>This is the best use of waste materials that I have seen so far. They simply take molten plastic waste, and weave it around a jig. So clever. Making the RD Legs chair from Cohda Design on Vimeo.Continue Reading

> I love this design for the new London buses. The competition was won by Foster + Partners and Aston Martin and is to be put into production next year, in time for the Olympic games. I love the way they have maintained so many of the best features of the original routemasters. A problem Continue Reading

> My start to 2010 was a sad one to say the very least. Respectfully, I’m not going into details but I feel I cannot write a post on New Year without mentioning it. I was in London for the New Year celebrations, and went back into the city for the afternoon of the first Continue Reading

>As its still the Christmas holidays, I thought I’d take a break from my uni work to trip out to Mr. Iles tool shop again. This time I wasn’t looking for anything in particular, just to browse. I took my camera this time and got some snaps of the shop. The pictures don’t do the Continue Reading

>Here are some articles that have caught my eye over past few days on my favourite design blogs: ‘Eiffel’ stool by Shigeki Fujishiro. This piece of furniture is in fact made from paper mache. I think the design is a little basic, but the use of material interests me. http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/8419/shigeki-fujishiro.html http://www.outofstockdesign.com/ Ocho Chair by Kranen/Gille Continue Reading

>Although I have been busy filling up my sketchbooks, sorting my learning plan and doing some heavy reading over Christmas I gave myself a little break in my work to get woody again. I decided to pack my billhook and fore in the bag and go and do some cleaving in the coppiced hazel and Continue Reading

>This looks great, I may combine it with a family trip to France. http://www.centrepompidou.fr/Pompidou/Manifs.nsf/AllExpositions/8099A823273116F8C125760900350D08?OpenDocument&sessionM=2.2.1&L=1Continue Reading

>Today I had my final tutorials of the term with Jim Cheshire and Neil Simpson. Both tutors were pleased with the quantities of work I had produced and pleased with the ideas I intend on progressing with. Both were quite taken with my woven panels and recognised the potential in those ideas. Neil suggested using Continue Reading

>http://www.kingston.ac.uk/~kx19789/rematerialise/html_and_flash/index-type-vegetable.htm – source for sustainable materials.http://www.ecosorganicpaints.co.uk/store/other-products/wood-glue/cat_71.html – eco-wood glue.Continue Reading