What think/do's been up to...

28/03/13
Happy Easter / The studio will be closed until 12 April.
Note / The oldest recorded reference to the conundrum can be found in the discussions and essays of the Greek historian Mestrius Plutarchus, born in 46AD. "The problem about the egg and the hen, which of them came first, was dragged into our talk... my comrade said that with a small problem, as with a tool, we were rocking loose a great and heavy one, that of the creation of the world."



06/03/13
Design That Matters / A student exhibition of ideas with eco-social objectives, generated in response to LCC's Green Week themes. Great to be able to help facilitate designing and problem solving for real-world benefit. 
Credit / Second year BA(Hons) Graphic & Media Design and FdA Design for Graphic Communication.



04/03/13
Green Week / Thomas Thwaites and Harry Trimble's Repair Workshop provided a fantastic start to LCC's week-long hiatus of creative activity exploring the environmental themes of Waste, Transport, Consumption, Biodiversity and Water. Discover the daily activities documented here.
Credit / Working with Sarah Temple, films by Leightgeist Media.



22/02/13
Creative balance / Nice to see a collaborative idea coming to life – working with Thomas.Matthews to create the identity for this year's 100% Design show.
Credit / Jointly appointed design agency Form have art directed photographer Sara Morris and stylist Sandy Suffield to create the wonderfully balanced objects for the posters (as featured in CR Blog).



14/02/13
With love / This beautiful 1920's playing card I found captures the sentiment perfectly. Note / The first recorded association of Valentine's Day with romantic love is in Parlement of Foules by Geoffrey Chaucer. In 1382 he wrote "For this was Saint Valentine's Day, when every bird cometh there to choose his mate."



15/01/13
Environmental experts / A wonderful week-long briefing and primary research programme to kick-start our second year LCC Graphics project – Design That Matters. Working in collaboration with 40 practitioners, innovators, campaigners and CSR experts to inspire and inform. A short student film of this process can be viewed here.
Credit / With thanks to – Centre for Sustainable Fashion, ClientEarth, Ecolabs, The Environment Agency, Feeding the 5,000, Friends of the Earth, Futerra, The Great Recovery, Ground to Ground, Hackney Pound, The Healthy Air Campaign, The John Muir Trust, London Cycling Campaign, The London Orchard Project, The London Wildlife Trust, Liberate Tate, Living Streets, The Millennium Seed Bank Kew, Natural History Museum, Plane Stupid, Refl-act, The Restart Project, Sanitation Ventures, Thames 21, Tourism Concern, Trees for Cities, Virtual Water, Waste of the World, WaterAid.



22/12/12
Festive Wishes / The studio will be closed until 06 January 2013.
Credit / studio shelf with wooden polar bears, circa 1976.



2012 / Edited highlights
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Conscientious Communicators / An exciting new collaborative approach to ethical and sustainable creativity within LCC; via project briefs, a symposium, workshop and film premiere (view here). Shop, give, help... / The re-branded shop for Alzheimers Dementia Support opens. LCC Green Week / Exhibitions, workshops, talks and screenings exploring sustainability – from design to activism, via craft and ingenuity. Everything Must Go / Reuse of 'Waste of The World' exhibition (Tim Mitchell photography of fabric sorting, Cathy Wren's waste clothes coils and Meghna Gupta's film 'Unravel'). A year to celebrate / Screenprint edition of 2012 family birthdays and anniversaries.

2011 / Edited highlights
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Playtime goes big / Great to see an idea realised – collaborating with the Useful Simple Trust to create a low-tech engineering interactive for the Big Bang science fair. In The Making… / Graphics for the MA Kingston Show coming together. Somewhere over the rainbow… / Reflecting on the current socio-ecomomic climate. (Note for recovery: Violet is the colour of harmony. It is also the colour at one extreme end of the spectrum). This Is Who We Are / The School of Communication's Platform Show opens. Working with the Kingston University team to creatively direct an eclectic and interactive exhibition of staff, alumni and student design. 'Inspired' / A small Design Week article from me on Justin Knowles. Serious fun / My New Year's resolution for designers.