.STORY DRAWER.



.What.
Story Drawer plays the seldom heard and untold stories of Museum artefacts when
they are placed upon it's surface.

.How.
Story Drawer uses RFID (Radio Frequencey Identification) a microchip circuit and a specialised mp3 device.
Each story takes the form of an audio track stored on a usb flash drive and each audio track is associated
with an RFID tag. The artefacts have a tag attached to them and when they are placed upon Story Drawer an
RFID Reader recognises the tag and tells the MP3 device to play an appropriate track from the USB flash drive.

.Why.
Story Drawer has been designed as a counter to the current culture of products designed with emphasis
on the technology. I believe interactions with products should be more evocative and less convoluted.
Story Drawer reflects this by combining refreshingly eloquent function with clean and refined aesthetics.


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.D&AD COMPETITION.

.What.
Everyware challenges the role of the cooking pot. It is desirable and multi-functional product
that offers unique aesthetics and versatility.

.How.
Everyware differs from standard cooking pots in three ways. It is not just a cooking pot. It has a range of
detachable handles and is designed to stack creating a unique visual aesthetic. The handles attach and
detach via an entry point on the specially designed rim allowing the pot to be carried and operated as the
user sees fit. The pot has also been designed with sloped edges so when the handles are detached the
pot becomes an attractive serving vessel.

.Why.
Brief: Design solutions for the home by discovering un-met needs in the kitchen. Sponsored by Lakeland.
My research of the home and kitchen revealed that we have a plethora of kitchenware products, one for
every need and some for needs we don’t have. I wanted to improve an existing product and challenge the
limited function of cooking pots. In doing so I sought to produce a product with greater value that is more
durable than existing cooking pots and can be cherished.

.TRANSACTIONS & INTERACTIONS.

.What.
Open Bank is a revolutionary personal banking service. The service does not require local
branches to offer physical banking facilities.

.How.
Open Bank provides an ‘Open Account’ that allows the client to use the traditional physical banking facilities
of any major bank. By not having local branches Open Bank has none of the associated costs. This makes
it possible for Open Bank to pay administration fees to any bank in return for the use of its physical facilities.
By implementing a digital ‘leech’ network, the basic account information of the client necessary to do physical
banking is instantly transferable between the local branches of any financial institution.

Open bank also offers personal financial advice in the form of an adviser who visits the client at home.
The adviser has in depth knowledge of client and the families’ finances and understands their aspirations
and values.

.Why.
The words ‘financial services’ have different connotations for different people, from humdrum and inconvenient
to vital and reassuring. Finance is a major part of our lives and so how we engage and interact with financial
services is important. As designers can we turn humdrum and inconvenient into vital and reassuring? NCR set
a brief to develop a set of family Characters based on research of real people and design a bespoke banking
service for a member of the family.

.THE DUNDEE CONNECTION.

.What.
Dundee Connection is a unique creative consultancy that works with the City Council, the public and business
to assist in the creation and design of public approved city developments and promote design in Dundee.

.How.
Dundee Connection is a unique charity organisation, partially funded by the government. It employs
a multi-disciplinary team of professionals including various creative practitioners and those drawn from
the private, public and voluntary sectors specialising in a range of fields including PR and marketing, finance,
law and social work. It has its own premises the public can visit to be informed and involved in the process
of creating Dundee’s physical and cultural environment.

.Why.
The Dundee Connection was a service designed for the Six Cities Design festival. The brief given to our course
was to create a piece of design or service that would increase awareness of design in general and highlight the
often unrecognised range and importance of design within the Scottish economy and society. Becasue the course
is in Dundee our designs had to be bespoke to the city.