Pushing creative boundaries

Taking on fully bespoke work keeps our whole team on their toes, which, along with delighting our clients, is why we do it. It teaches us something new, and we all make some progress - the only way to reach anywhere!

Learning and teaching are central to our work at Matthew Cox, and everyone has something to learn or teach, even the least experienced. The first couple of weeks of a new team member's journey are an exciting time. As they learn the ropes, the rest of us are keen to understand the things that don't make sense to them. Does our way of doing things prompt new ideas for them? New people are often surprised that we're so interested in hearing from them early on, but we've gathered really useful insights this way.

Everyone is involved is evolving the way we work – the techniques and processes. We take time out to challenge ourselves twice a week in both the studio and workshop. We also have feedback sessions after bespoke projects and encourage scribbling on workshop drawings. We don't want to lose any learnings.

We never like to waste anything, least of all knowledge. Only from learning from the past, from our experience, can we continue to inform ourselves and truly push creative boundaries.