Bevilacqua – Venice Design Week 2014
Like many places in Venice, it’s not easy to find the HQ of Luigi Bevilacqua, but if you make the right turn you will find a fairly unassuming door in a campo in Sestiere Santa [...]
On Growth and Form 100
The seminal work by Dundee polymath D'Arcy Thompson "On Growth and Form" reaches its centenary year in 2017 and both the Universities of both St Andrews and Dundee where Thompson held important positions [...]
On Patents, Open Source Design and Reciprocity
I previously blogged on open source and IP here and I wanted to revisit this in a more concise way to focus in on the limitations of open source and commons approaches in the context [...]
Open Source Product Innovation
Is there a sustainable business model which allows the development of innovative open source products? Patents and the traditional product development model The intent of the patent system is to incentivise innovation and promote the [...]
Tactile Memories of Lego
With the wave of nostalgia for Lego reaching its crescendo in the past year with the release of the Lego Movie, and with being lucky enough to be involved in a project with Lego, I [...]
Geometry Study of the Columns of the Sagrada Familia
I passed through Barcelona last April on holiday and finally managed to visit La Sagrada Familia, the great unfinished work of Gaudi. This is a pilgrimage I have long wanted to make, though for purely [...]
Recent Work
The Queen’s Baton
Loud1Design was subcontracted to 4cDesign who were awarded [...]
Toob – Whistle Design
An ongoing collaboration with Misha Somerville of MK [...]