Here are some examples of other projects and products I have designed.

Sunday Papers

This project uses tightly rolled newspaper. I was exploring a Sunday papers compressed life cycle and was inspired by the bundles of newspapers left out side shops on a Saturday night ready for sale in the morning, They have a cultural and economic value, and that the same product has a different set of values by Monday morning, in that the news is old news and their value is for pulp. I wondered that if by simply repackaging, the material life cycle could be extended. At the end of their extended life they can still be recycled.
Images are around the circumference and are often selected and placed with an influence of pure serendipity.

Here is a link to a video on YouTube showing the making process: Go to Tube video
If you do make one I would love to see the results, just post me a pic to the email address in the contacts page, enjoy.

Flipper

Does a product actually have to be made to be of any use?
Well may be not.....
Throughout the UK there is a growing problem of cars being parked on pavements (sidewalks), often illegally and increasingly causing an inconvenience.
Very little is done to tackle this inconvenience and obstruction caused.
The structural damage will cost huge amounts of money to repair, meanwhile people are left to walk into the traffic flow, often with very small and vulnerable children.

Flipper is one possible solution......maybe

Coppice Wine Rack

Bespoke coppice hazel wine rack.
Built to fit any space, the sawn hazel branches are loosely stacked to hold a variable number of particle board bottle tubes.

As part of the Was-A-Log project, Coppice explores the use of locally sourced and crafted wood that has a traceable history juxtaposed to the anonymous CNC cut particle board.
This design highlights our relationship with products their materials and provenance. Knowing the complete history of a product, I believe, helps form a deeper understanding and connection between the customer and their purchase.
Here is the provenance of one of the Coppice racks:
The hazel rods and ash uprights come from known sources. The hazel was coppiced from a local woodland (Bovingdon Road copse) by Stephen Westover of Westover Woodlands. The ash uprights were sourced from a road development (Roundabout development, Essex) and made by Robin Fawcett of Treewright.
The wine tubes where CNC cut by Metropolitan works (London) from particle board of an unknown source and the ash base was made by Robbins cabinet making (Braintree) and again comes form an unknown source.