Self Initiated Project - doorstop

A series of doorstoppers combined with radio, light and air freshener to suit different needs and behaviours.

The project explores various object relationships in the domestic environment. Taking the theory of a parasite and host relationship, in this scenario, the role of a doorstopper is reversed, from being a host to a parasite, and combined with a series of other objects to force all the objects to be non- functional without wedging them to the door.

Client Project - Nokia

A self-reliant mobile phone integrated with various chargers to suit the travelling businessman.

Cutting the production cost by eliminating the need for a charger, reduces the size of the packaging, thus allowing more units to be transported at any one time. Nokia Plug-in aims to create awareness to its users by making the phone to be directly in contact with the power source itself; the laptop and power socket as though the phone is feeding its food (energy) from it. At the same time, it discourages users to use their phone while charging, so as to increase the battery life.

Self Initiated Project - Healthy fast food branded packaging design aimed at children

Addictive Healthy Food for Kids

A Fast Food Packaging Range aimed at children

The idea behind this packaging range came about when I set myself the task to design a product that encourages children to eat healthy food. I discovered that children get addicted to highly processed fast food brands such as McDonald's and Burger King because they provide them with games and toys from popular children's movies. These brands use children's Popular Culture to create brand loyalty with their so-called "cradle to grave" strategy. Then I thought - what if I design a children's packaging range for a healthy fast food brand. Each peace of packaging is some sort of a game and encourages children to play, learn and have fun.

Client Project - Nokia

A Green Skateboard Charger

Love skateboarding? Have you thought about generating green energy from your hobby and passion? This skateboard truck charger powers your mobile phone battery. To use the generated energy simply remove the skateboard charging unit and plug it into your phone. Done! You have done something for the environment and you might never run out of battery again.

Self Initiated Project - R-booth

Outdoor furniture

Easy handling 'Outdoor furniture' that allows us freedom to choose a place to be

Protection from sunrays and rain and increased mobility with user-friendly features of a form of attached tube logs and belts are also essential functions.

Client Project - Schott

Multi-functional chair

Chair + hanger for waiting in line for a fitting room

Without having to wait in line with clothes in the hands, the multi-functional chair allows customer to sit and hang clothes while waiting for the fitting room.

Self Initiated Project - singing shell

Noise Changer

For the people who suffer from unwanted sound and noise

"We live in a world where many different kinds of sound surround us. We can't make them stop. From the outside of windows, builders are doing construction, the ambulance comes screaming by. Even in the park, that is the place we want to feel calm and relax, it is hard to avoid them. Noise and unwanted sound are harmful to people; make stress and leads to change hormones.

Client Project - Nokia

Green phone for NOKIA

Keep your valuable memories safely in a different way

"We write diary...about experiences, relationships, everything. It has our history of life.

Self Initiated Project - The bench for personal space

The Bench for Personal Boundaries

"People tend to maintain a certain distance between strangers in public spaces. Environment psychologists are explaining that as behaviour which ensures a person's own privacy and they call this personal boundary or space.

Client Project - Nokia

Sustainable Mobile Phone

Most memories are made in people's relationships and these days people make their relationships by mobile. Mobiles connect people to each other; phonecall, send text and take pictures... these are all kinds of memories saved in a mobile everyday. Mobile becomes a diary.

Self Initiated Project - Object to delight the childish minds

Moving toys

An object that will delight the childish minds

These playful, funky, and colourful Toys are inspired by Kinetic sculptures. Each has a different movement which gives the toy a unique character and personality. Just switch it on, smiles guaranteed!

Client Project - Schott

A luxurious lightning made with Schott glass

An elegant and modern glass object that will surely surprise!

Self Initiated Project - Impression / Expression

A Tactile Communication Device

Digital Communication Beyond Video and Sound

Relationships over long distances in modern society leave many aspects of human interaction sorely neglected. Haptic sensations play an important part in the day-to-day feelings and emotions of a relationship, and this device intends to explore this issue and provide a sensory tool to re-capture those experiences.

Client Project - Nokia

A hollistic Approach to Green Mobile Phone Design

Minimalist, Repairable, and Recyclable for the Eco Warrior

Mobile phones consume a considerable amount of energy and waste valuable natural resources in their manufacture; this phone concept is designed to sustain ownership for 5 years instead of the conventional 1-2 year contract. Ecologically-minded consumers represent the fastest growing consumer market, seeking reliable and user-friendly mobile phones in place of the latest fashion trend; the 5-Year Phone has a simple, pragmatic keypad built to withstand a longer use. To satisfy its green credentials, the phone enclosure is made from untreated, unpainted plastic to facilitate swift recycling. The phone disassembles with a single master screw, and the 5 major components are colour-coded for easy repair.

Self Initiated Project - Lifescout Organ Transportation UAV

A mobile phone made entirely of recycled aluminium featuring an E-Ink Display, near-to-eye colour OLED display and capacitive sensor keypad

The LifeScout Organ Transportation UAV is a small, lightweight, unmanned aerial vehicle that allows the fast transportation of organs for transplant directly from hospital to hospital, reducing waiting times for surgical procedures and reducing overall costs of transportation. The current organ transportation logistics involve several types of land and air vehicles, very high costs and the need for medical staff to accompany the organs. The LifeScout uses a tilt rotor configuration that allows for heavy lift capability and also high cruise speeds. This is a conceptual project that explores the possibility of using existing military UAV technology in a civilian application.

Client Project - Nokia

Efficient and flexible solution to transport human organs for transplant.

The Nokia Ink 01 is an answer to the brief for a mobile phone that is environmentally friendly while keeping the "green issue" invisible. From material and process research came a 100% recycled aluminium phone, one of the most energy efficient materials and with almost endless recyclability. All the components, except for the internal circuitry are made of recycled aluminium. There are no mechanical keys except for the directional button, instead the phone uses a Synaptics Light Touch capacitive sensor, the energy consumption is kept to a minimum by using and E-Ink display and for taking and reviewing photos the phone features an near-to eye OLED display, emulating the old 110 photo cameras' use.

Self Initiated Project - The Magic Mirror

A mirror for the home that make it easy to leave messages for other family members.

The mirror that reminds you.

Magic mirror is a point of communication between busy family members. It is Childs play to leave spoken and written messages. Check the mirror check for messages both actions happen in one simple and intuitive operation. To record a voice message tilt the mirror. Leaving it tilted will draw attention. Straightening the mirror will play the message back. You can write a message on the mirror without using lipstick! -use the magnetic pen instead. Switch on the backlight to see the message then switch it off again to see yourself. Sliding the eraser control deletes the message.

Client Project - Schott

A glass box that unfolds to reveal the exciting properties

Glass origami makes for a multi-faceted display piece that is easily transportable.

The display is assembled as a glass box. Each side is constructed of glass from the Schott range linked together in such a way that lifting one facet causes the box to open up much like a flower opening its petals. This is the box configuration used for display purposes. Ambient light striking the multi-angled faces reveals the exciting colours of the glass and its unique transmissive and reflective properties. The display box shown uses dichroic glass from the Narima range however the modular construction means that different combinations of Schott glass can be used to achieve a range of effects. The box can be disassembled into a flatpack format. This is very robust and makes for safe and convenient transportation.

Self Initiated Project - Rainbow Meals

Food Packaging

A meal kit that balances diet with colourful menus

With an ever-growing working population and less time spent in the kitchen, people are consuming more convenience food than ever. 'Rainbow Meals' aimed to alleviate the battle between nutrition and convenience in food to allow consumers the option to eat fast, healthy meals. Through research into the realm of 'phytonutrients', chemicals in food that give them their colour, Vanessa found a stimulating way to entice consumers to feel confident about eating ready meals while minimising unnecessary additives to the food by including only prepared ingredients in each kit. The colour-themed kits focus on the benefits of eating a range of colours.

