This article was published 14 yearsA wintery walk along the North bank of the Thames is the setting for today’s photos of numbers. I absolutely love the first one – the number 20 written over the top of the number 19 (or vice versa) in chalk on the brickwork under…
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out and about :: coffee and design in London
Even the most hardened of London explorers sometimes need to refuel. And the design geeks amongst us would always prefer to do so in a cafe or bar with some serious design credentials. Luckily, a few real gems have popped up recently. Here are my three favourites.
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out and about :: london's libraries (part 2)
In my last out and about post, we got half way through the 20th Century Society’s tour of London’s libraries; “Lend us your books, a day ‘in Libris’” and now for the rest…
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interview :: anthony burrill
I still can’t quite believe I have met and interviewed the man behind the “work hard and be nice to people” poster that adorns so many design studio walls and provides daily inspiration for the design community and beyond.
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out and about :: london's libraries
Having recently joined the 20th Century Society, the boy and I joined them for “Lend us your books, a day ‘in Libris;'” a day exploring the development of the public library from the turn of the 20th century right through to the 21st; focusing on architecture, planning and design.
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here’s one I made earlier :: yellow owl workshop
This article was published 15 yearsI love the Yellow Owl Workshop so I was very excited indeed to hear that Christine and Evan were coming to London, for the launch of Christine’s new book, Print Workshop. So excited in fact that I booked the afternoon of work and went along to Urban…
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creative spaces :: ian lettice
Ian first noticed the building that is now his studio when helping out with the local scouts. Once a bomb shelter to the factory building that is now the scout hut, its door hadn’t been opened for 20 years.
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out and about: the temporium
I went to London’s latest pop-up design shop; The Temporium, a collaboration between Denzeen, Deborah Spencer and Alice Breed. It featured some of my favourite designers, so I was very excited – and I wasn’t disappointed.
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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.