Design Debate

A Night in the Studio by Ina Hyun K Shin Home is Bear The Heart is by Mister Peebles The V&A Museum of Childhood invited 19 London based designers to imagine their dream room. The limitations were a 30 cm box, and the brief was to create their dream room in miniature, reflecting the idea of 'ideal' or 'fantasy' rooms for an exhibition of doll's houses dating from 1712 to 2001. Bermondsey Studio by East London Furniture, Reuben Le Prevost and Jessica Sutton I Always Dreamed of an Underwater Aquarium Bathroom by Katy Christianson "It could be fantastical, whimsical, aspirational or technological, it just had to be small!" Alice Sage the curator told Dezeen .  If You Don't Know Where You Are Going, Any Road Will Get You There by Pearson Lloyd If a Budgie Dreamed of Being a Magpie by Bethan Laura Wood I love how some these designers have taken he brief quite literally, really cool dream rooms that kids would love, w...

Creative agency The Cut have condensed 100 years of hair and make-up styles into a 1 minute video. Quite fascinating seeing the trends move from cheeky flapper to big hair eighties and their take on the styles of 2010.  What I love about the time we live in is that we can take advantage of the wealth of visual history that comes before us and weave this inspiration into our everyday looks.  What do you think? Have they nailed it? Found at Design Boom . 

I love everything about these beautiful sculptures from Tom Price . The colours produced have such depth, like exploring the depths of the ocean or a corner of the galaxy.  He starts by considering his materials. Selecting two contrasting components, resin and tar, one black and heavy the other clear and liquid, he allows them to wrestle it out to become a single entity.  In Synthesis, his new body of work exhibited in Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City which is running until January 2015, Price is interested in the untapped potential of familiar materials, and encourages them to react in unfamiliar ways.  What happens is the tar and resin vie for space. The tar heats and expands searching for gaps and routes and as it spreads depths of colour come forth and something quite special is created. Tom Price told Yellow Trace : "I was aware of the tendency for resin to form small fractures when mixed incorrectly, but what we uncovered wen...

Beautiful glacier want to know why it is this intense blue? Check out The Vamoose . How these amazing ice shapes are formed. Lost in snow Ice crystals   You would have to live in a cave to have escaped the phenomenon that is Disney's Frozen at the moment. I know giggly girls who are obsessed with the ice princess and her songs. When I woke up this morning it was an unusually cold day for normally mild but soggy Cornwall. My car had a layer of intricate frost and the mist was weaving its way between the trees highlighted by golden light beams. Pretty impressive.  Embellished spokes from Liz West Ice swirls  on glass. The famous Ice Hotel  in Sweden, built every October and is melted down by April. It has put me in the mood for icy inspiration. From nature to fashion I have collected images that conjure the crisp winter mornings and delicate detail that characterises this season. Enjoy. All the different hues in this fracture...

I am quite blessed to have had very groovy grandparents. My Nan was very glamorous always in stilettos with her auburn hair pinned just so and her waist pinched with a belt she had made. In fact she made most her clothes, and mine when I was little. My Dad's mum was more 'granny chic', she like me had a passion for print, the more the merrier! She also made her own clothes and was adept at pretty much any craft - knitting, crochet, embroidery, lace. With this wonderful heritage I have been left some great vintage pieces. Some fit me, some don't and remain in my wardrobe as inspiration - just incase I change height, shape and weight!  I confess though sometimes I struggle to weave the vintage with the every day without looking like I am playing dress-up. Sometimes I feel the clothes wear me, rather than the other way around. So when I came across Fancy Fine , a vintage blog from stylist Ashley Ording, my inner vintage got excited. Her style is f...

  I stumbled across cartographer Sohei Nishino on blog The Fox is Black , the scale of his work is overwhelming. Nishino takes thousands upon thousands of photographs of famous cities and compiles a collage to give an impression of the place. These areas are of course very densely populated and I think Nishino conveys this well. I just don't think I would be able to make sense of the reams of photographs he must take, quite a talent! Sohei Nishino is exhibiting in London at the Michael Hoppen Contemporary until January 2015. 

Geometric rug found on Pinterest Away with the Clouds Today I am thinking floor coverings. I am a pattern fan and walls and furniture are just not enough, a well placed rug can really add texture, comfort and life to an interior. These are a few I have found that I like.  Love the fresh colour combination Great hallway rug , just the most beautiful rug , a cat right at home and rugs galore in this bohemian space Sumptuous colours I love traditional methods coupled with unusual colour combinations. It might have been my trip to Morocco that has inspired this current colour craze, either way I am pondering my next purchase. The issue in my home is that whatever rug I bring home it will be shared with Milly the dog.  Knit your own , geometric and pastel pale colours from Heals, tropical paradise and modern minimal Just perfect

    What I love about this brand is the hand made nature. I love that designer Thomas Lichtblau allowed the product to dictate his direction. For the 4 different types of Austrian honey he purely used kraft paper, glass and wood so that the colours of the honey would shine through. The only other distinction was 4 geometric shapes.  The brand also has all the types of process that I love - the minimal wooden box has 'Mein Honig' burnt on the front, twine and tags are used to distinguish flavours, stickers, embossing, and stamps all give that unique feeling.  Beautifully executed, see more at The Die Line .