Talk Design | "Things Considered" with Marlon Darbeau

Marlon Darbeau is the founder of By Making, an object design studio, he is also the co-founder of Praktis Design which specializes in design communication. A graduate of the College of Science Technology and Applied Arts of Trinidad & Tobago (COSTAATT) and John Donaldson technical Institute, his career spans over 20 years.

He has practiced in various disciplines including Communication Design, Identity Design, Packaging, Environmental and Furniture Design. He comes from a family tradition of making things in workshops either at home or very close to home - his father manufactures sheet metal mailboxes, his great-uncle was a welding fabricator and his grandfather specialized in the making of wooden windows and doors.

Darbeau is interested in how his family-making traditions intersect with his practice as a Designer. He uses this convergence to formulate ways of creating projects. Through ‘design and making’ he investigates the relationship between the utilitarian object, people and place.

Join Marlon on this journey on Thursday 2nd October at 1:00pm at the UWI RBL Building, DCFA Gordon Street St Augustine.

You may also like the following events from Department of Creative and Festival Arts, UWI:

• This November, 7th November, 07:00 pm, UWI Arts Dance - "Rhythm of Culture" in Port Of Spain

Also check out other Arts events in Saint Augustine, Workshops in Saint Augustine.