ArchivesMay, 2010

>Today I completed my mkII version of ‘Weave Chair’ I’m really pleased with the result, it has adressed all of the weaknesses in my first version, and I think I’ve ended up with a really well refined chair. Weaving the seat to complete the chair. Ollie (Kev’s son who happened to pop in at the Continue Reading

>So it’s nearly finished, the more refined version of my superlight, or weave chair, which weighs in at only 1.8 kg!! I’m very pleased. Final pics to follow! Gluing up. Ready to be finished.Continue Reading

>My friend Elizabeth, who is an artist, and I were discussing the intense colour of leaves at this time of year in the pub the other day, she was saying how she enjoyed the challenge of matching the late april/may green of leaves in a painting. As I was walking to Uni the other morning Continue Reading

>This MA has changed my perspective on design, and objects. I analyse every object I pick up or see and ask questions about it. I was driving home from hanging some doors at a friend’s house the other day and noticed the car in front of me was using a Sat Nav system to find Continue Reading

>This piece by Shigeru Ban is a carbon fibre chair that is intended to be lighter than Gio Pont’s 1.7kg Superleggera chair. It achieved this massively weighing in at only 300gms (according to a flickr account). Even if it does trounce the weight of Ponti’s Superlegerra, I’m not sure that this piece is all that Continue Reading

>I love this idea. It is a suitcase-vegetable patch, which allows you to grow vegetables in a portable container. I’m not yet convinced by the benefits of having a portable vegetable patch, but by being small and upright, this product would encourage people to not only grow their own produce, but do so in communal Continue Reading

>I have started work on a console table. This piece aims to suggest coppiced wood as a material appropriate for mass production, displaying a process that could be carried out by machines and would not require any human skill or judgement. The frame is made from simple jointed solid hazel, but the top is made Continue Reading

>I, along with my good friend Liam, will be exhibiting at Tent London 2010! We had our application accepted yesterday and have sent the deposit off. This will be a fantastic venue upon which to disseminate my work, as well as New Designers and a couple of shows in Lincoln. Once my Major project is Continue Reading

>I have been a busy chap working on my lamp, and it is now complete! Since I last posted I have had some issues with the lampshade, I decided that rather than form the shade around a former on the inside, I would form it in a bowl to give a smooth outside surface. This Continue Reading