It's an odd feeling finding out your venture into the unknown is five years strong.

Fieldwork Facility didn't really ever have an official launch date so celebrating our birthday is a little dubious. Like many studio's before it Fieldwork Facility was born out of a heritage of Royal College of Art graduates finding their own path; knuckling down and having the conviction to carry on with what you've started rather than drawing a line under the RCA experience and 'getting a job'.

When I put up my show there seemed no option but to carry on. Don't get me wrong there are many design studios I admire but I felt that the studios I admired at the time all worked specifically in one of the spaces I wanted to work in (designing communications, designing experiences and finding where 'technology' can bridge the two). It seemed natural to me to figure out how to do this my self and so Fieldwork Facility was born... this week it's been five years since my RCA show opened.

Next week is another interesting landmark for the studio, we launch this website. Five years without a website is a bit odd isn't it. There's good reason why we haven't had a website up until now. The short answer is we've been busy, really busy. It took I think two or three years to find the time between projects to name the studio let alone design a website for ourselves!

The slightly longer answer is when I decided to make the leap I was conscientious of doing so quietly. Occasionally you see new studios launch with a great fanfare and then you hear very little from them thereafter, as effectively a graduate I wanted to earn my stripes before saying hello to the world as a legitimate design studio, I'm super proud of the body of work that's been built up over the last five years and that some lovely folks at organisations like UK Sport, Design Council, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Tate Modern and The Architecture Foundation have trusted us with opportunities along the way and joined the studio's journey.

The other driver of a quiet launch was the climate at the time, sure starting a business in a recession maybe not the smartest thing to do but really it was the micro-climate surrounding the RCA department that I graduated from. The course's leadership was changing and I know for me, and perhaps a lot of my classmates at the time found this article in Creative Review cast a heavy shadow over us graduating from the course. The article and the politics it covered somewhat dwarfed the work we were making.

In retrospect this article and the dialogue that surrounded it was more fuel to the fire to knuckle down and build something; just without the scrutiny of the design world watching. One project led to another and I find myself finally having a week to pull some work together from the last 5 years.

Moving forwards, now that we're out in the open the aim is the same as it was five years ago; to carry on. To keep finding new challenges. I'm proud of the work you can see on the site and I'm hungry for the opportunities that lie ahead, currently I'm especially keen to build more into the realms of designing experiences and launching a few projects that test the waters of building bridges between communication and experience with technology.

Now that you know about us hopefully you'll keep hearing from us.

(Touches wood).