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A common platform for change
Through embedded design work, I have been documenting a real time study of social innovation, enabled via collaborative funding in the digital economy (ie. Crowdfunding). This has principally taken the form of working with a community bakery, as it engages with the community, and supporting them in delivering a successful…
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Plenty of Food
The opportunity to align the social capacity of a community and its surplus resources (food waste) becomes a social space to bridge the gap between rich, poor and socially isolated people in deprived areas. Plenty of Food acts as a match maker between peoples interests, free time and resources and…
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UtopiaNOW
The use of games for research was explored through this study, that produced a game that can capture opinions comparing disparate (but inter-related) global risks. Players act as collective decision makers, role playing as a (not yet existing) global governance, achieving consensus by debate. Whilst there is general agreement by…
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The V Pen
The V Pen (which I like to think inspired Stylo’s S pen released several years later) was a pen designed to eliminate writing strain in the hand. Simply put, the pen was designed to fit the hand. The Pen also had a novel feature which would allow it to fold…
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Unfinished Triangle
A hand made lampshade, formed from two hyperbolic parabola. Interestingly enough the only way to fold paper in such a way that creates double curvature. Shortlisted in the Macef ‘Intelligent Hand’ award.
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4 Dimensional Entity
A costume developed for a film.
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The Tree
A concept for a non-visual computer interface. Designed with the visually impaired in mind, this device converts common computer functions into manipulatable objects projected from the computer’s housing. Each object represents an application, by rotating, pressing and using touch gestures, an applications functions are spoken to the user. With speech…
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Coventry University Alumni Hub
The complete redevelopment of the Alumni website for Coventry University. The previous site have over 500 pages that were relatively disorganised, so the project started with an assessment of their previous content and a redesign of the structure of the site. Later, a new visual design, including extensive graphic assets…
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Social Posters
A ran a couple of Socials at Woodend Creative Studios where I am based. I thought I’d have some fun designing some posters for the event!
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Sofa Sculpture Sketches
Sketched designs for centrepeice furnitures for the D&AD Vitra Sofa design competition, for which the brief was to design a sofa that would be manufactured between 8 – 12 times at a cost of up to £120,000. These sketches informed the development of Frozen Moment
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Lemon Peel
A flat pack luxury chair I made for myself during my studies.
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Frozen Moment
A competition project for Vitra through D&AD, this student project was to design a sofa that would be produced only 8-12 times and cost between £8,000 – £120,000. It is clear that the brief is calling for a sculpture that can be sat upon. I created a form inspired by…
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The Opus
The Opus was a both an academic thesis and reimagining of the concept of personal transport looking forward over the next 50 years. It was featured in AutoCar magazine’s November 2011 issue and was a finalist in the Autocar-Courland ‘Next Generation’ Award 2011. It was a compendium of all my…
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XJ2020 Concept
Conceptual design in 2011 for Jaguar, highlighting what at that time was the very latest developments in technology and manufacturing capability. ‘Bio polymer solid state suspension that forms the chassis, with flexing aerofoils to cool hot swappable inductive/cable charged batteries, charged when in use by a hydrogen fuel cell, fueled…
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The Danse Society – White Rabbit
Speed drawing as a music video for the Danse Society’s 5th Album ‘Scary Tales.’ Produced in collaboration with York Place Films. Additional artwork for supplimentary artbook that came with the physical release of the album.
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Coventry University
As part of a range of work done for Coventry University, including developing their Alumni Hub website, I produced this flyer for the school of art and design’s new Alumni society.
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Brave Young God – Sinking Rhombus
Album art for Brave Young God’s debut Album ‘Sinking Rhombus.’
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Connor Lawlor – Castles
Album Art for Connor Lawlor’s debut EP ‘Back To You’ and single ‘Castles.’ For ‘Back To You’ a photographic cover was commisioned. Later, for Castles, a digital painting was commisioned.
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Devious Dogs – Dog House
The band ‘Devious Dogs’ had a strong direction in mind when they came to me with the brief for their latest album ‘Dog House.’ They wanted 80’s b-movie colours, a night-swept monochrome street, and a visual imagining of the setting for their music. The album art works across a gatefold,…
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The Cambridge Centre
This well known charity offers drug and alcohol rehabilitation services, and it was wonderful to work with a business that provides such a positive impact as well as a support for some of us that have fallen through the limited safety net that society affords us. Before even the project…
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Music
Acrylic, Ink and Charcoal. Sometimes the journeys we take are inwardly and experienced within our own universes. We change continually from a state of juvenalia to (hopefully) maturity and wisdom, and whilst each of our journeys can only be perceived by us in our minds, we have found some way…
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It’s In All Our Hands
If I had worked with charcoal once in my life before this it was at school and I can’t remember it. In an experiment to see how far I could push the medium in my first time using it, I decided to work from an image of the illustrious Patrick…
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Initial Dependence
Sketch. Biro on paper. I’ve uploaded this sketch because it’s really a proof of concept for myself and I thought you might find it interesting. As James Gleick puts it in his book ‘Chaos Theory’, If you should try to predict where one particle at the top of a waterfall…
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Heart One
Digital Painting. This piece was developed as a logo, but it turned out that was merely an excuse to get this form out of my head and onto screen.
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Field 19
Ink on paper. If you’ve been looking closely you may notice these contour lines in a lot of my pieces. This form of patternation fascinates me in the way that it exists as a 2 dimensional image but in the human mind it forms a bewilderingly complex three dimensional surface….
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Cardboard Cyborg
Ink on paper. Piece created for the Cardboard Cyborg community robot disco event held in Scarborough once per month. It’s very difficult to sum up this event in words let alone an image, but I tried my hardest! Extra points for spotting Dying Optimus Prime’s shin synth being played by…
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Tree Sketch
Ink on hand made paper. 140 x 190mm. Working in Northamptonshire, cycling up and down the grand union canal every day, I felt connected to the megalithic scale of the canals, and of some of the ancient trees within the surrounding forests. Many of which were over half a millennia old. Imagine…
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£5 communal guitar
Our first communal guitar got smashed over someone’s head. So we decided to spend even less on the second one. Whilst this one eventually exploded when being gently placed on a bean bag (it was so warped it had the action of a double bass) it still lasted long enough…
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Teagul
Silly tattoo design for a buddy. The Teagul uses spoon talons to catch digestive pigeons. Pen and Ink with digitally painted colouring. Signed Print £25
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Is
Enamel and Metallic Paint.
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Cube (Time Displaced)
Ink on hand-made paper. This was actually the first expression of the three dimensional structure which eventually led to ‘One Line’ four years later. This piece was drawn sitting on a train platform in Wolverton in Northamptonshire in a Papyrus sketchbook. At that time I was living a somewhat nomadic…
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One Line
Ink on Board. This is the refined expression of a style I began developing back in 2008, with ‘Cube – Time Displaced’ that started out life as part of one of my sketchbooks. I would like to think that this piece exists as both a static image and as an…