This article was published 13 years The London Design Festival starts in just over three weeks (eeek!), so it’s time to start talking about some of the amazing design that we can expect to find there. First up, I spoke to Berlin-based Swedish designer and architect Björn Andersson to find…
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Confessions of a Design Geek
here’s one I made earlier :: bairro alto
This article was published 13 years Bairro Alto is husband and wife team Matt and Sabina Ford. A dual obsession with coffee and concrete has led to their first product, the Classico coffee tamper, designed in their workshop in Bristol and made in England using local suppliers. I was keen…
Confessions of a Design Geek
here’s one I made earlier :: tortus copenhagen
This article was published 13 years Behind this ancient door at Kompagnistraede 23 in the design centre of Copenhagen, Denmark lies Tortus Copenhagen, a small-scale producer of fine hand-made ceramics. In their words: “Like the noble creature from which we derive our name, we move at our own humble pace.” Sounds…
Confessions of a Design Geek
here’s one I made earlier :: thornback & peel
This article was published 13 years 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…
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here’s one I made earlier :: concrete rug
This article was published 13 years I love concrete and I love juxtapositions, so when I heard about Alex Chinneck’s Concrete Rug I was intrigued. He very kindly talked me though how it was conceived, designed and made. Of his inspirations, he said: “Every day I walk over an arrangement of…
Confessions of a Design Geek
here’s one I made earlier :: caslon&co
This article was published 13 years Every so often something comes along that is so deliciously geeky, it stops me in my tracks. Now, I’m not normally a cushions and curtains kinda gal, but these Caslon&Co cushions really appeal to me. They are made using antique wooden printing blocks called ‘ornaments’…
Confessions of a Design Geek
here’s one I made earlier :: degross
This article was published 13 years Design studio Degross focuses on efficiency, maximising the use of their raw materials and minimising waste. So when they found a stash of glass bottles discarded behind their studio, their creative minds started ticking… It wasn’t long before they’d come up with a multitude of ways…
Confessions of a Design Geek
here's one I made earlier :: degross
This article was published 13 years Design studio Degross focuses on efficiency, maximising the use of their raw materials and minimising waste. So when they found a stash of glass bottles discarded behind their studio, their creative minds started ticking… It wasn’t long before they’d come up with a multitude of ways…
Confessions of a Design Geek
here’s one I made earlier :: the sofa and chair company
This article was published 14 years I was recently lucky enough to be given a behind the scene tour of the Sofa and Chair Company’s factory. Stepping through a hidden door from the showroom into the factory is like stepping through C S Lewis’s wardrobe into Narnia. And the magic doesn’t…
Confessions of a Design Geek
here’s one I made earlier :: extl lights
This article was published 14 yearsI met David Irwin at 100{ff546b69e23b1524d799f96c6ba7a638e1f677053b0a2a1568b05315fd5f8fc7} Design this year and was fascinated by his EXTL lights for Deadgood. David explained that they had been designed to create as little waste as possible and were made from tessellating shapes cut from a single sheet of extruded aluminium so I was keen to…
Confessions of a Design Geek
here’s one I made earlier :: paul case furniture
This article was published 14 years I met Paul Case at the Decorex exhibitors’ launch where I was speaking on behalf of Maggie’s, who was their charity partner this year. He has just launched his first range of furniture, having previously specialised in making one-off bespoke furniture for individual clients….
Confessions of a Design Geek
here's one I made earlier :: X3 at super brands london
This article was published 14 years One of the most exciting installations at this year’s London Design Festival was X3 by Creative Research and Development. They challenged three designers to design and make a chair in six hours, using the tools and materials provided in the goldfish bowl of a workshop…
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here’s one I made earlier :: X3 at super brands london
This article was published 14 years One of the most exciting installations at this year’s London Design Festival was X3 by Creative Research and Development. They challenged three designers to design and make a chair in six hours, using the tools and materials provided in the goldfish bowl of a workshop…
Confessions of a Design Geek
here's one I made earlier :: elasticated chair
This article was published 14 years Matthew Cox’s Elasticated Chair was my favourite find at this year’s New Designers. As I said at the time: “I’m a little bit in love with this chair… I love the colours, I love the form, I love the character… and I know it really…
Confessions of a Design Geek
here’s one I made earlier :: elasticated chair
This article was published 14 years Matthew Cox’s Elasticated Chair was my favourite find at this year’s New Designers. As I said at the time: “I’m a little bit in love with this chair… I love the colours, I love the form, I love the character… and I know it really…
Confessions of a Design Geek
here’s one I made earlier :: flo stick
This article was published 14 years I don’t know if you remember the BBC 2 series Design for Life with Philippe Starck – it was essentially X-Factor for design geeks and I was hooked. So you can imagine my delight to meet the eventual winner and my favourite contestant Ilsa…
Confessions of a Design Geek
here's one I made earlier :: patterns apart
This article was published 14 years Pattern design is something that has been intriguing me lately. Happily, I got chatting to Rozynna Fielding of Patterns Apart at Pulse a few weeks ago, and she kindly agreed to let me in on the design process behind her current range. Inspiration can come…
Confessions of a Design Geek
here’s one I made earlier :: patterns apart
This article was published 14 years Pattern design is something that has been intriguing me lately. Happily, I got chatting to Rozynna Fielding of Patterns Apart at Pulse a few weeks ago, and she kindly agreed to let me in on the design process behind her current range. Inspiration can come…
Confessions of a Design Geek
here’s one I made earlier :: tekio
This article was published 14 years I met Anthony Dickens at Clerkenwell Design Week, where he was launching Tekio, his modular lighting system inspired by traditional Japanese ‘chochin’ paper lamps. I was keen to find out how the product had come about, so I have been talking to him since in…