It’s 10:59am on a Sunday. As I open the car door and step onto the tarmac of the car park, hundreds of other doors followed by twice as many legs perform the same task in almost exact synchronisation. 11am arrives and the crowd of people who’ve emerged from their cars begins to swarm towards the …
To see the full image when you visit the flickr page, click on the ‘all sizes’ button and choose the original image size. The text should be readable then. On closer inspection I’ve just noticed that one of the characters looks a bit like Mickey, the star of the Sendak book. It’s a little difficult …
I’ve been looking through a catalogue of designer chairs and between the pages of photos and construction drawings I found this (click on the images for full size): It’s a delightfully drawn cartoon depicting three characters clambering over a world rotated through ninety degrees. I haven’t a clue what the dialogue says, if anybody could …
A note for both parents and designers on the perils of modern health and safety standards; next time you take a child to a playground think about how complacent you and the child become when faced with play equipment that you’ve seen and climbed on a dozen times before. Here’s landscape architect, Helle Nebelong, speaking …
For no better reason than wanting to keep up with the neighbours, I’m writing this evening from the kitchen worktop whilst waiting for some dough to rise, risking the ingress of flour with every key tap. It’s not quite the same as Stuart’s recent entry from the bath, but the acknowledgement of my actions lends …
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