Exhibition essay for A World We Don't Want
Pre-print draft of an essay I wrote for the exhibition A World We Don’t Want curated by Friends & Associates for Melbourne Design Week 2021, supported ...
Recently I had the pleasure of working with UNSW Newsroom for an interview by Kay Harrison, with a video introduction to my work filmed and edited by Marty ...
My essay for the exhibition Life & Death, curated by Dale Hardiman and Tom Skeehan of Friends & Associates for Melbourne Design Week 2020, has been republished in Garland ...
Catalogue essay for the exhibition Welcome to Wasteland, curated by Friends & Associates for Melbourne Design Week 2019
Welcome to Wasteland was an innovative show highlighting experiments in recirculating waste ...
Yesterday the Minister for Education Dan Tehan officially announced a new round of Australian Research Council Linkage Project funding, and I'm very pleased this included my project Designing for ...
Saturday 19th October 2019 is the third International Repair Day. Thanks to a grant from the Australian Council of the Arts and the following people and institutions, during ...
This post is a non-academic, partial summary of the article Design considerations for the transformative reuse of a Japanese temple (Keulemans et al., 2020) accepted for publication in the ...
I have taken an interest in, as Mathew Keim (2013) describes it, the 'transformative potential of craft' as a result of conducting field research on creative forms of repair ...
Kyoko Hashimoto and I collaborated again for the group show 'Artefacts' at Melbourne Design Week 2018, contributing our collection of works Ritual Objects for the Time of Fossil Capital.
Catalogue, ...
Object Therapy, my transformative repair research project with ANU and Hotel Hotel has completed its first stop of its Australian tour at the Australian Design Centre (ADC). Its now ...
In June and September of 2016, myself, as chief investigator, with Niklavs Rubenis and Andy Marks as co-investigators, interviewed 30 or so participants in the human research project Object ...
On Thursday 16th March the Sophie Gannon Gallery is opening Design Works 01 as part of Melbourne Design Week.
Kyoko Hashimoto and I have collaborated on two new works for this ...
Amy and ANU's broken Fred Ward chair
Much of my 2016 was spent developing Object Therapy, a human research and participatory design project in collaboration with Andy Marks of ...
In the past month or so I've been on radio and television.
For my human research project on repair, Object Therapy, I was interviewed on the 24th May byGenevieve Jacobs ...
Last year I was pleased to be invited by Karen McCartney to contribute to her new book 'Perfect Imperfect'. Subsequently my works Copper Ice Cream Scoops and Archaeologic Vases were ...
This month I've been profiled in a Korean magazine "Wood Planet". The editor was interested in my CNC-milled bamboo chest of drawers/hidden bookshelf 'LKBP'.
Yes I did point out that ...
Last month, my partner dropped her iPhone and broke its screen. I have previously seen many, many iPhones with broken screens. They seem to be fairly common among university ...
A few days ago Michelle N. Meyer and Christopher Chabris wrote an article in The New York Times titled "Please, Corporations, Experiment on Us." The article raises the issue ...
Cover design and internal typesetting for the English translation of Masakazu Ikeda's Contempory Clinical Foundations of the Classics, a Japanese textbook concerned with interpreting the ancient Chinese texts on acupuncture.
Typeset ...
Last year I was invited by Andrea Eckersley, the art editor of the Deleuze Studies Journal to contribute a cover. Conventionally, this means sending an image that is slotted ...
During February and March of this year, Kyoko Hashimoto and I ran a workshop for JamFactory Metal Design Studio associates. The workshop addressed the design of rings, in the ...
The material properties of copper, its conductivity and its effects on other metals as an alloy, make it a core technological material of history and civilisation. Copper is very ...
Tommorow, the exhibition Unmaking Waste will open at UniSA's SASA Gallery in Adelaide.
On Saturday, I'll be presenting my peer-reviewed paper "Mixed Up: Re-thinking the sensibility of reinforced concrete" at ...
Last week I had the chance to get into the photostudio at JamFactory, where I am currently resident artist, to take some photos of a new collection of Archaeologic ...
This month I was included in Belle Magazine's "Generation Next" review of significant Australian designers.
I think the photographer did a pretty good job capturing my beard :D. He had ...
For the last few years I have been teaching in the final year program for Bachelor of Design students at the College of Fine Arts. This program gives students ...
Last year I was invited by Jackson Tan (BLACK) and Justin Zhuang (In Plain Words) to contribute images of my work to their Creative Cities exhibition in Taiwan. The ...
The exhibition Domestic Renewal, featuring my Copper Ice Cream Scoops and curated by Rohan Nicol, is currently on show in Adelaide with new work contributed by designers from the ...
