Posts under ‘design’

I spent last Saturday exploring two different industrial sites in south London. The first was the big hot ticket, a tour of the Brunel tunnels, open to pedestrians for the first time in almost 150 years. This was a great opportunity to see what was once known as the Eighth Wonder of the World, especially [...]

but I am getting over a fortnight of being ill and I am still somewhat brane ded.
Have some belated new year wishes from a pair of cats playing a mandolin and a banjo, which I picked up at last month's Ephemera Society Bazaar, instead.

So, 10% down and what have I got to show for myself?
DAY #1: gift tag notebook (prototype)
Take two gift tags and some strips of remnant wallpaper. Punch holes in the paper and thread with gift tag string.

Easy-peasy. Good for shopping lists and teeny sketches. I'll probably make more, given how easy they are [...]

Welcome to fabulous Las Vegas

It's a bit of a Circus

A new Frontier

Keep an eye out for white tigers,

dragons,

and flying horses

Westward Ho!

See more Vegas pics here. All my USA 2000-01 pics are here

My Flickr Pro account expires in four days. I have been making intermittent attempts to pay for the upgrade all bloody day and the payments section site is refusing to work for me, just as it was doing a few days ago.
I have had this problem with upgrading my Flickr account every. single. year. [...]

On Sunday afternoon I went on a tour given by Owen Hatherley (who, I discovered, is neither nasty, brutal nor short, but instead rather lanky and very nice). It took us to the northern end of the Piccadilly Line, visiting the modernist stations commissioned by Frank Pick (a bit of a design hero here [...]

As I mentioned in my last post, I spent last weekend looking at more arty stuff. It started in Trafalgar Square on Saturday morning to see my friend Myk Reeve posing on the fourth plinth as part of Antony Gormley's One and Other. He was the fifth of six people that I've met to appear [...]

As regular readers of this blog know, I like exploring follies, and Sunday's Open House gave me an opportunity to explore two of them in Gunnersbury Park which are not usually open to the public. One of these is known as Princess Amelia's Bath House, a miniature castle that was probably designed and built sometime [...]

En route from The Glasshouse to (see previous post) to meet friends near London Bridge, I wandered past the Old Operating Theatre and Herb Garret. I usually give museums a miss during Open House by dint of the fact that they're accessible at other times, but I had some time to kill and it's been [...]

My chums Sarah, Gary and Viviane share a studio in an old police station building in Deptford. They've all made comics about sheep, so they called their studio the Fleece Station. Reading stuff on Sarah's blog about settling in there was pretty interesting, but on Saturday they had a studio-warming party, which gave me an [...]