This article was published 14 years Design-led gift, homeware and lifestyle show, Pulse started at Earls Court yesterday. As part of my role as official blogger, I’ve got a stand, from where I will be conducting live interviews throughout the show. (I’m on stand LP160a and the show is on until…
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Confessions of a Design Geek
here’s one I made earlier :: pigeometry by lovely pigeon
This article was published 14 years One of the best things about being my involvement with Pulse has been discovering exciting new designers. Lovely Pigeon is the brain child of designer, maker, printer, illustrator and upcycler Kirsty Thomas. She lists her loves as “doodling, junk-shopping, making lists (and losing them again),…
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here’s one I made earlier :: input
This article was published 14 years I’ve decided to make a slight change to this column, and feature the design and making processes of other products, as well as showing you things I’ve made myself. To kick off this new approach is a fantastic exhibition from MARK, Product of Cornwall,…
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here’s one i made earlier :: greetings cards
This article was published 14 yearsI have to confess I am finding it harder and harder to find time for the little creative projects I write about in this series. I have made these little cards, so I thought I’d share them with you – a birthday card, a new home card…
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here’s one I made earlier :: inspiration walk
This article was published 14 yearsA while ago I wrote a series of ‘design stories’ for Cornwall Design Season. One of the companies I wrote about was Seasalt, a Cornish clothing company. I discovered that as part of their design process, they go on ‘inspiration walks’ along the coast or…
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here’s one I made earlier :: the making of interviews
This article was published 14 yearsAs I’m sure you are aware, I published a book in September. It’s called Interviews and it’s a collection of eighteen conversations with designers; from illustrators and graphic designers to product and furniture designers; and from recent graduates to design Gods like Wim Crouwel. A…
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here’s one I made earlier :: I love stationery
This article was published 14 yearsI need to start with a confession… I haven’t actually made anything, but somehow “here’s one I’ll make later” doesn’t have quite the same ring to it! What I have done, is found a book that will inspire me to make lots of things in the…
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here’s one I made earlier :: party bags
This article was published 15 yearsI was recently asked to make some party bags for a ‘duck themed’ first birthday party. The birthday boy and his mum are both very special to me, so of course I jumped at the chance. Having been meaning to make some ink stamps ever…
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here’s one I made earlier :: screenprinting tips
This article was published 15 yearsI’m currently doing a screen printing course at Putney School of Art & Design and although I’ve posted about screen printing before, I’ve picked up a few tips that I thought might be worth sharing. Now that I’ve progressed into printing in multiple colours, this…
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here’s one I made earlier :: klc project 2
This article was published 15 yearsIt’s taken me eighteen months (not a lot less than I initially estimated I could complete the entire course in!), I’ve got married and moved house in the process, but I have finally, finally finished Project Two of my klc Diploma in Interior Design! (I…
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here’s one I made earlier :: letterpress
This article was published 15 yearsI was recently very privileged to be in the last group of students to study letterpress in Central Saint Martin’s Southampton Row building. Privileged to be learning a skill that played such an important part in history, privileged to using hard to find and beautiful…
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here’s one I made earlier :: interviews
This article was published 15 yearsA few months ago I was chatting to William Shaw, Web Editor for London Design Festival about an interview I had done for him. “You do know you’ve got a book on your hands, don’t you?” he said. I stared at him blankly. He went…
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here’s one I made earlier :: blah blah pocket monster
I love Donna Wilson. I love her products, I love her brand… I even love her outfits. The thing is, try as I may, I just can’t convince the boy that we should spend £70 on a cushion, not even a 100% lambswool, knitted in Scotland, grey with ebony robin, 40cm x 40cm, comes with a duck feather cushion pad, Donna Wilson cushion.
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here’s one I made earlier :: graphic design with anthony burrill
A few weeks ago I went along to a graphic design workshop with Anthony Burrill at Outline Editions.
Confessions of a Design Geek
here's one I made earlier :: screenprinting
I recently had the great pleasure to spend an evening at The Make Lounge on their Screen Printed Textiles workshop. I first tried my hand at screenprinting at the Print Block in Whitstable, during the Oyster Festival and I’m starting to think I might have caught the bug!
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here's one I made earlier :: cyanotype
Inspired by a recent exhibition about camera-less photography at the V&A called Shadow Catchers, I thought I’d try my hand at cyanotype, a type of ‘sun printing’.
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here's one I made earlier :: an explorer of southwold
This article was published 15 yearsIn dire need of a bit of R&R, some inspiration and a birthday treat, the boy and I headed off to lovely Southwold for a weekend break. For a change of creative tact we went armed with “How to be an explorer of the world”…
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here's one I made earlier :: bathroom design
A while ago, I showed you my bathroom concept board, developed as part of the klc Diploma in Interior Design, and I promised I would show the bathroom design that resulted.
Confessions of a Design Geek
here's one I made earlier :: sketchbooks
A sketchbook is a great way to collect and explore ideas – and of course the best thing is to keep one on you and get into the habit of using it every day. I’m usually terrible at remembering, but I do always make sure I find the time when I go on holiday. On my latest two trips, I tried to push myself to develop my ideas as well as just recording what I saw – and also to feel more able to take risks and make mistakes.