Domestic Renewal curated by Rohan Nicol is showing again at the Craft Cubed festival in Melbourne. The exhibition opens on the evening of the 1st of August and on ...
This Thursday the 28th of March 2013, the very talented designer/curator/journalist Matylda Krzykowski will be giving a guest talk at the College of Fine Arts, UNSW. I've known Matylda ...
Currently my Copper Ice Cream Scoops are on display in "Domestic Renewal: A table re:set" at Canberra’s peak craft and design venue Craft ACT craft and design centre, continuing ...
The use of pure copper, a metal with high thermal conductivity, presents a technical improvement to Sherman L. Kelly’s famous aluminium ice cream scoop design dating from 1935. However, ...
This project for the upcoming exhibition Domestic Renewal began with a conversation I had with designer Henry Wilson, in which we talked about these fascinating hollow aluminium ice cream scoops ...
Reading through Christopher Hitchens' memoir I was struck by this quote (among many others) about idealism and rationalism, and the sometimes challenging ability to change one's mind.
To announce that ...
Cufflinks I designed for my father's 80th birthday in London (his initials are TK).
Made from 925 silver. The whole cufflink is blackened by oxidizing the silver, and then the ...
"Today, in order to create a new architecture and new urban spaces, it is necessary to to begin further upstream: one has to plunge one's hands into that vast planktonic soup ...
This stage of the Archaeologic project was exhibited during Sydney Design Week 2011 in collaboration with Henry Wilson.
For other stages of this project I am using an approach adapted ...
My new project with Henry Wilson is now on show during Sydney Design Week 2011. Details below.
Archaeologic
Seeing potential in the look and feel of broken things, Guy Keulemans and Henry ...
From March 18 to April 19th my installation NNancy is on show at the PYD Building in Sydney. A spatial intervention built from a simple fixed modular component, the ...
The exhibition Tag! Base! Hide and Seek! has opened successfully at the Centre of Contemporary Art in Torun, and WWILMA has begun. This was project was difficult for me because I ...
Earlier this year I was asked to contribute to the soon to be released Platform 21 book. My contribution was a series of sketches proposing an structure built by ...
I was recently featured in the July-August issue of Artichoke, Australia's design and architecture magazine. It was a very nice profile written by Dutch design journalist Ingeborg van Lieshout, ...
The May 2010 issue of Art Forum has a review of the Marres Centre's We Were Exuberant and Still Had Hope. Ettore Sottsass: works from Stockholm, 1969 exhibition. The ...
The celebrated young designer Tobias Wong died recently at the age of 35, officially by suicide. However, it appears he may have killed himself accidentally while sleep walking, a ...
This saturday opens Die Grauzone, an exhibition at Kaleidoskop in Neukolln, Berlin. My project Greygoo is designed specially for this exhibition. The exhibition is part of the larger art ...
I recently contributed to the magazine associated with Fashion Clash 2010 in Maastricht (June 4th to 6th), an event curated on the idea of fashion being produced by designers ...
This evening in Breda, the Netherlands, Jose Subero, a classmate of mine from the Design Academy Eindhoven, is presenting a lecture on his innovative proposal to transform the city ...
In 1864 Jules Verne wrote “Journey to the Centre of the Earth”. Informed by new discoveries about the geology and the age of the earth, the novel attempted to ...
In an “Abelard Snazz” story written by Alan Moore in 1982, Abelard Snazz, an egocentric and immortal character with four eyes (literally), is imprisoned for eternity on the bare ...
About a year ago I recieved a phone call, out of the blue, from Arne Hendriks of Platform21, to talk about my SMASH REPAIR project, the second prototype of ...
After setting up the Sottsass exhibition in Maastricht a few weeks ago, I traveled back to London with copies of the die-cut models. At a pub in Shortditch, I ...
My interview by Ingeborg van Lieshout from the Green Light District has been placed up on DutchDFA. Its a little long-winded, of course! but I hope you enjoy it. ...
In November this year Giovanni Innella, a former classmate of mine from the Design Academy Eindhoven, set about on a new project to travel to Burkina Faso and mediate ...
This page concerns the graphic design-in-progress for my project superunfoldedbox exhibited at the Marres Centre for Contemporary Culture in Maastricht. A full description of that project and its outcomes ...
New images of the Smash Repair 3 table, a structure generated continuous cycles of smash and repair. The smashing is facilitated by 'break lines' that guide the direction of ...
Earlier in the year I made a post about the Austrian/Italian designer Ettore Sottsass, and his influence on my own work. Part of the post dealt with the Superboxes, ...
My furniture research project, Object for Atheists, and the furniture item it inspired, LKBP, pictured, is on exhibition at the Design Academy Eindhoven Graduation Galleries 2009, from October 17th ...
