Tom's Fantastic Floating Home. 3 x 60mins series for Channel 4 (2013)
Designer & Inventor
Features on TV, podcasts, radio, online and in print.
Tom's Fantastic Floating Home. 3 x 60mins series for Channel 4 (2013)
The Energy Fitness Podcast with Tom Lawton and Wonder
February 2024
Wonder of WakeYoo
June 2021
Wonder at Malmesbury Abbey BBC Radio
February 2021
Wonder at Malmesbury Abbey (first press announcement)
February 2021
Cover feature for Develop 3D
December 2020/January 2021
Feature interview for Wiltshire Life
November 2020
Interview about Uplifting Products on BBC Radio Wiltshire
10th October 2020
The Business Exchange
9th October 2020
Wiltshire inventor marks World Mental Health Day with charity donation
The Business Exchange Cover story
October 2020
Nat Geo Traveller
December 6th 2018
Top gifts for kids this Christmas
Interview with storyteller Zoe Sanders
November 23rd 2018
Conversations to spark ideas and change lives
Swindon Advertiser
November 6th 2018
Pupils at St Bartholomew's Primary test out Million Mile Lights
Yanko Design
Thursday 31st May 2018
This Desktop Toy is literally a Stairway to Heaven
Colossal
Monday 21st May 2018
An Endlessly Rotating Stair Sculpture Powered by the Sun
OMGFacts / Dose
Saturday 12th May 2018
Uplift Viral Video Edit by Dose from Tom Lawton on Vimeo.
Calm.com
Tuesday May 1st 2018
IvoryMagazine.com
Wednesday April 11th 2018
HavingTime.com
Monday 26th March 2018
How to Start & Grow Something UPLIFTing that Never Stops Inspiring
BBC Radio 5 Live
Monday 5th March 2018
I was asked to pay a tribute to an inventive hero, the late Trevor Baylis who passed away today. You can listen to my interview below.
Works That Work
2017/2018
I was interviewed for a feature on planned obsolescence and designing things that last by Rich McEachran for the annual publication of Works That Work - you can read it here.
Interview with Graeme Seaman on BBC Wiltshire Radio
13 June 2017
Sainsbury’s Egg Roll
Easter 2017
I was asked by Sainsbury’s and their creative agency Gravity Road to create the ultimate egg rolling machine with my boys.
Inspired by a Heath Robinson approach to innovation the aim was to inspire families to get creative with their kids over the Easter holidays without having to spend any money.
Why I run
July 2015
The story of why I run and how Million Mile Light came to be.
Cusp Conference
October 2014
Dave Mason, creator of the legendary Cusp Conference in Chicago asked me to come and tell my story.
Interview on BBC Radio Wiltshire
10th October 2014
Tom’s Fantastic Floating Home, Telegraph
2nd August 2014
Full page story in the Weekend Telegraph - you can read it here.
Tom's Fantastic Floating Home, Independent
27th July 2014
This peppy father-and-son design show floats my boat - read the review here.
Linda Lucas's prize letter TV review!
August 2014
Western Daily Press
23rd July 2014
Keynote speaker and judge of the Grand Ideas Competition for the Intellectual Property Office
June 2013
Feature in Macworld Magazine
Interview about BubbleScope on BBC Radio Wiltshire
27th November 2012
Cover story on BubbleScope for Develop 3D Magazine
November 2012
Feature in Windows 7 Magazine
October 2012
Interview in an HSBC customer magazine
November 2011
My Genius Idea, CBBC
Autumn 2010
I was judge and expert inventor for 9 x 30 minute episodes for a Children's BBC series in search of a child with a genius idea. The winner Tybalt, pictured here invented a remarkable device called a Bike Bleeper.
Lost, Channel 4
Autumn 2001
I was amongst a group of six contestants to travel back from Russia having been blindfolded and dumped there for a reality TV show.
Viewers will have watched me and Herbtree journey back in our very own way.
You can watch the whole of the first cult series on You Tube using the links below.