Project blog by Rosie Cooke

Posted on Thu 26 May 2016

Tests on new fabrics have been positive, the effective combination of thin gauge synthetic variations of felt like fabrics now offers more fluid manual transitions of horizontal ripples. Being a semi transparent material it is also more sympathetic to projected light and able take oil and water…

Project blog by Rosie Cooke

Posted on Thu 26 May 2016

Please begin with who you are and a short description of what you do.I’m a designer with broad spectrum of three-dimensional work, chiefly I'm interested in the play of materials, which goes someway to explain the broad variety of my work. Which stretches from jewellery through…

Project blog by Rosie Cooke

Posted on Thu 26 May 2016

It’s 3pm, day one of my joint residency with Sam Underwood at Pervasive Media Studio, and we’re discussing the general availability of radioactive isotopes and how we could feasibly extend, or bend, a Geiger counter.

Project blog by Rosie Cooke

Posted on Thu 26 May 2016

So after a little bit of a relay race (Sam in Sweden and at Supersonic fest, Tim in the studio and rehearsing at Bristol Old Vic) we have a decision on what Geiger-Müller Sound System will be pursuing for the rest of our PM Studio residency.

Project blog by Rosie Cooke

Posted on Thu 26 May 2016

My day job is pretty cool; I work with a chap called David Morton building musical instruments - www.mortonunderwood.co.uk David is a research engineer with an impressive CV. I am a dreamer/dabbler/hacker. We work well together.

Project blog by Rosie Cooke

Posted on Thu 26 May 2016

So it's like when you're painting your living room and you absolutely, positively decide on Tuscan Sunrise 2 or whatever, and two days later everything's changed and Tuscan Sunrise 2 is the worst thing you've ever seen, and it's all about the Volcanic Splash 4, right?

Project blog by Rosie Cooke

Posted on Thu 26 May 2016

Somehow I'm not sure either Sam or I anticipated our collaboration would lead to the two of us driving around The Dings, looking for a store called "Bus Parts." But lo, here we are, knocking on Bus Part's door and asking a slightly bemused Brummie gentleman whether they sell anything in flexible…

Project blog by Rosie Cooke

Posted on Thu 26 May 2016

We find ourselves in our final two weeks of our residency at iShed with an idea we are both very happy with, a prototype that is working well in the analogue realm, a plan for how the project will develop and a great space in which to do so (see picture above). Yet again though, the electronics are…

Project blog by Rosie Cooke

Posted on Thu 26 May 2016

Well, today is officially our last day in the studio. We have a final presentation of our work at the end of January 2013 but regular visits to the studio over the intervening period are unlikely.