>Today I handed in my learning plan. This is a document which underpins what I will be doing over the next year to complete my MA. It has taken up a lot of my research time recently so it feels really good to get it out of the way and now I can get on Continue Reading
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09Nov>Website Again.
>www.greenwoodcentre.org.uk/coppicingresearchContinue Reading
04Nov>Simon Hasan
>This guy looks to me like an interesting chap. His name is Simon Hasan and he is a Royal College of Art graduate who’s work explores obscure Craft techniques. I first read about his work in ICON mag and was immediately a little frustrated by the way they praised him so much for his work, Continue Reading
31Oct>Eco-Design
>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
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
