LONDON.- British designer Simon Hasan, recently highlighted by Wallpaper Magazine in their 2010 UK Fab 40, is to offer the public artworks at the amazing price of £3. Hasan’s work usually sells for thousands. Industrial Makeshift is an unpretentious antidote to the art market. Hasan has used the medieval leather-working technique of Cuir Bouilli to mass-produce over 400 handcrafted objects, which can be purchased in the usual coin-operated way from a conventional vending machine. Selling for only £3, the pieces are moulded on archetypes of mass-production such as cola bottles or anonymous pound-shop plastic objects. Rendered in hardened leather, these symbols of globalised industry become curious artefacts with an almost archaeological quality. All proceeds from this installation will be donated to the Northampton Market Trader’s Association. In recent years Northampton’s 700 year-old market has witnessed the nearby explosive growth of high street chains that are part of an