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17.07.2025 | 16 to 25

Pointers for anyone about to embark on their final year of design study at University.

16.04.2025 | Industry

Some thoughts on how the design industry might change to improve.

20.04.2026 | Industry

A peer-informed article, exploring why people might be leaving the design industry.

12.06.2026 | Life

The result of my Chapter 3 musings and what will be keeping me busy going forward.

17.04.2024 | 16 to 25

Some thoughts on how I think the DT curriculum at A-Level could be improved.

29.05.2025 | Life

Pondering what I could possibly do next when the kids flee the nest.

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Observation, frustration and occasional optimism about the design industry. Where it's heading, what it's getting wrong and what it could get right.

The honest conversations most people in the industry never get to have. Career direction, creative leadership and straight talking from someone who has been there.

The stuff nobody explains when you're starting out. Education, early career, portfolios and the gap between what education promises and reality delivers.

The human stuff that sits outside industry insight but resonates the most. Recalibration, burnout, purpose and fatherhood from someone who's lived it.

12.06.2026 | Life

The result of my Chapter 3 musings and what will be keeping me busy going forward.

20.04.2026 | Industry

A peer-informed article, exploring why people might be leaving the design industry.

05.01.2026 | Industry

A roundup of the year as seen through my eyes, and those of others.

17.07.2025 | 16 to 25

Pointers for anyone about to embark on their final year of design study at University.

29.05.2025 | Life

Pondering what I could possibly do next when the kids flee the nest.

16.04.2025 | Industry

Some thoughts on how the design industry might change to improve.

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