For this year’s ten project I have been experimenting with a number of pieces of software that allow a computer generated form to be exploded/unfolded into 2D planes. These files can then be cut and folded using a ZUND plotter cutter. The ZUND is a versatile machine with interchangeable tool heads such as a scalpel and creasing tool. It used extensively in the packaging and fashion industry for pattern cutting and prototyping.

The resulting forms are assembled by the end user offering a human touch at the end of a digital journey. The act of building hopefully adds a sense of ownership and some added value to the finished object. The paper used for this project comes from misprints from billboard posters.

The ten stand won the blueprint award for the best stand 2009.

The award winning Net chair for MARK furniture. A stacking dining chair suitable for use both indoors and out. Available in a range of powder-coated colours and there is a galavanised finish.

Standard colours:
RAL 9010 White
RAL 5021 Water blue
RAL 9011 Black
RAL 1021 Yellow
Other colours are available on special order.

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A commision to design the furniture for the shoreditch trusts new space at the waterhouse on Orsman Road. The pieces are inspired by the works of Enzo Mari’s Autoprogettazione or self made furniture. They are made entirely from recycled black plastic with coloured nylon washers to highlight the joints and junctions. The space is open to the public and is part of the design trail 2009.

Designed in collaboration with Richard Shed

A series of bespoke pieces for Park House; a Land Securities project. Positioned on Londons Oxford street this will be one of the largest ever developments in the West end. This interactive piece contains 3 art prints which have blueprints of the building printed on the reverse. These can be removed and used to support presentations to prospective tennants. When areas of the plueprints are touched they transmit a bluetooth signal around the suite triggering off projections of the relevant spaces.

In collaboration with All of Us and Osmotronic.

To Support the exhibition Sport v Fashion held at the V&A in 2008 we were asked to provide a short workshop/installation. In an age where we walk around like branded billboards we thought it might be interesting to view these brand logos as shapes that might be used together to make patterns and new forms.

Visitors to the show were invited to apply any amount of our iron on logos to a t-shirt. It was interesting that even when faced with the opportunity to use multiple brands that some still felt ‘brand loyal’. Each t-shirt was then heat pressed and taken home by the participant.

The East London space project was launched at the V&A Village fete 2008. Leading the expedition were Sam‘buzz’ Johnson and Richard‘Yuri’ Shed. It aimed to provide an opportunity for aspiring astronaughts, cosmonaughts and hoxtonaughts to explore the far reaches of our galaxy through interplanetary hoopla. Participants had the opportunity to win a limited edition t-shirt to commemorate the event. The space project has since been grounded, it turned out to be quite an expensive venture putting designers in space.

I took the title of Ten Again literally and started to think about what it might be like to be ten again. This concept developed into a series of conversations held with ten year olds at primary schools in South Tottenham. The conversations were prompted by a number of questions some of which were directly related to environmental/sustainability issues, others which were just about finding out what it’s like to be ten in 2007. The conversations were presented as a series of tin cans, each with a tiny speaker mounted inside.

Held in the stunning garden at the Victoria and Albert museum the fete is always a must see event. An annual project for Richard and I the fete offers us a chance to dress up and have some fun. This year saw us adopt the titles of Duke Rogerme Johnson and Richard Shed 9th Earl of Haggerston Park. In our hunting outfits visitors were encouraged to join us in the grounds of Buggerdem Hall to try their luck at shooting (with an elastic band gun) our rooster, pigeon, rabbit, squirrel, rat and a selection of livestock grazing in the fields.