OK-RM Information

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.