Client Project - Procter & Gamble

Children's Bathing Product

A Bath fizzy for children that releases a floaty foam toy when dissolved

Children stand in amazement of bubbles, an awe-inspiring by-product of Fairy liquid. As Fairy brand already targets mothers and babies, it is a seamless transition to move into the kids' market. Parents need to clean their little darlings while entertaining them long enough to finish the task. Fairy helps parents by creating an amusing bathing experience for kids. A bath fizzy is dropped into the water and the fizzy, bubbling magic begins. When dissolved, a floaty toy rises to the surface surprising and entertaining child. The magic of Fairy is enlivened with an element of fun.

Self Initiated Project - Lucky Star Pendant

A star-shaped pendant

Record or listen to voice messages

Client Project - Nokia

Self Initiated Project - Magic hair catcher

"The magic hair catch is to lessen or eliminate conflicts within the sharing flat.

Client Project - Procter & Gamble

"Fairy mini is a clean & care product which can easily to wash your hand while you are having outdoor activities. outdoor activities.

Self Initiated Project - G Blade

A larger more dynamic blade that opens out of dual handles, allowing the customization and extension in the 'Art of Shaving'.

This project is about masculinity, ritual, and the 'art of shaving'. Traditionally with a cut-throat razor men would have spent many days and suffered numerous cuts in order to master the use of such a utensil. This 'art of shaving' is soon vanishing as modern day utensils are easy to use requiring minimal skill. In contrast the use of this product requires time, skill, and effort in order to shave. Once mastered master shavers can take the art a step further by mastering the art of the balisong 'butterfly knife', and use this in conjunction to their 'art of shaving'.

Client Project - Nokia

Designed and manufactured with sustainability being the products main objective.

"Ultimately the release/purchase of a handset is in itself against the environmental issue. The difficulty and expense of handset repair/disassembly along with persuasive marketing often sway the purchase of handsets.

Self Initiated Project - Remo 260

Projecting Camcorder

This project is about humanizing technology. The purpose of the project was to design a camcorder that is intuitive to use and gives the experience of film. The angle at the bottom corner is designed so that it can be used for both filming and projecting. You can have fun with film and project your stories for friends and family!

Client Project - Nokia

Water Activated Phone

Mobile phone batteries are very hazardous to the environment and our health. This phone has been designed with an environmentally friendly technology that uses water as the catalyst for a carbon/magnesium circuit. The battery can be refilled and is fully recyclable without any harmful ingredients. With the carbon/magnesium pouch and water, there is no more need for chargers or charging!

Self Initiated Project - Natural Beauty, Pancha

A set of cutleries, specially designed for beauty regime.

The product that makes your beauty regime healthy & natural

The need to be 'beautiful' embeds in most women's mind. Do we approach it in the right direction? There are number of people who suffer from eating disorder, damage from chemical products and damage from plastic surgery. Are there any other options?

'Panchakanya' is the Indian Mythology of perfect being, introduces 5 elements of beauty. Therefore, 'Pancha' is created for you to make your own ingredients to possess all the elements. It takes less than 15 minutes per recipe, worth the beauty.

Client Project - Procter & Gamble

A cleaning set for

The only product in the supermarket that encourages kids to clean

It will be great if kids aged 4-10 do not make mess and love cleaning. The fact is the opposite.

'Fairy Together' is the only product in supermarkets that encourages kids to clean. The 'Turtle Sponge' and small bottle of 'Gentle Surrface Cleaner' make cleaning much more fun. Cleaning together can be a new fun activity!

Self Initiated Project - Walking Contradiction

A modern pair of high-heel shoes with exchangeable heels

Whether you're fat or thin, short or tall, beautiful or ugly, you can wear any shoe you like. High heels are capable of making a woman feel sexy, elegant or sporty depending on the way she wants to be perceived.

Focusing on the stereotypical Western woman's wishes and needs, 'Walking Contradiction' is a shoe that represents the female's contradictory nature in the 21st Century.

Thanks to theexchangable heel there is no more need to pay homage to the "no pain, no gain" slogan. Now it is possible for women to feel comfortable and attractive with just one pair of shoes.

Client Project - Design Against Crime

Visual Merchandising

Display as a security system

Making opportunity stealing challenging for thieves but fun for clients at the same time? Easy! Just, Play

The anti-shoplifting hanger that has been ideated for big chain stores, like H&M, to decease the ratesof opportunity theft that are going on at the moment

A larger hanger, with a modern look to it and a single design that makes original displaying of clothes become also a way of protecting them.

Self Initiated Project - Mamatrolley

A shopping trolley and a buggy in one

It is not a trolley, it is not a pushchair ...it is Mamatrolley

"Today's mums are modern and active. Always on the move. Being mum means being organised and to be well organised often requires using multi functional products.

Client Project - Procter & Gamble

Moisturizer for mother and child

Enhance the unique emotional connection between mother

Mothers spend a lot of time taking care of their children and the household. Mostly the child's care requires a lot of hands washing, e.g. when preparing food, after nappy changing, before and after meal times. Even when having fun and spending time on the playground some parents say they experienced sore knees and elbows. Often mothers complain that their skin is very dry and sore. It seems that by taking care of the child often mothers forget to take care of themselves. The moisturizer for mother and child is a new addition to the Fairy family.

Self Initiated Project - Meemo

This product aims to enhance the emotional bond to the user by storing and holding valuable information in the form of memories.

The issue of waste furniture is fuelling environmental damage. This object is aiming to prevent the discarding of furniture. It allows four individuals to record and store their growing process in height over time, in this way enhancing its personal value.

Client Project - Procter & Gamble

'It's Fairy Time!' Soothing and gentle, Fairy Bubble Bath and Bath Oil.

This product aims to enhance the core brand values of FAIRY. Gentle, Soft, Magical and Caring are some of the key words that has been central to this project. The design is also a celebration to the incredibly rich heritage connected with the brand and its history.

Self Initiated Project - Hey Deer What's the Time?

Object for the Imagination

Strategic Perception

"Escapism. The need for people to escape everyday life.

Client Project - Schott

Office Desk Jewels for SCHOTT

Objects of Desire

"CEO is a showcase object. Created as objects of desire, specifically aimed at technical/structural minded people working in the corporate field.

Self Initiated Project - Nomad

Lounger for the modern nomad

doubles as a trolley

The western consumer culture is a bloated, heavy-weight one. Pursuing materialistic lifestyles can make people ill - too much work, neglecting families and friends. How much stuff do we really need to live a good life? Can you live with only "three bags worth" of personal items? Is the revered principle of ownership giving way to the notion of access? Climate change, economic change, food- and water shortage means people will need to adapt, be agile and mobile. In such a scenario ownership and property will be a liability rather than an asset. Maybe the only things you need is a lounger to sleep in and three bags of personal items?

Client Project - Nokia

Recording the small moments in your life, creating a unique character

This mobile phone continuously record sound into a 30 second cache memory. Push the button on the "fob" and the 30 second soundclip will be hardwired into the device, making a "digital dent". This way you will be able to save the small moments that make up your life: funny comments from you friends, the first words from your baby etc. These moments are seldom recorded - this device lets you do that. The idea is to create a unique mobile phone that you are reluctant to substitute for a new one, in the same way as your favourite pair of jeans. It tries to address the sustainability issues related to the short "emotional" lives of fully functional digital devices.

Self Initiated Project - Anemone

Lamp

A lamp that helps you to release anger and calms you down

Anger is a natural emotion, which can lead to depression if not expressed. The aim was to create a product helping people to release it. As women are more likely to swallow their anger, this lamp is designed mostly for them. It acts as a mood light, but when the user feels angry, she can hit it. The lampshade made from memory foam will protect her, but give the satisfaction by its distortion. However, the final process will be encouraging, as the lamp heals itself after a short while and lets the light through, symbolising that 'time heals wounds', and 'there is always a hope'.

