This article was published 10 years Do you lose precious minutes every morning looking for your keys? Have a daily 7.30am panic about where your train ticket is? Andrea Mestre has created Totem, an organising system that keeps essentials at hand to save time and reduce stress in the mornings. Standing approximately…
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a day in the life
Maya Alvarado creates a new shelving system for local charity shop
This article was published 10 years This week, Benchmark’s resident Fixpert, Maya Alvarado teams up with Benchmark’s cabinetmaker Max to fit the Red Cross fix, they bring pre-fabricated parts on site and prepare the new storage system ready for use… 09:00: It is Saturday morning, having collected the materials and tools…
a day in the life
Maya Alvarado prepares for Red Cross charity shop fix
This article was published 10 years This week, Benchmark’s resident Fixpert, Maya Alvarado, learns about ordering materials in the workshop, prepares wood in the mill and makes the final Red Cross charity shop fix… 06:00: I wake up in Hungerford and get ready for work. 07:00: I start the day…
Confessions of a Design Geek
interview :: visibility
This article was published 10 years Visibility is a New York based industrial design studio, founded by Joseph Guerra and Sina Sohrab in 2012. I met the design duo at Ambiente Frankfurt at the beginning of last year where their work had been selected as part of the Ambiente Talents…
a day in the life
A day in the life of the Benchmark Fixperts Resident
This article was published 11 years In Maya Alvarado’s second weekly column for confessions of a design geek, she shares another day in the life of the Fixperts Resident – this time she develops her own Fixperts project, creates some more storage for Benchmark, and a chance encounter on a…
Confessions of a Design Geek
out and about :: northmodern
This article was published 11 years My first overseas trade show of the year was a new one – Northmodern in Copenhagen. I was really excited to be back in a city I visited for the first time only last August and keen to check out the new design talent at…
Confessions of a Design Geek
creative spaces :: stockholm furniture fair
This article was published 14 yearsThis week’s creative spaces post is a little different from usual in that it’s not one person’s space, but rather a collection of all the great products I saw at the Stockholm Furniture Fair designed for creative people’s working environments. I believe that the space…