Product Design
The Co-Evolving Bottle
‘The Co-Evolving Bottle’ is a modular bottle that adapts to your child’s needs through mixing and matching components. This is a call for longer lasting products; no longer is there a need to discard your unwanted baby bottles as your child grows out of them. ‘The Co-Evolving Bottle grows with your child so you only need one bottle for the duration of the child’s life. This is expected to make an 80% reduction in CO2 emissions and waste.
0-6 months The baby’s bottle is ergonomically designed to fit the parent’s palm. The detachable bottom means cleaning is easier as they can reach all the way through.
6 months – 2 years The bottle is transformed into a weaning cup, where the spout and handles are added.
2 – 5 years The extended volume is added to make a beaker where the child chooses which spout they prefer, if any at all. All lids and spouts correspond to the existing Tommee Tippee range.
Oli's Olive Oil
In an overpopulating world, filled with throwaway consumers, packaging is an ever-increasing problem in terms of waste; waste of food and of packaging.
Oli's Olive Oil is made form OliPHA; which uses olive oil wastewater to make the biopolymer. The cradle-to-cradle inspired design not only cleans the polluted wastewater but also turns it into plastic. The 100% biodegrable bottle solves the waste problem at every stage of the product life cycle and puts a stop to petroleum based plastics and has a negative carbon footprint, saving the planet.
http://www.olipha.eu/2013/08/13/olipha-shortlisted-at-the-pro2pac-student-completion/
http://www.packagingnews.co.uk/events/pro2pac-student-winner-unveiled/
Karma Food
In an unsustainable, global food system run on oil, prices are perpetuating. In an urbanising, over-populating world food is becoming a more valuable resource, and it is time to start valuing the things we need. Change is needed to become more locally inclusive and Karma food help you to grow your own indoors. It is time we all become farmers again.
Karma Food aquaponics utilises fish waste as nutrients for the plants, which in turn creates food for ourselves. Karma Food highlights the oneness of nature and how we all need each other in synergy to survive.
The Sherlock Shaper Table
The Sherlock Shaper would accompany the Mycroft chairs in a family of products that will inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs in Leeds. The design was inspired by the pioneering discoveries of the molecular structure of DNA through X-Ray diffraction, first discovered in Leeds. The ambiguous artwork represents the fluid network of ideation, leaving the viewer full of questions; ‘What is this?’ ‘This looks like …’ everybody will come up with different answers but only through the science of deduction will anyone understand that the image was based on the x-ray of DNA.
DNA is what connects us all and is the building blocks of all life. By looking from the past we can learn a great deal into the future. This discovery in the mid twentieth century has helped uncover a whole new science of genetics and leaves us with even more questions about the ownership of modified genetics. Building blocks come in pairs and hopefully this table will pull together two great minds together.
The Mothership Collective
The mothership collective was a collaborative art project at Latitude Festival. Exploring an utopian vision of saving the bees, trees and communities. Participation with the public making alien puppets and their homes accumulating in an intergalactic puppet show at the end of the weekend.
http://photos.latitudefestival.co.uk/2013/?image_keywords=artist:The+Mothership+Collective
Bee Urban
Extracting, jarring and labeling local honey for the community. Design work concentrated in highlighting the local aspect of the honey and the sense of community brought. Other work for the project included making seedpaper snowflakes for christmas decorations.