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Libby Day: designer maker

Meet a maker whose work incorporates a dynamic blend of natural elements and modern structures.

About Libby

Aberdeen based Libby Day graduated from Grays School of Art in 2008 with a 1st class honours degree in Three Dimensional Design. While there, she engaged with traditional and digital methods of design practice, which inform her work today. Her distinctive designs have since appeared in exhibitions across the UK.

Libby’s vision

Libby uses a mix of traditional craftsmanship and computer technology to celebrate the tension between the natural landscape and built environments. Designs inspired by natural elements are presented in a structured form, while geometric patterns are given an organic life.

For Meet Your Maker, she has created elegant, sculptural fruit bowls inspired by photographs of trees taken from the top of the National Museum of Scotland. This transformation process can be seen in her sketchbooks, also on display in the exhibition.

Libby’s work also explores scale. The patterns she creates are applied across a range of objects, from jewellery and small boxes to furniture and lighting.