I’m starting 2018 with a creative break, spending as much of January as possible in the studio, getting my creative batteries recharged. So instead of the standard ‘year in review’, I’ve decided to do a “Making Friday year in review’ post, taking stock of what happened during my behind-the-scenes studio practice, which I like to …
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A year of Making Fridays: 2017
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Making Friday: Keeping it Weird
I don’t know what’s up with me and ceramics these days. I’ve been making some things I really have mixed feelings about once they’re out of the kiln, but I have a total blast while making them. This one happened on Monday night, when I was shaping the largest pot I’ve ever built, and ended …
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Skinnylaminxenstein: Shopping and Investigative Journalism
Let’s strengthen our democracy, one R20 raffle ticket at a time.
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Skinnylaminxenstein: Dreaming
I’ve been re-reading this book by Tokuhiko Kise and Hiromi Karatsu of Truck Furniture, which tells the story of how this couple dreamed up and built their home / workshop / showroom / restaurant / garden in Osaka, Japan. It’s an inspiring read, as their motivations are so simple – all about living a good, rich, …
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Imaginary friends
Over the last year or so, you may have spotted the reverse paper dolls I’ve been making in my studio on a Making Friday. Just for fun, I’ve been drawing a person, then cutting out an item of their clothing to hold over a patterned background, inventing new outfits for them. It’s fun seeing how …
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Making Friday: Remembering Girard
The sun was out on Making Friday last week, and so was my Alexander Girard catalogue, which I got at the Vitra show in July last year, and these two factors came together in a very sunny moodboard. Are you a Girard fan too? Did you see my post about my day at Vitra Design …
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Making Friday: Fending off the snooze
The only thing to do to avoid succumbing to the lure of the snooze, is to just MAKE something. Anything!
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Making Friday: Plant shadows
Some of the experiments and photos I’ve been taking around the idea of plant shadows.
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Making Friday with GIH Studio
This post is a bit of a mashup of our Friends & Neighbours and Making Friday features, because it’s a story about a South African designer who credits his start as a furniture designer to my Making Fridays idea. I met Gareth Henderson of GIH Studio on a glaringly hot rooftop in Cape Town earlier this year, as …
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