About

 Linear Lab is the creative space of Martin Lines, a designer maker based in Buckinghamshire, England.

The son of an engineer & builder growing up was about fixing and innovation. Always driven by the creative flow state whether daydreaming, sewing, or drawing. A passion for Lashings & knotwork was developed as a scout.

After 3 years as a Design and Technology technician and teaching assistant, Martin Enrolled at University of Brighton’s Engineering & Innovation department, gaining a passion for Computer Aided Design, visionary concepts, and a Bsc in Sustainable Product design in 2016.

An internship & following freelance work with Studio Soufflé enabled an excellent opportunity for deeper working knowledge of 3D modelling processes and presentation.

Meanwhile, seeing the landscapes curated at Boom Festival, Portugal in 2008, Martin decided to learn about festival tensile rigging. Starting as a volunteer, gaining heavy machinery tickets and experience on fast paced housing developments. Working up the ranks to co-manage construction of Boom’s 2018 Dance Temple was a defining moment in discovering his cababilities.

Covid enabled exploration of Martin’s own ideas, initially of a 7m wooden geodesic dome, leading to contact with Medicine Festival in 2020. Being invited back in 2021 to lead the build and install his own bamboo structures about the site, expanding on that work in 2022 in collaboration with Wyrd Designz.

The transformative effect of lighting on environments has become Martin’s most recent line of inquiry where he is experimenting with a range of styles from vintage style oil projection & prisms, to digital & laser projection. He was able to display these at Heartwood and Medicine Festival 2022.

Today Martin is helping others realise their creative visions, whether hanging from a harness, sharing ideas, or producing technical drawings.

Daydreaming is still a great passion only now bolstered by a skillset enabling concepts to be manifested. He lives with his fiancé, step sons, & dog. In leisure time he can be found climbing, walking, in the bowl at a skate park, or on the river.