What I’m working on

Consultancy

I help organisations use the web. I work in project design and management, digital strategy and training.

Brighton Mini Maker Faire

Soldering workshop

I’m co-founder and project lead for the UK’s biggest independent DIY technology festival.

How to make things

I like to make useful things. I document the interesting projects to help you make things too.

Writing

I write about makers, hackers and entrepreneurs for Makezine.com.

Photography

I specialise in product photography, and also like to make my own equipment.

Latest from the blog

Brendan Dawes: sharing your work

This week, I interviewed the designer and maker Brendan Dawes for my podcast, Looking Sideways. I wrote up some of the interview here.

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Looking Sideways – Episode 3 – Brendan Dawes

For Episode 3, I interviewed the designer and maker Brendan Dawes. Brendan’s known for early interactive web projects like Psycho Studio, that allows users to remix Hitchcock’s famous shower scene themselves. He’s also known for his physical projects, such as the Moviepeg and Popa phone accessories, and devices that cross the digital/physical divide, such as the Happiness machine, an internet-connected printer that prints random happy thoughts from people across the web.

We talk about making digital stuff tangible, design, art and simplicity, remixes and supercuts, and how makers can get their work out into the world for people to see. More…

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My talk at Create Brighton

Last night I spoke at Create Brighton, an event about social innovation and workplace culture (but no relation to Create, Brighton Mini Maker Faire sponsors). I talked about maker culture, and some of the things that makers do that we can apply more broadly in our lives, particularly in enterprise and in business culture.

I’m sharing my slides up here, along with an audio track I recorded this morning. More…

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