Nolan Talbot-Kelly (b. 1995) is a designer living and working in Vancouver, BC. He holds a Bachelor of Design from Emily Carr University of Art + Design.Drawing influence from the built environment—brackets, fasteners, supports, and infrastructural details— Talbot-Kelly creates furniture, lighting, and sculptural pieces rooted in craftsmanship and conceptual inquiry. His design language blurs the boundary between utility and aesthetic by appropriating mass-produced materials in ways that transcend their commercial utility.Talbot-Kelly embraces constraint as both a conceptual and practical framework. His prioritization of sustainability through reuse has led to a design process that embraces limitation - material, technical, or circumstantial constraints result in pragmatic, ad hoc solutions born from working with what is at hand. These lines of inquiry culminate into one-off works poised between function and sculpture, limited series and scalable designs developed for production.Talbot-Kelly’s work has been exhibited in Canada and the United States and he is the co-creator of Obj:Obj, a design exhibition showcasing Vancouver’s independent design scene.