Client Project - Procter & Gamble

Plant Packaging

A plant that needs your care, so it will take care of you, your clothes and your environment

This project is developed for P&G's Fairy brand. The plant and the packaging are offering the contemporary market a highly demanded environmental friendly product. As you buy the Fairy Soap Tree you will need to take care of it by replanting it in a bigger space and composting the packaging. Over the time the tree will become strong and give soapberries, the shells of which contain saponin, a natural and gentle detergent. You will not only make the environment greener but also enjoy healthy and natural product. The soapberries will wash your clothes, leaving them fresh and clean. You and Fairy will take care of your loved ones and our world!

Self Initiated Project - Non-sharing Cabinet

A lockable cabinet

This cabinet is a specific designed product which is for the people sharing bathroom with someone else, it helps not only their shower stuffs well- organized, but also keeps them secure. Moreover, individual personality can be set out by changing you own decoration on the window. The strong suckers are especially good for the people who rent a house. The aim of the design is to help people to create a private environment even in a sharing space.

Client Project - Nokia

A modular green cell phone

Removable modular phone

Touch is an eco- friendly mobile made from recycled materials. It is a modular cell phone that requires you to piece it together easily, each piece would result in different function. It compares a touch screen display, 5 megapixel camera, MP3, GPS, steps teller, and hard driver, instead of changing a whole phone when you want to keep up with new technology, you can be change by individually parts. The concept of this phone want to orientate people to give more long life cycle for the handset to help to reduce the pollution from the handset's components and battery.

Self Initiated Project - Yo-phone

The key selling point of my mobile is that it allows the user to play with the phone like a yoyo. Also by playing with the mobile, as it spins, it recharges itself via kinetic energy.

Client Project - Schott

The light box allows the users to engage with the lighting by the use of different types of glass. Each glass has a unique effect when shone against the light, so the users can experiment to create new outcomes.

Self Initiated Project - Twist Bottle

Packaging

A reusable water bottle when twisted collapses in size.

This bottle was influenced by collapsible origami cylinders and aims to change the way we interact with plastic packaging. Aesthetics have been improved, whilst re-use has been encouraged and made more enjoyable. Here, is a new experience in interacting with plastic bottles. Plastic is a versatile material whose properties often go unappreciated and use in packaging is uninspiring. It is often perceived as disposable and lifeless, not an adaptive and innovative material enjoyable to use. This bottle is convenient to carry and is complimented by water dispensers found at public locations, so that water can be easily accessed 'on the go'.

Client Project - Schott

A mobile glass space divider inspired by the movement

The shapes involved have been designed to showcase the dynamic movement of the 'living dichotic glass' Narima. As this divider is pulled open, its shape, colour and reflections transform. Simple shapes create a big effect, utilising the reflections of the glass. Their use was inspired by the way light reflects irregularly off trapezoidal shapes. Narimas properties are dependent on its environment and angle of view. This divider allows users to interact with this material in a unique and exciting way by exploring its multiple dimensions - it is a flamboyant centre piece which adapts and changes as the user walks around it.

Self Initiated Project - Tea Bowl

Ceramic Tea Set

Objects forcing users to take conscious decisions over the use of their time

How do you value time? Based on the national average wage in 2008, I came to the conclusion that we value one hour at £3.64 (subject to inflation and interest). Using this figure, we spend (on average) 24p a day brushing our teeth, and £13 a day watching television. I designed a tea set based on different perceptions of time, either we don't have enough, or we seem to have alot. One cup cools your drink very quickly, the other keeps it warm for hours. The saucer forces you to take a conscious decision as to which cup to use, hopefully using your time in the most effective way possible. Are your perceptions of time accurate?

Client Project - Schott

A hanging interactive sculpture

An interactive piece challenging glass mythologies

A floating interactive installation for Schott glass encouraging touch and manipulation of its form. Based on geometric shapes it comes alive using the invisible pulleys. Each glass unit is attached using 9 pieces of invisible VHB tape creating a live hinge,giving the glass a membrane like movement. Glass used to be heavy, cold and static. It is now organic, alive and light.

Self Initiated Project - Subverting the norm

Mass Produced Imperfection

Injection moulded Unique one off's!

People seek to attain a product that gives them a sense of individuality, longevity and a product that complies with their fashion conscious desires. Even in an economic disaster there is still a lust from hungry consumers for new styles. By offering a product that is unpretentious and irregular through the use of mass production techniques (such as injection moulding) the cost of production can be reduced to a more attainable level thus creating an equally 'designed', desirable and aspirational product that is achievable by a much broader market spectrum. But to appreciate this richness we will have to re adjust our value system and our expectations of product aesthetics.

Client Project - Schott

Manufacturing Glass potential

All Cut using a 5-Axis water jet Machine

The nature of my project is looking at modern manufacturing techniques to understand and re-evaluate the way we work architectural float glass. And too break the geometrical association and attain new and exciting form and thus show new glass working potentials and showcase new possibilities for designers and architects. using a layering technique and a 5 axis water jet too conceive different ways that an unusual shape can be produced out of standard Float glass. The result, a product more attached too the flowing nature of glass in its molten state. A material quality more suited too organic shapes and fluid forms A new float glass aesthetic.

Self Initiated Project - Travelling Bin

News & Media Display

An up to the minute digit system of free news for the London tube network that is topic specific to carriages and evokes interaction between commuters.

London free sheets have become an integral part of commuting, yet not without social and environmental consequence. This projects aim is to firstly reduce waste and secondly evoke interaction and stimulation between commuters and the news. Instead of shielding are faces with free sheets, that have been forced upon us, we can choose what we wish to read though designated carriages such as sport and entertainment. Upon which social barriers can be built though a common interest, interaction is positive and using public transport doesn’t have to be so bad.

Client Project - Schott

Cracked Mirror Light

A mirror that cracks into a million shards of light, with the ability to self heal

Schott are world renowned glass manufactures and required a “vehicle” within product design that would catapult their glass into a wider consumer market, in order to show their innovative and technological expertise. My aim was to concentrate solely on the glass itself and using Mirona, a glass that can change from mirrored to clear by adding light, I created a surface of illusion light. When off the object is mirrored, however when on cracks appear and light pours through. This effect intensifies the glasses ability and promotes it aesthetic beauty. Glass doesn’t always have to fit a window.

Self Initiated Project - Multi-desk for working mom

Desk for working mother , playing board for kids

Space-effective, multi-functional furniture for home office

"In this modern urban life, we are facing a conflict between limited space and increasing demand for multi-purpose domestic living. I believe, design can assist in multi-purpose living especially helping those who work at home with children so that work and childcare can be seamless.

Client Project - Design Against Crime

Portable personal storage box while you are shopping

"To prevent crimes such as shoplifting in fashion retail industry, it is very important to control customer’s luggage, especially when they are going into fitting room with shop items. Shoplifters are untagging security tags and hiding items behind their own clothes in secured private area - fitting room.

Self Initiated Project - Stepping Up

Step-Stool

Unique slide and lock mechanism that transforms seat into handle for support

Birch plywood construction with durable Formica laminate finish and nylon runners enabling smooth operation

Client Project - Schott

Manually operated glass aperture

Various lighting possibilities

The Aperture exploits the quality and light altering effect of Schott Glass. Constructed from laser cut aluminium discs with Schott Narima glass

Self Initiated Project -

Client Project - Design Against Crime

Relationship

Self Initiated Project - Not everything is as it seems

Not everything is as it seems. That is the premise behind these concrete like seats.

