My reasoning behind Manchester Metropolitan being one of my choices is partly due to the sport facilities it offers, with one of the top lacrosse teams in the country, and as a keen lacrosse player, I would be very privileged to represent the university. With Manchester also being one of the oldest and largest art schools in Britain I will also have access to a huge variety and advanced range of facilities. The opportunities you offer with international exchanges interests me a great deal and would love to take part. I also have the majority of my family living in Manchester, as my parents moved south before I was born. This means that I have spent a lot of time in the area and already have a love for the city itself.
I see myself as having quite a meticulous approach to design and I love to solve problems that present themselves. I can also be a bit of a risk taker and like nothing better to see a design working that had been doubted previously.

I have had a lot of trouble with blogger.com accepting more than one image at a time, so as a result i have had to post each picture seperately. This also means that my images are in the reverse order and do not fit on to a single page. I would therefore appreciate it if you could start at the bottom and work up. Thank you.

Intitial ideas for the arm during a one week fashion project. "Natural Disaster" to design an adornment for someone that has been forced to survive in the wilderness.

Observational drawing with notes from a visit to the Victoria and Albert Museum. Pencil.

This was a project undertaken at college. I decided to produce a coffee table using the lamination of maple veneer. Huge amounts of experimentation was required, as I was both twisting and bending the strips at the same point whilst keeping the angles exactly the same. Four elegantly finished supports inserted to stop movement and a toughened glass top for the users viewing.

Development sheet for "Super Suitcase" project. combining researched images and drawings to develop my initial idea.  

One page from my initial ideas for the "Super Suitcase" project. Generated very quickly and bounced off each other.

Research sheet to help generate ideas for a project, "Super Suitcase", to create hand luggage with a difference or added benefit.

Finished product, lighting project, lit in the dark. The inner side of the copper coins reflects light off each other and out, giving a captivating shine. with more time i would have liked to give the inside a highly polished finishe to improve this effect. In this picture it is close to the wall in order to show its shadowing however it is now used in my hallway and finds a nice compramise between practical and ambient lighting. 

Finished product, Lighting project, lit in the day. A four week project that saw me design and make a pendant light. The shade is made up of two penny coins brazed together in to a sphere and cleaned to a used coin finish.

Development drawings of my lighting project, exploring the technical aspects of making and how each would affect the design.

Finished product, Cardboard rocking chair, "Sheet Seat" project. This product does work and easily copes with one persons weight whilst rocking. The outer skin was sewn on to increase rigidity. This was also achieved in the modelling stage.

A 1:5 scale model of the skeleton for my Cardboard (rocking) Chair design. It is very detailed with each joint requiring a 1mm thick slit removed from opposite ends of both panels in order for a perfect fit. This gave me an idea of how realistic the life size version would be to both create and work.

photographed double page spread of my journal during a one week cardboard chair project, "Sheet Seat". Showing step by step process of the construction process, testing of the finished product and thoughts and problems I encountered along the way.