against a plain white wall, looking directly at the camera. They wear a light blue button-down shirt under a dark navy jacket.
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Torsten Sherwood (Photo by Cat Garcia)

People wander through a bright gallery space, their figures blurred to suggest movement. In the foreground, a large, pink sculptural structure made of overlapping organic shapes stands beside a green wall.
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Torsten Sherwood’s work at Designers In Residence 2014 (Photo by Luke Hayes)

Three people assemble a large, abstract sculpture made of interlocking brown cardboard circles. They work on a white plinth inside a bright, minimalist gallery space.
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Torsten Sherwood’s work at Designers In Residence 2014 (Photo by Luke Hayes)

We are excited to present a social evening with this year’s Designers in Residence and Special Guests on Tuesday 14 October. Come along to meet the designers and find out more about their interests and working methods through informal presentations, followed by drinks and discussions. Tickets cost £14 (£10.50 students) and includes entry to the show. Find out more here.

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Rob Alderson

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Rob Alderson is a freelance writer, editor and strategist. He was previously editor-in-chief of It’s Nice That and WePresent, and editor of Design Week. He publishes the newsletter Undo, which tries to make sense of how AI is changing design work, the design process and the design industry.

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