nice

just nice colour on these shades from Oxfam,
especially the coral tips

google roofs

Seduced by google earth, (and prompted by "Kath & Kim")
i got to looking at different places, with different climates, to see if there is much variation in suburban housing from the air.
surprisingly, not a lot.
though i did notice in Anchorage that there is some white roofing,
which lead me to
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/000587.html

showing that white/reflective roofing has an environmental benefit.
so perhaps, there will be even less colour in the next century.

stapler of the week

clearly the interest in heavy-duty stationery is catching. these staplers don't exactly match the varieties of tape below, but the reduced colour palette and finish, based on necessity as much as choice, are a shared protestant aesthetic. practical, use what's to hand, beauty out of circumstances. very timely.






Source: Stapler of the Week

needs must

A bit of a fetish for tapes,
they necessarily have a sense of utility, but a wide range of textures, transparency and tone.
Just combining them in different ways, building palettes and the makings of a grammar for product and interior concepts.

primary focus

Yellow, red and green, as iconic-accents.
Obviously, it’s a bit overstated here, but the use of colour should be more evocative,
Either by triggering associations with that colour, or pushing emotional buttons.
To further unsettle, the forms are amorphous, blobbing around in space, amoeboid.
The games consoles from the movie “existenz” are worth looking at.

rubber lover

The qualities of these ‘slimes’ is really lovely, as it stretches and reveals less of its colour.
The user-reaction to this stuff is always extraordinary, for some a wince, for others it’s a very primeval play.
Funny how a little viscosity can bring a smile to the face.

visor

These images keep floating around my desk, so I put them together.
The colour is yellow, but with an important lime element, corrupting its brilliance.
In a reflective finish, greyed out, it evokes a futurism with a gentler aspect.

lux-ish

Low-level metallic and reflective surfaces, gunmetal and anthracite qualities, but in more welcoming tones. Don’t know where I am going with this at the moment, but it is with mass-market in mind, rather than high-end, about low-level luxury.

lemon anise

Source: Garance Dore

trace

Apart from loving the intensity of this colour, deep violety indigo whatever, it is the quality of loose colour that I am into, the feeling that it will rub off, a draggy spongey touch,
Also, its translucence could be great for interior usage, with plastic components in cars (think!) , it could be a whole new environment possibility.

mallard

It started with a really interesting sculpture by George Taylor(image on left), in an exhibition in the Pangolin Gallery, in King’s Place, York Way. The feathers, and the fur sample (from Berwick St) kicked off a series of colour images (pictured in the middle)
It’s all it is, for now…

irresistible

creative

romantic

bleeding

soft

watercolour

colour needs to surprise and be familiar. at the moment especially, colour needs to be irresistible.

Source: 'Destructuve Vintage TyPO' experiment by Alberto Seveso

guides

These are some diagrams I made for design friends who were visiting London, with some of my usual scoping haunts. Might be handy if you don’t have long in London, but want to see some stuff.