The Fancy Clothes library
Clothes sharing site built with Airtable and Softr.io
After an unbelievably wedding-heavy summer, I created the Fancy Clothing Library for my group of friends. Created using Airtable to manage the database and Softr.io to design and build the website, my mates can easily list outfits and accessories that they would be game to lend out.
Skateboard stickers
Progress sticker pack
Kinda like the badges you got at Brownies, these stickers are for newbie skaters for that extra bit of encouragement to land that next trick.
locked down card pack
Kickstarter campaign
In response to the boredom created by the global Coronavirus pandemic, I launched 'Locked Down' on Kickstarter - a pack of 50 boredom-busting and covid-friendly activity ideas, designed to help break the monotony of lockdown life. The campaign was successfully backed and the cards made their way into the world in April 2021.
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ts&cs apparel
Clothing brand
High quality apparel, customised by you. I ran ts&cs for 4 years, working on the branding, production, photography and marketing. I sold 200+ t-shirts with 2 worn onstage by Critics' Choice Award winner, Sam Fender.
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Animalium
The Untold Tales of Imaginary Animals
This project came about thanks to a period of unemployment, access to a house in the countryside, the collaboration of a great friend (Santini Basra) and a box of toy animals. Animalium, 'the untold tales of imaginary animals', is an experiment in plastic taxidermy. Photographing our handmade models, we created a zine featuring the stories of our fictional creatures, including the 'Greater Malaysian Otter' and the 'Southern Stilted Alligator'.
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Yer Daily Bread
Website design and development
Visit yerdailybread.com to get a random image of loafy goodness every day. (That's all it does...)
yerdailybread.com
Photography
Pentax KR & Fujifilm X30
It started with a Ricoh. Since then, I have played, practiced, and ...developed... as a photographer. I take photos of anything and everything and contribute some of my more successful shots to Twenty20. After an 8 week and a day road trip around America, I created and printed a thematic photobook 'Who Knows? No one.' One of my pictures from this trip was exhibited in the Tent Gallery, Edinburgh as part of the Hold Me Dear Summer exhibition.
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Futures research
The Future of UK Healthcare, 2025
This project was a collaboration between the Hitachi Corporation, Glasgow School of Art Masters students and a team of design researchers (including me). We were challenged to analyse current political, economic, social and technological issues within the UK, exploring how these will shift by 2025. Myself and Masters student Louise Mushet focused on the infrastructure of British healthcare, researching home as hospital, data driven services, our rising ageing population, and how people could live happier and healthier for longer. Hitachi were particularly interested in the British rituals surrounding end of life care and practices and this became the focus for our final research piece. Focusing on the evolving curriculum for excellence in the British education system and the recent introduction of grieving as a taught subject, we looked to represent this shift in attitude with the redesign of an archetypical toy. With the right accessories Barbie can get married, go to work, and have children, so can death be imagined as another milestone in Barbie's life? Parents often shelter their children from the conversation of mortality, but now kids are having the discussion in the classroom. Children's toys have the power to bridge school and home, teachers and parents, make-believe and reality, prompting a conversation that may otherwise not occur.
Fortunate Futures presents:
Optimistic short stories
'Fortunate Futures Presents' is a collection of short comics illustrating a future verging on utopia. [Print using 1 sheet of A4.] "If you're looking for a futuristic story centred around robot apocalyptic-themed misery, then this isn't the poorly written piece of fictional literature of extreme brevity for you. This is an optimistic tale of the future, a future made brighter with every by-product of self-indulgent living in a time of complete nowism."
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Fillmmm app
Matching meals and movies
Some of my very smart friends built Tingbot, a Raspberry Pi powered app platform. Fillmmm is my app concept for the little internet connected product. Matching Netflix movies with Just Eat takeaways, it aims to help remedy the 115 hours a year that the average person in the UK spends browsing for something to watch and eat. Matches are created based on film content, genre, attention required (and if something is punny).
Ceramic Futures
Cymatic Tableware
I took part in "Ceramic Futures: from poetry to science fiction", the ceramics-based social project, sponsored by Cersaie and the Italian ceramics industry. Featured on centralstation and printed in the Ceramic Futures publication, my response explores the 'new nature' of tableware through the study and use of cymatics and ceramic. By extending the role played by ceramics at the dining table, each archetypal object has been altered to incorporate the visual representation of its sound. The application of cymatics (the visualisation of sound) varies from object to object; the knife's serrations are a direct representation of its sound wave, whereas the spoon's sound is incorporated as a scape sitting in the bowl - to be experienced by the users lips as a texture. Wine glasses clinking together defines the form of the vessels. These were all achieved using a sound visualizer and 3D computer modelling. Along with being a durable, hygienic, and a beautiful material, ceramics lies comfortably within the boundaries of 3D printing. The future of this concept is the ability to print in ceramic, allowing the cymatics of the objects to be accurately produced, creating this new tactile and visual dining set.
Senseware:
The Future of Sensory Experiences
in the Digital Age
Awarded distinction, this is my Bachelor of Design with Honours dissertation completed in 2014. This study explores the future of sensory experiences in the digital age. Through the analysis and comparison of futurology examples and key dystopian texts (inc. Black Mirror and Brave New World) the availability and possibility for sensory experiences in the projected future is assessed.
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