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Marlon Darbeau

Marlon Darbeau is a Designer and Founder of By Making. He comes from a family tradition of making things in a workshop at home or very close to home. He has become very interested in how those traditions intersect with his practice as a Designer, and in using this convergence to formulate ways of making his work. His investigations of the relationship between utilitarian objects, making, people and place, lead to his debut exhibition En Route . . . Of Bridges and Barriers in December 2008, at Alice Yard. A review of which appeared on Smallaxe, a Caribbean platform for criticism.

He has shown at “NEXT”, a Contemporary Art + Design Group Exhibition at BECA Gallery New Orleans, and has participated in Erotic Artweek 2009 Trinidad & Tobago. ‘Peera’ a re interpretation of a traditional small bench was part of the Global Africa Project at the Museum of Arts and Design, NYC. November 2010 – May 2011. In September 2011 his project ‘DISHOUT’ was shown at Design Caribbean in the Dominican Republic. In December 2012, “By Making…More than just a place to sit” was shown at Granderson Lab in Belmont, featuring projects Peera, Dishout, Outin and Spurs.

In April 2016 he was part of the group show Meet My Project in Milan as part of Milan Design Week. A graduate of College of Science Technology and Applied Arts of Trinidad & Tobago (COSTAATT) and John Donaldson Technical Institute, his career spans over 15 years. He has designed in various fields, including Advertising, Coporate Identity Design, Packaging Design, Environmental Design and Furniture/Object Design.

He has received numerous awards at both the AAATT and CAF ADDY Awards, and has had his design work featured online in major design journals ( Artzpub/Draconian Switch, Core77, Creative Review, Design Indaba, Interior Design, Elle Décor, Design Boom, Moco Loco). His work has also been featured in Maco Living, Maco Source book and the in flight magazine Caribbean Beat.