Visualising Tess Wheatley: Honesty By Design: Help Your Project, Group, Product, Purpose, Reach More People, More Of The Time…

Like the amazing Issaka (that’s Jasmin, NTU Graphic Design 2016: bringing new line and colour to a project near you), pattern, graphic, surface and illustration designer, Tess Wheatley is a brilliant new force for aesthetic literacy: a great champion of surface, pattern, line and new product situated here, in Nottingham. She sees inspiration in everything: Tess […]

Cycle Or Electric: Adapt, Apply, Enhance: Redefining Human Mobility: Local Talent (4) Jack Chuang

Above: Proposal For A Mural by Nottingham university course award winning student Jack Chuang from Taiwan (and Shanghai!) 1.Best Final Year Individual Project on the BEng Product Design and Manufacture course 2019. 2. Head of Department Award, for being in the the top 10% of students in Mechanical, Material and Manufacturing Engineering this year. To me the way […]

‘What I Love About The Fire Fighters (At Grenfell) Was That They Weren’t Denying The Fact That They Needed Us To Communicate With Them: Because Where They Were They Couldn’t See What We Could see’: When Normal Relations Between People Are Resumed And We Stop Excusing Social Exclusion….

Featured Image: Release of Doves at Grenfell Memorial 15th June 2019 We live in a society that since the election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979 has discouraged people from different backgrounds communicating while at the same time eroding a sense of shared space, place, belonging and social mobility. The quote in the header comes from […]

Local Talent (4) Illustration By Bosley (That’s Laura): A New Way Of Story Telling: Out Of The Magic Of Shadows….

The importance of understanding and improving dubious, risky and life threatening supply chains around the way we work and live highlights why keeping Grenfell fresh in our minds and linking it in our hearts and history to the same types of supply chains that resulted in the coal slag heap behind an Aberfan primary school […]

Local Talent(3) Allanah Coggins: How Architecture Affects People: Small And Beautiful: The Architecture of Social Nourishment

The thinking, resourcefulness and aesthetic behind carefully designed and managed cancer centres intrigued Interior Designer Allanah Coggins in her final year project before qualifying. Like Berlin based architects Rumlabor who work to pass on knowledge skills and resources to people in a localising way: Above: a bee. Allanah used a central metaphor of Colony Collapse syndrome in […]

Puretech Window Cleaning: Feet On The Ground: Spirit of Traditional Service Driven Better by Technology

Every window cleaner wants to give you a great service: but think about the men (and women!) who do this demanding job. Traditionally it’s the up the ladder with mop and squeegee (invented by Italian Immigrant Ettore Steccone in 1936). Window cleaning is hard work and like gardening, you see the results as soon as […]

Support And Promote Local Talent (2) Growing Hospitality Businesses On Our Doorsteps…? The Local: NTU Interior Designer Amber Arif

I really enjoyed the 2019 NTU Interior Architecture Final Project Show: Small Is Beautiful: eighty students looking, thinking, researching, reflecting, making, testing what they assume, believe and aspire to individually and together. One of the students who thought in terms of local growing and Farm to Fork is Ambareen Arif in her project: The Local: “Farm-to-fork […]