The story of Story Time at Dutch Design Week

Here's Willem a few weeks ago, very busy working on our Story Time product.

Here's the prototype mechanism that he'd dreamed up.... on the above post it note.

And here he is with his mechanism and the Story Time product at Flipside Gallery this weekend at Eindhoven.

Looks beautiful, but lots of development work to do through the winter... the motor that I'd chosen earlier this year certainly wasn't the star of Dutch Design week.

Next step for us is a meeting with Lonny and Nadine at Atelier NL, we'll finalise our techincal recommendations and start the search for Story Time authors.

Busy Week

It's been a very busy week in Laikingland with our show at the Conran Shop fast approaching.

Mr Lumbus and I celebrated finishing a batch of the "Storm in a Tea Cup" with a nice cup of tea from the Royal Delft, of course!

We added Phil Procter to our highly skilled team of craftspeople.

Rather than ask him to make anything on his first day, we asked him to dismantle our prototype Miniature Lazy Chair!

And finally the next few Party Popper Machines are just about ready, including a couple of white ones that I've made.

More details about the show at the Conran shop soon, in the meantime if you can't wait all the above pieces are available direct from Laikingland.

New Recruit @ Laikingland

We welcomed our new recruit, Phil Procter to the studio today.


Here he is trying to figure out how the Mini Lazy Chair works...

And here he's given up working out the mechanism and decided it's more fun just to play with it.

Good luck with that mechanism Phil & enjoy!

Story Time by Atelier NL for Laikingland @ Dutch Design Week

Dutch Design Week starts this coming weekend in Eindhoven and runs from 23rd - 31st Oct.

Our friends at Atelier NL have been invited to show Story Time at the Flipside Gallery exhibition "Time of your life." See here for details.

I'll be really happy to return to the Flipside Gallery, here are some details from our previous visit.

Martin's visit to Centre Pompidou

It's always great to see our work on show...

Here's some photos of Martin's recent visit to Printemps Design store at the Centre Pompidou, Paris.


Looks like he's spotted something...

Some souvenir snaps....

And a few more.

Amterdam and Paris

After the London Design Festival we popped over to Amsterdam for a design meeting with Ted and Marcel at Atelier Ted Noten. The aim of the meeting was to decide on the robot arm's movement for the New Jewellery Box. We had great fun playing with the wooden maquette that I had made and now that's decided we can progress to a rapid prototyped version that will be motorised and controlled.

Ted, Nick and Marcel.

After that it was straight on to Paris for meetings about secret projects for next year. While in Paris we took the opportunity to visit Printemps Design in the Centre Pompidou where the Applause Machines are currently on show and selling well.

There is something quite funny about them being behind glass, but I like it.