I’d read that Donna Wilson designed a new tartan for her home town Aberdeen with the input of some school children, and just found out about this film all about the work. I recommend you watch when you can listen too, it’s a really sweet production. A heads up: There’s some great shots of machinery […]
Do you like a mystery? A conspiracy? Well today we have a report from the Carcassonne region of France, sent in by our doughty French Decorating correspondent. He filed this picture with the information that “it was taken through the glass of a locked room.” Chills.
I’ve just discovered Colin O’Brien’s work and got stuck on his website for half an hour. An exhibition of the photographer’s work opened at the Hackney Museum last week, showing life in London – and O’Brien’s local Hackeny, where he has lived since 1984 – over a period of more than 60 years. It’s unclear […]
The Hoy pub in Margate is advertising on its chalkboard a ‘Cockney Night’. On ‘Cockney Night’ they’re promising both pie ‘n’ eels and entertainment from Chas ‘n’ Dave. I’m obviously very excited. But the peerless geniuses behind the heartbreaking ‘Ain’t No Pleasing You’ aren’t the only dynamic duo getting in on the Margate scene. Designers […]
Yesterday, several shops and designers in Shoreditch had press shows to reveal collections that are launching officially in September at this year’s London Design Festival. A sort of pre show show, if you will. I made it to Shoreditch crazy early (8.30), so got a glimpse of the local school run, which I’ll describe quickly […]