New Designers | 2015 | Designer of the Year Award
New designers; the annual platform from design graduates from all over the UK from a huge spectrum of courses. 2015 was the 30th anniversary of the exhibition. With a long list of successful alu...
LDF 2014 | Central | Blog 2 of 3
Moving across the city centre now (which some might still call west), where there were some of the main LDF14 events alongside little pop-ups. Here is my top 20. Every year there design festival L...
9 days over 300 events across the city, it was time to set my out of office, charge my camera and put my walking shoes on!The London Design Festival is one of the key events in design calendar and...
With the winning Heal’s Discovers designers announced, and their products selected, the Heal’s product team can crack on with process of developing and sampling. Each of this year’s designs are cr...
June 11th 2014 was the launch night for the new showroom of YOO Home at Harrods. The launch was after hours; so guests were directed up the floors to the exclusive space, which had more of party v...
Heals Discovers: CASS - London College of Furniture
Furniture that houses new technology, is designed to suit a particular manufacturer’s process or explores the notion of ‘Britishness’ – how would you approach these briefs from Heal’s? Students a...
Heal’s Discovers: The Finalists - TOM PARFITT
Our last (but certainly not least) Heal’s Discovers 2014 finalist is Tom Parfitt. His future as a designer was clear from a young age – he’s come a long way from constructing toys from cardboard ...
Heal’s Discovers: The Finalists - PHIL LUSCOMBE & JOSH SOUTH
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Heal’s Discovers: The Finalists - SAM LLOYD
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Heal’s Discovers: The Finalists - ESTER COMUNELLO
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I have a small batch of ARRAY BOWLS available to buy directly from kirstywhyte.com. These items were previously available via Paperchase when they were licensed by Arevalo, and I have a small numbe...
Heal’s Discovers: The Selection Process
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Heals Discovers: The Universities
My new HEALS DISCOVERS Blog Post can be found by clicking HERE.
My new HEALS DISCOVERS Blog Post can be found by clicking HERE.
On a bright but chilly Friday morning a group of welly clad Londoners consisting of UK journalists, bloggers and the Heal's furniture team gathered outside Heals HQ. Ready for a woodland adventure ...
London Design Festival 2013 - 4/4
Aram Store and Gallery East London Tent
London Design Festival 2013 - 2/4
Two days in to LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL (LDF) 2013 and this year I wasn't exhibiting anything personally at 100% Design; but that didn't mean I escaped the stress setting up a display and covering m...
Being stuck behind a computer screen is all very well but when ever I get the chance to escape to the real world, I jump at it (all be it with smartphone in hand). As well as working on in-house d...
Milan Furniture Fair 2013 – Trends
The Milan Furniture Fair is the highlight in the Furniture design calendar. With the immense Salone sprawling 24 Halls, Ventura Lambrate, Tortona area, furniture showrooms and also independent eve...
Weekend Meanderings – Brick Lane
Despite being able to catch a cold in April, I decided to venture out and make the most of the blue sky. By going East side to my much loved London Markets; which I really missed in China and am s...
Escaping the great British ‘Spring’ wasn’t going to be an option this Easter weekend, so escaping London would have to do.With a trade of accommodation in turn for some help with child entertainin...
Limpet Wall Hooks in the New Made office
I was recently back in the UK for 3 weeks, getting dose of Union Flags, and mashed potatoes. But it wasn’t all fun in the cloud covered sun, I was also working. There are worse places to catch up ...
Kirsty Whyte Blog China Bicycles (26) Katie Melua may have sung about nine million bicycles in Beijing but even with Shanghai's ever increasing car population we still have over five million zip...
Happy 2012 and welcome year of the dragon! So this is my snazzy new look website and blog. My new blog posts will now continue on the 'Blog' bit of my website. This is so I can update you all qui...