about us
thinkingbymaking.org.uk was set up as non profit-
These ventures originate from work by Marion Hine and Roger Limbrick at Hine & Limbrick design partnership, and at Crafty Devils!
Marion Hine is an experienced children's project leader, setting up and running the Crafty Devils! creative workshops and activity kits between 1995 -
Crafty Devils!
Launched in 1995 to encourage creativity, imagination and inventiveness in children through practical art, craft, science and technology projects.
Creative activity kits and materials were sold directly to parents alongside workshops at craft fairs, arts festivals, school events, and parties in individual family homes.
The creative workshops ranged from "short & fun” activities lasting less than half an hour, to more ambitious events based on project themes, involving different kinds of making skills -
A two week Summer School in Southwold ran for four years -
Projects were developed for arts centres, museums and festivals: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Aldeburgh Arts Festival, Halesworth Art Gallery & The Halesworth Museum, Wingfield Arts, as well as special Science Week events in public spaces such as Ipswich Buttermarket shopping mall.
We also ran workshops in primary and middle schools -
You can see the full range of creative activity kits, and workshop projects at the crafty devils! pages of our website:
www.hine-
The design partnership ran from 1979 -
International clients include some familiar UK high street names: Early Learning Centre, Living & Learning Ltd, Walker Books, Longmans, Philip & Tacey Ltd, LDA, Unwin Hymen.
international clients include Brio Toys, Kurt Naef, Sevi Toys.
You can see some of these designs at the design partnership pages of our website:
Hine & Limbrick Design Partnership
design -
Roger Limbrick worked in many different design fields -
Award winning design for Galt Toys: Openside Dolls House 1963
Of particular interest are his large Polypops cardboard designs from the 1960’s which have recently been on show at Moma (New York 2012) and Systems exhibition (London 2014)
He produced several wooden toys of his own design: Interslot, House Bricks
Clients: Galt Toys, Reed Paper Group, Polypops, Hull Trader, Heals, Fidelis, Architectural Review, Dimbleby Press, House & Garden, Readers Digest, BBC TV, and ITV
teaching career:
Visiting tutor at Chelsea School of Art and Hornsey College of Art 1960 -
Senior Lecturer at the London College of Furniture (now the London Met) 1969 -
You can see examples of Roger's work at his personal website:
Roger Limbrick -