I met Penelope Jordan at this year’s TENT and immediately fell in love with her quirky brand of 3d textile design, which cannot help but make you smile, so I was over the moon when she agreed to answer a few questions for me.
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creative spaces: bernard leach
I’m always very inspired by seeing the spaces creative people work in; the tools they use, the things they keep around them for inspiration, the effect of their environment on their work – so this is the first in a series on that very subject; featuring the Bernard Leach’s studio and the Leach Pottery in St Ives, Cornwall.
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here's one I made earlier :: a nice cup of tea
Inspired by Kirstie’s Homemade Home and an increasing cynicism about the annual Christmas cycle of shopping-presents-landfill, I decided to get crafty and make my own Christmas presents this year.
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interview :: furniture magpies
With a manifesto like “We dont believe in good furniture going to landfill when it can be redesigned into a piece that people can love all over again,” what’s not to love?
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here’s one I made earlier :: mini diana
Apparently there are 10 Golden Rules to lomography, which we tried to follow on our first outing with Diana, which took us to Hawaii and San Francisco (and somewhat reluctantly; back to London).
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out and about :: superdesign
Hidden in the basement of Victoria House on Bloomsbury Square for four days last week was SuperDesign 2010.
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interview :: zoe murphy
Tent 2010 favourite, Zoe Murphy, lives by the motto ‘love what belongs to you.’ Inspired by the fading glory of her seaside hometown Margate; she lovingly breathes new life into discarded mid-century furniture and vintage textiles – creating colourful products you’ll want to keep forever.
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out and about :: wandworth artists' open house
All in all a fabulous day out, which showcased just how much talent there is in Putney. It’s just a shame we only get to see it all once a year.
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out and about :: rca @ ldf
The Design Products Collection is one of four London Design Festival exhibitions presented by the RCA and the launch of new products designed and made by alumni and staff from their Design Products course.
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out and about :: trend spotting at 100% design
100% Design posed the question; “what is the future of design?” With that question in mind, at my last big LDF event for this year, I thought I’d try my hand at a little bit of trend spotting.
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out and about :: pennies from heaven
The highly magnetic brass metre-high ‘coin’ supposedly “fell to Earth from a giant’s palm.” The idea is that as people add pennies to the surface, it becomes textured copper and raises some money for Barnardo’s in the process.
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out and about :: origin
I am very sad to have been greeted by these closed doors when I excitedly arrived at Origin. Happily, some of my fellow bloggers were luckier and so here are my best bits of their best bits
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out and about :: tent
I rushed back from the West Country on Saturday and headed straight over to the East side of town for this year’s TENT, and boy was I glad I did!
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out and about :: moquette for london
“…taking images, be they architecture, paintings or nature, and distilling them right down to their simplest form until they became pattern”
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here’s one I made earlier :: glass painting
There really are a lot of geeky design people out there and one of the wonderful things about the London Design Festival is how it brings us all together.
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out and about :: tom dixon in the dock
Tom Dixon has a shop; in London; selling “spectacular everyday things”… so natually I went along to take a look.
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interview :: sarah hillman
I am a huge fan of Sarah HIllman, so you can imagine how delighted I was when she agreed to an interview – perhaps I could find out how she does it!
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thinking about :: every chair I sat in today
I read somewhere that the average person sits in seven different chairs every day, and had an idea; to photograph every chair I sat in for a day.
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out and about :: 1:1 architects build small spaces
Architecture doesn’t have to be about straight lines and tesselating boxes; it can create rooms within rooms – little sanctuaries within busy homes, it can be organic and scultural and full of quirks and suprises.