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Karen Cross
Aug 122 min read
Photographing Solihull Town Centre
Solihull is my home town and what better way to celebrate my favourite town than to photograph it and illustrate it's beauty for all to see
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Karen Cross
Dec 30, 20232 min read
New Year New Projects
The videos will cover all aspects of design and some photography skills to enable you to take some initial product photos until you have the
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Karen Cross
Apr 20, 20232 min read
Marie Van Britten Brown
Marie created the first home video security system back in the 1960's and I still find it surprising that it's only now we have so widely ad
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Karen Cross
Jan 28, 20231 min read
Keep a note book handy!
Some of our best ideas will occur to us just as we drop off to sleep and if you're anything like me, I think I'll remember in the morning bu
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Karen Cross
Jan 27, 20232 min read
The brilliance of Black African inventors
You Do Design is engineered towards anyone who hasn't had the advantages of a robust formal education or has been unable to pursue Design in
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Karen Cross
Jan 19, 20232 min read
Using Creativity in Education
As the recognised fastest growing industry world wide, the creative industries evidently have a lot to offer.
When creativity is implement
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Karen Cross
Jan 12, 20232 min read
What I learnt while writing the You Do Design course.
You Do Design was my 'Lockdown Project' if took me over a year to write and then almost a year to create the website, transfer my work into
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Karen Cross
Jan 11, 20231 min read
Anthropometry, What is it?
Using Anthropometry in Design is key when designing a product which anyone interacts with, you can't create a useful useable product without
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Karen Cross
Jan 6, 20232 min read
Sewing Skills for Life
Sewing Skills for Life was an initiative I introduced which taught sewing skills alongside core subjects and focused on the Kinaesthetic lea
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Karen Cross
Jan 5, 20232 min read
New Year New Challenges
The You Do Design Course is made for anyone who has a passion for learning, is creative, has an abundance of ideas but not how action it.
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Karen Cross
Jan 4, 20232 min read
New Year New you!
Nothing lasts forever... unless you allow it
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Karen Cross
Aug 30, 20222 min read
My Favourite Product Designs part 1
For me this design is one of the very few that really can't be improved on, at all.
The fact that it's a beautiful object in its own right
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