Pollen

DEFINITION
A fine powdery substance, typically yellow, consisting of microscopic grains discharged from the male part of a flower or from a male cone. Each grain contains a male gamete that can fertilize the female ovule, to which pollen is transported by the wind, insects, or other animals.

ORIGIN
1760 as a botanical term, earlier “dust” (1523), from Latin pollen “mill dust, fine flour” related to polenta “peeled barley”

Pollen was created in 2014 by Kanishka Perera as a design studio and consultancy. In practice it functions more as a “collaborative” than a conventional design studio. It is the expression of an idea that had been gestating for over six years while he worked as an architect in London throughout the first decade of the new millennium.

Pollen is about celebrating design through the acts of drawing, sculpting and making. We put a strong emphasis on collaborating with other disciplines as a way of cross pollinating our own work with a richness that we often find is missing. We believe this richness should be apparent even in the everyday, what some would consider the mundane or the little things – a tea cup, a window sill or even a button.

We design just about anything whether it’s a sculpture, a pavilion a building or a door handle. We love to design and we love to create.