Young designers Helen Jarvis and Alan Syxomexune don’t do things by
halves. Their first retail venture together sees them setting up a laser
cutting service complete with a cutting machine twice the size of any currently
on offer in Auckland. The machine, with facility to cut wood, plastic or
paper up to 20 mm thick, allows rapid prototyping of things like architectural
models and can also be used for creating products such as furniture or jewellery.
The pair, a graphic design graduate and post graduate architectural
student respectively, plan to offer a laser cutting service to the public
priced at student rates. In addition their new premises at 203 K’ Road
entitled Work I Shop will provide retail space for their own laser cut
jewellery and homeware items sold under the label Wandrer. The Wandrer brand will also share space with clothing from Alan’s menswear range Dishonest
Want and prints supplied by two illustrator friends. An upstairs space is earmarked for a workroom
where Helen and Alan can fashion their own creations on site as well as fulfil
a recent commitment to ‘the100daysproject’.
‘We’re aiming to create one desirable object a day,’ says Helen. Work I Shop will open on Monday 8 July.
