This article was published 10 years Furniture and tableware brand Native & Co launched their latest collection entitled Mu at September’s London Design Festival. The collection, comprising six designs, celebrates the natural qualities of cedar wood, highlighting the grain in a variety of shapes from a simple circular platter and traditional…
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Inside the studio of the Moomins creator
This article was published 10 years Born to artistic parents, Tove’s first illustrations were published when she was just 14 years old. “I’m working” was a phrase that cropped up frequently in her diaries, even at this young age – and referred to anything from drawing to actively seeking ideas….
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creative spaces :: eley kishimoto
This article was published 11 years I was recently invited for a behind the scenes tour of Eley Kishimoto‘s London studio – what a treat! The label, which initially made its name in fashion but is increasingly making waves in product and furniture design, was founded in the early 1990s…
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interview :: jessica walsh
This article was published 12 yearsThis month I’m sharing my favourite posts from 2014, and this is one my favourite interviews of all time, with the incredibly talented Jessica Walsh… Sagmeister & Walsh are a top New York graphic design agency run by Stefan Sagmeister and Jessica Walsh. Quite aside…
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creative spaces :: sagmeister and walsh
This article was published 12 years If you’re going to install a video camera in the ceiling of your studio and use the live feed as the homepage of your website, your studio better be pretty damn nice. And Sagmeister & Walsh’s studio is certainly that. I have been cooing…
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creative spaces :: custhom
This article was published 12 yearsCUSTHOM is RCA graduates Nathan Philpott and Jemma Ooi and they design innovative high quality wallpapers, ceramics, textiles and stationery. I went for a snoop around their Peckham studio and here’s what I found… Gorgeous, isn’t it? I interviewed the lovely Gemma while I was…
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creative spaces :: sarah hamilton
This article was published 12 years Having talked it about for quite some time, I was excited about finally seeing printmaker Sarah Hamilton‘s studio, but nothing quite prepared for me the stunning 1950s house it’s inside. You come in through the front door, stairs lead down to the bedrooms and…
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creative spaces :: aalto house
This article was published 13 years Way back when I started writing my blog in April 2010, I worked on an old school desk in a corner of my bedroom. I had space for two or three inspirations pictures stuck on the wall above it. One of those pictures was…
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creative spaces :: tom raffield
This article was published 13 years I have been a fan of Tom Raffield‘s work for as long as I’ve known anything about design. I think I first came across his work the very first time I went to 100{ff546b69e23b1524d799f96c6ba7a638e1f677053b0a2a1568b05315fd5f8fc7} Design, a long time before I started writing this blog,…
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creative spaces :: rebecca hoyes
This article was published 13 years I wrote a post back in March 2013 in about Habitat‘s return to form, and Senior Design Rebecca Hoyes is one of the reasons why. She works one day a week teaching textile design at Central Saint Martins, and splits the rest of her…
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creative spaces :: the creative studio
This article was published 13 years I met Richard Foot, one of half of film-making duo R&A Collaborations via twitter and we’ve already worked together on a couple of things, so when he said he had a studio I might like the look of, I jumped at the chance to…
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creative spaces :: jailmake
This article was published 14 years I have a flyer pinned up above my desk. It says things like “Practice until you’re great – then be better,” “Climb trees” and “Be tired at the end of every day.” I find it inspiring, not least because I can always say I’ve…
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creative spaces :: lovely pigeon
This article was published 14 years I love seeing creative people’s working spaces. I think you can tell a lot about a person by the space they work in, and I think you often see the influences of a space coming through into people’s work. This is especially true of Kirsty…
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photos of numbers :: 11, 2, 60a, 60, 62, 64 & 66
This article was published 14 yearsHello and happy Friday! I’ve been very excited about sharing these numbers with you, since I spotted two of them in one day! It was a good day for photos of numbers! The first one is on the door of the shared studio space that…
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photos of numbers :: 11, 2, 60a, 60, 62, 64 & 66
This article was published 14 yearsHello and happy Friday! I’ve been very excited about sharing these numbers with you, since I spotted two of them in one day! It was a good day for photos of numbers! The first one is on the door of the shared studio space that…
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creative spaces :: designersblock
This article was published 14 years Designersblock have been camping in this disused pub “until September” for eleven years. Co-founder Piers Robers has even lived here for much of that time. The pub closed in 1994 and because it is the only example of Victorian architecture on the street, isn’t…
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creative spaces :: clarissa hulse
This article was published 14 years I was recently very lucky to be invited to Clarissa Hulse‘s North London studio to screenprint my very own Clarissa Hulse cushion – what a fantastic way to spend a Thursday morning! Her studio is spacious, light-filled and, as you’d expect, a riot of colour,…
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creative spaces :: linda bloomfield
This article was published 14 years I love Linda Bloomfield’s work, especially her gorgeous teaset. Her products are perfectly formed to fit the human hand, incredibly tactile and well designed – the teapot pours perfectly without spilling a drop. So it is with great pleasure that I present a little…
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creative spaces :: chase and wonder
This article was published 14 years Chase and Wonder make gorgeous screenprinted stationery and home accessories from a converted cowshed in rural Worcestershire. Well, if that’s not worth a creative spaces post, I don’t know what is! It was a shell when they found it, no electricity, no wall panels…