Ombré refers to fabric that has been dyed in a variety of ways: dip dyeing, color bleeding, or gradated dyeing, it's an effect usually achieved by hand dipping fabric in dye so that it gradually goes from ...Read More

Ombré

Having everything so bloody smart makes you want to kick back a bit. Yes I love my smart phone, sat nav, the way certain sites know what I want to order before I do - well that's a bit annoying ...Read More

Primitive Tools

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

Look under the table or chair and you will probably see four tidy straight legs, but increasingly designers have been playing with this convention. You can change the height of your table, use other materials for legs or if you ...Read More

Legs

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

Strictly speaking this should be titled cube as all the images on this post are based around the cube. Square seems more appropriate as the discussion of a square deal for designers was posed over on Twitter during the Milan ...Read More

Squared

An overdue post on Milan! Here are some of my favourite shots from this years events in and around Salone del Mobile. Hopefully it'll give give some sense of what was shown. There will be more to follow! Ron Gilad added ...Read More

Milan

Here's my choice of  the Design highlights of the year. To be honest in a difficult year there's been slim pickings; you may totally disagree and that's fine by me. By the way there are no chairs. Thomas Heatherwick UK Pavilion ...Read More

2010 Design Highlights

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

An era that has been a little overlooked in our current love of Modernism.  Mid Century Modern  pieces, either original or inspired by, have seen a phenomenal revival in the past few years - and its now almost impossible to ...Read More

Art Deco