Stu does design.

I'm Stu, age 20, and I am currently studying my second year of MDes Automotive Design at Coventry University. I'm especially fond of cars, I have a love for all things geeky and I don't like it when people eat an odd number of Weetabix.

This is where I collect all the things that amaze, intrigue, annoy and inspire me. I put some of my current work here too, finished or unfinished.


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Balance Stick

Balance Stick

“Lee wanted to spread their eco-friendly image amongst its customers. Just using a recycled bag just doesn’t do the trick anymore, so they took it a step further. The ‘Never Wasted’ shopping bag can be reused in many different ways. You can turn the bag into a board game, a penholder, a condom-cover and so on. A really cool and interactive way to promote Lee’s image, and it’s positive when people recycle this bag because the Lee brand name stays visible on all the results. Because of the great success the initial production of 3,000 bags just wasn’t enough, so they made 300,000!”

“Lee wanted to spread their eco-friendly image amongst its customers. Just using a recycled bag just doesn’t do the trick anymore, so they took it a step further. The ‘Never Wasted’ shopping bag can be reused in many different ways. You can turn the bag into a board game, a penholder, a condom-cover and so on. A really cool and interactive way to promote Lee’s image, and it’s positive when people recycle this bag because the Lee brand name stays visible on all the results. Because of the great success the initial production of 3,000 bags just wasn’t enough, so they made 300,000!”

Todd McLellan: Disassembly

Todd McLellan: Disassembly

Photography’s Longest Exposure “Six months. That’s right. This dream-like picture shows each phase of the sun over Bristol’s Clifton Suspension Bridge taken during half a year.  The image was captured on a pin-hole camera made from an empty soda can with a 0.25mm aperture and a single sheet of photographic paper. Photographer Justin Quinnell strapped the camera to a telephone pole overlooking the Gorge, where it was left between December 19, 2007 and June 21, 2008—the Winter and Summer solstices. (That’s a15,552,000 second exposure.) ‘Solargraph’ shows six months of the sun’s luminescent trails and its subtle change of course caused by the earth’s movement in orbit. The lowest arc being the first day of exposure on the Winter solstice, while the top curves were captured mid-Summer.  (Dotted lines of light are the result of overcast days when the sun struggled to penetrate the cloud.) Quinnell, a renowned pin-hole camera artist, says the photograph took on a personal resonance after his father passed away on April 13—halfway through the exposure. He says the picture allows him to pinpoint the exact location of the sun in the sky at the moment of his father passing.”

Photography’s Longest Exposure

“Six months. That’s right. This dream-like picture shows each phase of the sun over Bristol’s Clifton Suspension Bridge taken during half a year. 

The image was captured on a pin-hole camera made from an empty soda can with a 0.25mm aperture and a single sheet of photographic paper.

Photographer Justin Quinnell strapped the camera to a telephone pole overlooking the Gorge, where it was left between December 19, 2007 and June 21, 2008—the Winter and Summer solstices. (That’s a15,552,000 second exposure.)

‘Solargraph’ shows six months of the sun’s luminescent trails and its subtle change of course caused by the earth’s movement in orbit. The lowest arc being the first day of exposure on the Winter solstice, while the top curves were captured mid-Summer.

 (Dotted lines of light are the result of overcast days when the sun struggled to penetrate the cloud.)

Quinnell, a renowned pin-hole camera artist, says the photograph took on a personal resonance after his father passed away on April 13—halfway through the exposure. He says the picture allows him to pinpoint the exact location of the sun in the sky at the moment of his father passing.”

Smart ForSpeed concept signals new design direction »

“Chip Foose manages to get into everything it seems.  He is a true designer being able to use his talents wherever requested while pulling off great work.  Check out his latest endeavor with Oakley.  With shoes and watches being, dare I say every designers fetish, Foose can knock this one off his list.  I appreciate the fact that he always includes artwork in his projects.  Maybe not here in his actual shoes but the packaging is exploding with a composition of shoe sketches inter mingled with of course a hot rod and palm trees.”

Put Graphene On Your Windshield, Say Goodbye To Your Windshield Wipers »

Sounds like a space-age innovation that’s just one of the ways nanotechnology could change cars. And practically everything else.

Mikael Lugnegard shows the huge potential of Photoshop for sketch rendering. Simply mindblowing.

Lamborghini Hard Drive Will Make Your Data Go Faster

Lamborghini Hard Drive Will Make Your Data Go Faster

openecology.org is bringing farming to the masses with what it calls a ‘life-size Lego set’ of agricultural machinery. All the details of the prototypes can be found and recreated on their free wiki.

Iain sinclair’s CardSharp is a credit-card sized folding pocket knife, which is pretty cool. And it’s only £15. Ingenious.

Iain sinclair’s CardSharp is a credit-card sized folding pocket knife, which is pretty cool. And it’s only £15. Ingenious.

“I’m not sure I entirely see the point though. The iPad’s touch display can only register ten touch points at once, with none of the granularity that would be required to capture individual bristle strokes, not just brush strokes. Consequently, a lot of the feel and look of painting with a brush will be lost, especially since the iPad’s display doesn’t register pressure: you might as well use any rubber-tipped stylus instead for roughly the same effect.”

John Brownlee

So it appears that the home button on future iPods, iPads and whatever else Apple will throw at us in the coming years. It seems like a good idea; you don’t have to take your hand all the way down to the bottom of the screen, it erases the need for the (somewhat awkward) double-press for multitasking and it feels much more Minority Report-ish.

But will it actually be good? I use my iPod touch with one hand and I can easily press the button to go back to the home screen. But without it I’d have to use my whole hand. I’d have to use both hands or put it down.

Commuters, housewives and everyone else who can only sacrifice one hand to Apple - you have been warned.

Currently reading: How to draw cars the Hot Wheels way Full of interesting nuggets of info and tips to help, along with tutorials and a huge showcase of sketches by several Hot Wheels designers. Great book.

Currently reading: How to draw cars the Hot Wheels way

Full of interesting nuggets of info and tips to help, along with tutorials and a huge showcase of sketches by several Hot Wheels designers. Great book.