2 new pictures of the SMASH REPAIR 3 table, after the 7th smash and final repair, taken outside Martijn's studio in Eindhoven. More images can be found here on ...
The Archetypal Vase is a set of five interconnecting glass vases designed by Andrea Bandoni and Joana Meroz, born from their research project The Object Without a Story which suggests ...
Recently I have been engaged in an interesting email dialogue with curator and writor Freek Lomme about my and Martijn's SMASH REPAIR project. Its inspired me to reflect ...
Its true that SMASH REPAIR is cerebral. And perhaps a bit crazy. Why break something on purpose..... and then repair it so as to break it again?So here is ...
My class, the Design Academy Eindhoven 2009 Masters graduate projects, are now online, where you can find some images of my furniture project, Objects for Atheists.The design is one ...
This Friday, Saturday and Sunday (July 24th - 26th 2009) I will performing SMASH REPAIR live at the gallery Platform 21 in Amsterdam. I hope to smash the structure ...
In June 2009 I graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven with a Masters degree in Humanitarian Design.
A description of my graduation project, pictured, can be found here.
I also produced ...
As the images show, yesterday was the first smash and repair. Crushing the structure and see it break was immensely satisfying after the long assembly work. The structure took ...
Over the next few days I will be re-producing the SMASH REPAIR project for the gallery Platform 21 in Amsterdam. This version, the largest Martijn and I have designed ...
Finally I have graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven, with a masters degree.My project is currently on exhibition at the school, and here I present my thesis titled "Objects ...
At the following link is a PDF of my nearly finished thesis. Missing is the third appendix and the odd reference or figure number. link expiredBelow, a recent sketch ...
Following on from the success of Repair Night at Platform21 last friday, SMASH REPAIR has been featured in two online magazines:Bright Magazine (in dutch)Dutch DFA (Design, Fashion, Architecture) (in ...
Chest of drawers, cabinets and bookshelves are suitable design opportunities for a topic dealing with atheism. The atheist worldview is very much concentrated on the accumulation of information and ...
At one point last year, frustrated with designing and especially with structure, I tore up a big sheet of paper and then proceeded to sew it back together. The ...
This is a set of graphic studies I produced to visualise my thesis topic. Basically they are concerned with the representation of life and death within an atheist worldview, ...
Recently I have been reading a lot about Sottsass, some on the net, but mostly from the book Etorre Sottsass: A Critical Biography, an illustrated biography written by his ...
Last weekend I designed some graphics to illustrate my topic. These graphics abstractly deal with the atheist conception of death and its inverse, life.Atheists do not beleive in ...
Here are some ideas for designing metaphorical or symbolic objects for atheists and naturalists. I did this by developing an atheist persona, a personality construct, based on my ...
IntroductionThroughout history, the ability of objects to survive has had little to do with function or aesthetics, but everything to do with cultural significance. The existence of objects is ...
This family of chair models uses a kind of "genetic" system to grow and build objects. The manual system is applied to the design of larger and larger chairs, ...
These images show a diagrams for a 2-dimensional architectural tiling system. The system works with 2 tiles, a larger triangle edged primary tile, and a smaller triangle shaped filler ...
QuestionHow can a manipulation of scale be used to create long-lasting objects with sublime effects?AbstractIn the past, large architectural structures were possessed with a spiritual power representative of their ...
My research thus far has drawn upon a fairly broad range of sources, and so this literature review will likewise cover a wide area. But first, let me introduce ...
IntroductionMy people research has taken two forms. The first is a four part survey (found here)I sent out into the wild via Facebook. The survey dealt with the perception ...
As part of my people research, I have written up a narrative spliced with questions that I am sending to experts in the field of design history.Introduction:What is the ...
MINIATURE LANDSCAPESIt is now well on the way to the end of the trimester, and I now have designs and models to assess. Some of these I won't discuss ...
Notes from my meeting with Erna Beumers on the 17/11/08.During my meeting with Erna she drew attention to my continual use of the words sacred and profane in my ...
Fumihiko Maki Metabolist system of urban design breaks down the structure into 3 areas.compositional form - individual elements that mold and adapt to the next level of megastructure:megastructure - ...
Some thoughts after reading Rem Koolhaas' S,M,L,XLIn the margins of Rem Koolhaas's book S,M,L,XL, is a kind of dictionary, a collection of quotes from, I assume, various sources headlined ...
The story of goldilocks and the three bears is an interesting tale dealing with notions of scale and privacy. Goldilocks, usually depicted as a pretty young blonde girl, the ...
