It's a hardware revolution! Isn't it?

Open Sourced SLA bicycle seat, Pasadena 2012. Prehistoric tool, Ethiopea 2.6 million BC (BC!)

Something always has to be the new something else.

Brown is the new black, comedy is the new rock and roll. 

And, now hardware is the new software/web. Lately there have been a rash of articles celebrating this ‘new found’ phenomenon of the made object. Apparently Silicon Valley has just invented product design.

People don’t adapt things to their use anymore or create ad hoc objects – they Hack (an excreable term borrowed from software vandals).

It’s no longer cool to share – we Open Source.

So, is this a new trend, a burgeoning mass movement (there is no such thing as subculture any longer) or is it people talking about it more? By talking I mean blogging or tweeting obviously. How much wittier would Oscar Wilde have been if he had time to compose a lucid 140 character retort rather than resort to those pitiful off-the-cuff ripostes?

They used to laugh at the man going to his shed to knock up a spice rack to reduce clutter in the kitchen. But now behold the stereo lithography prototype ethnic condiment stashrack, as featured on Kickstarter.

I am an industrial designer. The new tools are fantastic, I use them every day. I also use some really old tools. Making things is a practical and spiritual necessity. Do we really need to dress it up to be a new trend or the next Facebook?

Surely making and doing is much more creative and long lasting than that.

New Studio

Very pleased to announce we have new studio space at the Dispensary in Bath. A great location, working alongside some great people.
In addition to all of the essential meeting and workspaces we also have a library, a cinema and a bar!