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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
Aug 101 min read
Designing interactive products
Interactive products rely on a series of processes to ensure they work in reality.
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Karen Cross
Aug 53 min read
"8 Surprising Design Facts You Didn't Know"
My top design facts you have probably never heard.
You will know by now that I am obsessed with everything design, not in the, dress head
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Karen Cross
Aug 31 min read
New Venture
I'm offering a Business consultancy service for creatives, focusing on the day to day functionality of a creative business. Guiding you thro
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Karen Cross
Aug 32 min read
My Design nightmares
When I first designed the Wrap and Go, I had to keep going to the drawing board, from having to redo my research on push chairs, and keep up
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Karen Cross
May 262 min read
Choosing colour
Colour is such an important element of any design, even if you keep it to a monotone palette you will have decided which shades and why.
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Karen Cross
Dec 31, 20232 min read
Procrastination and distractions
Having a proper work space puts you into work mode when sitting at your work station and knowing that it's time to focus.
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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
Apr 17, 20232 min read
The Principles of good Design
The principles of good design, fit for purpose, aesthetics, value for money and sustanable.
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Karen Cross
Feb 10, 20231 min read
Garret Morgan
Definitely a favourite inventor of mine, he is someone I would have really liked to talk to!
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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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