What’s your favourite colour? It’s a question we’ve asked everyone we’ve interviewed since Design Geek was founded almost seven years ago. Answers have varied from People Will Always Need Plates co-founder Hannah Dipper’s “Rocker Yellow – the dirty yellow of an Eames Rocker, roughly 610C” (yes, that’s a Pantone reference!)…
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Andrew Cunningham’s homewares are made from timber off-cuts
Rejecting mass production methods, Norfolk based designer-maker Andrew Cunningham has designed a collection of home accessories created entirely from reclaimed and sustainably managed English and tropical hardwood offcuts that larger companies can’t use. “Function is a major feature of my designs as well as a clean uncluttered aesthetic,” Andrew tells Design Geek, “I…
Ann Kristin Einarsen’s planters are inspired by salt and pepper pots
Ceramics designer Ann Kristin Einarsen has based her latest collection, Rolla, a series of functional planters, on the Plus Salt and Pepper Grinders designed by Oslo-based design trio Norway Says for Muuto. The two-tone planters’ rounded forms comprise two elements, a base to hold water, and a pot to hold the…
Troels Flensted creates a ceramic collection without using clay
Troels Flensted’s Poured Collection is handmade in Copenhagen and created by combining a mineral powder and water-based acrylic polymer. Various coloured pigments are added to the mixture before it is poured into a mould. The marble-like effect is unique to each smooth, polished piece, giving the feel of ceramic, but…
interview :: molly hutchinson
Molly Hutchinson will be exhibiting at the London Design Fair 22 – 25 September 2016. Register for your ticket here.
Katherine Plumb’s textiles are inspired by playgrounds
Collarged is a collection of 17 printed textile designs featuring oversized abstract forms in bright primary colours inspired by playgrounds, skate parks and climbing walls. “This collection works to inject a feeling of recreation into interior environments through the use of strong, graphic pattern and placement,” the surface pattern designer…
Fern Robinson’s jewellery encourages play
The collection includes a necklace made from a ‘Slinky’ spring toy, one which is half pencil and half encased pencil shavings, a ring which doubles up as a maze toy which you tilt to get the ball inside from one end to the other and a brooch with removable crayons…
out and about :: chelsea flower show
At the end of May, I went to my very first Chelsea Flower Show. The New Craftsmen had been invited to curate the Artisan Sheds and surrounding area and invited me to come along and take a look. I dragged along dear friend and interior designer Daisy Riordan and we…
pinterest :: grey
Grey is my favourite colour. It is the colour of concrete, and brutalism, and nerdy things to love. It can be a safe colour, but it can also be rich, warm and exciting. My current top tip is combining it with wood or tiny touches of warm metallics like gold…
pinterest :: white
I find white incredibly calming. Given that I’m surrounded by colour and pattern all day, it’s perhaps no surprise that my bedroom is, and always has been, all white. But even all-white schemes need a little something – lots of different textures and perhaps even a tiny hint of grey…
pinterest :: black
So, we’re out of proper colours and onto “the absence of light.” This is actually a board that Pinterest asked me to create for Halloween last year, and one of the triggers for the idea of arranging boards by colour. I have a couple of rooms in my house painted…
pinterest :: pink
I’m not sure how I feel about pink. I have a (perhaps slightly annoying!) habit of asking the designers I interview what their favourite colour is. When I asked Ilse Crawford, she replied, “When I grew up there were girls who liked pink and I wasn’t one of them,” which…
pinterest :: blue
Blue is one of my favourite colours and this Pinterest board has been going much longer than I’ve been organising my boards by colour. I love the sea, I love the sky, I love deep blue ink – I think blue just conjures up so many lovely memories and emotions….
feature :: colour
I was recently invited to join the judging panel for the 2015 Dulux Let’s Colour awards and to nominate two new rising stars I thought were worthy of recognition in the newly created “Young Designer” category. I nominated Zoe Tynan-Campbell’s Hasbeens, and Meggan Johnson’s Dots Project. (Winners are announced on…
interview :: ptolemy mann
Textile designer and colour artist Ptolemy Mann joined forces with Johnson Tiles to create the rainbow of tiles that welcomed visitors to the Farmiloe Buidling during Clerkenwell Design Week last week. I caught up with her to find out more about her love of colour… What’s the most important thing…
interview :: stefan scholten
The seemingly contrary combination of neons and pastels has taken the design world by storm and is now commonplace, but it was breathtakingly innovative the first time I saw Scholten & Baijings do it at Stockholm Design Week a few years ago. Having conquered colour, they’ve now set their sights…
out and about :: morag myerscough
I went to an event at the RCA called Talking Interiors with Morag Myerscough last week. It was really inspiring. I love Morag’s bold use of colour and her hands on approach – she often hand paints entire interiors with just a small team. I love that she’s kept her…
creative spaces :: rebecca hoyes
I wrote a post back in March 2013 in about Habitat‘s return to form, and Senior Design Rebecca Hoyes is one of the reasons why. She works one day a week teaching textile design at Central Saint Martins, and splits the rest of her time between the Habitat head office…
photos of numbers :: 81, 3 & 55
It’s very hard to take a day off when you love what you do. It was my birthday this weekend, so I was supposed to be switching off for the weekend, but who could walk past these beauties without snapping them?! Number 81 was above a doorway on Southwalk Street….
interview :: jennifer newman studio
I met Jennifer Newman at her studios in London’s Clerkenwell and immediately liked her (and not only because she bought me cake!). She’s one of those no nonsense people who says what she thinks, and what she thinks is usually fascinating. I adore her bright, uncompromising furniture and would love…
creative spaces :: clarissa hulse
I was recently very lucky to be invited to Clarissa Hulse‘s North London studio to screenprint my very own Clarissa Hulse cushion – what a fantastic way to spend a Thursday morning! Her studio is spacious, light-filled and, as you’d expect, a riot of colour, so while I was there, I…
creative spaces :: graeae
During Open House London this year, I was lucky enough to have a quick explore of Banbury Studios, the home of theatre company Graeae. Graeae describes itself “as a force for change in world-class theatre, breaking down barriers, challenging preconceptions and boldly placing disabled artists centre stage.” Named after three…
interview: penelope jordan
I met Penelope Jordan at this year’s TENT and immediately fell in love with her quirky brand of 3d textile design, which cannot help but make you smile, so I was over the moon when she agreed to answer a few questions for me.
here’s one I made earlier :: colour matching
Happiness and fulfilment psychologist Csikszentmihalyi argues that true happiness comes from being in ‘a flow’; being fully involved in learning and developing our skills to overcome meaningful challenges, and I must say; I agree!