Another throwback to a 2008 project to design a bus shelter for the Lake District, Cumbria. Designing for rural areas in a National Park presents certain challenges including remote location (for power and data services etc), sensitivity to the surroundings and of course the weather! Despite this I wanted to provide a modern design with the latest technological conveniences. The result of the project was a sleek and modern look, low impact, using sustainable materials, with g

Continuing my trip down memory lane, I have been organising some of my old design work recently. A project that I particularly enjoyed at university was designing a portable media and gaming device which I named WifiTv. This project was in 2007/2008. The iPhone was a brand new concept, BBC iPlayer was just taking off and the Gameboy was still the king of handheld gaming. I wanted to bring together the new technologies of the time to create an immersive media and gaming experi

I have recently taken a trip down memory lane and dusted off some of my old university projects. One project that I enjoyed working on was TableTray, a very quick Industrial Design exercise to design a tray/table that could be used for eating breakfast in bed/working on a laptop. I have spruced up the rendering and presentation (the software and my skills have improved dramatically since 2008!), but the concept remains unchanged. I thought an ideal user to design the product