Kids can create simple vehicles and walking bases and then customise them with their own bricks. The five models give a great starting point, but the aim is that children can ‘boost’ anything that they create in LEGO using the hub, components and coding app.
LEGO Boost
Build – Code – Play
I arrived at LEGO late in […]
Colour Venn Watch
Tell the time with colour
I was commissioned by Mr Jones Watches to create a watch for their range. I wanted to create something colourful and simple. I was inspired by the CMYK printing process. With a combination of Cyan, Magenta and Yellow, printers are able to produce any colour. The idea of the […]
LEGO Spike Prime
A STEAM learning solution for middle school that combines LEGO bricks, coding language based on Scratch, and a programmable multi-port hub to help every learner become a confident learner.
Whilst Creative Director for the LEGO ‘Build and Code’ product category, my team and I collaborated with LEGO Education to incorporate learnings from Boost and […]
KANO Pixel Kit
A smart display that you can build yourself.
As Design Director at Kano my team and I worked on a range of new products, three of which we launched as part of a Kickstarter Campaign. Teaming up with MAP, Sherif Maktabi, Bruno Schillinger, Ricardo Luz developed the pixel kit. Kids can assembled their own […]
KANO Camera Kit
A smart display that you can build yourself.
As Design Director at Kano my team and I worked on a range of new products, three of which we launched as part of a Kickstarter Campaign. Teaming up with MAP, Sherif Maktabi, Bruno Schillinger, Ricardo Luz and I developed the Camera Kit. Kids can assembled […]
KANO Speaker Kit
A smart speaker that you can build yourself.
As Design Director at Kano my team and I worked on a range of new products, three of which we launched as parts of a Kickstarter Campaign. Teaming up with MAP, Sherif Maktabi, Bruno Schillinger, Ricardo Luz developed the speaker kit. Kids can assembled their own […]
Anticipating the need for a sub $50 product in the Kano range, my team and I set about designing a range of attractive USB sensors that can enable kids to better understand how technology works. Each of these sensors explores a particular sensing capability and unlocks new coding challenges. From left to right they are […]
The Kano Computer Kit Complete comes loaded with Kano’s own operating system that allows kids to explore the functionality of their new computer.
One of the most popular modes is to use Kano Code, a visual programming language, to ‘hack’ Minecraft.
KANO Computer Kit Complete
A computer that anyone can make
As Design Director at Kano my team and […]
KANO Computer Kit
A computer that anyone can make
Adspecs
$5 Glasses with liquid filled lenses whose prescription can be changed. Designed for use in developing countries to correct myopia.
In parts of Africa one in three people need some form of sight correction, but there can be as few as two trained opticians per million people in a population. Additionally, in some locations it can […]
Open Up Lamp
A lamp shade that opens and closes when the light is switched on and off.
The lampshade is comprised of polypropylene “petals” and six bi-metallic strips which are activated by the heat emitted by a bulb. Bi-metallic strips are a sandwich of copper and steel. When heated, the copper expands more than the steel […]
Bremont Watch Orrery
A mechanical orrery to display Bremont watches
I was asked by the Bremont watch company to design a shop window display for their New York and Mayfair boutiques that would “look like a contraption from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”. It had to be mechanical and reflect the beauty of the clockwork visible inside […]
Bouquet for The Queen
A Bouquet for Her Majesty the Queen made from Ticker Tape & Computer Punch Cards
To mark the opening of the Science Museum’s new Information Age Gallery I was asked to make a gift to present to the Queen.
Hawking’s Black Hole Light
Representing the path that light takes as it disappears into A Black Hole – A 70th Birthday Present from the Museum for Professor Stephen Hawking
In January 2012, Professor Stephen Hawking turned seventy, and to celebrate, the Science Museum curated an exhibition of his work. To accompany the exhibition, I was asked to create a […]
Word Count Pencil
A pencils which, as it wears down, shows you how many words you have written
BioBauble
A biodegradable bauble that contains a seedling Christmas tree, complete with soil and fertiliser that can be planted after Christmas to grow a new tree.
Over the first weekend in December, I bought and installed a Christmas tree in my living room. I wondered in what spot the tree had been growing for the […]
iGramo
Gramophone to amplify a smart phone
Every morning that I am at the Museum, I walk past a lovely old gramophone. One morning it occurred to me what a beautifully simply way it was of amplifying the relatively quiet sound of a needle on a record. No power is required, simply a trumpet shape. Later, I was […]
The Blue Making of the Modern World deck features items from the main gallery in the museum and artefacts such as an Ford Model T and a sample of original Penicillin spore identified by Alexander Fleming.
The orange Ada Cards deck features twenty British computing pioneers, ten male and ten female. They celebrate the ingenuity of […]
Beauty in the Making Range
A range of products that illustrate how they have been made and what they are made from
The invention and manufacture of even the simplest of products has been built upon decades of development, and has required hours of thought, ingenuity and endeavour. From the extraction and refining of materials, to the […]
Aluminium Bottle
An aluminium bottle with illustrations showing how it was made
A 600ml aluminium bottle with caribena stopper. The illustration explains the process of refining and extracting aluminium from its Ore (Bauxite), details aluminium’s atomic structure, its common uses and the manufacturing process for the bottle.