This large, oversized seating arrangement separates to form 3 usable seats. Modularity is used to engage people with the product and material, a simple way of getting the user to engage with the material and experience the illusion. While they appear to be made from heavy concrete, they are actually made from the green and lightweight alternative, Gigacrete.

Client Project - Nokia

Made from a fashionably new material, ‘TREEPLAST’, this unique packaging dissolves from the inside o

With waste becoming a mainstream issue, this packaging looks beyond the landfill and actually gives back to the earth. The outer surface is lacquered in waterproofing to prevent any exterior damage, while the interior contains a marked compartment to fill with water. Once the user adds the adequate amount of fluid, the packaging will dissolve within several hours from the inside out.

Self Initiated Project - BarScan

Personal Payment Device

Making shopping quicker for the urban lifestyle

BarScan is a personal electronic payment device that makes shopping quicker, by solving the problem of queuing to pay. It is a small handheld device which is activated by firewalled WiFi inside the store. On entering the store the device automatically searches and logs in to the retailer’s network. All you have to do is scan items with the scanner, edit the shopping list by a simple touch screen interface then insert your payment card in the device and pay by chip and PIN via RFID (Radio Frequency Identification). Once approved, security tags on the items deactivate and you can leave the store without queuing.

Client Project - Nokia

Heat-conductive charging system

Creating a Charger-free cellphone future

Annually, unwanted phone chargers produce 51,000 tons of waste in addition to the greenhouse gases created by the production of the electricity needed to charge them.

The Nokia E-Cu is a mobile phone charged by sources of heat therefore eradicating the need for the new charger. The phone has a thermogenerator integrated inside, which converts heat energy into electric potential energy. It is surrounded by copper with engraved heatsinks in a dry earth pattern which represents the effect of heat on the natural environment. The phone can be charged by placing it on any source of heat e.g. a radiator, even inside a pocket.

Self Initiated Project - Choco for stress

Chocolate's design to reduce stress while at work

"Stress is now the second most popular health problem within the UK, also it has been identified that most people within the UK that are stressed are businesses admin and accountant within their early thirties.

Client Project - Procter & Gamble

Bath foam & skin care for mums, design to reduce fatigue

"Over the years mums have been there to look out for us and care for us, but whose there for them?

Self Initiated Project - Father and Daughter

This is a set of MP3 players specially designed for a Japanese father and daughter.

In some Japanese families the adolescent daughter avoids the father and they have difficulty in communicating with each other. The purpose is to make them interact through music and come together in order to watch a video and charge. The MP3s interact with each other, as they display the music the other MP3 is playing, send each other music and when synchronized become one video player and only recharge when they are synchronized.

Client Project - Nokia

This green mobile phone helps reduce waste and cost by enabling the users to fix it with ease.

The most commonly damaged components of the phone are detachable, and are fitted onto the phone cover rather than the circuit board. Hence, replacement of the broken components becomes less complicated. It is made out of aluminium is made to last for a long time.

Self Initiated Project - Humanized objects

Social isolation and humanized objects

I explored a radio, amongst ordinary electronic objects, to redesign especially for the socially alienated people who strive to live in superficial urban environment. As “machines might have their own lives” (Dunne 2005), the personality of radio can be treated as chatty or gossipy if the original purpose of “aboriginal mass medium” (McLuhan 2002) is ignored. The socially isolated population needs the special advanced radio that can hear what they say in order to share their daily lives as a substitute of confident rather than the ordinary radio that talks alone.

Client Project - Schott

Glass, Light and Human action

SPREAD LIGHT is a mechanical movement chandelier that people can destroy and create new forms of light infinite reflection effects on Schott glasses.

Self Initiated Project - Stammering Watch

Vibrates a familiar pattern on the underside of your wrist

The product vibrates using a familiar pattern for people who stammer, which in turn helps them speak with better fluidity.

Family dynamics, high expectations and fasted paced lifestyles can all contribute to stammering. When working in a fast paced environment, your voice can be looked upon as the most important attribute, but when talking to management and colleagues this can induce stammering also. Since stammering can have an effect on your education, interactions with people and employment it is a major communication problem. The reason I decided to use the watch as a vehicle to carry my device was simple in the end since the underside of your wrist was the best place to feel the vibrations in your body.

Client Project - Nokia

Creates energy to charge your mobile phone when the user goes running

The product charges your phone using piezoelectric technology. The piezo transducers create electricity when they are stressed & deformed by pressure.

Nokia has a running application for their customers, which is called Sport Tracker. The piezoelectric transducer are attached to a pair of running socks, the battery booster device is kept in a pocket inside one of the socks and connected by wires. The piezo discs are placed in strategic spots where a lot of pressure is exerted whilst running, So as the user is running the piezo disc turns the pressure from your feet into electricity. The electricity created is stored in the battery device ready for the user to attach to their mobile phone when the battery is low.

Self Initiated Project - MediPrompt

Client Project - Procter & Gamble

Self Initiated Project - Roly Poly Teapot

Client Project - Family of Rock

Self Initiated Project - Memoirs of a stuffed toy

Client Project - Family of Rock

Self Initiated Project - Garden Desk

A desk for offices or home

Relieve stress and provide natural feeling

According to use a lot of electronic devices(such computers, printers, phones, mp3 players and speakers...etc), garden desk provide the guide of natural feelings in the way of planting, tidying cables and hanging stuffs on branches. It gives you physically humidity and psychologically relief of your mind.

Client Project - Nokia

A green energy mobile phone

Hand-shake charging and USB connection with computer

It is global green issue to reduce waste of energy and mobile phone. I found a different way of charging our mobile phone without electric charger, using our movement and sharing energy with computer connecting to USB. With shaking mobile phone including the movement of your arms while walk-ing, the phone battery can be fully charged in 6 hours. It is enough time of daily outdoor life, and at the end of the day, simply share the electricity with computer at home. No need of electric battery charger and less use of electricity.

Self Initiated Project - Air Travel

An ultrasonic wave headphone which reduces high pressure on the ear caused by altitude whilst letting them put on the eye mask to sleep well without any unwanted sound or pressure.

Client Project - Family of Rock

A poster which uses 3 different types of ink such as Fluorescent ink, Thermohoromic ink and U.V ink to keep the value of the poster and to make it less complicated for the users to read. This keeps the users feeling more attached and pay more attention to the poster.

Self Initiated Project - The Shadow

A living Room Table

A table that interacts through user behaviour

"In a simple way, it is a table transforms into a chair form, when users sit on. In a complicated way, it is an experimental work of human perception / habit.

Client Project - Design Against Crime

A display storage system

Shelf that helps staff move products out of blind spots.

"Blind spots are the thieves' favourite area in a shop.

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Self Initiated Project - Layered Life

A Mobile Phone

A phone that becomes more precious to you over time.

In my research I found that signs of 'wear and tear' on consumer electronic goods make them lose their 'novelty' and value and this reflects negatively on the owner, implying that he/she lags behind with emerging technology. Therefore I designed a phone that would become more precious and personal to the owner over time.

Client Project - Design Against Crime

Stops professional thieves from swiping books.

When researching shoplifting, I found that professional thieves target bookshops such as Foyles, and steal books in bulk by swiping the books of the shelf and into a big bag. Therefore, I created a lip that prevents this action without damaging the books when taken off the shelf by other customers.

Self Initiated Project - Beyond the borders

A Sofa using assets of Eastern and Western culture

Combined tastes of East and West

The Eastern and Western cultures are very different which makes them distinguishable and unfamiliar to each other. However, these dissimilar assets give out exotic taste for each culture. Therefore, it will be possible to provide the exoticness to both cultures by combining those dissimilar assets into one. Functionalism, artificial and fullness are assets of Western culture, whereas green, natural and emptiness can be assets for Eastern culture. As a result, a sofa came out that has the assets and materials of each culture which provides the main function of sofa while used only natural materials to build the structure.

