Timorous Beasties

What motivated you to make your Hotch Blotch collection?

Digital Technology and a love of making a mess.

 

What was your favourite part of working on the project?

 

The whole thing was good fun, from boiling up Irish Moss to making Marbled paper, mistakes, scanning, cutting repeats, layering textures, splattering paint on glue resistant paper.....getting samples made up, tweaking, making repeats work for upholstery.

 

As a designer, what is your favourite and least favourite thing about digital technology?

 

Digital technology is good for certain things, and affects us all in many ways, from photography, working on computers, websites..etc.

Digital technology for fabric is good for using lots of colour and making large repeats, but the best thing is its minimum order - 1M.

Worst thing is like every other process, things can go wrong!

 

What excites you most about working as a designer?

 

One can dream.

 

What are you working on at the moment?

 

I've hit a brick wall, you have any ideas?

 

What do you have on your desk?

 

Too many things to list.

What's the soundtrack to your studio?

 

Don't know, someone has left the radio on, although I'm revisiting a lot of Beck at the moment.

 

Who or what are your top 3 influences on your work?

 

Air, Fire and Water.

 

Who is your dream collaborator?

A robot, but a really good looking one.

 

What would be your ideal project?

What I'm doing.

Timorous Beastie's work will be on display as part of Create:Digital at the National Glass Centre Sunderland, 5 October-10 November 2013. 

 

Part of Northern Design Festival 2013.