As a creative leader I work on communication strategies, storytelling and brand narratives as well as hosting events – all with the purpose of inspiring a deeper connection between people, products and the built environment.
PROJECT 75 | F**K DOOM
An imagination project inviting you to time travel to explore the potential of the future we could create with circular design thinking at it’s heart.
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Project 75 is an ongoing research project into the attitudes and realities of reusing materials and furniture within design projects. Its ambition is to open up conversations about circularity and to engage designers, specifiers and end users in the opportunities we have to work with what already exists.
In principle, we have the components to make this successful. Reuse of furniture is increasing year on year, yet we’ve not made it a seamless and easy process. There are challenges.
In collaboration with Dominick Pegram of FACT, we have been questioning what those challenges are. How do attitudes and approaches to reuse vary across workplace and hospitality projects?
One output of this work is our concept of a time machine, created by FACT for London Design Festival 2026 this imagination project invites participants to immerse themselves in a time travel journey to 2036.
Visitors stepped into a narrative-driven pop-up set in a future where hope won out against doom and we achieved circular design across the built environment. They explored how we got there and questioned the steps it took.
Looking at our own practice as designers through this lens proved a hugely powerful tool. Visitor feedback showed that ambitious reuse targets feel achievable when we use our imaginations to play with the idea of future success, and how we won the battle for circularity and reuse.
AN UNCOMFTABLE TRUTH
A series of events to spark hard conversations about sustainability, eco-design, and the future of manufacturing.
Discussions included:
– ‘Celebrating beauty in all we do’ with author Alan Moore, Do Design.
– ‘The Importance of Feeling in Design’ with behavioural science expert Mike Coulter
– Right to Repair panel discussion hosted by Katie Treggiden with Celia Pym, Bridget Harvey, Justin South and Chris Miller
INPUT
A full-transparency communications exhibition showcasing materials, production processes, tooling and the act of collaboration that goes in to bringing a design to the market. Hosted by Coexistence, supported by Kvadrat.
IN THE MAKING
Collaborators in the first Material Matters feature exhibition curated by TP Bennett and The Furniture Practice our focus was on highlighting a subject close to our hearts – the impact and importance of social value in a supply chain.
Championing radical transparency in the sourcing of raw materials we showcased our journey in sourcing biogenic alternatives to CMHR foam and shared our collaboration with a social enterprise in making our upholstery frames.
POWER OF TEN
Celebrating 10 years of MARK through an invited collaboration 10 of the UK’s leading architecture and design practices were asked to reinterpret the Loops chair, designed by Studiomama.
Participates included: HLW, ID:SR Sheppard Robson, Manalo & White, MCM, Morey Smith, PENSON, Resonate Interiors, Spacelab, Thirdway Architecture and tp bennett.
DESIGN FRONTIER
A creative industries celebratory event with guest speaker Sir Tim Smit, in partnership with Cornwall Trade and Investment and design studio Nixon.
Hosting two panel discussions – A Place for Plastic chaired by journalist Katie Treggiden with Ella Doran and Seetal Solanki and ‘Creative Cornwall’ led by BBC Click’s Kate Russell.
MATERIALS MATRIX
An ongoing research project into materials. Exploring material lifecycles, manufacturing impact and end of life realities; looking beyond data to establish an informed view.
TABLE TALKS
A knowledge sharing initiative designed to unpack the complexities of sustainable furniture design and material sciences for specifiers.
Reflecting our own experiences as designers we created a series of events that address reoccurring themes such as assessing and selecting finishes, textiles for furniture, furniture materials and construction.
The talks were hosted by MARK co-founder John Miller in person and on-line.
INSIGHT INTERVIEWS
Outside of individual project constraints we ran our own research project ‘insight interviews’ which focused on speaking with innovators, product specialists, manufacturers, end users and industry professionals in a drive to deepen our own understanding of material innovations and market insights that would improve project specifications for sustainable choices and circular product lifecycles.
MAKING DESIGNERS
Exhibition to champion and highlight the importance of making in schools featuring work made by designers Jay Barber, Mathew Hilton, Terence Woodgate, Ab Rogers, Michael Marriott, Tom Lloyd, David Irwin, Gala wright, John Miller, Linda Morey-Smith, Paul Logan, Ruth Wassermann, Simon Pengelly and Oliver Marlow.