You can’t really go wrong with this timeless yet endlessly fresh colour combination. Any kind of food looks good on blue and white. I was looking at a few examples today as I recently inherited some Wedgewood willow pattern tableware. Given the brief of this blog I’ve only selected 2 contemporary examples from the very long list […]
Blue and white ceramics
New product design ideas.
During my recent review of RCA show information I found two more product design ideas that had caught my eye, this time for more aesthetic reasons. Lina Patsiou showed her Chromatography system where a sprayer coated a vase with 26 colours relating to the letters of our alphabet. You enter different letters to create a […]
Innovation Design Engineering at the RCA
Reading about Daniel McLaughlin’s wool yarn suitcase in Designboom reminded me that I hadn’t shared my pick of the Innovation Design Engineering graduates. This course throws up some of the most interesting ideas with an emphasis on new uses for waste material and ways to better the lives of the global majority. Here’s a small […]
Stationery by Hay and Quill London
Those who know me are aware of my terrible weakness for a good notebook. I have stacks of different ones (all used) as gifts often come my way. I did try to kid myself that I was looking for the perfect one: good plain paper (I hate lines) which can take ink from a fountain pen […]
Ceramics and glass by Andrea Walsh
It’s interesting to learn that Andrea Walsh studied Fine Art before moving into her preferred materials of ceramic and glass. Maybe a clue lies in the fact that her degree was from Staffordshire University, Stafford being the centre of the English ceramic industry. I’d seen her quartz-like boxes at Origin (replaced by The Crafts Council with […]
Atelier Premier Etage by Nicolas Lanno & Claire Escalon in Paris
You may remember seeing Nicolas Lanno‘s light in one of my posts last year. Well, Claire Escalon and he have now set up Atelier Premier Etage, offering interior and event design as well as furniture, lighting and product design. Here are images of the recently completed Pocket Gallery, their cute little showroom displaying Nicolas’ collections. I’m […]