William Warren » Blog http://www.williamwarren.co.uk London based product and furniture designer Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:24:01 +0000 en hourly 1 william’s christmas elves http://www.williamwarren.co.uk/2009/11/williams-christmas-elves/ http://www.williamwarren.co.uk/2009/11/williams-christmas-elves/#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:24:01 +0000 William http://www.williamwarren.co.uk/?p=663 I have been given the job of introducing the new first year BA Furniture students to the workshops and the idea of making things. A general knowledge about production processes and materials and hands on experience of making things is a vital part of becoming a designer. Without a good understanding of what materials can do, how much things cost and the different manufacturing processes that are available to you, designers tend to make expensive mistakes.

Seeing as the first years have a great introduction to the…

]]> I have been given the job of introducing the new first year BA Furniture students to the workshops and the idea of making things. A general knowledge about production processes and materials and hands on experience of making things is a vital part of becoming a designer. Without a good understanding of what materials can do, how much things cost and the different manufacturing processes that are available to you, designers tend to make expensive mistakes.

Seeing as the first years have a great introduction to the design process by Jane Atfield, I thought it best if we avoided the act of designing in order to more quickly start to make. To help with this I’ve asked a number of more experienced designers if they have any designs for easily producable christmas gifts in their portfolios. Let’s wait and see what I get back.

]]> http://www.williamwarren.co.uk/2009/11/williams-christmas-elves/feed/ 0 this is the new website http://www.williamwarren.co.uk/2009/10/this-is-the-new-website/ http://www.williamwarren.co.uk/2009/10/this-is-the-new-website/#comments Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:24:15 +0000 William http://www.williamwarren.co.uk/wordpress/?p=533 Ok, I’ve got a new website made by my lovely and long suffering better half Jasia. This is still pretty much the bare bones; the shots I have of the better projects and brief descriptions. I’d really like it if you would engage with the site, leave comments and email me your images to upload. They can be images relevant to the text or images or your own versions or interpretations of my work. I’ve left this free for you to do as I’ve used…

]]> Ok, I’ve got a new website made by my lovely and long suffering better half Jasia. This is still pretty much the bare bones; the shots I have of the better projects and brief descriptions. I’d really like it if you would engage with the site, leave comments and email me your images to upload. They can be images relevant to the text or images or your own versions or interpretations of my work. I’ve left this free for you to do as I’ve used the creative commons license that says you can use all of this work so long as nobody’s planning on using it commercially (then you have to talk to me about it).

william

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