Elemental Design
Designing is not easy but it’s a skill you can learn. It’s something I’ve been practising and working on for the last ten years, constantly drawing and observing’, said Ben Percy, 31 when I met up with him recently in Sydney.
Ben is a maker and also a teacher, one who enables others to discover the confidence in themselves that they too can imagine and create. His capabilities and communication skills have made him sought after as a teacher wherever he has been a student. It’s the things he has designed and made however, that initially brought attention from the press.
, ain a homage to Eero Aarnio’s . Ben is adept at CAD and CNC but this labour of hand tooled love has become a signature piece. Would there ever be a Pod 2? ‘I’d probably jig that one up’, grinned Ben.
