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Creative Director, Strategist and Writer focusing on new approaches towards design and cities.
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Take 1 abandoned housing estate, add 90,000 litres of copper sulfate…
Creative re-use of existing urban areas is something of an obsession for me – I’m even moderating a dinner on the topic in a couple weeks. While my radar is tuned mostly to re-use done outside of formal cultural structures, Artangel is one organisation that always blows me away with their installations, and their latest [...]
New Work From CutUp
Last night CutUp installed their latest batch of work throughout London. For those of you not (yet) familiar with CutUp, they specialise in physically remixing the urban visual, taking down billboards, cutting them up into pixels, and re-installing them to create new images out of the original source material. While my personal favourite medium of [...]
Viktor & Rolf & One Amazing Dollhouse
I attended to the Viktor & Rolf opening last night at the Barbican for one of the following reasons: A) I decided I don’t spend enough time around supermodels B) It’s been too long since I’ve spent an evening drinking rose-flavoured vodka cocktails C) I was invited because of my relationship with Premsela It was [...]
Incidental Design
The past few weeks I’ve been thinking a lot about incidental design. Been shooting a lot around London, particularly the rather unsung design of the anti-flypostering wooden slats placed on building site frontings. Someday, ah, the allusive ‘someday’, I’ll do something with these photos. Just felt like sharing this one for now, taken in Farringdon [...]
The National Theatre: then and now
The other night I was walking across Waterloo Bridge in London and saw the National Theatre’s coloured lights. It reminded me of the installation/projection I did there in 2000, when I projected Derek Jarman’s film “Blue” onto the National Theatre and set up a radio broadcast blanketing South Bank with the audio for anyone to [...]
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