Last weekend i took a trip down to Plymouth with my girlfriend, and on the Saturday we took an adventure over to The Eden Project near St Austell in Cornwall. The purpose of The Eden Project is:
‘To promote the understanding and responsible management of the vital relationship between plants, people and resources leading to […]
There’s one thing I like more than a good book at the moment, and that’s a good design book. Getting into the swing of the whole design history is pretty interesting stuff. Finding out about the philosophies, work and different ideas of people who have gone before you in an extremely new profession is very […]
I was interested to see that in one of the regular emails which popped into my inbox from Business Week Online there was an interesting article about a new lamp which was being released later this year by Herman Miller.
The new lamp is dubbed the leaf lamp and it’s interesting to see that this product […]
I am a big fan of the Amazon recommendation scheme they have in place on the site which automatically recommends new products for you to try based on products you have already bought.
This works great for books, and I have found myself checking out the reviews of recommended books and even buying them. Bonus! Music […]
The mugshot on the right belongs to a guy called Julien Macdonald. Now, i must confess, until the other day i really hadn’t heard of him. He is a well known fashion designer. I’m not really sure whether I have seen any of his work before or not, but from what i have seen in […]
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I recieved an invitation of some sorts yesterday from Bombay Sapphire. The rather well presented invitation gives me all the information i need to persuade me to enter into the competition.
The award of £20,000 is aimed to recognise excellence and innovation in the use of glass.
This got me thinking (along with the tubular […]
I took a little adventure last weekend down to the Tate Modern with my girlfriend to view one of their latest exhibitions. Following on from the Modernism Exhibition at the V&A and a little reading about the Bauhaus I was fully prepared to take on more information from what seems like ‘Modernist Season’ around London […]
Recently I have taken a fancy to a little tubular steel furniture. A little modernist in style and function and I have been looking into how i would create my own tubular steel furniture. I have access to a few tools and a little space and i’m willing to put in a little cash to […]