Primary Interests
Social Innovation / Environment
This is where my personal and career interests overlap. I believe a systems thinking/service design approach allows greater freedom to tackle larger social challenges.
Work Experience
Various clients – Freelance
Idea generation for next generation Neighbourhood Watch (live|work); web design; computer literacy tuition.
Irish Institute of Nutrition and Health – Freelance
Developing the delivery of the online constituent of IINH’s courses in addition to various other design tasks.
Human-Centred Design Institute, Brunel University – Freelance
Distilling and presenting ethnographic research for ‘Design for Patient Dignity’ Design Council brief.
live|work, London – Internship
Project working with ethical farming advocates Agrarian Renaissance in creating a social network both for farmers to improve their position and to increase people’s connection to food and land.
RNID – Project Student
Product/Service. Designed a hearing aid to be made from recycled components. The service through which it will get from an old NHS hearing aid to a low cost product suitable for developing countries was also designed.
Spaced Out Architecture Studio, London – Sandwich Placement
Research project on making housing more sociable, through sharing resources this process will have environmental benefits to the wider community.
Academic
First Class Honours BSc Industrial Design, Brunel University
(Direct entry to Level 2 – transferred from Bournemouth University due to course not being what I wanted.)
Modules Design Process, Contextual Design, Innovation Management, Sustainable Design, Graphic Communication, Electronics & Programming, Structures & Mechanisms and Design for Manufacture.
Software Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator, Office, Solidworks, Vectorworks.
Web Basic HTML, CSS, Javascript & WordPress.
Exhibitions London Design Festival, New Designers, Made In Brunel, DMY Berlin
Publications Thinking Out Loud: Designing for a Positive Future. London, Papadakis Publishers. “How is the role of the designer changing?”
Interests
Travel I enjoy travelling and spent my gap year experiencing life in S.E. Asia, Mexico, Australia and New Zealand. More recently I spent three weeks travelling around central Europe.
Photography I got interested in photography whilst travelling and once constructed a darkroom in a friend’s barn.
Environmental and Global Issues I helped to create a ‘People and Planet’ group whilst in my first year at university and I’ve always felt allied to such issues.