We Have Moved

We have moved offices with Unity and Chalk down the road to 5-13 Hatton Wall. It's a fantastically large, open plan operation. There has been some excited talk of an office-warming party. Stuart and I now have our own decently sized dedicated studio space which will really help us increase the scope of our projects.

Goodbye LDF09

All done! This year's LDF had some great highlights (RCA at Designers Block, Tent Digital and The White Building @ The Dock). The word is that it was a better realised "festival" than the previous six, which is good news for Design in London.

For our part, The Incidental went well I thought, and though it was hard work we enjoyed ourselves immensely.

#incidental at London Design Festival

We've just finished installing the space for the British Council and their publication The Incidental in time for the London Design Festival, which starts Saturday 18th. We're also going to be working in the space over the week until the 27th. The Incidental, if you don't already know, is "a community-generated website and news pamphlet created by and for the design community which offers opinion, reviews, news and recommendations by tapping into what everyone is talking about."




We'll be running a similar operation to our space in Milan earlier in the summer (where we originally met The Incidental folks), helping facilitate dialogues in a temporary studio/workshop - though this time we'll be experimenting with a bit of technology to create a greater online-physical crossover.

If you're in London this week, come down to the space, say hello, have a cup of tea with us and join in. If you can't make it, follow the conversation on twitter, or check out my personal and the official flickr uploads, and of course, The Incidental website is the hub of it all - http://www.theincidental.org/

Pizza Express - Never Ending Song

Stuart and I recently finished our work on Unity's latest campaign. The client are Pizza Express and the campaign is called The NeverEndingSong. Currently a "NeverEndingSongBus" is carrying jazz musicians from venue to venue across the country as they perform an uninterupted, twenty-four-seven-non-stop-music-marathon. The campaign seeks to raise awareness of the public to contemporary jazz and also Pizza Express' close relationship with the genre.

We helped Unity put the concept together, and also delivered some graphics for it, negotiating with brand stakeholders and such.

Below is the van. Actually, it's one of two. I'll update the photo with one in-situ if I can (ha, unfortunately for me, I'm not in-situ, you see)

Home-made Babybel

Olly is doing something very interesting and experimental with hot, red wax. But when his back was turned I had a little play.

I've destroyed the ambience at dinner-parties and fancy gastropubs before by dicking about with hot wax on my fingers. It's great fun! Ow it's hot! Now it's numb! Other finger. Tap the table. Tap them together. Tap tap tap. Tee hee hee. Pulling the wax from under the finger nails. Looking at the empty little fingerprint negatives. Rolling the wax together into a little ball. Forcing it back into the flame so little black tectonics of carbon start to slake off. Maybe cut little grooves into the side so the wax pours out...I had a waiter in Greenwich confiscate one of those great big black candles from me about two years ago for doing that.

Anyway, this time I had ago at making my own mini wheel of cheese. Pics.