Our Mission

 

our mission

TO EMPOWER ALL ARTISTS

We are on a mission to celebrate all creative expression, challenge stereotypes, and re-frame ‘disabled artists’ as simply ‘artists’. We do this by designing and creating beautiful and accessible art tools that allow people with disabilities to work and create independently.  We want to empower artists with our products and further celebrate creative expression by publicising artworks on our artwork page.

 

follow our journey

BUILDING AND TESTING

One and half years, many hundreds of 3D prints, mockups, models and superglued fingers later, we are in the final stages of refining and testing our art tools for you. Follow our journey on Instagram below.

 

who we are

We are Eli and Pete, two product designers and friends with a passion for inclusive design. We studied together, lived together and now we work together!

We believe in the enormous power of user-centred design and the impact it can make on societal issues. We recognised the marginalisation of people with disabilities in the creative community, in particular that their needs for products were unserved.

We want to challenge this.

Eli Heath designer design enayball product industrial
Pete Barr designer design enayball product industrial
 

the enayball story

The Enayball project began in January 2015 during our time at Brighton University. We teamed up with other Product Design students George, Benson, Emmanuel, Ben and Theo and produced a bespoke painting device called the enAball. Together, in collaboration with the Sussex MS Centre, we developed it into a functional prototype and ran a successful six person enAball workshop with Draw to Perform Festival. The team graduated in July 2018 and disbanded to pursue different design careers. Eli and Pete incorporated a company and chose to take the project forwards, resulting in the new (and differently spelt) Enayball.

Since then we have gone on to receive awards from Blackwood Care homes and Santander, established a collaboration with Alison Lapper MBE as well as being selected to be part of the Central Research Laboratory, the UK’s first purpose-built hardware accelerator for product designers inventing ‘for societal good’.