I found this the other day and can't believe designs like this have never been exploited before. I can see these products catching on and am sure they will be all over the campsites next festival season. Good stuff.

Today I found myself with a bit of spare time and thought I'd look on the internet for something to blog on. It wasn't too long before I was watching videos from links of links and I stumbled on these nice little vids.  

Handmade in the USA from Capital on Vimeo.

The Making of the Honest Abe Coat Rack from Tinkering Monkey on Vimeo.

Saw this recently and thought it kind of made sense. Seems a pretty fool-proof way of helping someone set up their new mobile.

Out of the box - book from Vitamins on Vimeo.

Work by VitaminsDesign.

I found these recently and thought they were pretty amazing. The short videos are really well-shot and follow some pretty cool people making and doing things they love. Especially liked the bit in the knife making vid about working in a studio space with other creatives spending all their time and money into doing what they love and trying to make their dreams a reality. Pretty inspiring stuff.

Made by Hand / No 2 The Knife Maker from Made by Hand on Vimeo.

Made by Hand / No 1 The Distiller from Made by Hand on Vimeo.

So I haven't been blogging much recently and been focusing all my efforts on a new venture, Psalt Design, a Sheffield based Furniture and product design company. We have a pretty cool blog running on that which is worth checking out. Anyway, I saw this video and thought it was pretty powerful. See what you think...

Video taken from www.viralviralvideos.com

Here is some press coverage of my work from the 'Interiors Birmingham' show from the 'Arts Thread' website.

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taken from www.artsthread.com

From the 23-26 January 2011 I exhibited some of my work on the 'New Design Britain' awards stand at the 'Interiors' show, Birmingham. The exhibition is held at the NEC Arena and is the UK's largest trade interiors show. I was awarded the runners up prize in the 'accessories' category and got a lot of positive feedback regarding my work. It was also nice to meet a lot of new people and lots of awesome designers on the stand. The stand looked great, here are a couple of snaps!

Here is a shot of my 'Crumple Bowl' which, was a transition of my original 'Bubble Tank' design. The shape was created by 'slumping' hand-blown glass. Not only can it house fish but anything you like from mini-installations to plants!

Here are some of the shots I took on my new 'diana' camera. It is the first time I have had my own photos processed and developed. The lomo style created some unusual images and I played around with some of them on photoshop after by scanning in the negatives. I'm pretty happy with the results and will have some more of my shots on here soon...