Roving reporter

The forecast

I was going to start this year with a fabric update but after falling for too many expensive Scandi prints I’m in a confused grump about it, so that’s on hold. Instead,  for those who dream of bringing the elements indoors, I’ve found the interior answer for you in the shape of a shelf, some […]

Lucky skip

Street signs

I once stole a cardboard sign from the college noticeboard. I think it said ‘IS THIS YOUR BIKE. WE HAVE YOUR BIKE’. My point being that I love handwritten signage. These come from the website of Peckham-based design collective Garudio Studiage, and many of the pictures are taken in and around Peckham’s busy high street. […]

The Selby back cover

January reading list

So far we’ve been a Christmas-free zone on MFH, but I can’t resist posting about one of my lovely Christmas presents. Here are some of the nice things I got, in a pile on the side. Specifically though it’s this, the gorgeous hardback book from the HG – which I didn’t know existed so didn’t […]

Installation by Confetti System

Confetti Systems go

Did I say I was waiting for the new year to get onto my bare lightbulbs? I’ve been jolted into early research by Confetti System – AKA Nicholas Andersen and Julie Ho – who I discovered over at Ensuite and whose client list includes the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Too cool for school. I can see that coral […]

Labour poster

Labour and wait

Just spied in The Evening Standard, this picture of Ed Miliband in, presumably, his office. You know what I’m going to say, don’t you? I’m going to say a big ‘Right On Comrade’ to his choice of Keep Calm-esque, slightly bus blind-y old Labour poster. I think I read somewhere that Keep Calm came from […]