Dean Pankhurst
Available

Dean Pankhurst

DesignerLondon, United Kingdom
+ Info

30

Connections
Pip Jamieson
Jon Marshall
Laura Williams
Dean Pankhurst
Available

Dean Pankhurst

DesignerLondon, United Kingdom
About me
Experienced cross-platform designer and project manager working in the craft and manufacturing sectors. Skilled in a wide variety of practical skills including CNC manufacturing, fabrication, graphic and print design, film production, front-end web development, accounting and mass manufacturing / supply chain management. Additional experience as a practicing artist and designer, with work presented in numerous publications and conferences, as well as experience with teaching and pedagogical studies.
Projects
  • Pocket Synthesizer
    Pocket SynthesizerPocket 8 step sequencer and synthesiser with carry case for Mayku.
  • Dusk Lamp
    Dusk LampA subtle and contemporary tabletop lamp that features an exposed LED lightbulb which you twist directly to activate and dim.
  • Stone Headphones for Bompass & Parr
    Stone Headphones for Bompass & ParrCast Jesmonite headphones produced for Lyon & Lyon for Bompass & Parr's Spa of Unconscious Desires Event.
  • Concrete Gravestones for Mr Bingo
    Concrete Gravestones for Mr BingoProduction of an extended run of cast concrete decorative artwork, including packaging for illustrator, Mr Bingo.
  • Mayku FormBox
    Mayku FormBoxCo-design of the entire Mayku FormBox product, including industrial design elements of the main product, starter kit, packaging and consumables.
  • Rubber Coasters for Dior
    Rubber Coasters for DiorEdition of 50 produced for Another A Story for Dior.
+ View all
Projects credited in
  • Mayku Teach — Mayku
    Mayku Teach — MaykuAn online teaching portal that works seamlessly with Mayku’s primary product – a tabletop vacuum former – to bring the national curriculum to life through making. The portal will launch in October with an initial focus on year 5 science, technology, engineering, art and maths. I was part of the core team brought together to define and develop the education product, iterating fast alongside user research and testing. In addition to designing the online portal itself, we also collaborated with te
  • Theresa May in Conversation with the Bill of Human Rights
    Theresa May in Conversation with the Bill of Human RightsIn Paris on 10th December 1948 The United Nations General Assembly declared a list of fundamental human rights to be universally protected by member states around the world. Although not legally binding, the declaration laid the foundations for numerous treaties and laws, including the European Convention on Human Rights. On the 25th April 2016, in her first major speech of the EU referendum campaign, Home Secretary Theresa May states that the UK should quit the European Convention on Human Rig
  • Time Is Money
    Time Is MoneyHow much is your time worth? If you are over the age of 21 in the United Kingdom in 2014, the government valued an hour at a minimum of £6.50. What does this amount of money feel like when it trickles into your bank account? We usually quantify the passage of time with minutes and seconds, hours, days, years. This watch is programmed to show you exactly how much money you are earning, in real ‘time’. Depending on your wage, glancing at its face could be excruciating or gratifying; manipulating
  • Things Theatre Power
    Things Theatre PowerRoom 441 of The Millennium Hotel, Mayfair is the site of Alexander Litvinenko’s assassination. Much of what we know about the incident is collated from various disparate media sources. A forensic examination of the room enables a reconstruction of the site into a set. 
Select pieces of furniture are reduced to low resolution versions that act as green-screen props, later used to reinsert the media’s portrayal of the story back into the space, collapsing the site into a backdrop for its own hist
  • I The Machine
    I The MachineThe recent rises of higher education costs in the UK is beginning to cause students to behave like customers. A market and performance driven culture has resulted in the conflation of education and business practice, altering the behaviour of both the student and the institution. Machine and algorithmic automation is used as a lens with which to investigate those effects in design education, by prototyping an “ultra-efficient” model of student participation. At its core, the body of research
  • Memoir of An Anti-Homeless Spike
    Memoir of An Anti-Homeless SpikeFeature for EYESORE Magazine, Issue 4 "‘A deterrent stud’ they called me. My employers decided it would be better for public image if I were removed. Thousands of people walked past me each day and rarely noticed me, but since the Guardian thinkpiece, some people struggled to come to terms with my savage elegance. And now, plied unceremoniously from the slab of granite I had been protecting, I’m here, in a recycling plant where I’ll probably be melted down into a door knob or something shitty l
+ Show more
Work history
    Subject logo
    Subject logo
    Studio Manager & Co-FounderSubject
    London, United KingdomFull Time
    Co-Founder and Studio Manager of Subject, a critical design studio which examines hairline fractures at the intersection of data, architecture, society and politics, using design as an experimental vehicle for research and journalism. Manager of accounts, communications and operational duties of the company with a focus on project management and creative direction across arts and fabrication contracts.
    Goldsmiths, University of London logo
    Goldsmiths, University of London logo
    Visiting LecturerGoldsmiths, University of London
     - London, United KingdomFreelance
    Methods and Processes workshops for BA Design. Introducing mass manufacture methods, material culture and globalisation to students through model-making by using consumer goods as raw materials.
+ Show more
Skills
  • Product Design
  • Industrial Design
  • Model Building
  • 3D Design
  • Rapid Prototyping
  • 3D Casting
  • Art Fabrication
  • Interior Architecture
  • Electronics
  • Web Design
Education
    Goldsmiths, University of London logo
    Goldsmiths, University of London logo
    Bachelors Degree in Design - First Class HonoursGoldsmiths, University of London
     - London, United Kingdom