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  • Flower Vase

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    When I started my pottery course at Parade Mews Pottery in Tulse Hill, I was determined not to make any pots. But you end up making vessels of one sort or another as thats whats pottery is about. This was the first big piece I made and is inspired by Eduardo Chillida.

    Geometric stoneware flower vase
  • Modular plywood bookcase

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    Following the platform bed, I wanted to explore building a modular bookcase system. It is designed to fill an entire wall 3600mm wide and 2400mm high in my house. Again its CNC cut plywood that I drew out in Illustrator and had cut out of 18mm birch plywood.

  • School play scenery

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    St Judes Year Six always puts on an end of year play. It’s a perfect way to celebrate the student finishing primary school, and makes a break from SATs. This year it was a musical Alice in Wonderland. My daughter volunteered me to help out with the scenery.

  • CNC plywood Platform bed

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    I wanted to make a platform bed to sit in the roof space of my daughters bedroom. The ceiling slope follows the profile of the valley roof, so there is just room to put a platform in. I also wanted to experiment with CNC router cut plywood and cantilevered wall supports.

  • Pop chimney pots

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    When I was adding a new storey to my house, I was required by the council to keep my chimneys, as we are in a conservation area. Even though there are no chimney breasts in the house now. So, I thought the least I could do was cheer up the roof scape on the street…

  • Floating Sharks

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    Went to see Ashley Bickerton’s show at Newport Street gallery and was very taken with the hammerhead sharks floating around the space. For me Bikerton is something of a throwback to the eighties/nineties New York art scene. But I first saw the shark idea at Serpentine galleries in a show called ‘Some went mad some…

    A model shark from Ashley Bickerton Ornamental Hysteria exhibition
  • St Judes school logo

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    Both my daughters have been very lucky to go to St Judes Primary School which is just one street away from my house. When the school announced they were looking to redesign their school logo, I think we all felt I should offer to help.

  • Different interfaces for displaying corporate and personal data

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    Energized Work were hired by EY to help  develop and improve their existing Mobility service. Create a flexible mobility platform, which would allow companies to easily move their people to different international locations, keep up with countries regulations and laws, and create accurate reporting and oversight for the parent company.

    Isometric collage of screens relating to reporting data, company data, personal data and recording data, arranged as a quad chart.
  • Animals without Backbones

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    I came across this book cover a while ago, and thought it would be a great image to send to some one as an insult. But I got over that and in putting this collage together have been amazed by the wonderful work of the books illustrator Elizabeth Mabel Buchsbaum who was the sister of…

  • Space Oddity

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    Thinking about branding at the moment and was reminded of this great photo of painting Atlantis name onto the space shuttles wing. Back when NASA was still using the ‘worm logotype’. Unit editions have printed the guidelines in their ‘Manual 1 Design & Identity Guidelines.’ NASA have also shared the guidelines here.