Andrew Taylor

- PMT Digital Responsible for the print finishing of all digital and large format printed media. I worked with guillotining, brochure making, creasing, folding and stitching lines. Alongside large format print finishing including laminating, mounting, hemming and eye-letting. I worked with a team of 4 people to tight deadlines including weekends and evenings when needed. Responsible for the quality control and dispatching the products.

My main duty is to design bespoke garden offices/studios for both private clients alongside public sector, producing presentable images and technical drawings. I am responsible for a number of product lines and work alongside sales and production staff, to manage the delivery of our product in a tight time frame.

My specific responsibilities were to produce technical drawings and designs from the concept through to installation. I oversaw the manufacturing of exhibitions occasionally joining the workshop for installation. I always collaborated with clients and colleagues so we could produce a coherent product.

Ercol is a British furniture producer steeped in tradition. They asked us to design them a range of five pieces with a more contemporary angle than their existing ranges. At the end of my eight weeks working with them I presented my range through scale models, working drawings, sketchbook and a full scale prototype.

Isokon, manufacturers of classic and contemporary furniture, asked us to design a penguin donkey the 1935 original by Egon Riss was designed solely to hold penguin books. This gave me the opportunity to look at current needs and introduced me to small scale batch production techniques such as kerfing and laminating.