Client Project - Family of Rock

A Limited edition Poster

Increasing the awareness of the product for further merchandising

"The Family of Rock Ltd is a new company which has no reputation or market area. In order to gain fame and get into the marketplace, it needed to add values somehow. Their only product is ‘The Rock Family Trees’, hand rendered tree posters that contain history of rock bands and movement of rock. To gain reputation, a product needs awareness which could be spotted easily and differentiates it from others in that area.

Self Initiated Project - Monachair

Transformable picture frame

Dual-function picture frame

"This picture frame is inspired by ‘L.H.O.O.Q’ by Marcel Duchamp.

Client Project - Schott

Occasion table

Glass table that creates romantic light

"This unique NARIMA glass table reacts with light to create various colour refractions to the surroundings.

Self Initiated Project - Food cultures of East and West

Client Project - Schott

Self Initiated Project - Cigarette package

How can design helps people think twice before smoking

Opening the cigarette pack, the smoker will hear the sound of a pre recorded message. After listening to the recording the smoker decides whether to pick out the cigarette or not it is up to them.

Client Project - Nokia

A sustainable LEGO mobile phone

It is a sustainable phone because you can keep and use the different parts of the mobile phone that you are happy with. Very often people purchase a new phone because there are one or two things that they like about the new phone. But there is no problem with the rest of their old mobile phone. Many part of their old mobile phone is probably still in good condition. So my product (LEGO shape) will keep the phone sustainable because people can keep the parts they want and not keep the rest. (User can change the shape with LEGO)

Self Initiated Project - Close Encounter

Function follows Form

A series of objects that have been designed without any function but with the purpose to fulfil an unpredicted need. At first they might appear useless, but the fact that they are present in time and space give them the opportunity to be used for something. It is up to the user to perceive/think of a function or not. If used as a seat, then it is a seat; if used as a bowl, then it is a bowl, etc. In order to fulfil my objectives, I had to step away from the design process; I had to dislocate myself from any rational thinking. The RX227 process is a card game combined with 3D software that allows me to create random useless objects. Its aim was not to create highly complex forms, but only forms I would not expect.

Client Project - Schott

A project combining the RGB model and the CMYK subtractive model (glass)

"The Echoes is a light installation that enhances the purity of Schott glass through light. Inside the lamp, an RGB LED bulb is changing colour every few seconds, affecting the glass spectrum. Some colours disappears, some gets brighter, some changes colour.

Self Initiated Project - This is a Bowl

Client Project - Family of Rock

Self Initiated Project - Love Affection

Ceramic Tableware

"A set of microwave compatible tableware that allows you to prepare and reserve food for your family, acting as a medium to express your love and concern towards each other in today’s hectic contemporary society

Client Project - Procter & Gamble

Packaging – Baby Body Wash

Packaging – Baby Body Wash

"With the Fairy unscented, sensitive milky baby wash, babies shall be happy and content with the scent of their mothers (per se), helping them form a strong emotional bond with each other.

Self Initiated Project - Get Out of Boredom

Time management

The design to keep teen busy by giving them extra housework and chores to do, such

Client Project - Family of Rock

A unique package for a Rock Family tree Poster.

This design is for a Rock Family poster that can protect the poster whilst on the street and when handling the poster at home. The simple package can extend to a poster frame. The poster looks more unique compared with other posters. The simple graphic layout easily tells the story of Rock Family.

Self Initiated Project - Poor Little Fish

Save water in an emotional way

As a intangible substance, Energy is often neglected through daily consumption. Rather than forcing people to consume less, which will greatly depress the using experience, PoorLittleFish basin offers an emotional way to persuade consumer to think about saving water, by bring tangibility into energy consumption.

Client Project - Family of Rock

3 dimensional memory of rock

For those rock fans who was growing during 60s to 80s, the golden age of Rock n’ Roll, Rock is not just a favoritest music genre. It is also the memory of their own life. As authority in rock history, Family of Rock will be not only a story of rock bands, but the story of themselves as well. Memorabilia Cabinet is for rock fans to display their collections by turn rock family tree posters 3 dimensional. The lines on the poster become the shelf of the cabinet and the calligraphy becomes the decoration the front glass.

Self Initiated Project - Bath Oils

A collection of bath oils

Five different types of bath oils with different smells

Having a bath can have lots of benefits; it can be relaxing, refreshing, and therapeautic.this collection of bath oils is aimed to celebrate bath time and personal cleaning rituals. The five different oils belong to five different groups based on the type of smells they have. The inspiration comes from the fragrance industry where perfumes have been put into five main cathegories: woody, aromatic, oriental, fresh and floral. The sense of smell can significantly effect our physical and mental state.

Client Project - Family of Rock

Books, that travel around the world

"Each book puts a certain rock family tree into context by summarizing the most significant moments and events in the time in which those particular bands existed. The books are designed to travel around the world. they

Self Initiated Project - Singing Cups

Cups which create sounds

Creating new user interactions involving sounds

These double walled cups, when blown on to cool down drinks, produce a sustained note. They provide an opportunity to introduce both adults and children to playing the flute, as well as keeping people entertained while they wait for drinks to cool down. This means no more burnt tongues!

Client Project - Family of Rock

User interaction creates a unique product

A hoodie that users can customize them selfs to highlight their favorite parts of a rock bands history.

Self Initiated Project - Skin By Chanel

Skincare packaging for Chanel

Beauty kit for Chanel which allows you to brand your skin

This product highlights some of the issues driving the current trend in anti-ageing skin care products. Through my research I concluded that the anti-ageing movement is a new form of religion. It helps us deal with the idea of mortality. Many of the beauty products we see today claim to perform “miracles” on our skin using mystical substances. Looking at the various ways we can manipulate and fashion our skin, I also concluded that skin has become a commodity, and possibly something which could be branded, just like clothing. Another driving force behind this anti-ageing trend is the obsession with smoothness, which we can now easily achieve, and has raised our perception of beauty. Smoothness equates perfection.

Client Project - Design Against Crime

Anti-theft mobile

Raises awareness of security through humor

This was a project was carried out for ‘Design Against Crime’ (DAC).I found through my research that physically preventative security measures are ineffective, this is a battle of the mind. The concept was to create a more relaxed feeling towards security, but in doing so highlighting the issue. The mobile is positioned in places where someone who is going to steal would look i.e. towards the ceiling for CCTV. The use of playful and childish visuals, and the word ‘think’, are intended to prick the conscience of a thief and make them reconsider what they are doing.

Self Initiated Project - The Mediator

Our technological modern society has produced an enormous number of products. Moreover

Client Project - Nokia

mobile phone

The green solution for display culture

To protect the environment we need to change the way we live and work. We can all take small steps forward every day. How many displays do people have in their ritual lives? Consumer electronics market demands about 4000 million displays every year. This concept enables us to prevent from wasting numerous displays with low power consumption. Be open to new possibilities and share them.

Self Initiated Project - Loosing your marbles

A collection of glasses containing the iconic marble

creating emotional durability by encouraging childlike behavior through play

The losing your marbles collection consists of champagne, wine and whiskey glass inspired by the way children interact, explore and discover the most mundane objects. Each glass contains the iconic childhood toy, the cats eye marble, in the base. By combining the marble with memorable and playful actions which encourage the user to explore the glasses on each use, considering the act of drinking more carefully, instilling a sense of occasion and enhancing the interaction between user and object creates an emotionally durable prduct which encourages a long empathetic partnership.

Client Project - Design Against Crime

A re-usable RFID security tag

Appeals to the user enhancing their shopping experience while detering the abuser

This anti theft book tag is designed to enhance the customers experience unlike other security tags that are designed around protecting only. The tag comes in three sizes and fits most books due to its stretchy Santoprene centre, which creates a small amount of tension requiring exaggerated strength to remove from the book, this action deters the opportunist thief from removing the tag. Advertising enhances the customer experience yet highlights the security measures in place, ultimately branding Foyles as a security conscious brand. The tag also covers the bar code, making the security gates and alarms work more efficiently and creating a better shopping environment.

