My blog has been full of colour this month, hasn’t it? There’s been my rainbow book collection and my Colour Yum Best Things post, andI think the reason for this is that I started the month by pinning up a tiny square of every single Skinny laMinx print (including the brand new Diggi Dot collection), and …
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Best Things #07
Just one Best Thing this week, because it follows on so well from the recent Fashion Revolution movement, which asked us to consider the question “Who Made My Clothes?” The video is fairly long, but certainly worth the time, and has stayed with me ever since I watched it last week.
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Best Things #06: Colour Yum
Woven bamboo chairs by W&Q …………………………………………… Photos of food gradients by Brittany Wright. …………………………………………… Delightful stop motion video for Samsung by Vallee duHamel …………………………………………… Photos of le Corbusier’s Convent of la Tourette by Samuel Ludwig. …………………………………………… The Moth Gallery Flickr group. This pic is by Gail Hampshire. …………………………………………… Sonia deLaunay has an exhibition on at the Tate …
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Making Friday – Block Printing
While teaching block printing on the Ritchie Ace Camp last year (and again in October this year), I’ve been using carved lino blocks, but I did bring back some super-simple wooden blocks from Jaipur to play with too. Whether printing with lino or with wood blocks (or designing prints to be produced on scarves) the thing I’ve …
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Best Things #05
A few weeks ago, while Abby Glassenberg were having our podcast chat, I mentioned how, although I really love Instagram, I worry a little about how one can self-select an Insta feed to only display pics within an existing aesthetic, and in the end all that yummy visual ‘liking’ ends up as a same-same-same unchallenging, boring mush. So in this week’s …
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Best Things 04: Stripes
It must be the late summer light that has had me taking lots of stripy photos lately. Stripes are great and graphic and strong, but with a bit of colour, they’re a LOT more fun. I thought I’d look around the web for stripes for this week’s Best Things post. Clockwise, from Left: + Kat & Roger’s …
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Best Things #03
Since starting to send weekly newsletters (sign up here, if you haven’t yet), I’ve become a big fan of this way of getting info and staying in touch, and have been signing up for newsletters all over the place. I thought that today’s Best Things post could include some of the things I’ve come across via …
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Best Things #02
We’ve just bought the studio apartment next door to ours, with the intention of bashing through to expand our 80 sq/m 2 bedroom flat into a roomy open planned 120 m/sq space. This is why I haven’t been doing much online this week, other than pin thrilling wide-open loft-style apartments to my I Could Live There …
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Best things #1
One of the best things about the internet is sharing cool finds and links, so I’ve started a new blog feature about what I’ve found lately, called Best Things. 1. After reading the Saipua blog, I’ve been dreaming (literally! at night!) about Sarah and Eric and their flower farm in upstate New York, although Sarah’s blunt honesty does put …
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