Featured on Looking Sideways Podcast, created by Andrew Sleigh. It was a lot of fun and the interview covers a whole range of topics about stuff you may have seen on my website and workshops – but also goes into…
Design Modelling Workshop – Video
Featured by Sugru – “Meet the Sugru Fixers”. Filmed on 26th Jan 2013, in London. To find out more about this Workshop, click here.
IDEO Make-A-Thon 2013: SUPERHUMAN
This was my second Make-A-Thon in IDEO, London. This is a great opportunity to explore new concepts and try out new technologies. Always with an eclectic bunch and never a dull moment. “Team Zen” were assigned the brief to explore…
Full-day design modelling workshop back by popular demand…
Following November’s Design Modelling workshop at Geeklates, London, a new full-day workshop has been created for design professionals and serious enthusiasts. Beginning in card, the workshop will explore a range of modelling techniques and then progress into other materials such…
New Adventures in Sugru: Branding, Needle Files and Silicone Paintbrushes
Sugru is fantastic stuff, as mentioned in an earlier blog, it can be used to model forms by hand and is ready in less than 24 hours. Here is a few enhancements to my workshop I made just this morning. I…
Dyson Ball Challenge 2012 – Winner of Most Ambitious Design Award
Not wanting to go for the simple (but in hindsight, very effective) direct-drive for a ball, we opted to create a ‘Mechanical Hamster’ and put it inside the transparent ball. This involved using two ‘omni wheels‘- one to power forwards…
GEEKlates
It’s not often you get to see UX Designers from Google, BBC’s Mad Scientists, Game Developers, Arduino Hackers and more, all under one roof for a night of geekery – fuelled on gourmet coffee good enough for Harvey Keitel. Not…
Featured in the Dawesome Digest!
I met Brendan at IDEO’s Make-A-Thon. I was impressed he didn’t run a mile when I explained that I had a collection of kitchen knives and spent a lot of time pondering the best ergonomics of each, since I worked…
Travis Baldwin
NASA’s Space Architecture (from Cardboard) It’s often said that designing something unfamiliar to you brings out great insights: On 26th September 2012, at Dyson, UK, Travis Baldwin shared an incredible journey of the technicalities of Space Architecture, but…
Sugru Founder: Jane ni Dhulchaointigh
At Dyson’s Hacknight, (Double-bill with Brendan Dawes) Imagine if you could have all of the great properties of silicone (heat resistance, durability, waterproofness, stick to anything) but with the malleability/workability of Plasticine – well, this is where Sugru comes in.…
