Overtime Perks

Overtime Perks

With a new job, comes a new routine: free cabs home in the early hours, with the image above summing up how I feel at that moment pretty well.    
II Tone

II Tone

Instead of two different nibs, this marker has two different tones. By combining two tones in one pen, with separate refillable enclosures, it halves the amount of pens needed to be bought and carried, saving money for extra ink refills.    
Soup

Soup

A ceramic bowl with a form that grows from a cylinder to a soft square. The intended aesthetic is only succeeded when the bowl is in use, and soup poured into the bowl creates a circle of colour, framed within the square edges. It is an object that gains visual...
Best 'till Last

Best ’till Last

From observing different rituals, I became interested in human behaviors when eating foods. This ceramic plate plays with the tendency for people to organise their food whilst eating, pushing contents around the plate, readying bite-size portions for consumption, often trying to include a bit of everything in each fork load. Saving a favourite...
Portraits

Portraits

A few portrait photos of friends along the way.                
Buro

Buro

For a live client brief from Habitat, former head designer, Bethan Gray, tutored our progress from start to end, asking for a small, low cost home office solution with a separate mobile storage unit.     Responding to the fact that a work surface in use is never flat, Buro...
AM/PM

AM/PM

Far too many high-technology creations have moved from real physical controls and products to ones that reside on computer screens, to be operated by touching the screen or manipulating a mouse. All the pleasure of manipulating a physical object is gone and, with it, a sense of control. Physical feel matters....
New York

New York

Whilst working for Ron Gilad in 2009, I lived in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in a house with 4 other housemates, all working in creative industries. During my time there, I took hundreds of pictures, capturing some of the many memories. Here are a few of my favourite.        ...
Flight of a chair

Flight of a chair

  In 2009, I worked for three months in New York City, for the Israeli designer, Ron Gilad. As a designer, he is fascinated with philosophizing about the common objects we live with. Whilst I was there, I had the chance to work alongside Gilad on projects that would become both...
London

London

In my second year at CSM, I moved into a flat on Columbia Road in East London, soon after that, we began a camera design project, which is when I became obsessed with buying cameras, all with different weights, finishes, and sounds. I soon settled for an old 35mm Minolta...
Instagram

Instagram

A feed of day to day images (@josiahemsley); beginnings of projects, or just caught my eye.