Self Initiated Project - Age-Less Time piece

Client Project - Family of Rock

Self Initiated Project - Shadow Graphic Chair

The multiple chair pieces can be changed changed into different types of chair, creating a bird shape that has come from a specific artwork that encourages similar conceptual design.

Client Project - Design Against Crime

Even though a security tag is attached on most of the products, there are a countless number of lost goods in store, which certainly is treated as a design issue. The fundamental problem is that thieves are using tools to take security systems off.

Self Initiated Project - Vital energies of weeds

Pot under carpet

The power of vital energies

I made this product for the depressed people cheer up and make them happy. This pot uses under the carpet in the hospital or working environment where people are obliged to stay indoors. It is not a beautiful flower in the vase, it shows the strongness of nature using weeds.Even though, people makes artificial building and cover the street with thick concrete, weeds comes out from the gap and live strongly. And also, this product shows nature underneath of our foot and we can feel great nature is close to us even we are in the building. Weeds are not only heal people’s mind but also they encourage peple through the posture of living life with all their might.

Client Project - Design Against Crime

Anti-shoplifting single hook

Exaggerated reaction

This product is anti-shoplifting single hook for retail environment. For shoplifting noticeable, making exaggerated reaction is effective way. Twist hand and raise arms makes exaggerated action. This hook is user friendly but abuser unfriendly product. Fixing part is using screw thread for anti-shoplifting from back part but shop assistant can change the stock items easily.

Self Initiated Project - Domestic Computing

Client Project - Schott

Self Initiated Project - User-shaped chair

Client Project - Design Against Crime

Self Initiated Project - F.Custom

Personal Furniture Creation

The goal of F Custom is to create more bonding between the object and its owner. On an internet based interface, user’s are allowed to design there own piece of furniture, with the 206 different furniture components that I have designed.

Client Project - Family of Rock

Carry your poster like a Rock Star!

CMYK subtractive model (glass)

Because collectors do not want the packaging of their goods to be unsealed. Because they want to keep its value intact. Because they would still want to read their Family Of Rock poster, a window on the tube, and a scrolling system can fit them very well!

Self Initiated Project - Extending Mobile Phone s Life

Colour Customisable Module Phone

Personalise your phone & Express yourself...

Short life-span of electronic products causes serious environmental problems. By adding personal identity & individual emotional factors into product design, it can increase the sustainability of product. This is a mobile phone with various colour effects according to your mood. Five different colour LEDs beautifully illuminate when you touch the phone. Also, you can always carry cutting edge technologie devices without buying a new phone, by simply adding desired modules from various ranges onto the phone. Customisation in both aesthetic & technology will slow down the users’ boredom and increase the enjoyment of using the product.

Client Project - Design Against Crime

Confectionery case for Newsagent

This is a Confectionery case for newsagent store which makes sound.

With size adjustable features, it fits in all different sizes of current shelves in every retail store. Also all different sizes of the chocolate bar fit into the case perfectly. The magnet in the case cover makes a sound when users take the chocolate. Therefore staff will able to realise the shoplifter who takes chocolate bar from this case by hearing the sound even without looking.

Self Initiated Project - Smart Mouse

Computer Mouse

Mouse that cares

This mouse is specially designed to cure Internet addiction. Computer and Internet give us great advantages, which make our life easier. On the other hand, due to the attraction of it a lot of people suffer from computer addiction, which results in social isolation.. Which results in social isolation. This mouse allows you to manage your time spent in front of the computer by setting your time. When the time is up the mouse vibrates to interrupt your activities on computer. Also the lighting visualises the spent time on computer as it slowly changes its colour from warm yellow to bright red towards the end.

Client Project - Family of Rock

Poster case

Keep your rock family trees posters in best condition for centuries.

This specially designed Poster case for Rock Family Trees brand makes it possible to keep your rock family tree poster in the best condition. The tube, which splits from the white middle line, has a roll up Mechanism so that when you want to display it on the wall it rolls down automatically by using remote controller when the power is plugged in. By pulling up and down the handle you can lock the case or unlock it and by turning on the uv lights when it gets dark. it reveals the beautiful signature from the rock legends

Self Initiated Project - Drink Like A Star

A Breathalizer branded for teenagers

Which critizised todays celebrity obsessed teen culture

This product tells you your blood alcohol level not as a specific measurement but on a scale of 1 to 6 corresponding to a celebrity whose drinking habits are well portrayed in the media. People always frown at celebrities and their behaviour at wild parties, but do they ever consider that their drinking habits may be just as bad, or even worse?

Client Project - Design Against Crime

Integration of RFID technology

Benefits for the consumer, manufacturer & retailer

The concept of this method to stop crime is to integrate RFID chips into every non-fast moving high-value consumer product sold. The RFID chip will have a unique number which when purchased is logged on a databaseas purchased. At the entrances to stores or public transportation gates can detect the RFID chip and set the alarm off if the product isn't purchased or is reported stolen.
Benefi ts for the consumer are that these chips contain product information and offer many services directly linked with the brand and opens multiple opportunities for manufacturers, such as self-programmable washing machines, etc.

Self Initiated Project - Washingmachine?

This washing-machine has a drum that has two points of contact with the chassis rather than the conventional 6. This is possible because of the use of a vibration suppressor along with the standard shock and spring assembly. The box, which doubles as the chassis, is constructed from solid stainless plate, creating a weighty base for the single pivot point to anchor to. The controls and door are presented to the user from under the counter top, with the rest of the machine recessed to help reduce the visual presence of the “box”. The door differentiates the machine from the rest of the kitchen by appearing to be a projected disk, and by opening up by rotating to the right, apposed to the rest of the cabinets and doors which open out into your space.

Client Project - Nokia

A phone that embodies function

The Q26 opens to a full keyboard

This phone was designed in response to the way users engage with their phone for text and email. Defining the phone as a tool or an instrument connotes functionality, if the phone is useful, helpful even, then it will sustain it self. A phone is not green if it is thrown out.

Self Initiated Project - Homo-Narrans; The Storyteller

At the end of the cradle’s functional life it can be sawn in half to create a pair of rocking chairs.

From my research into the physiological meaning of possessions I came to realise how peoples attachment to their personal possessions and their meaning are intrinsically linked to events in their lives.

Client Project - Design Against Crime

Packaging for Homebase Hardware

A range of packaging for Homebase, designed to reduce theft and improve user experience

My packaging is design to make inconspicuous removal of the product difficult which improves the chance of thieves being spotted on CCTV. A unique measuring system reduces the need to open the packaging and allows you to find exactly what you are looking for. The packaging design is tamper evident which reduces the chance of customers buying boxes with missing items - with reference to pharmaceutical and food packaging visual language.

Self Initiated Project - Money Education

Money Education Toy

Play With The Balance

Enhance Awareness About The Value Of Money Through Play With The "Unbalance" Toy

Client Project - Design Against Crime

'Watcher'' Design For Warning 'Opportunity Thieves' Against Shoplifting.

Self Initiated Project - DiPouch

Portable medical pack

For Diabetic people, any age and any gender

The main goal of this product is to offer diabetic users an easy reminder to take their medication. However, the idea is also to camouflage its medical aspect, helping the user feel less self-conscious when taking their medicine in public. The sporty and fashionable style makes the product less stigmatised and more comfortable.

