ABOUT

Yellow Pines is the brand name I sell work under as a designer, but you can call me Amber.  I’m a swimmer, a sailor, a designer and a maker.  I am also a third year design student at the University of Plymouth, where my studies mainly focus on the sustainability and accessibility of design.  I like things simple, beautiful and sustainable.

 

 

As a designer, my passion is for reclaiming materials; bringing beauty and life into what would otherwise be scraped.  Ensuring I design for the entire product lifecycle helps me explore material wastage and extend my own products usability. 

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As a maker I explore a wide array of materials and practises such as ceramic, textiles and wood working. In particular the process of steam-bending, by which I am able to create the simple, fluid and unique shapes you see in my work. 

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I hope at the end of my university study to train as a design and technology  teacher.  I believe being able to share the joys and freedoms of design with fresh new minds is a beautifully complex but rewarding task, and one I cannot wait to undertake.