With a continued sense of doom and gloom hanging over the world we need a shot of colour to lift the mood. I'm not advocating a riot of colour (best not to encourage that kind of behaviour especially here in ...Read More

Kaleidescope

This is really about the different levels of skin tone colours I've spotted from a pink through to softer brown tones; they've been used as an accent colour or as a block. Pink is usually associated with a girls bedroom ...Read More

Pink Tones

Advances in LED's have allowed lights to slim right down; lighting design is no longer dominated by the shape of a bulb and the bulky electrics. The softer light emitted has taken away the need for a shade. LED's embedded ...Read More

LED

A warm glow that harks back to an era of candle light; that's all we really need now. We have so much light coming from the screen of a laptop or the television we don't really need much more. Lighting ...Read More

Glow

We're all looking for ways to make things our own so here are some designs require us to collaborate with the designer and become the co-creator. Your input is needed to complete the design and you can't passively purchase and ...Read More

Input

The incandescent bulb is nearing the end of its life. Across the world governments having been passing legislation in favour of more energy conserving alternatives; and here in Europe a ban on selling 100watt bulb has been in place for ...Read More

Lightbulb

There's an inherent honesty in the creation of these group of products. Pieces of wood held together with simple joinery; you can see exactly where one piece links with another, nothing hidden or disguised.  The use of traditional joinery skills ...Read More

Joint

There was a time when you either used synthetic materials or natural and which ever path you followed the two should never be mixed.  The idea that something natural should be tainted by dare I say it....plastic! No no no.....But ...Read More

Natural Fusion

Following on from my Character post, here is a range of products  that again use contemporary iconography and transpose the icons onto home products. The skull is usually associated with the macabre, but here we see it used playfully as a pop icon.     Skull ...Read More

Skull

Its that time of year when a fresh batch of graduates leap out into the real world. After years of focusing on the final degree show; that's it. Its over.  Done. Time to figure out what the heck to do ...Read More

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