I saw ScribbleBots, a design concept project from MA student Jon Cumberpatch, quite a while ago but its been sat at the back of my mind for a while as I’m sat on the fence about it, slightly leaning in one direction. I wanted to post it as I’ll be writing a whole series [...]

When I was a little boy of 10, I (for a short time) joined the young engineers club at our school. Yes not the football team, the engineering club :) One day they took us to the workshops of a large Uk energy provider and they showed us how simple circuits work, then using [...]

How much do I enjoy the work of Friends With You? More than chocolate & cake, that’s how much. If I could, I’d live inside one of their spaces instead of grey old Britain.
“Established in 2002 by Miami-based artists Samuel Borkson and Arturo Sandoval III, FriendsWithYou set forth on a mission to spread the idea [...]

Right now I am doing a lot of research around approaches to drawing. So, here is a summary post of drawing tables and things you can draw on…
Childrens Paper Chair

“The chair encourage people to buy environmental friendly products, intended to make a comment on our use of paper, is shaped as a toilet-roll. As [...]

Quite a few blogs have been posting the concept Original Sound Track from Ricardo Seola recently (shown above). Watch video. A wooden toy train moves across a track, with its front teeth plinking across pegs on the track, inspired by a music box. You can then tack the track and build different layouts [...]

PhoneBook is a nice concept from Mobile Art Lab in Japan. Its such a simple idea, to combine a Iphone with a childs picture book. You put the phone inside the book itself, with a window to the screen acting as a little portal within the book. Then whilst flipping through the [...]

The Nintendo Wii is a great step in the right direction for games for everyone, from little babies to my grand parents. Taking away the mass of complicated controls and adding gesture control into a shape most consumers are familiar with (remote controls) was clever. Yet I still feel there could be issues [...]

Two great concepts that take boring household objects and make them playful using marbles…

The Xylophone Bin (2008) by Dominic Wilcox…
“When the pedal is pressed the lid opens, releasing a ball that travels down a ‘helterskelter’ set of xylophone steps around the bin. Each time the ball hits a step, a note is played. The xylophone [...]