Finished off the unit today with #blummovento runners and all the door stops. Already for delivery.
Finished unit
craft
Book shelves for library
This is a Bookshelf that I made for a home in Brighton and Hove. It was the finishing touch to a room so that it can be used as a library. This photograph is courtesy of www.paulfletcherphotography.co.uk his expert eye created this photograph just before Christmas.
The finish on the shelves is Farrow and Ball all white eggshell.
Share this:
Edinburgh College of Art
Whilst running a test on search terms related to my website I came across this Edinburgh College of art
I remember filling out the form and thinking that it was information for a database. I was really pleased when I saw it as a profile.
To think I graduated 13 years ago, it seems like yesterday that I left.
Hopefully Les Mitchell will host another reunion in the future for all us craftsman and women.
I’ve even done some work on fellow students homes down here on the South Coast.
Share this:
New Tools
My strategy this year is to update most of my tooling. I have opted for Festool They are certainly not the cheapest but I a firm beliver in, you get what you pay for. Having been so impressed with the Domino cutter my next purchase will be the Plungesaw. This tool is going to be really useful in the workshop and site for cutting mitresd edges and cutting in scribe panels. The beaty of the Festool system is that all the boxes link together to make transportation and storage very simple. Also the extraction systems link into the storage boxes. Festool pride themselves on their dust extraction capabilities, and if the plunge saw is as effective as the Domino interms of extraction it will make my day in the work shop far more enjoyable. Take a look at the links to see for yourself the festool range I highlt reccomend
Share this:
Edinburgh College of Art Alumni
Friday the 8th of February saw a reunion of ex students spanning 30/40 years from the furniture design department at Edinburgh College of Art http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/edinburgh-college-art
I got there at 9am to be greeted by Leslie Mitchell (who was head of Design and applied arts and who heroically organised the event) we had a brief catch up as people started arriving. The thing that struck me the most, as everyone arrived he remembered all names. After having our ID checked in the office we were invited to the boardroom for tea and coffee. The board room was very nice which had a lovely view of Edinburgh Castle.
After an hour we started the second part of the day, current students presented their projects giving us the opportunity to encourage or advise on a way forward. The ideas were diverse from Augmented reality dental products, health care products, personal working spaces, street furniture, responsibility in design and time pieces. it was an interesting few hours and you could tell how the current students are being pushed to develop products for the future.
This bought us up to lunch and after which were presentations from ex students on what they have been up to since.
Presentations by alumni
Andrew Glidden Glidden Design and Brand Communication. http://www.weareglidden.com/
Ewan McCarthy Bright 3D Environments. http://www.bright3d.com/full/team.php
Roddy White TP Vision, Philips
Jamie McCall – PLB Projects http://www.plbltd.com/index.php
Luke Carrington and Philip Stewart – ink Associates http://www.inkassociates.co.uk/
Trent Jennings and Tom Marsh – Blue Marmalade http://www.bluemarmalade.co.uk/
All the talks lasted about 20 minutes and gave a good history of what each person or in some cases partnerships had done since graduating. It was very inspiring to see what people had developed and the different routes people had taken.
Afterwards there was plenty of networking going on up in the boardroom with some red wine! From here we moved onto Henricks for some food and drinks. http://www.henricksbar.com/
It was great to meet up with old friends and forge some new friendships. Im looking forward to the next one. It must have been a good weekend as I’m currently nursing a lost voice and had to cancel a client meeting :
All the best
Martin
