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 recently spent a day working in a new co-working space in London called Club Workspace. Co-working is a relatively new concept in the UK, but one that has been popular in the States for some time. The idea is that people who would otherwise work alone, share a working space, and in so doing,...
It’s the last day of Pulse today, so just time to sneak in one more interview, this one is with LaunchPad exhibitor, artist and designer, Freya Cumming… What’s the most important thing to know about you? It’s not really important, but I found out recently that I have a form of synesthesia. It’s a strange...
Pulse is at Earl’s Court, London, 12 – 14th May 2013. I spent the day there yesterday and had the unenviable task of selecting my top ten exhibitors from LaunchPad, the section dedicated to new designers, and then judging the award for Best New LaunchPad exhibitor – there was just so much to choose from! As a...
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...
I was recently invited to Thornback & Peel‘s studio, which is in Cockpit Arts, Holborn, for an evening of screen printing, to make my very own Thornback & Peel cushion. Being a bit of a print-addict, I was there in a flash! The first step was to choose our pattern and our fabric from the...
Pulse is fast approaching, and so my series of interviews with new and independent designers exhibiting within LaunchPad is gathering pace. This week, I spoke to the absolutely lovely Abigail and Ryan Bell, aka abigail*ryan… What’s the most important thing to know about you? We are design duo abigail*ryan, and husband and wife team, Abigail...
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,...
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