Client Project - Design Against Crime

Portable security furniture for jewels

For Street Markets or small stalls

It is a light and portable jewels self which is made out of Acrylic ‘Acid Green 6T86’ and is translucent. The display box protects the stall’s items on display, reducing stealing and shoplifting from the stall. When it needs to be transported, it can be stacked vertically making it portable and easy to set up and dismantle at the end of the day.

Self Initiated Project - Harley Street Board Game

Board Game

A cosmetic surgery game for 8-13 year old girls

By 2011 the UK is expected to spend £2 billion on cosmetic surgery, but this is not limited to adults - 1 in 4 teenagers also plan to go under the knife. Designed to challenge our perceptions about cosmetic surgery and to ask more questions then to provide answers, Harley Street is a board game about cosmetic surgery and is targeted at Tweens. The first one to buy 12 cosmetic surgeries wins the game, but it won't be easy. Have you kept to your diet? Why did you miss your last botox session? Don't land on a mirror! These are just a few of the obstacles that might stop you from reaching perfection. What are your thoughts on this game? Do you want to play or are you appalled?

Client Project - Procter & Gamble

Roller-ball applicators that deliver health and well-being fragrances

Using aromachology and nanotech to improve health and well-being

Smell is the most underrated and undervalued of our senses. As designers, we spend time and money trying to make products feel, look or taste better, yet how it smells is usually neglected. Of our 5 senses, smell is also the most emotional, it catapults our mind instantly to a specific time and place in our lives. This project aims to use smell to impact health and well-being through aromachology (the science of affecting psychology through scent stimulus). Fairy Accents (Relax, Focus, Sensual, Sleep or Happiness) are applied to clothing and over the course of the day different layers of scent are released to enhance the prescribed mood.

Self Initiated Project - Slip Slide Chair

A chair, which is slowly transformed by the unique ritual of use of its owner

First cantilever brush chair to be designed with you as an individual in mind

The Industrial Revolution brought the world mass-produced objects equalling in a throw away society. Objects became worth less because it cost so little to make so many. The Bristle Me chair is, hypothetically, a mass-produced object with a difference. The bristles are there to encourage each individuals ritual of use, be it how you sit or how often. The result is each Bristle Me Chair’s personal transformation into a one of a kind item, unique to whoever owns and uses it; thus changing a mass-produced object into something individual.

Client Project - Design Against Crime

Anti-theft stand, designed specifically for No7 Protect & Perfect Serum, the most stolen product at

Causes the opportunistic thief to use both hands to access product, acting as a deterrent, as well as marketing the product to the potential customer.

No7 Protect & Perfect Intense Serum has been clinically proven to produce real results. For this reason, along with the high volume of marketing and advertising which No7 pumps into the media, the demand for this product is high. With high demand comes theft, thus No7 has become the most stolen product retailing in Boots today. With this stand, the boxed product is protected from sweep theft, and acts as a deterrent for opportunistic theft simply by forcing the perpetrator to think more about stealing this product by delaying their process of taking the usually loose product off of the shelves.

Self Initiated Project - Mourning Objects

A mourning objects containing human material.

Memory making as a response to death through the use of mourning objects containing human material.

The collection contains post-mortem memorial pieces which include aspects of a deceased corpse, namely hair and cremated ashes. Human remains act as an important medium of remembering a passed away loved one and are some of the longest lasting natural materials. Besides pure hair being used, cremated human ashes are mixed with black bone china, the world´s highest class porcelain. The objects are worn close to the body of the mourner symbolizing a lasting physical connection between two individuals. Furthermore this collection is supposed to remind the wearer on the fragillty and appreciation of life and most importantly, acting as a keepsake.

Client Project - Design Against Crime

Design which prevents thiefs from stealing perfume testers

It makes perfume more desireable as a selling product but unattractive for thiefs.

Perfume is one of the most highly stolen products on the market. This project deals with the design of a new interior design for pefume stores, that attracts the customer to test and experience fragrance and most importantly prevents thiefs from stealing tester bottles.The tester bottles are hidden behind glas which makes the perfume more desirable as a product. Instead of using testers bottles, the customers experiences the fragrance via a traditional and propper way of using perfume, namely by using dispensers which can be pulled out of the tester station.

Self Initiated Project - Convo

A table

A product that embraces the modern way of living.

This product is designed for the average family that does not necessarily have the room or funds for a dining table. By having the compact product compacted the family sits closer together and are therefore more inclined to interact with each other, something that has declined since the introduction of 'television meals'. Furthermore, the table is designed to be used either on the floor or on an existing piece of furniture when the lid is removed. This makes the table adaptable for the situation so that you can eat your meal while watching your favourite television show on Saturday night and then move the table away from the television for your Sunday dinner.

Client Project - Design Against Crime

A spray system

To deter criminals from shoplifting in small stores.

Shoplifting in small stores is a huge problem, and has grown to such a level that store assistants are fearful of approaching people they believe have shoplifted through fear of being attacked. 'Spray Safe' returns some power back to the store assistants as it is a spray system that 'marks' a perpetrator with 'SmartWater', a new technology that links a person to a specific location. The store assistant just needs to push a button as the perpetrator is leaving and they are sprayed with an invisible spray. The police can then find this person and convict them. Giving passers by the knowledge that such a device is in use on the premises will deter the potential thief and give reassurance to the everyday customer.

Self Initiated Project - Reveille

Client Project - Procter & Gamble

Self Initiated Project - Visual Units | Absolut Choice

Packaging aimed at the 18-30’s.

A visual link to identifying 1 unit of alcohol

Britain has a negative image in regard to social drinking. Design can engage with the consumer to achieve a more positive image without taking away freedom of choice. Using a leading brand, the concept of this project is to make a unit of alcohol a visual object to inform the consumer and create a fun interactive drinking experience which creates an awareness of how may units are being consumed. Absolut Choice is a limited edition collection of five flavoured vodkas plus original. Packaged in 28 individual sachets of 25ml (1 unit). The calculations aredone, no more misunderstanding unit information, drink with confidence.

Client Project - Procter & Gamble

A range of childrens bath products

Packaging designed to appeal to kids.

The brief was to take the emotional attachment Fairy has with its consumers and incorporate it into a new product line that would fit into a different market sector but still appeal to its existing consumers. The brand’s strong identity with family and its gentle and sensitive values make a logical transition into a childrens bath care range. Fairykids is a set of bath products which are designed for children aged 4-8 based on observations of how this age group aspire to make their own choices when visiting the supermarket with their parents.

Self Initiated Project - The Kidbox

Playful Interactive Tool Box

Family tea table for encouraging better communication

Children love fun and colourful things to play with. ‘The KIDBOX’ engages both children and parents on an emotional level and encourages children’s growth through the development of investigative as well as the problem solving skills. By playing with this, children are encouraged to develop table manners and basic human understanding and new ways of interactive activity communication method with parents. ‘The KIDBOX’ is one of the simplest and playful rail/puzzle games which turns into an engaging furniture piece.

Client Project - Design Against Crime

a security hanger to prevent theft from fitting rooms

[the hanger - retractable security cable - tag] system

Fitting rooms are usually one of the hotspots for the shoplifters to remove the security tag and steal items. Main concept of this product is; to prevent and reduce theft from tag switching in fitting rooms. The security hanger contains a security cable (which is connected with the security tag on the items) and the cable will be extended when customer try on. Customers are restricted within the fitting room while they are changing because of the chained hanger-security cable-tag system. This is designed to prevent people from removing tags by providing surveillance circumstances.

Self Initiated Project - Snap : Teen Interactions

Instant Digital Camera

The next-generation camera that enhances social interaction between teenagers.

Teenage girls love taking photos with their friends. Through photography & visual narratives, this can help boost an individual’s identity. Snap is a fashion accessory & social interaction tool which allows teenagers to edit & personalise their photos as well as print & share them amongst friends.

Client Project - Design Against Crime

An elegant yet effective product to deter skincare theft.

