Ana Córdoba Crespo

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Ana Córdoba Crespo is a multidisciplinary designer from Spain, based in London, she recently graduated from Central Saint Martins with a BA in Fashion Print and is now on the Summer Cohort of Under30's 2024.

Ana's work blends fashion and technology, as both a physical and digital designer - Ana creates and Simulates digital garments to explore design, fit, and movement virtually.

I see technology as a catalyst for fashion innovation, believing that digital twins of physical garments can reach a wider audience by existing in both realms.

During her residency at Makerversity with access to 3D printers and prototyping facilities, Ana is launching her first collection of 3D-printed bags, an avant-garde line that aims to embrace the intricate interplay between humanity and technology in the modern age. They represent the fight for genuine originality in a world where everything can be copied. Every piece would be produced made to order, ensuring a more conscious consumption and production chain.

This collection challenges individuals to consider: In a world where reflections are indistinguishable, what is our genuine nature?

You can follow Ana's work and the launch of her new collection via her Instagram @ana.cordoba.crespo

Elfreda Dali

Elfreda Dali is a London-based multidisciplinary artist exploring figurative textile art. With a background in fashion and wearable art, her creative process is driven by research on diasporic cultures and fusions. Using leather and textile work to evoke narratives around family, labor, self-exploration, and migration.

The guiding principles behind Elfredas creative mission is craftsmanship and sustainability. Her process combines different textiles including leather, cotton, repurposed clothing and acrylics. These collaged materials depict the human condition in contrast to our geographical locations resulting in a "topographic aesthetic." Utilising delicate hand woven lines and patterns, she skilfully evokes the geographical and psychological complexities inherent in diasporic journeys, mirroring the intricate pathways of migration and adaptation.

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Elfreda studied at Ravensbourne University, where she learnt print and production techniques which is fundamental to how she creates couture garments. Leather being the primary material initiates deeper conversations from its symbolic representation of race, lineage, history, and personal odysseys. During her Under30's residency, Elfreda has been utilising the fashion & textile worksop at Makerversity, accessing the sewing machines, embroidery, and pattern cutting tables to hand sew alongside a community of other fashion & textile artists.

Keep up with Elfreda's work and upcoming exhibitions here.

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Linnea Vemes

Linnea is a conceptual sculptor and designer maker informed by critical design. She is exploring speculative realities that broach sustainable issues including climate change, biodiversity loss and waste culture; with a particular focus on embracing what she calls 'glitches in human behaviour'. Linnea defines this term as 'human error that can manifest through hypocrisy in sustainable goals', such as wanting to breath clean air but participating in deforestation, as well as technological or process failure that are illustrated through physical shapes in her artefacts.

My ambition is to ask the right questions about human behaviour and its relationship to their environment. I investigate juxtapositions of technology and craftsmanship and combine them in my work.

Linneas research currently manifests into sculptural objects but draw from her education as a product designer and designer maker. With no material limitations she forms her ideas by exploring a variety of methods. Some of them include mould making such as vacuum form, plaster and silicone moulds, but also metal and slip casting. 3D scanning, printing, and methods of recording her surroundings is a constant - distorting and altering the pieces into abstraction, whilst embracing the impossibility of exact replication.

Linnea has joined the summer cohort of Under30's to utilise the access to a range of machines and workshops all in one space. Using woodwork, fashion, and metal, but primarily digital fabrication - being able to rapidly prototype with 3D printers to create objects which showcase interaction of technology and craftsmanship. The core focus during the residency has been continuing her project 'Memory Forest', which involves 3D scanning trees, 3D printing them and casting them in materials such as aluminium, embracing limitations and 'glitches' which is a continual theme in her pieces.

Find more of Linneas work and on-going projects here.