Thursday, 24 January 2013
Wednesday, 23 January 2013
Thursday, 1 November 2012
The Studio is Two years old this week...
It's been a good while and we thought it was high time to show our face again!
Two years ago we formally started Ubiquity Design Studio and it's been quite a journey so far. Progress has been sure & steady yet we've been reflective too, evolving our concepts & ideas as well as learning from our good & bad experiences. We're not where we expected to be, but to be honest, all things being equal, we're rather impressed with where we are.
We're really just starting and there's a lot more to come...
Two years ago we formally started Ubiquity Design Studio and it's been quite a journey so far. Progress has been sure & steady yet we've been reflective too, evolving our concepts & ideas as well as learning from our good & bad experiences. We're not where we expected to be, but to be honest, all things being equal, we're rather impressed with where we are.
We're really just starting and there's a lot more to come...
Saturday, 26 May 2012
Ultimately, food is our greatest priority and a great leveller...
As a family, we've had our allotment plot for about a year now and are slowly but surely making headway. Especially since the site was a fallow field for close to 30 years and each plot has been started from scratch!
Quite a community has evolved over that time, with a common unifying desire to be more self reliant in the production of the food we eat.
Not every one gets an opportunity to have such an piece of ground to cultivate, nor even access to a garden to plant for that matter. In this inspiring TED film, Britta Riley talks about the idea of a soil-less hydroponic structure in your window, that offers a realistic solution to those apartment and garden-less souls who yearn for the sense of being a little more food self sufficient.
Britta Riley: A garden in my apartment...
Thursday, 19 April 2012
Mini Drome WOW - world's smallest velodrome.
What a fixie event!
Just watch the video, because this is just great...!
Just watch the video, because this is just great...!
Marc Newson - an interview in design process...
Back in 2001, I visited the Design Museum in London and experienced a show of work by that years designer selected for the Conran Foundation Collection 2001. Amongst the exhibit was a concept car named the O21C and I found that I just had to drink in every detail, so fresh was its inspiration & ideas.
That designer, who had been given £30, 000 to come up with a design fantasy shopping list shown at the exhibit, was Marc Newson.
This was his car and through that experience, I knew design was a part of me. The past 10 years have been an unusual and unexpected journey into design for me, yet this is one of my significant inspirations and a mentor in the process and approach to what we do.
To quote Marc "The thing that has always driven me as a designer is feeling pissed off by the shitty stuff around me and wanting to make it better."
This is one of his most recent interviews, which gets to the nub of sweating the small stuff...
K01 by Marc Newson for Pentax from Dezeen on Vimeo.
That designer, who had been given £30, 000 to come up with a design fantasy shopping list shown at the exhibit, was Marc Newson.
This was his car and through that experience, I knew design was a part of me. The past 10 years have been an unusual and unexpected journey into design for me, yet this is one of my significant inspirations and a mentor in the process and approach to what we do.
To quote Marc "The thing that has always driven me as a designer is feeling pissed off by the shitty stuff around me and wanting to make it better."
This is one of his most recent interviews, which gets to the nub of sweating the small stuff...
K01 by Marc Newson for Pentax from Dezeen on Vimeo.
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