In the past, large architectural structures were possessed with a spiritual power representative of their iconic and rare status. Similarly, very small historical objects such as jewellery and miniature ...
Before I rewrite my abstract in response to feedback from Bas Raijmakers and the other M+H mentors, I want to quickly outline some new directions of research I discovered ...
In addition to the graphics I presented for my research question and abstract (in the previous post), for the midterms I also presented an intuitive response to my research ...
Abstract:In the past, large architectural structures were possessed with a spiritual power representative of their iconic and rare status. Similarly, very small historical objects such as jewellery and miniature ...
Kindergie Huis (Kids Energy House) is a prototype for a doll's house that can educate children and parents about green architecture and sustainable living. The House includes toy-like features ...
THE SACRED MONOLITHIn antiquity, the gigantic has been associated with the sacred. Religious monuments are large in proportion to the technics of the religious culture..... building churches, pyramids and ...
This artist applies the kind of perceptual scale I talked about in this post, very beautifully. Her art is site specific and adapted to the the locations she exhibits, ...
A recent mind maps workshop was a succesful way for me to expand concepts and vision for my thesis topics. For Futurology and Design, I envisioned a scenario in ...
An article about the excesses of the super rich, and their spending and collecting habits.Among frivolous purchases such as heated marble driveways and the collection of private airplanes, the ...
Some more information about the Rosetta Disk - I was just reading here about how 5 prototypes have been produced, each containing the book of Genesis translated into more ...
There is something soothing and graceful about a doorknob. I find them nostalgic, reminding me of a childhood playing in the rooms of adults. They are pleasurable on an ...
Conceptual Design and Futurology, to be discussed here.The Psychology of Collecting, as introduced via slideshow on the first day of school. Design and Scale, as posted. Digital Locality, ..in ...
September 2008Design is about achieving beautiful and useful synthesis. Nothing is created from out of thin air, it is a product of all that came before it - the ...
All object designers must at some point consider scale.Scale is important both internally within an object and externally to its location and surrounding architecture.Scale often exists in measurements and ...
Recently I have designed some unusual sundials that, instead of a clock hand shadow, use shadows of words and pictures to tell the time. The process was quite ...
I designed this silver toilet brush during my last semester enrolled in the IM Masters course at the Design Academy Eindhoven..... somewhat of an ironic reaction to that program. ...
Last week I finished co-designing the Seducing the Bowerbird lookbook, for jewellery designer Kyoko Hashimoto. Her new collection has been inspired by the nest-making abilities of the Australian native ...
The second experiment in "repair aesthetics". This time Martijn and I used small square "bandages" and a grid layout to map and repair the damage we inflicted on our ...
My research at the Design Academy is now focusing on the aesthetics of repair. To test out some ideas, I, collaboration with another masters student, Martijn Dijkhuizen , constructed ...
Here are the result of a workshop I just did here at the Design Academy with the designer and author Stuart Walker. The starting point for the workshop was ...
So I am halfway through the first semester of my masters course at the Design Academy, and for the mid-term presentation I made a manifesto, actually I call it ...
I have recently begun the Masters program at the Design Academy Eindhoven, in the Netherlands, which so far has been very interesting. My current topic of research is ...
Kyo Hashimoto and I presented at Pecha Kucha Vol. 40 at Superdeluxe in Tokyo last month. Lots of fun. We spoke about the jewellery range "I Blame the Uni" ...
mm. Haven't posted for a while, so I just thought I would upload these drawings from my sketchbook. I think they might make 'interesting but ugly' jewellery. My influence ...
The thing keeping me the most busy recently has been my graphics and production work for my partner, the jeweller Kyo Hashimoto. We have just released the catalogue for ...
Nabe from the Triple Nipples, a Tokyo based dance group. I took these with the camera on my mobile, a cheap camera that has a strange type of built ...
A little while ago I was reading about modern carpet production using automated Jacquard Looms. I decided to make my own patterns in minimal patterns suitable for the process. ...
Finally got around to making a PDF of my honours thesis "Strategies for generative designers and the development and use of generative software tools." Not really for casual reading ...
Just for my own interest, I've been creating little animations using Illustrator. The animation is essentially generative as its controlled via variables (like stroke and skew) based on ...
To print these cheaply, I bundled them with another commerical job I was doing. For some reason I got paranoid that the printer would find the design offensive and ...
A selection of object designs completed during my bachelor studies at the College of Fine Art.
The straws above are functional cocktail drinking straws made from sterling silver, gold and ...
In 2002 I was commissioned to design this award and promotional poster for the University of New South Wales. I should point out that the full name of the award was ...
one of my early commercial designs (1999), the cover for uBin's debut album ".02". I ended up co-writing some of the songs on their next album Star ...