These Designers Have an (Emoji-Inspired) Basketmaking Club Curbed 12/14/2020 Diana Budds
Jamie Wolfond, the Toronto-based industrial designer behind the now-shuttered home-goods brand Good Thing, and Adrianus Kundert, a Dutch designer, became friends a couple years ago over Instagram after realizing a shared interest in weaving with shipping straps. They’ve kept in touch since, and when the pandemic started to lead to canceled design events like the Milan Furniture Fair, where Wolfond and Kundert were both supposed to exhibit new work they decided to begin a project of their own. They called it the Basket Club.
The premise is fairly simple: Wolfond and Kundert pick an emoji. Then they send a brief to the group of designers, which includes Jean Lee and Dylan Davis from Ladies & Gentlemen Studio; Carole Baijings, who often makes home goods for Hay; RISD professor and furniture-maker Christopher Specce; and Studio Gorm, the designers behind the recent “Fu