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Graduation projects MA Design Products at the Royal College of Art, London

A nice quote of an approach that almost always brings you where you want to go with charm, risk and appealingly randomness is one of Zaphod Beeblebrox from Douglas Adams, ‘Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy’:


‘I don’t know what I’m looking for.’ ‘Why not?’ ‘Because … because … I think it might be because if I knew I wouldn’t be able to look for them.’


NEWS and events

- Starting 1st of August I will leave London and move to live in Arnhem in The Netherlands to investigate the world of design in the country where I am from.


- Need an editor? Chris White does a great job (London / New York).


- May, Working freelance as communication /graphic designer and illustrator for Muf architecture art.


- Providing my service, the making of lollies in Leiden (NL) at Sheltema’s ‘Open boek’ festival at the 5-6th of April. Read the interview in LOS magazine Leiden April issue.


- I started teaching ceramics at Havering college in February


- Blogpost: Education and service design, for 31Volts - Diensteninnovatie


- Working with Plot (Gill Wildman) on brainstorming about ‘Happy towns’.


- Publication: Ceramics technical 25, December 2007, showing Flexible ceramics


- 9 November 2007: V&A Creative Quarter, Organising drop in workshop for 14-18 year old people with an interest in design


- Publication: Ceramic review, 228 September 2007, showing Flexible ceramics

- 2-22 October 2007: exhibition ‘Design made’ in the design museum in Seoul, South Korea, showing ‘Captured by a chair

- 26-28 September 2007: Organising workshop for children of the Erith School in Erith Kent as part of ‘The big draw’ with the theme ‘SQUARE thinking’

- 19-23 September 2007: exhibition 'handled with care’ ceramics at design week London with ‘flexible ceramics’ + new developments

- 1-2 September 2007: exhibition ‘EyeLoveCandy’ Breda the Netherlands with my ‘Lolly lab’ live


- Publication: Blueprint magazine, 258 September 2007, showing ‘Captured by a chair’ at the RCA great exhibition

New experiments in flexible ceramics that I made

Product and installation

new news and work

Service by design

Education

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Thinking about people; their systems, situations, and services

Innovation in a social way

Creating a story of your future / Tackling the real problem / How to be a better company / Humanizing technologies / Thinking about people; their systems, situations, and services

PROJECT X

In collaboration with...

Ceramics in collaboration with textiles. A project working together with textile designer Mio Yamamoto sponsored by a RCA Project X interdisciplinary collaborations.


This project is in progress, soon there will be much to see!