Additional Projects: Critical Design reserach

As a graduate of Glasgow School of Art, Central Saint Martins London (BA Hons) and the Royal College of Art London, I have a background specializing in product design. A lot of my work was research and behavioral based, and built on the philosophy established by the design practice Dunne & Raby, for whom I worked. As a designer I worked on briefs for many companies including Starck, Nokia, LG Electronics, Gul Wetsuits, Panasonic and Uniqlo, amongst others. I was awarded firsts for both of my dissertations, specializing in biomedical lab practices that can be applied to manufacture in design, work for which I was awarded a travel scholarship to MIT’s Media and Robotic labs for.

In my capacity as a designer prop maker and writer I was also employed by the BBC to write scripts and make props based on my own designs, for a children’s make-and-do show. My key ‘makes’ included an edible jelly trifle Halloween hand, a ‘squashed mouse’ mouse mat, and a recipe for slime that kids can make at home in the microwave. No other show had cracked the ingredients for clear, child-safe, make-at-home slime, until my recipe.

In addition, as a designer I was also co-chair of a monthly design debate series held at London’s Design Museum, discussing key cultural issues in design.

Some press:

https://www.readingdesign.org/is-irony-killing-design

https://www.iconeye.com/opinion/comment/item/2456-design-is-evil-%7C-icon-041-%7C-november-2006

https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/juicy-phallus-reinventing-the-starke-juicer

Finger Puppets: Inspired by research into phobias, these toys are intended to teach children that it's foolish to be scared of shadows — it's reality that can be truly gruesome.

Product Design Research Project: Interaction experiments with animals as machines

Baby's First Dissection Kit: Product Design Research Project

Finger Puppets: Inspired by research into phobias, these toys are intended to teach children that it's foolish to be scared of shadows — it's reality that can be truly gruesome.

Product Design Research Project: Interaction experiments with animals as machines

Baby's First Dissection Kit: Product Design Research Project

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