After my triumphant victory over the 3D Printer in Milan I returned to home turf to compete against a new printer at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London during their monthly Friday Late event. T...
As part of the Making Together exhibition in Milan I had invited the public to donate sticks of all types and sizes which I planned to tape to a chair and build a network of sticks during six days of...
Update to the below: Rematch at the V&A Friday, 27th April 8-9pm, come along! I won the battle of Man vs Machine in Milan at the Hacked event at La Rinascente department store! The challenge was ...
During this year’s Milan design week I will be spending 6 days at the Making Together event in Ventura Lambrate. The theme of the event is participation and collaboration and I was asked to com...
A couple of months ago I tweeted that ‘I want to race a Rapid Prototype Machine (a 3D Printer that makes objects) to make the same thing’. It was just one of those things you can say quic...
McVitie’s, the biscuit people, challenged me to create some British themed creations using their Jaffa Cakes. I took my inspiration from friends who described their strange and unique methods o...
I have created five new watch sculptures that are currently on display at Phillips de Pury and La Scatola Gallery. Each watch is a one off. See the pictures and video of them moving below. Love and P...
To mark the 10th anniversary of the War Bowl I have created two new limited edition versions. The red Battle of Waterloo bowl is made with melted British Artillery and French Infantry figures. The bl...
I have a new big project to show. I’ve put tiny figures onto watch hands in order to create mini animated scenes. I had the idea last year during my Speed creating project, but decided it was t...
This photograph was taken by photographer Joe McGorty for an article about me in this month’s 100th edition of icon magazine. Since my studio can be anywhere, I decided to make a Tree Branch Wo...
I am happy to say my gloves cast from my own hands are in the excellent exhibition ‘The Power of Making’ at London’s V&A museum. “Power of Making celebrates the role of ma...
KKoutlet recently approached me to take part in their exhibition ‘Object Abuse’. The challenge was to ‘take an everyday object, remould, rebuild and repurpose it to create an entire...
A national competition to re-design the electricity pylons that cover the UK was announced today. The brief says… ‘The challenge is to design a pylon that has the potential to deliver for...
This grand old building in central London is being demolished from today to make way for a new student union building at LSE. I was amazed to find this out and I am sure there will be many in that ar...
I’ve been amazed at the amount of press my latest post has received. I’ve just heard it will be on the popular UK programme Have I Got News For You on BBC 2 tonight (14/5/11) at 9pm. It&#...
I sometimes use my touchphone in the bath. I know it’s stupid. One problem I encounter is that when put my left hand in the water without thinking, it gets wet and unusable for touchscreen navi...
I am happy to say that this website VariationsonNormal.com has been nominated for a prestigious Webby award in the Personal website/blog category. If you like my website it would be wonderful if you ...
Save space in the graveyard, use the tomb stone as a screw handle. This is a drawing I showed back in september 2008 in the design and architecture magazine Icon. Follow me for new things on twitter ...
For those going to the Milan design week, I am taking part in ‘Design Royale’ an experimental event and exhibition building up from 11th April each day 3-10pm culminating in an ‘ext...
US translation: stud = cleat, sweet = candy
Moving on from the previous idea here we have a motorised ladder.
You might be asking ‘why hasn’t anyone thought of this before?’ But the garden fence industry is very powerful and they kill any idea that would threaten their plank quantity sales....
Before the vertical bounce trampoline came this horizontal version. Influenced by the old bat and ball on elastic band game. It nearly took off, particularly when the elastic snapped.
In England we love to queue, standing in an orderly line patiently awaiting our turn. We will put up with a lot of things in life but one thing that we will not tolerate is those sneaky people who tr...
In the future, scientists will create objects that have the properties of living organisms. This idea is a bike that loses and gains weight depending on how much it is used. The owner will have the s...
What better way to announce the start of a new day in your life.
A chair and camera case. Ceci n’est pas un mouton. (This is not a sheep.) I was looking at a chair while I lay down. After a little while I saw four legs, a body and a neck. I looked around to ...
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