The website for a new company selling workwear made from a hi-tech cut resistant fabric is now live.
I have worked with the owner of this company to bring to life the brand through all communications.
www.cutsafe.co.uk

A lamp for the bedside, where the book is the switch. The lamp also keeps your place in the book. Simple.
Designed and manufactured with Chris Glaister. www.chrisglaister.com

Designers need to read more. It is obvious from talking and working in design those that do read and those that do not. When I write about “reading”, I specifically mean actual books (and e-books) with some artistic or factual merit, but not magazines, websites or blogs.

I really like reading, and being a designer I most certainly judge a book by its cover. There is something so much nicer about reading a book that looks good, it feels right and has more authority. This is not a new notion.

I have been lucky enough to spend a few holidays in Iran over the last few years. I have been to amazing forests, deserts and mountains, and I have only seen small parts of the country. From this limited experience of this amazing country I thought I would write about how I remember what I have seen, and the colours of my memories.

I have always felt some affection for launderette shopfronts, but I was not sure why until I read something that Paul Rand said,

“Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations”.