Oh, hi. Mattering is a design practice for art and advanced technologies, working across research, motion, and experience.

The studio works with change across culture and technology, translating emerging conditions into new creative languages.

Mattering is founded by Curtis Baigent, Norra Abdul Rahim & Dan Hoopert.






Our practice spans multiple forms of making and inquiry including:

1. Creative Research & Development.

2. Visual Communication, Motion & Design.

3. Spatial & Interactive Experiences.


Previous partners include;

Technology & Innovation:
IBM, Meta, Apple, Google, Samsung, Genki Robotics.

Artists & Cultural Figures:
Björk, Chemical Brothers.

Cultural Institutions & Platforms:
SPACE10, Roundhouse, Olympic Foundation Culture & Heritage, Film 4.

Design, Architecture & Creative Studios:
Modem, Ron Arad, Zaha Hadid Architects.

Brands:
Nike, MTV, MCM, Hyundai, Coca-Cola, Honda, BMW, Mercedes.
Curtis Baigent’s creative direction / design archive.





CG studies in complex macro butterfly wing structures.


‘Banding’ 🎶
Identity, Motion and Design.





Genki Robotics
[Confidential Design Research]


Noise Field, Sound Field.
[Design Research—In Progress]

Studies in algorithmic kurinuki for ceramic sound systems, with Concept Object .



↓ Cartography of Closeness— 02:Mountain Chains.



↓ Cartography of Closeness—01:Nutrients 🔗




↓ Flows.
[Visual Research]


↓ Imbue 🔗





↓ Generative sound-systems explorations.


Terraforms 
[Visual Research].

↓ We Experience Two Systems Navigating the Concept of Hedonism 🔗




↓ Studies in Gently Held Arrangement 🔗


Branching and blooming studies. [Visual Research]

↓ Humanoid Counterparts 🔗




↓ Cycles: A quiet timer for meditation.






↓ Phototropics 🔗