creative

In the same way industrial heritage encapsulates innovation and creativity, so its important to keep alive craft. Lost and we lose some of the threads that make up a design, and lead to new products. Again, bringing the best from the past and integrating it with modern techniques and technology. Everybody has the ability to think and design, but in the main these dreams get over burdened by modern life. We seem to get ‘dis-engaged’ with the items we purchase and use. What is meant by this, well if you remember early cars, you did not need the computer in the garage to test them, simple tools where sufficent for home repairs, early computers you wrote your own software. Now products are being designed to isolate you from this process. This is a mistake as its the breading ground for progress and ideas. Customers should be empowered and allowed to shape the products marketed. Ironically, this is the age that this process should zenith, with the rapid communications of the internet, so the path is their, we need to find new approaches to making the best of it.

We have a whole range of projects relating to

1) Model engineering, this is a key skill to prototype and design, which although supported by modern computers is essential in product design.

2) Designer Designer Cloths project. We wish to encourage creativity and the concept of REUSE. The designer designer projects makes fashion from disregarded designer fashion. It reminds you that there is no imagination in wearing designer cloths, you need to design your own for that.

3) Illusionary art. Anything that provokes thought has to be encouraged, also different ways of looking at spatial objects. Whether illusionary leather art, or art that makes you think, we try and push the barriers of the thought process.

4) CAD, CAE,... All have one word, AIDED. We need to maintain the craft we develop and build and support them. If they are lost, so is the pathway to a solution.

5) Art, modeling and design are methods of communication, and as is computer simulation. We need to embrace the past and present, to address the solutions of the future.

If you have any tools or materials that are getting in the way, these are what fuel projects and allow you to re-use them.