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Exhibition Showcases Emerging Designers' Resourceful Creations

An exhibition titled 'With Limitations' highlights how emerging London designers overcome financial and material constraints with innovative solutions.

The show features 130 objects by 102 designers, demonstrating resourcefulness. Examples include sand-cast cotton trays, lamps from tent poles, and furniture from offcuts.

Material costs led to using scavenged items and offcuts. Designers resorted to home-based production and hacking existing machinery.

Innovations include kitchen tiles from wilted flowers and lamps from found canisters or craft wire.

Design Everything, the collective behind the show, aims for an honest industry portrayal, offering an accessible platform unlike costly traditional exhibitions.

The collective's past shows used unconventional spaces like a van to promote accessibility and community.

Visitors can interact with the designs, which range from sofas made of road signs to a Jenga set reimagined as drawers.

The exhibition includes designer interviews and workshop photos, with the collective seeking funding.

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