Ceramic Mug
A Fine Bone China Mug illustrating how and where it was made
A mug with illustrations inspired by English Willow Ware designed by Thomas Minton around 1790 (as exhibited in the Museum). The illustration explains the manufacturing process, constituent compounds of china and molecular structure of the fired bone china. The mugs are manufactured and […]
Silk Scarf
An illustrated silk scarf that details how it was made
A four-colour pure silk scarf with a design detailing how silk is made, from the Beauty in the Making range. The illustrations explain the manufacturing process and use vintage lithograph imagery to catalogue the life stages of a silk worm.
Tote Bag
An illustrated cotton tote bag that details how it was made
A cotton tote bag that explains the stages of growth of a Cotton plant, the steps to create thread, the process of weaving fabric, how a sewing machine works, and a rough guide to pattern cutting. Inside hidden detailing shows the number of cotton […]
Reclaimed Rubbish Lamp
Lamp made using reclaimed rubbish from the Science Museum
In the summer of 2014 the Science Museum set up an exhibition called the Rubbish Collection, in which it collected, sorted and selectively displayed every single item that had been thrown away by visitors and staff over the course of a month. This included all the […]
Inspired Notepad
A blank notepad with every fifth page showing handwritten excerpts from leading scientists and thinkers to inspire great work
DNA Double Helix Christmas Card
A Christmas Card that can be assembled into a Double Helix Christmas Tree
Each year the Science Museum sends a card to leading scientists, patrons and those it wishes to thank, and it’s my challenge to make a suitable card. For Christmas 2014 I designed this card, which has perforated components that pull […]
Magnetic Chopping Board
A chopping board with a strip of magnets (beneath the hardwood insert) that holds the end of the knife when chopping, secures steel bowls in place when mixing, and doubles as a knife rack when not in use.
I like the idea of using magnets in cookware. They provide a clean and efficient way to clamp […]
Levitating Cutlery
A placemat with hidden magnets that enables cutlery to “levitate”
After having created the Magnetic Chopping Board, I was looking over the prototype board, and it occurred to me that if you put it face down, the magnets in the surface would have their repelling side upward. I wondered if it might be possible to […]
Timeline Rulers
A series of rulers illustrated with a timeline of the last 300 years of the key scientific discoveries and inventions.
Guess the Gift Kit
A kit of scientific instruments to investigate what gifts might be before opening them on Christmas Day
Another Christmas invention for the Museum was inspired by the feeling of excitement I used to feel as a child as the presents began to build up underneath the Christmas tree in the lead up to […]
Christmas Woolies
Winter Woolies for the Science and National Rail Museum
A range of jumpers, hats and scarves for the shops in the Science Museum Group – to brighten up Christmas.
PediClean
Museum Invention Competition Winner – To clean sand from your feed after a visit to the beach
Over the summer of 2013 the Museum and I ran an invention competition to invite young people to devise solutions to problems they encountered with “British Summertime”. We had some inspired entries, from drip catching ice cream cone holders, […]
Harper Collins
The Big Book of Celebrity Inventions
There is a saying that ” everyone has a book in them”. In fact, I think everyone has an invention in them, or at the very least, an idea for an improvement to an existing product. With this is mind, I wondered whether this might be true of people we […]
Seeded Cards
A range of cards that can be planted to grow christmas trees, herbs or wild flowers
Inspired by the BioBauble, I designed a christmas card that contained pine tree seeds so that it could be planted to grow a new Christmas tree. The tagline “Happy Christmas 2023″ refers to the fact it takes […]
Vac Pack Wrapping
A re-usable Christmas themed Vacuum Bag for speedy gift-wrapping
Wrapping up presents always seems to take ages, I’m not very neat when I do it, and after the presents are opened there seems to be piles of wrapping paper everywhere, which seems a bit wasteful.
I remembered using some vacuum pack bags to store […]
Squeezee Peg
Squeezable one-part clothes pegs with no metal parts, that can say outside without weathering
Whilst at the RCA we were set the challenge to redesign a ubiquitous everyday product. I chose the Clothes Peg. They haven’t changed in years. They often mark clothes, are commonly left outside, and contain metal parts which rust. I set […]
Self Heating Crockery
A range of crockery that heat to sixty degrees at the touch of a button, and can be recharged with heat energy and used over and over by washing them in the dishwasher
In 2002 I won British Inventor of the Year for creating a range of reusable self-heating crockery. These were self-heating plates […]
LHC Umbrella & Scarf
An Umbrella and Silk Scarf for the Large Hadron Collider Exhibition at the Museum
I was asked to devise some products to accompany an exhibition all about CERN and the hunt for the Higgs Boson. I came across an amazing image of the CMS detector, one of the four detectors at […]
I started Concentrate in 2004 after a year long research project to investigate how the design of school buildings affects the delivery of education. The research highlighted that quite often money was spent on new school buildings and facilities, but often some of the more fundamental issues with the way lessons are delivered had been […]
