>I remember finding an article a year or so ago in the Guardian called ‘top 10 eco-furntiure pieces’, and in my research I have just re-found it online. I am regularly searching for ‘eco’, or ‘sustainable’ furniture to try to see if anybody else has come up with the idea of using coppiced timber to Continue Reading
ArchivesOctober, 2009
31Oct>Eco-Design
29Oct>Self Employment – the end for now
>This week I have been finishing off some commissions that I had accumulated over the summer, and that had been delayed for various reasons. My personal favourite, and one I am most proud of, was a wall unit for an Architecture lecturer at my university. She wanted a fitted wall unit to hold books etc, Continue Reading
28Oct>Websites Again.
>www.craftsintheenglishcountryside.org.ukContinue Reading
27Oct>Bamboo Furniture
>If you have read back far enough, or have been following my blog you will have seen my post about a trip to London during design week. I mentioned the Central St Martins MA Design exhibition that we went to, and were quite unimpressed by. I have found an image of the bamboo chair that Continue Reading
26Oct>Some Websites.
>www.coppice-products.co.ukwww.coppicing.com Some good websites to look at.Continue Reading
26Oct>Hill Holt Wood. Continued…
>Today I took a short journey out to Hill Holt Wood. It is a small community project that operates as an ‘environmental social enterprise’ it basically allows childeren to get in touch with the countryside. They practice coppicing there and teach green woodworking, so I thought it would be a perfect place to check out. Continue Reading
22Oct>Design For Life – Philippe Starck
>Like a lot of my peers I have been recently watching the BBC series ‘Design for Life’. To me it seemed basically a bit of an ego trip for Philippe Starck as he looks to single-handedly save British design, (I think i recall him saying ‘Nothing good has come out of British design since Conran Continue Reading
18Oct>Define: Design…
>A task set in one of our first lectures was to write in 2 minutes a definition of design. I came up with something along the lines of ‘The considered or evolved application of aesthetic and function to an object.’ which I considered to be a reasonably good definition. Our tutor Neil criticised the ‘evolved’ Continue Reading
13Oct>Hill Holt Wood.
>BIG THANKS to Lawrence and Louis on my MA course for pointing me in the direction of this place. Looks like it could be a good source of coppiced timber, and it would be a massive bonus if I could pick up some tips on green woodworking too! http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1403465321?bclid=1504426216&bctid=1506580281 http://hillholtwood.com/Continue Reading
04Oct>Good tree
> I wanted to put some images up of a huge beech tree that I walk past every day. I love it. . It is really easy to overlook how brilliant trees are.Continue Reading
