Tell it All with Leather and Stripes: To be a Stroyteller with Materials Instead of Words

This chapter describes the project Narrating Material Aesthetics, which contributes to the study of the designer's narrative authority, partly through an analysis of students’ work and partly through a design experiment. The project has been carried out as an artistic research project, which means it has been completed by a designer whose use of design methods and reflective practice generates new knowledge about design. The project Narrating Material Aesthetics lies in the intersection of a number of design research fields: storytelling, material, aesthetics and design processes. It invites us to consider the work on the material and the appearance of design as being more than just styling.