Design Debate

Nicely done, this historic community hall has been updated to house student digs and a pretty cool iridescent theatre and art space. Thats the bit I am drawn to, the shimmering tiles don't look real, so otherworldly. It could have landed from space.  Architects Jestico + Whiles converted this town hall in South London for Goldsmiths College. It was originally built in 1872 and extended in the 1930s, once again the building has had new life breathed into it. The shimmering tiles draw your eye and help this building be centre of the community.  See more at Dezeen . 

Oh this chair makes me uncomfortable! Don't get me wrong, I love it but I could never own it! The 60 Red Chair is slanted, each one is unique and gives you that feel of tension. Its great looking from every angle and in a lovely glossy red. The 60 Red Chair was designed by XYZ Integrated Architecture and is made from steel set at a 60º angle.  The chair feels unstable, precarious. The designers wanted to explore our relationship with gravity and to create a chair that looks impossible, peculiar, to give that adrenaline rush as you tentatively take a seat. 

Designers Hojin Kang and Sebastian Haus from Berlin created this great brand for Yannick Pfeiffer. A food innovator, Pfeiffer wanted to create a new kind of pancake - a combination of street food and gastronomy. He had me at pancake, I am a big fan of those floppy flavour holders.  The brand is right on trend, monochrome and abstract pattern heavy. The name of the over-arching brand is Feiner Herr, which apparently has the ideal double meaning of 'gentleman' and 'a guy who creates good tasting stuff'. Bingo, and of course a moustache had to be involved. The logo the design team came up with uses the F and the H with a little hairy character. With an Art Deco nod in the illustration, showing the interesting plates from above. We have recently been working on the website and application of a new street food brand in our neck of the woods, Woody's Wood Fired Pizza , you can check it out if you like. There is something about these litt...