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Design Director @TPXimpact Initiator @lo_c_d_i Trustee @RestartProject @mediale_uk Ex @designcouncil @libraryofthings @bulbuk @iotlondon @gnlamp @tinkerlondon
Jan 12, 2022 7 tweets 2 min read
After a first week of working with a new client, this is what I have learnt about exporting and working in the EU post Brexit. We used to be able to say 'i'm sending you some pallets with some stuff on it, here are the pallet dimensions, weight and volume' and a shipment company would have been able to get it to its destination.
Oct 9, 2019 15 tweets 2 min read
In the last year after writing my book, I spent a lot of time thinking about the #bauhaus and what it would look like today. Here’s what I would get students to experience to break the mould of design education as an enabler to capitalism and consumption: First class: get a ‘smart’ object that is broken. You have technical support to open it but you need to find out what’s wrong on your own. Mechanical, electronics, software. You have to do the research on your own or ask ‘Masters’ for guidance.