6 Music

"Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

6 Music has been the radio station of choice in the workshop since its conception, it is head and shoulders above the rest and is going to be sorely missed if the BBC goes ahead with its stupid cull. Please sign up (to Facebook) to save it!

The Practice of Everyday Design

The Practice of Everyday Design is a new a partnership, and it feels like it; there are only a few bits on the site but it all seems fresh, varied and experimental. Not even sure if i even like the work, but i do like the way they are determined not to be tied down to certain discipline, medium, format or style. There seems to be a real sense of enjoyment and i think there may be some interesting stuff to come in the future.

Felder

The workhorse in the London workshop is the Felder Panel Saw, a few years old but still an absolutely pleasure to use. You can trust this machine totally; for square, dimensioning, on an angle, with hardwood.....it is simply brilliant. Felder are holding a Spring Show from 25-27th of this month so you can check out all the new models in action up close.

Droog

Continuing the Dutch theme, always a total joy to see Tejo Remy's Chest of Drawers for Droog.

Ivo J.Daniels

Just delved a little deeper into the guys at La Bolleur and found these drawings by Ivo J.Daniels, "The NOTHING BETWEEN THE SOMETHING". If you are into dark, twisted, imagined form, then you might like these. I do.

A Musical Interude

Music i hear you ask, on a design blog? I see shape, form and colour when listening to music and it informs all that i design and create, its very inspiring so i think its totally valid here. A couple of new Vinyl purchases are the new Four Tet album 'There is Love in You' and Joanna Newsom's 'Have One on Me'. Four Tet will not let the electronic  heads down, (he never does to be honest), and the epic triple LP from Newsom takes you away into weird dreamy wonderful world, (even the packaging is beautiful in its own right).  I also saw (the self titled) Sir Richard Bishop live the other day, an amazing technically gifted guitarist going from Pulp fiction to Persian, to Blues and beyond. Not sure how well he translates into recorded form because of the physicality of his performance and personality, but if you get a chance to see live, then go.

Lomo

The excellent Lomo are now making the Instant Back+ for the LC-A. Lomo colours and brilliantness in a Polaroid format simply has to be good. They are a touch on the small side though at 60x40mm.