Colin is a British designer and maker who uses digital CAD/CAM to fabricate art furniture. He is based in Vancouver in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.

"Most of my ideas revolve around shapes often driven by nature and feminine forms. I think the power of subtly changing compound curvature, tightly controlled and refined, is highly underrated. Today, we’re so accustomed to the soullessness of IKEA flatpack. I find it rewarding to consider what would furniture look like if the real world costs of fabrication and shipping weren’t taken into consideration. Wouldn’t it feel more alive? More individual? More joyous?

Recently, I’ve been experimenting with parametric decoration. This is the idea that the decoration respects the changing geometry of the surface that it is placed on. The objects are designed into shapes that respect the decorations that they will be dressed in, and, likewise, the decoration respects the underlying surface. This is in contrast to typical fashion and upholstery where 2-dimensional fabric is simply wrapped around a 3D form with no meaningful relationship between the two.