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 […]
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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
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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
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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
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Peter Allen from south London is a retired psychologist and came on one of our one week introductory courses last year. Here’s his experience: “The Chippendale course was, for me, one of those ‘you get out what you put in’ opportunities. I think we all got there on time or early every morning and had
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It looks a bit mad now, but we can’t wait to see the finished rocking chair. The “infinity chair” is a work in progress for Aberdeenshire-born Ruaraidh Stewart, a former soldier with the Black Watch (3 Scots). It’s so named because the back rest turns into the arm rest which then turns into the rocker
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