DR ME Studio Visit

Manchester based DR ME came to visit and talk to us about their studio practice, methods, inspiration. They began talking about how they became to be a collaboration of two, and how they were simply next to each other on the register at uni in Manchester. They found a mutual love of hand crafting projects, and making thing with their hands before any digital manipulation.

They talked to us about their website, and how they are not particularly web savvy, and so went for a simple cargo theme. Their chosen aesthetic is very low fi, and feels playful and experimental. They emphasised that they make things by hand because it is a labour of love, and that the desired visual is almost always cut and paste. They talked about their studio space, and that they simple DIY it when it comes to making their work, for example, they designed and made the video for the band Dutch Uncles, and this was a very labour intensive process whereby cut out visuals were gradually made up to form a stop motion video, made up of 1800 frames.


Ultimately, they explained that first and foremost they are driven by art, rather than design, and design seems to be the bi product of projects that use conceptual, and abstract media rather then the more methodical restraints of design in the formal sense. Their work overall feels like it has been made with love, and I personally think that it is well suited towards the music industry, prints and self initiated projects that have a sense of fun.