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Current mood.
14/04/2021

Current mood.

Spotted. Deco style pendants are an eternal favourite. Still.
29/03/2021

Spotted. Deco style pendants are an eternal favourite. Still.

My not-so-secret workshop recipe at Feels like chemistry back at school but without the singed eyebro...
28/03/2021

My not-so-secret workshop recipe at Feels like chemistry back at school but without the singed eyebrows.

Dreaming of adventures again.
23/03/2021

Dreaming of adventures again.

Three favourite bold & timeless Elsa Peretti designs. To me, her designs nailed the combination of organic curves with a...
21/03/2021

Three favourite bold & timeless Elsa Peretti designs. To me, her designs nailed the combination of organic curves with a strength that was feminine but never shy or delicate. I like that. RIP

Sundays are for thinking. Age-of-Noah type rain conditions help with that too!
21/03/2021

Sundays are for thinking. Age-of-Noah type rain conditions help with that too!

Here is a beautiful example of why I have lost a bit of enthusiasm for beautifully designed & produced products or at le...
20/03/2021

Here is a beautiful example of why I have lost a bit of enthusiasm for beautifully designed & produced products or at least the world that they are born into. This first picture is from the feed of & is the product originally designed by . From reading the blog, I learned that Max set himself a goal to design 5 truly great, innovative & beautiful products in 5 years & this is the first of them. For Max, there was no option to produce this product other than go through a campaign, which he did and he successfully raised the funds to get the innovative Lumio out there into the marketplace.
Within 24 hours of reading this blogpost, I start getting ads from .venture in my IG feed & if you scroll through the pix you can see what I think must be a copy of Max’s original design, including all the innovative features that allows the light to be reshaped, hung up, combined with other lights for all sorts of glorious lighting possibilities. It looks to me like the Wood Venture version is priced lower than the Lumio version (of course) & has made a few changes to the dimensions and base shape which would render any IP-type design protection less effective.
Yet again, it’s the old story of the designer who invests so much time, intelligence & opportunity cost into their product development, is undercut by someone who has incurred none of those start-up costs & probably makes decisions around price-point & sales volumes rather than quality of the final product.
I’m tired of this story. I’m also tired of the idiots who simplistically say just to keep innovating, let it go & move forward. In my experience, they are not really the most creative people.
I would love to know what people think. Sure enough, the consumer benefits by more affordable products, but I grapple with the fact that this destroys the incentive to keep the best creators actually creating. What do you think? @ Sydney, Australia

Sinister palm trees. It’s a thing.
13/03/2021

Sinister palm trees. It’s a thing.

Creativity really does take so many forms. The Beauty, The Beast & The 🍆 by 🍆
09/03/2021

Creativity really does take so many forms. The Beauty, The Beast & The 🍆 by
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The Poet’s Wife.
02/03/2021

The Poet’s Wife.

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