Mid Century Design 1930-1965
The Los Angeles County Museum of Arts have an exhibition ‘California Design 1930-1965:Living in a modern way’ running until March 2012. Displayed in the opening section is this rather wonderful, absolutely gleaming 1936 Wally Byam Airstream known as the ‘Clipper’…
Real life airstream restoration project
Finishing your own restoration project is a joy that just cannot be beaten. It has to be one of life’s great pleasures to take on a beautiful wreck and transform it so that it loses the ‘wreck’ and is just…
A Walk Through the Twentieth Century
I took the opportunity this week to go along to Tate Britain. The gallery has had a re-jig, including a new section ‘A Walk Through the Twentieth Century’. You think with the Tate that you already know their modern art…
This week’s trouble
Is it only me that thinks that the ‘keep calm and carry on‘ slogan must be one of the most over-used and consequently rather annoying sayings of the last few years? Applied to everything from tea towels to posters…
Mr Baldwin
We uploaded the second of our little promo films for ‘my cool campervan’ to You Tube this week. http://www.youtube.com/user/mycoolcampervan The You Tube version is 2 mins long, we have a 5 and a 10min directors cut for later release. It…
Necessity
I’m away from home turf, in Bucharest … styling a big advertising shoot. Traveling to other countries for the purposes of work is nothing new… but thinking that you can just travel and things will be the same is…
Perspective
A good part of what I love about working on a ‘My Cool’ book is the opportunity to reflect, become inspired, and experience something totally new . Finding inspiration sometimes happens right on your doorstep and can be an unexpected…
The New Nation of Shopkeepers
Small shops seem to be my obsession at the moment. Some good feedback on my last posting about Brighton got me thinking about my usual small shop haunts closer to home. A mere 20 minute bus ride to SW11/12 takes…
Inspiration and fresh air
There’s nothing better than getting out of town on a bank holiday weekend, especially to a place that’s teaming with great independent shops and traders to explore while you wander. Brighton has always been one of those places that likes…
