Seems like  only yesterday when I wrote a post on last year’s midwinter solstice. But how glad I am to have had my dinner in the warm garden with no shoes on tonight and to have been blessed with a fine flamingo-coloured sky that is still looking rather splendid in its last turquoise phases. Solstice [...]

Somewhere in that odd bit between Xmas and New Year, where people start dissolving into a creeping puddle of unpredictability and fatigue, you might find yourself with some ‘free’ time on your hands. This is ideal if you happen to live in rural England, as it’s round about this time of year when you can [...]

After watching the BBC’s ‘Secret Life of Airports‘ on iplayer today, I was awed by the gleaming luxury,  the servile perfection and the absolute deistic grace of the De Havilland Comet. The Comet was the world’s first commercial jet airliner, a landmark of aeronautical design. It first flew in the 1949 and was pioneered by [...]

In the misty hazes of this cool Summer morning, most of us in the UK were discussing our worries of the results of last night’s local elections. In such dark and troubled times when it seems we have forgotten ourselves and Politicians are left to run amok, I turn to the one TV program that [...]

Hermit director and mess-head, Chris Cunningham is back about town this week with his new credit-crunch busting piece of directing for Gucci. Cunningham is the equivalent of a one-man-band  – editing, writing, directing, choreographing and even remixing the music for his work. I have total adoration for his ability to turn most things he does [...]

Being a vigorous but rather pale Englishman, I tend flush and fluster readily under the crushing inferno that is a British summer. Therefore, when spring comes around and there is an opportunity to walk around the streets ‘sans-chapeau‘, I bask in the glory of it. From March onwards, the plentiful new light seeps in rapidly [...]

It’s rare that I gripe about publications, but as this is the 100th post, I’m going to do so with great tenacity. Recently I have found a growing distaste for the content in the Guardian’s printed Travel supplement, which comes free with its Saturday paper. A quick glide through the digital image-heavy pages will tell [...]

I have to confess that one of my longest standing inspirations in the design world is Creative Review magazine. The specialised content that appears on their blog is just geeky enough to keep me coming back for more. I love the printed version of their magazine and although I feel that the weighty price tag [...]