JamFactory Product Collection
JamFactory studio production focuses on the design of useful, innovative products. These objects highlight the craft methods behind their production and the specific characteristics of the materials used.
JamFactory products are designed in-house by creative staff or through collaboration with independent designers.
Each piece is manufactured within one or more of the JamFactory's four studios in ceramics, glass, furniture, and metal design. Studio staff guide and assist emerging artists and designers with the production of these items as an important part of JamFactory's intensive, two year traning program.
JAMJAR Storage Jar
Designed by Deb Jones, Tom Mirams and Brian Parkes, hand-made in the Glass and Furniture Design Studios
The collaborative design process is deeply embedded in JamFactory history and philosophy and the JAMJAR Storage Jar was designed in this way by former Glass Studio Designer Deb Jones, Furniture Studio Creative Director Tom Mirams and CEO and Artistic Director Brian Parkes. The final resolution of the design evolved over a slow and steady 18 month period of prototyping and testing to ensure an optimum balance between elegance, simplicity and functionality.
The JAMJAR is made using traditional glass blowing and wood turning techniques. Each jar is made by a team of glassblowers who blow the tapered form into a specially designed wooden mould in JamFactory’s Glass Studio. The blackwood and cork stoppers are laminated, turned and later hand finished and oiled in the JamFactory Furniture Studio.
The JAMJAR’s design explores contrasts between the soft-edged hardness and lightness of blown glass and the hard-edged softness and density of turned wood. The eye-catching JAMJAR is useful in kitchens and cafes for displaying and storing pasta, grains, biscuits, lollies and lots more, available in clear, amber, and smoke.
PADDLE Bread Board
Designed and hand-made by the Furniture Design Studio
JamFactory’s Furniture Studio worked with glass blowers in the Glass Studio to test the ergonomics of multiple paddle prototypes in order to refine the weight and grip of a traditional glass blowers paddle. The paddle is used primarily to shield the glass blowers arms and body from the searing heat and occasionally to manipulate the molten glass. The paddles are made from slow-burning, dense grained cherry wood. The PADDLE Bread Board is, quite simply, the glass blowers paddle hand sanded to a fine, food-ready surface.
This beautiful utilitarian craftsperson’s tool is suitable as a chopping board, for serving bread or even as platter for cheese or other tasty treats.
AIRCRAFT Brooch
Designed by Christian Hall, hand-made in the Metal Design Studio
Christian Hall is a cross-disciplinary designer; he originally trained in object and jewellery design at Sydney College of the Arts, at the University of Sydney and is currently the Creative Director of JamFactory Metal Design Studio. His practice has expanded to encompass industrial design as well as jewellery and lighting. Christian completed a Masters of Visual Arts in 2003 and has held a number of lecturing positions and been the recipient of numerous grants.
Hand made from laser cut blanks in the JamFactory Metal Design Studio, the AIRCRAFT Brooch employs miniaturized industrial techniques in its manufacture, such as having its pin welded on under a microscope. The AIRCRAFT brooch is fashioned from stainless steel before being powder-coated.
AIRCRAFT Lamp
Designed by Christian Hall, hand-made in the Metal Design Studio
Christian Hall is a cross-disciplinary designer; he originally trained in object and jewellery design at Sydney College of the Arts, at the University of Sydney and is currently the Creative Director of JamFactory Metal Design Studio. His practice has expanded to encompass industrial design as well as jewellery and lighting. Christian completed a Masters of Visual Arts in 2003 and has held a number of lecturing positions and been the recipient of numerous grants.
The AIRCRAFT Lamp is made from laser cut Stainless Steel and is pressed, folded and TIG welded in the JamFactory Metal Design Studio. The making process is a model of efficient studio-based manufacture that combines custom-built tooling, specialist skills and local industry to achieve a viable high quality product. Originating from flat sheet stainless steel, the form of the lamp is the result of a creative design process that moves from the graphic image to sculptural form and arrives at a domestic function.
