Fashion Design-Time for all that Jack

A simple book cover that I made to protect a year dairy from the wear and tear of everyday life, and to allow the cover to be used on following diaries as well.

The design uses a leather cord to keep the cover on the diary and also acts as either a bookmark or as a method to keep the diary closed by wrapping the cord around the diary.

A little Union Jack leather patch with our logo stamp on it allows for easy identification of the front of the diary.

Fashion Design-Jack it up!

The second set in the Union Jack keyring series

Fashion Design-That Jack?

A little notepad cover with penholder, designed to fit into a back pocket or small bag.
I made this for personal use, so the design I used is of an alternatively colored Union Jack using yellow instead of red and green instead of blue.  While the colors are not what one is used to, the iconic shape of the Union Jack allows for this design to work well.

Fashion Design-It's Easy to YoYo

Following the creation of some keyrings, I started to play with making other everyday items from leather.

Here I have made a couple of different cardholder designs, primarily for use with metro cards and credit cards.  One design has an open end with a finger cutout to allow for access to the card (useful for credit cards or ID cards), while the other design encloses the card completely within the leather case (better suited for metro cards or swipe cards).

I used two different techniques to color the leather with different designs, one technique actually allows the leather to adopt a new color, and the other is just a coating on the leather.

Architecture-Flower Power

A plug-and-play idea for a building, the concept being that a central core (like what is found in most buildings) is used as an anchor point for pre-assembled units to plug into. This allows the building as a whole to be quickly and cheaply upgraded or undergo a change of use.

The design here is for a student dormitory, each unit is made from a standard 20 or 40 foot shipping container. A single 40-foot container can be used as a two person, en-suite dorm room, as a student lounge or as a communal study room. The 20-foot containers get fitted out as laundry or utility rooms with the option of using them as retail or café spaces.

With the different units, custom floor layouts can be composed around the central core for each building level, creating a flower like pattern. With an option to include large outside balcony areas between some of the ‘petal’ room modules.

Take each floor layout stacked up, add some weather screens where required by site conditions, and voila, an interesting, quick, cheap, flexible and visually stimulating building.