You can tell the UK’s had a little bit of sunshine recently from these pics, can’t you?! The top one was spotted when I was hurrying along a street in East London – I’m never in too much of a rush to stop for a good number! The middle one was a lovely surprise on a long...
I do love to be out-geeked! This week’s selection of numbers are part of a project called We Are One Thousand, an attempt to find photos of every number between 1 and 1000. I asked project initiator Pete Lewis to send me his three favourite numbers and here they are… In their words: “We One...
It’s another week when there’s so much going on that I’m having to squeeze two out and about posts into one Monday! This evening, I wanted to tell you about Pulse, and specifically LaunchPad – the section dedicated to new designers. As you might have already gathered, confessions of a design geek is the official...
Pick Me Up returned to Somerset House from 18th – 28th April 2013 and for the fourth year showcased a stunning selection of contemporary graphic art, design and illustration. I went along to check it out and here are some of my best bits… Print Club London always have a treat in store and this...
I was recently given a tour of Conran HQ and I was very excited to spot all these numbers while I was there! The first is a cushion Design by Conran have created for American homeware brand JCPenny. I loved the grey 80 in amongst all the blue numbers. Each floor in the building is...
I’m stretching the boundaries of Zona Tortona slightly, to include MOST, which was again hosted at Milan’s National Museum of Science and Technology, just around the corner. MOST was initiated by Tom Dixon and launched last year at the same impressive venue, originally built as a Monastery in the 16th Century. We started in the...
For the next instalment of explore, I asked Tina Ramchandani, interior designer and author of the design focused blog Life in Sketch to take us on a design walk in New York. I went on a design walk with Amy Beth Cupp Dragoo when I was there last year, but New York is such a diverse city,...
I am delighted to announce that confessions of a design geek is the official blog for Pulse again this year, and so I will be running a series of interviews with the new designers exhibiting at LaunchPad. As anyone who’s received a copy of the Pulse Edit in the post will know, roddy&ginger are one...
For the forth consecutive year, Wallpaper* Handmade brought together designers, craftspeople and manufacturers and commissioned them to create one-off pieces to be launched at Milan Design Week. This year saw a move to a new venue, contemporary gallery Leclettico. Here are my top picks… Incredibly, Klaar Prims creates these intricate bowls, by ‘drawing’ coloured strings...
More photos of numbers from Milan Design Week – I loved the stencil-style typeface used in the first one; the branding of an event at 010 – 020 Via Ventura, in the Ventura Lambrate district. The 26 in the middle was on a vintage light used to illuminate the lights on display in the Studio Job...
100% Design was flying the flag for British Design with an installation at Vivienne Westwood‘s shop on Corso Venezia, entitled New British; a celebration of a new British confidence in high-quality, local materials and craftsmanship. 100% Design Show Director William Knight said: “We are privileged to work in conjunction with one of the world’s leading fashion...
Sometimes it is a worthwhile and useful exercise to go back to the beginning, so I thought it was about time I shared with you the story of how Maggie’s came to be. In 1988, Maggie Keswick Jencks was diagnosed with breast cancer. In the words of her best friend Marcia Blakenham: “She had a...
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