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DEMI PLIE Side Table
Designed by Lex Stobie, hand-made in the Furniture Design Studio
Lex Stobie has established himself as a discerning craftsman and is currently the Program Manager in JamFactory’s Furniture Studio. He is an accomplished designer-maker producing high quality furniture items for public and private use from his Adelaide workshop. Equipped with formal training from both New Zealand and Australia, Lex blends traditional artistry with contemporary interpretation as the basis for his work.
The form of DEMI PLIE was derived from the state of symmetry that a ballerina gracefully delivers. DEMI PLIE was designed in part to enhance the training of Associates in the Furniture Studio – it requires the use of traditional and contemporary manufacturing processes, including the individual book-matching of the solid timber tabletops. DEMI PLIE is an elegant and highly functional side table suitable for a wide variety of interior environments.
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SOPHIA Nesting Bowl
Designed and hand-made by the Ceramic Studio
The SOPHIA bowls have evolved as a collaborative design effort from past and present members of the JamFactory Ceramics Studio including Kirsten Coelho, David Pedlar, Sophia Phillips and Prue Venables. The indent detail running around the outside of the bowl gives each piece a tactile quality, which also aids the functionality. The bowls are made using traditional studio production processes, each one being finessed and finished by hand.
The SOPHIA bowls are robust in their outline and are designed as serving dishes or to simply act as a beautiful centrepiece for a table or kitchen counter. The SOPHIA Bowls are available in four sizes suitable for a variety of uses; the smaller bowls are the perfect size for antipasto whilst the larger sizes are ideal for serving a generous salad. These nesting bowls are sold separately in four sizes and are currently available in white glazed porcelain.
KINK Vinegar Bottle
Designed by Deb Jones, hand-made in the Glass Studio.
The KINK Vinegar Bottle is made using traditional glass blowing techniques. Working together as a synchronised team, glassblowers gather molten glass from the furnace on the end of a steel blow-pipe. The form is blown to the desired size using callipers to measure the length and width. The bottle is then transferred or ‘puntied’ to another steel rod to enable the lip of the bottle to be finished. Finally, the neck of the bottle is gently heated with a torch while constantly rotating – the kink is formed by gravity when the rotation stops.
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STRETCH Jug
Designed by Deb Jones and Christine Cholewa, hand-made in the Glass and Metal Design Studios.
The STRETCH Jug has been designed as a product to utilise the specialist skills and facilities of JamFactory’s Glass and Metal Design Studios. The jug itself is hand-formed using traditional glass blowing processes, while the anodised aluminium stirrers require precise industrial metalworking techniques in their production. The combination of these two elements ensures that each jug is unique and both studios use the manufacturing of the STRETCH Jug as a valuable training tool for participants in JamFactory’s two-year Associate program.
PRESS salad servers
Designed by John Quan, hand-made by the Furniture Design Studio
The Salad Servers are made in small batches using a customised press-mould tool to create the distinctive shape. The original challenge behind the design was to create a three-dimensional form from flat sheets of timber veneer. During the development of the design, many different compound angles were tested in order to achieve an elegant rigid structure without tearing or snapping the timber veneers.
The Salad Servers, whilst simple in their form and function, are thoughtfully crafted, practical objects. Each piece is made separately and finished by hand in the JamFactory Furniture Studio, ensuring a high quality end product.
KINK Oil Bottle
Designed by Deb Jones, hand-made by the Glass Studio
The KINK oil bottle is made using traditional glass blowing techniques. Working together as a synchronised team, glassblowers gather molten glass from the furnace on the end of a steel blow-pipe. The form is blown to the desired size using callipers to measure the length and width. The bottle is then transferred or ‘puntied’ to another steel rod to enable the lip of the bottle to be finished. Finally, the neck of the bottle is gently heated with a torch while constantly rotating – the kink is formed by gravity when the rotation stops.
The design and production process ensures that each piece is unique. The simple kink in the neck emphasises the function of the bottle as well as the material qualities of hand-blown glass – it also adds a sense of delight to the ergonomics of pouring. KINK is a useful object with a bold sculptural presence, available in lime, olive and clear.