Change Seeds cultivates sustainable, self sufficient communities.

Change Seeds provides your home, school, business and community with the skills and tools to live a healthy, happy life with respect for our environment. We do this through net positive products and services which promote sustainability and self sufficiency. Our services allow you to eat healthily, live actively and reduce your cost of living and carbon footprint by focussing on the areas of food, energy and water.
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Change Seeds initiatives are based upon solid, ethical, economically sustainable and environmentally sound models which bring a positive impact to your individual household, school, business and the community at large. We strive to be a respected and proven contributor of knowledge and an active contributor to more dialogue within the local and global community context.

Everyone loves a celebration. Whether it’s a party, barbacue, or a nice meal with friends, the majority of us will agree that our beer, soft drink or wine needs to be served ice cold.

Jinja drink coolers are the perfect solution to keep your drinks and parties at the cool end of the spectrum. Handmade from fully recycled textile waste, they also help you remember which drink is yours!

Available in different sizes and colours, they suit both casual and formal settings; from the beach through to a nice restaurant.

Dama is a table lamp designed by Tom Allen for Spanish eco-design company Lucirmás. Made from upcycled, recyclable and sustainably certified materials, the lamp was first previewed at the Salon Internazionale del Mobile in Milan 2012 at Superstudio Piú but has now been officially launched.

Inspired and made from beautiful, 5 litre glass vessels (commonly used for storing wine or oil in Italy), their charm gives that warm feeling you get observing an old, masterful Italian cook, craftfully preparing a delicious meal. Perfect as a table lamp for a variety of settings, users can easily remove the glass 'lampshade' with the original handle, which makes cleaning an easy process. The beech timber base is PEFC certified (http://www.pefc.org/) ensuring both the designer and producer's intention to practice sustainable design.

The lamp is entirely handmade in Barcelona with the highest attention to detail and craftmanship. Each lamp is personally numbered. Using a low energy Plumen 001 lightbulb (which has a lifetime of 8 years), Dama is sure to be the talking point in your home, restaurant or hotel.

Work: With the official brand launch planned for late 2012, I am currently consulting across a broad spectrum of this exciting new business; from digital/social media, communication and PR strategy, marketing and design. I am also overseeing the implementation of a new website and the planned brand/product launches. I have also designed a collection of products to be released later this year.

Jinja has a passion for sharing enjoyable rituals through beautiful, sustainable products. Jinja designs and makes a wide range of original, handcrafted products made from 100% recycled textile waste. Jinja has a clear conscience. Their respect for nature underlies their entire eco-design creative process, meaning Jinja products come with a seal of responsibility! With a love of material experimentation, Jinja will continue innovating in order to bring you the best product designs to accompany and help you enjoy everyday life. Jinja products are responsibly handmade in Portugal and have been designed around the world.

The Emotion Lab was a turning point in my career which gave me excellent experience in setting up a design studio in a multicultural environment. It was here that my vision became more business focussed and I came to understand that business success does not rely solely on great design. I directed our communication, PR and marketing strategy as well as actively managing the studio and overseeing the design process. We were published in the leading design blogs and magazines around the world. Relationships were built with opinion leaders while a solid base of followers were attracted to our various social media platforms.

The Emotion Lab was formed by four designers from three distinct continents - Tom Allen (Australia), Christian Vivanco (Mexico), Yago Rodriguez (Spain) and Marta Falcón (Spain).

Our unique multicultural perspective stemming from such diverse experiences, traditions and approaches, offered a simple, honest and functional approach to design, centred on the generation of rich, lasting emotions. Our ideas responded to a deep observation of human behaviour and as a result we found solutions based on the present and future emotional needs of the user.

We studied intangible links and continued investigating until we found tangible solutions which improved the interaction and discourse between objects, brands and people. Our objective was to make responsible proposals for our society, without losing the emotive aspect; searching for hope and solutions which pointed towards a better future. Creating meaningful, emotive experiences is vital for the success of a companies' products and services; for products which only satisfy usable, intuitive and functional considerations are no longer sufficient. More than designing objects, we wanted to generate and provoke emotions and experiences which you would never forget.

Moonwatch was designed as a concept by The Emotion Lab to establish a relationship between the moon cycle and a person’s emotional states. It’s a new concept of time based on nature which invites people to reflect upon and gain a closer understanding of their mood and daily life on earth.

The moon has been a guide and object of admiration and mysticism during thousands of years. Agriculture, fertility, tidal patterns, human behaviour and many other activities have been linked to the different moon phases.

With Moonwatch, a person is always able to determine exactly what phase the moon is in. Clouds, pollution or a general ignorance to the moon cycle are no longer an issue. With time and observation, a person can find patterns which sync their behaviour or happenings to the different phases.

The Moonwatch also indicates the time with a user being able to switch between the two interfaces with a push of the button. During the day, the time is indicated with a black background and during the night the interface changes to white in order to improve visability.

A small solar cell helps to charge the watch; another analogy which highlights the relationship between sun and moon.

The watch’s simplicity and improvements with the interaction between watch and user complete the design, which fuses nature and technology to generate new emotions within the user.