Tag Archives: travel

  • Hug letter

    In the Press: Haguruma’s Hug Letter

    We’re so thrilled to be featured in Hug Letter, the brand new emagazine brought out by top Japanese stationer Haguruma, who celebrate their 100th birthday this year. It’s not our first association by a long shot. In fact, in 2012, I was lucky enough to be asked to design their new year’s card, and so …

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  • Screenshot

    Treasures from India

    An actual blogpost about the real-life blogpost of the INDIA EYES show.

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  • Paris launch

    Roof Garden launch… in Paris!

    I’ve just got back from my hop to Europe, so here’s a quick catchup on what I got up to on the two crazy days that I spent launching our new fabric collection in Paris.

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  • Airbnb

    Astrid’s AirBnB empire

    Take a tour of Astrid von Brucken’s stylish clutch of AirBnB apartments in Cape Town (full of Skinny laMinx, of course)!

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  • Fonty Fab

    Best Things: Fonty Fabness

    I’m crazy about all things typographical, so here’s some fonty fabness for your enjoyment.

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  • Lisbon Tiles

    Lisbon Subway Tiles: 4 of 4 – Linha Verde

    This is part IV of a post about a self-guided tour of the Lisbon metro that I took in June 2016, hunting down metro stations with tiles by Maria Keil. Read more here. The Green Line really is the Maria Keil motherlode, running: Rossio, Martim Moniz, Intendente, Anjos, Alameda, Roma and Alvadade: I have heard that some …

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  • Parque

    Lisbon Subway tiles: 2 of 4 – Linha Azul

    Part II of a post related to a self-guided tour of the Lisbon metro that I took in June 2016, hunting down metro stations with tiles by Maria Keil. Read more here. The BLUE LINE starts with Santa Apolonia (which you’ll recognise from the Maria Keil portrait at the start of this post), running up to Avenida, and ending with …

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  • Maria Keil Tiles Lisbon Subway

    Lisbon Subway tiles: 1 of 4

    While in Lisbon in June, I spent one hot, hot day doing something very, very cool: I spent the entire day underground, zooming around the metro system, looking for tiles by Maria Keil. I’ve written about this artist before on this blog, and this subterranean pilgrimage was something firmly on my Lisbon agenda, even though …

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  • Best Things: #IHaveThisThingWithTiles

    This year has been all about tiles, hasn’t it – with my Lisbon trip in June, and now our tile/textile collaboration with Heath Ceramics too. But it’s not only me. Check out  I Have This Thing With Tiles on Instagram, featuring an amazing array of floor-view selfies tagged #ihavethisthingwithtiles. Don’t you love it that the pics that include feet are called a …

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