The ability to quickly conceal a product is the most common way thieves attempt to shoplift. However, most security devices fail to enhance the product as well as the shopping experience, at times even deterring the customers themselves. Embrace markets the product in an aesthetically pleasing holder which not only complements the brand but also keeps the product secure without alienating customers. Another feature is the curved handle which allows customers to carry the product freely around the store.

Self Initiated Project - share the sweet

A series of candy for sharing.

Candy is surrounded by great expectations, especially from children. Noticing that a large number of candy have surprisingly mundane forms, packaged in a plain bag or along with a plastic toy that serves as the fun factor rather than the actual piece of candy. Emphasising how form can change the way one interacts with, and consumes candy, I designed these three pieces focusing on the experience of sharing, even something that is commonly not shared, like a lollipop.

Client Project - Design Against Crime

A stool enabling the display of books, designed for use

To display desirable titles, leaving it difficult for a potential thief to steal books without being noticed.

Books are continuously vandalised and some titles keep getting stolen over and over. This stool, alongside the possibility for customers to review books (and read fellow customer reviews), creates an active space for keeping customers in a seating area and at the same time storing and displaying desirable titles, therefore limiting possible theft. Managing the task of theft prevention without being obtrusive for customers, yet uncomfortable for the potential thief. This chair has been designed specifically to reach the requirements needed for Foyles.

Self Initiated Project - Learning + Food

Food Moulds for Children

Enable children to use food and cooking as learning aids

"Set of three stackable food moulds that produce letters, numbers, and shapes made from food: providing children with the ability to familiarise themselves with the basics of language and mathematics.

Client Project - Procter & Gamble

Alcohol Free Hand Sanitizer

Sachet Flower that takes the Fairy Brand out of the Home

"Hand Sanitizer with an alcohol free formula that makes it safe for children to use: because when outside of the home, a child’s curiosity can encourage them to play and touch things that aren’t necessarily clean. Fits with the Fairy brand’s focus on families and hand care, whilst appealing to both the sensorial and hygiene needs of its consumers.

Self Initiated Project -

Client Project - Procter & Gamble

A refillable, double concentrated washing-up liquid system specifically designed to appeal to men.

As 98% of British men use washing-up liquid system specifically designed to appeal to men.

Most household cleaning products are designed for and aimed at women, but since the social barriers have been broken down, woman and men now tend to share the household cleaning chores. The existing cleaning product manufacturers are not capitalising enough on this opportunity to market their home cleaning products to men. My product is meant to fill this gap in the market and to also promote reuse an an attitude of 'less is more'.

Self Initiated Project - The Life Urn

Embrace life by reminding yourself of your mortality

Client Project - Procter & Gamble

A special babycare range with your added formula of pure love

Self Initiated Project -

Separate work and home life with height.

Without the physical barrier of the daily commute, professionals working at home can struggle to stop their work hours infringing on home life. Inspired by children’s tree houses, and the associated narrative of climbing these wooden structures, this desk and stool aim to create an isolated proximity within the home. The unusual height of the desk allows the user to detach from work, both visually and emotionally.

Client Project - Nokia

Challenging Nokia’s existing retail experience

When buying a new mobile phone, loyal Nokia users are often re-purchasing components and accessories they already own, such as phone chargers or batteries. Cell Packaging adapts to the load it contains, allowing the customer to specify what accessories they require in-store or online. The objects are vacuum-sealed into the sustainable aluminium package, and worn on a re-useable lanyard to reduce the need for carrier bags.

Self Initiated Project - Communicative Coffee Table

Provides opportunities for strangers to interact and play

Fun and functional

There are more people getting lonely, most of them feel too shy to make new friends; This coffee table provides strangers with opportunities to make new friends as there are eight pieces of slide boards on the top of a chalkboard surface, people can write with the chalks provided, silde and clean by playing with the panels. It fits into the local cafes and would reduce the shyness while people interact with strangers, it encourages them to interact in a soft and playful way.

Client Project - Design Against Crime

Security Tag

Stop thieves opening packages and taking products out

Many items in Boots are stolen by way of opening the package and taking the actual product as there is no tag on the product; It is also make the product hard to sell when the package is opened. This light sensitive security tag is using the light sensitive technology to prevent packages to be opened, once the package is opened the light will raise the alarm. There is still the EAS tag in this so thieves can not take the whole pack out of the electronic gate. These tags prevent theft as well as the package being destroyed, this can also improve the shopping experience.

Self Initiated Project - stereotype packaging

Fruit &vegetable packagings for 5-A-day

Encourge people to a healthier lifestyle

The series of food packagings were created from the observations on personal behaviors.Using the recognizable stereotyping packagings would get people to realize their bad habits and encourage them to make a change for their everyday life.

Client Project - Nokia

A phone that is powered by soft drinks

It is totally pollution free

Bio battery is an ecologically-friendly energy that generates electricity from carbohydrates (currently sugar) and utilizes enzymes as the catalyst. The concept is using bio battery technology as the power of the phone. It only needs a pack of sugary drink and it generates water and oxygen while the battery dies out.

Self Initiated Project - Are you camera-shy?

Digital camera

If you think your images as privacy and do not like others to see your ugly photos, then try it!

two seperate parts. They could work both together or seperately. The LENS part includes lens and viewfinder, but screen, while SCREEN includes touch screen and build-in printer. They are connected by magnet. When the subject is going to be captured, he could give photographer the LENS, and keep the SCREEN. After capturing, the photographer can not see what he took, because the image has been sent to SCREEN through wireless USB. That means nobody can see the image before the subject makes a decision among keeping it, printing it out or deleting it.

Client Project - Nokia

earphones

Solar panel + Nokia universal charger + handfree controller + automatic earphone cable organizer + clip = ?

Why not to put the solar panel on your headset controller? Then you won't worry your solar phone does not work when you put it in your bag. This universal nokia solar charger can help solve the problem. And the earphones could be put in automaticlly to be protected.

Self Initiated Project - Firewallet

RFID Privacy Control Device

Why is your computer better protected than your wallet?

We are increasingly carrying RFID cards with us that are used touchless and have the potential to leak personal information. Firewallet is designed to individually manage up to eight RFID cards that can be protected. Only when activated by the user they send and receive information and therefore prevent unwanted data mining and identity theft. Firewallet empowers the user to control when and where he shares his private details.

Client Project - Design Against Crime

Video Mixer Extension

Combines surveillance technology and VJ culture

Designed as an extention for the Numark NuVJ video mixer, CC-TV turns customer surveillance into a feature. It makes shoppers more visible and exposes potential shoplifters by projecting CCTV feeds onto the screen of a shop. This product transforms the retail environment into a stage and offers new promotion and advertisement opportunities. CC-TV is an effective concept that increases social control and enriches the security guards' job. Created for Design Against Crime CC-TV offers an innovative solution against shoplifting without compromising the shopping experience.

Self Initiated Project - Jewellery Storage

Jewellery Storage

Playing With Magnifying Glasses and Light

Amplifico Luceo Lucere is a jewellery box that uses light and magnifying glasses to force the user to interact with the storage unit and the jewellery inside. Depending on the magnifying potential of the lens, the size of the jewellery, the way it is placed within the box, and the angle of sight of the user, the lens warps or brings into focus an otherwise hidden detail to the naked eye.

Client Project - Procter & Gamble

Affordable Luxury

No more dry cleaning bills

Lace, Silk, Cotton, and Cashmere are all those fabrics that make up our most cherished possessions. We love them for how soft and gentle they feel on our skin but it can be quite hard to keep them looking as stunning as when we first bought them (without breaking the bank at the drycleaners). That's when Fairy comes in to lend a helping hand: the new Luxury Fairy condensed laundry detergent is especially made for those fabrics that need extra attention and delicate ingredients.