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...
I made a magazine! It’s only eight pages long, but it is a complete review of my Milan Design Week – I hope you enjoy it. I hope to do these again in the future, so I would be very grateful for all your thoughts, feedback and comments. (Be kind!) Further reading for the especially...
I recently asked some of my Milan Design Week comrades what the best part of the festival was for them. Samuel Wilkinson, designer of the Plumen, (did I mention that I met him?!), said: “Like most years, Spazio Rossana Orlandi – such a nice way to enjoy design after spending days at the Feira” and...
This week’s photos of numbers come straight from Milan Design Week. The first one is attached to Stick Insect by Bogdan Kosack, a gorgeous little vase elevated by sticks or pencils. The second one was on a poster spotted in Ventura Lambrate and the last one was part of Milan Smells by Olivia Alice and Kate...
Ventura Lambrate was my favourite design district at Milan Design Week again this year – in fact there was so much inspiring design, I’ve found it really hard to whittle it down to just the pieces included in this post. I wasn’t even out of the press room before I spotted this gorgeously geeky stationery...
I have got so much Milan design geekery to share with you, that I’m hijacking the usual schedule for the next week or so until I’ve posted it all – well, I did promise to get it up here quickly. Salone Internazionale del Mobile is the trade show around which Milan Design Week has grown. It’s...
The next in my series of interviews with new designers exhibiting at the House of Detention, Clerkenwell Design Week is Latvian architect and designer Liene Jākobsone. She runs architecture and design practice Sampling with Belgian architect Manten Devriendt. What’s the most important thing to know about you? Maybe the fact that I’m not ‘only’ a...
I’m back from an incredible week in Milan. The thousands of amazing designs I saw and the designers I met are still a mass of images in my head, so I thought I’d share them with you just like that. I promise to follow up with lots more detailed posts about each area really soon,...
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