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This section contains personal and public sector projects, plus a few publicised projects from current and past studios I've worked with. Enjoy!

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RED London Design Festival Exhibition

Designing RED’s LDF ‘Open House’ exhibition and conference

For The London Design Festival I was tasked with producing RED's 'Open House' exhibition, held at the Design Council. From posters to presentation graphics, planning to setup whilst also pushing to complete the refresh of RED's new blog in time for the event. Podcasts and a short film were also developed afterwards to document the exhibition.... Read More

Posted on 10/20

RGB-365 sundial

a spatial interventon combiging micro- and macro-time

Usage patterns of a neglected space in Goldsmiths University grounds were studied and combined with the character of the location to develop a graphic solution to a spatial problem... Read More

Posted on 10/20

MC engineering

identifying design opportunities and new technology applications

As part of the Design Council's technology campaign, which was established to help businesses utilise design and embed it as part of their everyday operations, myself, Nick Marsh and Alex Holmes researched and brainstormed how their technology could be best applied
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Posted on 10/17

Painting by Jumpers

A participatory design product: colour-in wallpaper with your clothes

This is a panoramic wallpaper that has a second adhesive layer which the user can choose to intervene with and dictate the colour of by leaning against or 'dabbing' clothes on it like a paintbrush.... Read More

Posted on 10/17

love me and weave me

a laser-cut chintz pattern as co-designable object

This chair is made from laser cut aluminium sandwiched between laser-cut thick felt. The gaps in the pattern allow the user to 'upholster' the chair, adorning it with anything they wish, or simply leaving it as it is. The boundaries between the 2D and 3D world are played with, as the pattern becomes the object itself.... Read More

Posted on 10/12

The Independent advert prop

a rapidly-produced graphics prop for TV

The Independent ran an advertisement for a free DVD with its weekend paper. They required a mock-up newspaper that would also work as a flick book so that a clip from the dvd would play as the hand model (I'm not kidding) flicked through it.... Read More

Posted on 10/12

guerrilla christmas wrapping

letting your artistic criticisms and feelings be known in a festive way

A great bit of fun re-appropriating a generally disliked but even more generally ignored piece of sculpture in the centre of Goldsmiths College. With a bit of Christmas wrapping paper the piece had become relevant to the season and transformed into what it should be - a gift to all those at the college to look at. Felt naughty doing it but who's going to complain about Christmas?... Read More

Posted on 10/12

one-legged table

a modular, stackable, repairable, replaceable, sustainable inter-connecting table system

The second stage of the etiquette project at Goldsmiths was to use the group-produced film to develop social, communal and donative designs which subverted and played on the function of dining objects and social networks that form around dining experiences and physical layouts.... Read More

Posted on 10/12

don’t fear the faux-pas

celebrating accidents and questioning dining etiquette

One of three mini-concepts to come from a research project investigating dining etiquette, this pair of objects question an irrational heightened fear of accidents in a dining situation... Read More

Posted on 10/12

slow food

hourglass and a legless table…

The second phase of a project investigating etiquette around dining and translating it into objects branched into a few different directions. This pair pf objects were based oon the speed at which we eat and taking the time to improve the quality of the experience, which often requires sacrificing speed and efficiency.... Read More

Posted on 10/12

Axontex opportunity document

presenting a summary of possibilities for a new technology

As part of the Design Council's Technology Campaign, myself Alex Holmes and Nick Marsh set up a multi-disciplined design studio, which provided a range of design services to eight UK based technology startups... Read More

Posted on 10/12

Big Brother 5

the design brief: be evil to the users…

I spent two months as a task designer / maker for Big Brother 5, the original 24 hour reality TV show. Being 24 hour, the deadlines were hectic and being live the design team had to respond imaginatively and immediately.... Read More

Posted on 10/12