...lets round off a beautiful week with this: by Katsui Mitsuo.
House N by Sou Fujimoto Architects.
I was down in deepest Dorset yesterday (you should try it sometime - its grand, especially when the sun shines). I was helping to photograph new ceramics for Hinchcliffe and Barber: we were quietly p...
Just in case youve missed it elsewhere, Roy McCarthy has come up with the free alternative branding for us plebs.
There are lots of lovely things to be found at Mid-Century Modern Design, but I especially like this Standard Elektrik Lorenz calendar illustration, designed by Anton Stankowski in 1961.
Johnson Banks are on top form with their beautiful set of Great British Fashion stamps which have been released today in the UK.
What beautiful photography from self-taught, Berlin-based Matthias Heiderich.
My trusty old bike needs replacing - the gears have given up and mostly gone. So Im down to three or four, when it ought to have 21. So Ive been keeping an eye out on eBay to see if anything might co...
...and pretty amazing, I think youll agree: Typographic Insects, where each insect is constructed from a different font. Just a small sample of the work of Xavier Segers, aka The Last Dodo. Go take a...
If you find yourself within striking distance of Holborn tube station this week, you should pop along and see Beauty in the making - reviewed here on the Eye blog. And there youll find out exactly wh...
You know that thing where you glance at something, not paying full attention, and you misread the words in front of you? Or is it just designers that do that? Well I was making my way through yesterd...
I was just catching up on the local news, and came across this article on the local rags website. It details what you might think of as being rural joy riding: someone takes a 4x4 and trailer into a ...
We all know theyre coming. But nobodys allowed to mention them - unless theyve paid sqillions to become an official sponsor. But theres more than one way to skin a cat, dont you agree? And the upside...
Im off to Leicester today to see the exhibition Maggie Scott: Negotiations - its the last in the series organised by the shape of things, for which Ive been lucky enough to have designed all the cata...
Todays price = £1.45 per kg. Todays price = 68 pence per kg. Why are bananas less than half the price of potatoes? Wheres the logic in that?
I took these pictures last year during my month off in late summer. I took them thinking that I might blog them, but never quite got round to it. I imagined (though this might be entirely incorrect) ...
1 + 1 = –0.5?
processing nees - go on, try it.
Goodness knows how long Ive been using earphones like this. Since my first Sony Walkman, I guess. So that would be the 1980s then. Since before you were born, probably. But the one thing that Ive nev...
I had a cup of tea with Jim yesterday (he lives just along the road from me). And afterwards he showed me around his shed: And thats just the type. Next time Ill photograph the presses.
If youve not been coming here for that long then you probably havent explored every nook and cranny. If, on the other hand, youve been here for the long haul there may be things that youve forgotten....
Lloyd Needhams 1941 Cadillac Hearse. (via things)
Carefully honed words. Words with meaning. Words with soul. Thats what you would be reading right now. Except the connection crashed. And theyre gone. Lost forever in a sea of wasted efforts. Ah wel...
This is my BT landline phone. You probably cant see what it says on the display, which is part of the reason for showing it to you. Let me tell you what it says: "1 NEW CALLS". Now, dear BT. ...
A Patti Smith / Dorling Kindersley mash up. (From two wheels plus, via things magazine.) UPDATE: It seems as though this spoof is the work of Cristophe Gowans. More can be found just here.
You wont find much graffiti on this blog. Youll know that if youve been coming here long enough. There is the occasional exception, of course. And heres some more: This in São Paulo. And this in Cape...
I had coffee with Ben the other day. (Thats one of the benefits of blogging, you see.) Anyway, hes now trying to push my thoughts around Whitehall. As you do.
...that this made me smile.
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