About
Bio
Growing up in the semi-rural / suburban crossover around Macclesfield in the northwest of England, Jonti’s love affair with public space and landscape began in the parks and countryside of the Peak District. A creative imagination coupled with a fascination for making things and the way in which people interact with products and places eventually led to studying Product Design, before gaining a Masters in Industrial Design in 2006. Here Jonti honed his flair for “idea-making” and creative problem solving, along with developing a talent for comprehensive and exhaustive creative research, while his passion for the design of great public space grew.
Working in a wide variety of jobs in manufacturing and service industries as well as product design, while also travelling the world, gave Jonti a strong appreciation for the “ground up” collaborative approach to making projects succeed. Having provided CAD and design-rendering services to industry throughout the UK for the last 3 years Jonti has recently embarked on a new phase in his career to provide design and research consultation, offering his extensive knowledge of sustainability issues, public space design, creative research techniques and people-product interactions as a design writer and to develop new products.
About this website
The purpose of this website is to provide a blogging platform for knowledge, research and conjecture about sustainable design and the design of public space. What makes the good, bad and ugly of public space and sustainable design for the present. The goal is to generate interest, debate and, ultimately, action to improve the places we live in and the things we have in them, for now and for the future.
I will be posting in reference to many of the best sustainable products and urban developments, public parks and regeneration projects around, as well as drawing on my own personal research compiled from sites around the world, also highlighting examples of bad design in an effort to stop them being repeated. Comments and open discussion is actively encouraged.