Nice Print

I just popped into KK Outlet on my way home tonight and Hugh Barrell from The Peckham Print Studio was there. He gave me an edition of his mum's birthday prints. The yellow is metallic. Love it!

new project

I just won a new project. I'm pretty excited about it. Here's a sneek peek...

Design event again

During CDW I went to see Ross Lovegrove and Morten Villiers Warren debating 'Can design be sustainable?'.  The panelists commenced a downward spiral conversation closer by quoting tired old shock statistics which we've all become part desensitised to and part crippled by. We've all been in conversations where some ruddy pain in the neck starts trying to convince you not to recycle as it's a pointless waste of time....blah blah blah. Frustratingly, the debaters knowingly, nay, hypocrytical criticised the education system whilst simultaneously fundamentally blocking constructive discussion of  how   design    can       be        made           sustainably . .      ... The subject of the debate. Nothing ever came from nothing.

Anyway, for what its worth, there's alot that can be done to make/create differently to how things are done now. We just need to explore, experiment and believe in it. Knowledge sharing is the start, not moaning. 

A good place to start is here.

For an inspirational design event, see an earlier post here. 
For a more reasonable review of the debate see here.

Farmiloe Building

Not Tea

This is not a post about tea. I haven't had any new tea lately. It's mostly about aperol spritzers and the little window of sunshine that we had a few weeks ago. There’s been a few restaurant openings and I’ve eating well.  


Shrimpy's, by the lovely guys from Bistroteque opened last week. Yummy texmex - in King's Cross Filling station designed by Carmody Goarke. Go enjoy a Tom Collins with the gorgeous [read incredibly hot] chef, Tom Collins. 


They have also just completed the refurbishment of Bistroteque, which now features bench chairs from Another Country. Paul de Zwart founded another country and is doing an installation with me for a project acoss the road form St Paul's Cathedral. More on that later. 


Mark Hix’s Tramshed in Shoreditch opened with Damian Hirst’s cockNbull. Can’t say I loved my pureed cauliflower cheese as much as I would have if they just served it traditionally…

Shrimpy's designed by Carmody Goarke

Worth it alone for the complimentry pork scratchin's. Yum

The Tramshed