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.

Monsieur is a reading lamp, designed in collaboration with Christian Vivanco and Yago Rodriguez for Spanish lighting brand Almerich. After researching different users, we presented Monsieur, a reading lamp as a response to an emotional need. When you are reading, a strong link is created between you and the book. People love to get lost in the pages of a good book and Monsieur encourages this connection, creating a unique, intimate and personal atmosphere.

The result is a light and stable reading lamp, able to be placed in virtually any room of the house; it'll fit nicely beside your bed, next to the sofa or in the study. The addition of a small auxiliary surface, ideal for a book, a coffee mug or other small object completes the experience. The rotation system allows two movements covering more than 300 degrees each, being flexible and practical.

Monsieur's design responds directly to the use and function of a reading lamp, where with a single arm movement you can adjust its position and take the book to read. Monsieur is part of our collaboration with Almerich and was presented at Valencia Design Week 2010.

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.