As a Boxing Day baby I’m not the biggest fan of Christmas and I usually avoid any mention of it until there’s a D in the month. However when Oliver Bonas invited me to their Christmas in July press day I found it hard to say no! I know, I know, it’s WAY too early to be thinking about the C-word in July, but someones gotta do it I guess, or there wouldn’t be lovely things...
With my triangle radar on alert ALL THE TIME I have been spotting people around London with an amazing bag for a while but hadn’t managed to find out where it was from. I was in Selfridges the other week when the triangle radar flagged up again: I had finally found the bags! Designed by Issey Miyake, the collection stems from the idea of “shapes made by chance”, which are innovative shapes that transform according to...
Happy Triangle Friday – it’s lucky number 13! I’m always on the look out for the most interesting triangular things to share with you guys and I’m building up quite a big list now. I’ve had this particular work planned for a couple of weeks, which now seems to have been ‘meant to be’ – it will all make sense in a minute… So, feast your eyes on these amazing beasts: Fierce, sharp and beautiful...
As anyone who is a regular reader will know, I have quite a bit of love for triangles and geometric shapes so when I saw Anna Garforth’s work I was drooling a little… These pyramid style paper objects look quite interesting… … all made from pages of a telephone directory… … and collectively form this lovely little installation which Anna produced for Squire & Partners’ street party during the London Festival of Architecture 2010. The event celebrated...
Last time I did a packaging ‘special’, I said I would try to do one every month – that was September 2009! So that didn’t go too well, but nevermind… I’ve had other things on my mind, but packaging in the background 🙂 Strangely, my computer doesn’t like thedieline website anymore so I have been using Lovely Packaginga bit more, and also have been taking the opportunity to look at packaging at college under the packaging project we are...