Some of you may already be familiar with Hide and Seek, an organisation dedicated to expanding notions of play and games. They create “social games and playful experiences”. Having participated in a few Sandpit events at the South Bank I can certainly vouch for that. The release of creativity through play can be quite profound and you have […]
Creative play – Hide and Seek in the UK and across the English Channel
Please Fund Us… another crowdfunding group
I hadn’t realised that there were more of these organisations around but then the principle is such a good idea…thanks Please Fund Us for following me on Twitter. I like the fact you can donate as little as a pound – times are tight for lots of people but it all adds up as these projects show. […]
Mary Katrantzou prints in fashion
Maybe it’s the delayed onset of spring with the cold and rain but Mary Katrantzou’s work cheers me up. She creates really strong, wearable fashion with the main emphasis on print. I normally wear plain garments but when I go for pattern it tends to be distinctive and these certainly fit the bill. The 2 images below are from Selvedge magazine – […]
Sebastian Cox furniture design video
I wanted to share this as it shows Sebastian coppicing hazel, the raw material for so much of his work. I’m looking forward to seeing new products due for launch at the London Design Festival. Thanks Sebastian for telling me about this – Twitter is so useful!
Pantone adds 336 more colours
Well this finally makes my Pantone colour fan completely out of date. I tend to end up with yarns, bits of fabric or paint to illustrate the exact colour I want when specifying and that’s hard when it needs replication. I’ll keep generating my colours but this should help others get closer to what I’m talking about!
Sapore dei mobile at the Milan Furniture Fair – good enough to eat.
This popped into my in-box earlier in the week and struck a chord, particularly with regard to the consumerism of new furniture designs. Sapore dei mobile is a project created by Ryosuke Fukusada and Rui Pereira, two designers now living in Milan, commenting on the huge amount of new product to digest at the Salon. Using the idea […]