This article was published 10 years This week, Benchmark’s resident Fixpert, Maya Alvarado visits The Dingley Early Years Centre, finds some seats to fix and starts the refurbishment of a small sofa… 06:20: I wake up and get ready for work. Today I’m looking forward to visiting the Dingley Centre,…
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Aalto University wins award for new cotton recycling technique
This article was published 10 years Researchers from the School of Arts, Design and Architecture and the School of Chemical Technology at Helsinki’s Aalto University have won the top H&M Global Change Award for a recycling technique that converts waste-cotton into new textiles. The conversion of the existing ‘Ioncell-F process’…
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interview :: simon kinneir
This article was published 10 years This is the latest in a series of interviews with designers identified by the Design Council as Ones to Watch. Simon Kinneir’s Leaven collection of kitchen products has been designed with subtle tweaks from their ordinary counterparts to give extra sensory feedback beyond a reliance on…
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Maya Alvarado meets a new Fix Partner and prototypes paddles
This article was published 10 years This week, Benchmark‘s resident Fixpert, Maya Alvarado visits Fix Partner Anne at the Red Cross Charity Shop, seeks out potential fixes and makes paddle prototypes for canoe trip with Heidi… 07:30: I wake up and get ready to go and meet my new Fix…
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Emma Buckley’s graduate collection is defined by experimentation
This article was published 10 years Kate Brewer, founder of Look Like Love, profiles a different new designer every week. With the tagline “support, nurture, promote” echoing confessions of a design geek’s own “discover, champion and inspire” and a similar commitment to advocating for emerging talent, the parallels between Look Like…
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Students at Aalto University create 14 different chairs from blackened ash
This article was published 10 years 14 Product and Spatial Design Masters students at Finland’s Aalto University School of Arts, Design, and Architecture each responded to the brief for a café chair to be made from the same material – blackened ash – resulting in 14 different prototypes. Kuu by…
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interview :: studio haran
This article was published 10 years I met husband and wife team Studio Haran on my travels during confessions of a design geek’s Cornish Design Season at the end of last year. Falmouth University graduates Joel and Helena design and make sustainable furniture and lighting from their farm courtyard workshop. They…
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Maya Alvarado visits libraries, garages and carehomes in search of new Fix Partners
This article was published 10 years This week, Benchmark‘s resident Fixpert, Maya Alvarado goes on a search for new Fix Partners. She visits local clubs and businesses in Hungerford, finds out about an excellent use of a Tuk Tuk and considers the best material for a dog friendly boat plank……
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look like love :: tom hutchinson
This article was published 10 years Kate Brewer, founder of Look Like Love profiles a different new designer every week. With the tagline “support, nurture, promote” echoing confessions of a design geek’s own “discover, champion and inspire” and a similar commitment to advocating for emerging talent, the parallels between Look Like…
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Iselin Lindmark Dubland’s side table is designed for “lazy sofa days”
This article was published 10 years Norwegian School of Art and Design (KHiB) graduate, Iselin Lindmark Dubland, has designed Birk, a coffee table with concealed storage for magazines, laptops and television remotes, and a removable tray perfect for TV dinners. The four-legged table is made of birch wood with a…
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interview :: moupila & friends
This article was published 10 years I visited Moupila & Friends, a design shop in Belgium’s Dikkelvenne a couple of years ago and was struck by the ingenuity of a pair of designers combining a workshop, an office, a weekend shop and their home all in one hardworking space. The…
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A day in the life of the Benchmark Fixperts Resident
This article was published 10 years This week, Benchmark‘s resident Fixpert, Maya Alvarado shares her FixFilms with the team at Benchmark; finds inspiration from Joanne, who paddled 715km down the Yukon River in Canada despite having been born without any fingers on her left hand; and goes back to visit Mrs Ellis…
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look like love :: sophie cobb
This article was published 10 years Kate Brewer, founder of Look Like Love profiles a different new designer every week. With the tagline “support, nurture, promote” echoing confessions of a design geek’s own “discover, champion and inspire” and a similar commitment to advocating for emerging talent, the parallels between Look Like…
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creative spaces :: the tribes
This article was published 10 years The way we work is changing. 95{ff546b69e23b1524d799f96c6ba7a638e1f677053b0a2a1568b05315fd5f8fc7} of medium sized businesses now offer flexible working – and evolving technology combined with cost effective travel enables us to work from wherever the business is. People are also more likely to set up independent ventures and…
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interview :: marlene huissoud
This article was published 10 yearsThis is the latest in a series of interviews with one of the 70 designers identified by the Design Council as Ones to Watch. As we start to consider whether insects will become the food source of the future, bee-keeper’s daughter Marlene Huissoud goes one step further. In her ‘From…
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A day in the life of the Benchmark Fixperts Resident
This article was published 10 years This week, Benchmark‘s resident Fixpert, Maya Alvarado meets with a homeless charity to discuss a making workshop, gets a team together to make Heidi a bespoke paddle for an upcoming canoeing expedition and meets Emily and her twins to discuss their needs… 06:20: I wake up…
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Design Like You Give A Damn is the next #designbookclub
This article was published 10 years It’s time for the third monthly confessions of a design geek #designbookclub, and we’re really starting to get into the swing of it. So far, we’ve read Eden by Tim Smit (you can read the full transcript here) and The Craftsman by Richard Sennett…
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look like love :: samuel bellamy
This article was published 10 years This is the first post in a new column by Kate Brewer, founder of Look Like Love, in which she will profile a different new designer every week. With the tagline “support, nurture, promote” echoing confessions of a design geek’s own “discover, champion and…
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A day in the life of the Benchmark Fixperts Resident
This article was published 10 years This week, Fixperts Resident Maya Alvarado reflects on what it’s like to be the only woman in the Benchmark workshop, delivers Mrs Ellis’s tray despite a bit of a hairy journey, and contemplates life on a canal boat… 06:20: I wake up, get ready in warm clothing…