OK-RM, founded by Oliver Knight and Rory McGrath in 2008, is a studio intent on pushing the potentialities of what a design practice can be. Design is here understood, in its broadest sense, as a means of communicating, as a transitive verb that operates laterally across disciplines and media, and finds realisation in an arresting and aesthetic language.

Each project pursued by the studio, be that a book, an identity, film, exhibition or installation, grows out of a process of conceptually rigorous investigation, with Knight and McGrath attending closely to both the formal properties and the contextual nexus within which the project participates. A project is thus a proposition, a means to interrogate beliefs, procedures, behavioural, temporal and material realities, and (re)consider what it means to be in the world, and work together.

With strong relationships to individuals and institutions across the UK,
US, Europe, Japan and China, OK-RM’s ongoing collaborations evidence fluency in varying modes of communicating, the agility to move between rhetorical approaches, and a certain confidence to attend to the feeling at the core of each project. OK-RM takes care to understand their collaborators' field, intuit their needs and realise them with authority and nuance.

Each project affords a designation of time for sustained research and investigation; OK-RM work closely with the granular structure of objects and ideas as much as to the wider culture that they inhabit. This duet between
the micro and macro, formal and relational, is a durational exercise, one that enables our work to meaningfully exist in, and participate with, the world.

Commissioners have included:
1017-ALYX-9SM, 51n4e, BOYY, EXTRALESS, Goldwin 0, Guggenheim, JW Anderson, Kenzo, Lisson Gallery, Maximillian William, Newrope, Patcharavipa, REAL Review, (RE)PICTURE, Rose Los Angeles, Sankuanz, Soft Baroque, South London Gallery, Sternberg Press, Strelka Institute, Super YAYA, Taiga Takahashi (T.T / T.T-I-A), The Hepworth Wakefield, The Met, The Tate.

Coco Capitán, Dostálková sisters, FOS, Gabriel Kuri, Haegue Yang, Juergen Teller, Jonathan Monk, Kirstine Roepstorff, Matthew Williams, Reggie Sylvester II, Rhea Dillon, Shezad Dawood, Theo Simpson, Virgil Abloh, Vivienne Westwood, Wolfgang Tillmans, Yung Lean.

Working together is at the heart of OK-RM’s studio practice. Attracting
to, and reacting to, a varied and vibrant ecosystem of disciplines and personalities. Designers, artists, producers, art historians, programmers,
poets, architects, educators, in short, an array of sensibilities, inhabit and remodel various roles within our practice dependent on the focus of a project.

• Commissions and General Enquiries
• info@ok-rm.co.uk
• +44 (0) 207 046 0370

Employment
We do not currently have any vacancies. Speculative applications can be sent to employment@ok-rm.co.uk (CV, covering letter and portfolio of maximum 10mb).

Workspace
A studio (90m²) is available in our shared workspace in East London for designers, fabricators, and artists.
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