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Gianluca Caregnato, from near Milan in northern Italy, has taken third prize in our first-ever bedside cabinet competition, winning the modest prize of a bottle wine. This year we gave all our students the task of individually completing a bedside cabinet before the Christmas break. It may seem like an unusual task, but a bedside […]

Student Honor Dalrymple has completed a beautiful oak desk that, with its clean lines and design simplicity, owes much to the Bauhaus and Shaker styles. It’s also a desk that reflects her background as a trained civil engineer and her previous career as a structural engineer. Honor, who is from East Lothian, is much influenced

It’s not just an excuse for us to post a glamorous picture of an Oscar nominated actress, because what she’s had to say on the subject of going to university makes complete sense. Margot Robbie, the Australian actress and film producer, decided to give university a miss and go straight into acting.  Here’s what she

Polish ex-student Joanna Majewska, who graduated last year, is an example that staying on in  incubation space is an option to start your own business. Joanna is a former graphic designer who, after seven years working in marketing agencies in Warsaw, decided on a more practical and hands-on career. Having graduated, she now works with

Last month we posted about a rocking chair that didn’t quite rock as expected, and that it sometimes takes a bit of skill and ingenuity to sort things out. That’s what happened to Italian student Gianluca Caregnato, whose ash rocking chair needed a design and fix solution to give it more weight and balance. It’s