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Hagoromo home office
For my fiftieth birthday, I requested some of the legendary Hagoromo Fulltouch Chalk, I had seen a CNN documentary about it and got a bit obsessed. The Chalk of Champions. Also who knew mathematicians are so obsessed with chalk?
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Wire Frame shelves
For many years I have wanted to create a lightweight modular bookcase. Having researched lots of different approaches, I settled on a simple design, of 10mm bent wire frames to support 18mm birch plywood shelves. The idea being to line a bedroom wall with shelves to hold momentos and knick knacks and possibly a few…
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Gateway to the Imagination
Best thing I have seen this year, reminded me of so may wonderful things… Had to display a screenshot with a link to the tweet, as the twitter embed widget doesn’t seem to want to display correctly in this theme?
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Esoteric UX
esoteric/ˌɛsəˈtɛrɪk,ˌiːsəˈtɛrɪk/adjective As a side project I was experimenting with the idea of how the language and processes of digital multimedia design have become more esoteric as it has become more specialised.
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The Life and Opinions of John Baldessari, artist
John Baldessari and Laurence Sterne. There is an edition of ‘The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlemen’, written by Lawrence Sterne, printed by Arion Press with 39 photo-collage illustrations by John Baldessari in his own unique style. Discovered by coincidence after reading Baldessari’s obituary. I have always liked the coloured circles on his photo-collages.…
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Incognito self portraits
I have alway tried not to have my photo on the internet, and so have over the years experimented with various styles of illustration for my ‘profile’ image which is often required when you register to a site. It is also fun to do.
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Nasa logo redux
If the famous NASA ‘worm’ logo was ever to be brought back, maybe it could be revived in the form on this space shuttle concept, the Polymorph space shuttle design by Luigi Colani.
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a fleeting rather joyous moment – Hockney
Who has an an orange football in their bath room? David Hockney.
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Curly cadmium planter
Experimenting with decorative wall planters I made one covered in twisted curly clay tendrils. The curls are glazed with warm cadmium yellows, oranges and reds. Its planted with the snake plant, or mother-in-laws tongue, Sansevieria trifasciata. Made it to go outside my youngest daughter’s room.
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Stephen Willats , how tomorrow looks from then…
I saw these photo collages at the Tate modern ages ago and didn’t know what to make of them. Really struck me they were using the visual language of service design. But was very struck by their combination of messaging, diagrammatic structure and provocative text. I have spent a while looking around the internet and…
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