BBC Big Life Fix with Simon Reeve
A Life Changing Journey
In 2015, I commenced a TV documentary project that creates design solutions for people in need. Little did I know it would become a journey spanning across 4 years.
It has been a tremendous honour to have met a group of extraordinary individuals who take the raw deals life has given them and truly live life to the fullest. Through working with them, I felt re-affirmed that it is worth choosing design as my career and then exploring all sorts of unusual arenas (that is, unusual even for a design engineer which is a ‘weird, but wonderful’ job in the first place!).
BBC Big Life Fix Series 1 is a Royal Television Society Nominee for Best Popular Factual Series, 2018
Invention brings happiness to a terminally ill man
22-year old James is terminally ill. He loves taking photos but his condition means his fingers have fused together making it impossible to use a camera by himself. So the BBC introduced him to designer Jude Pullen who has come up with a clever solution.
(The shorter version of this trailer has reached 10M views on Facebook alone.)
How Josh finally got to play with his friend
Eight-year-old Josh loves playing with his friends, but he was born blind and struggles to cope with the frenetic environment of the school playground. Designer Ruby Steel and engineer Jude Pullen have come up with a novel solution so that he can play outside with the rest of his class. This is one of three stories featured in Big Life Fix: Children in Need Special on BBC Two.
Big Life Fix: Helping Kyle achieve his hairdressing dream
Kyle dreams of becoming a hairdresser but one of his hands didn’t develop properly in the womb so he finds it impossible.