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...
Milan Furniture Fair | April 2015 | Trends
Across the Salone 2015 from the main fair to the design districts, there was a hive of activity. With a feeling of optimism quirk and colour. I've taken over 600 photos so there was certainty plent...
Maison et Objet | Cologne | January 2015 | Trends
With the Cologne Fair and Maison et Objet right at the beginning of the year, this was a perfect opportunity to walk off the added wait of Christmas! With many design halls to cover and trends to s...
The Final leg of the LDF 14 marathon was East, with such a huge amount of independent exhibitions I had to be ruthless with my time and shoe leather. Below are my top 20 picks from Eastside. Ten...
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...
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: The Universities
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London Design Festival 2013 - 4/4
Aram Store and Gallery East London Tent
London Design Festival 2013 - 3/4
Emerging Talent AwardsI love searching out new designers, trends and materials at Graduate shows; so I was very excited to be able to curate MADE's first Emerging Talent Awards (ETA's) you may spo...
London Design Festival 2013 – 1/4
The London Design Festival was my first stop after returning from China a year ago.12 months have flown by; but it's great to see how companies and designers have developed fresh new designs to ex...
It's that time of year again. When graduates emerged from their studios and workshops; rubbing their eyes from sleep deprivation and get dressed up for the starkly lit graduates show spaces. I alw...
Weekend Meanderings–Copenhagen
I love all things Scandinavian (apart from the pickled herring) especially one if my best friends Rebecca, half of the Green Suitcase in Copenhagen.So a catch up weekend sprinkled with creativity ...
Clerkenwell design week grows from strength to strength year on year. Due to my Far East adventures last year I missed CDW12 but I was glad to see some familiar faces plus some new designers/brand...
Milan Furniture Fair 2013 - Kirstys Top 20
At the Milan Furniture Fair there is such a diverse breadth of work exhibited, from handmade, conceptual, mass production, high end and graduate its hard to take to take it all in. Eventually over...
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...
On a sub zero early Friday morning I made my way on the Eurostar to Paris to check out new trends and talent at Maison et Objet. With under 3 days to cover all 8 halls and see some of the design...
Still a fledgling in the tradeshow calendar Home at Earls Court London offers a contemporary mix of small-medium established companies to recent graduates. Perfect for finding unusual designs to ...
On a sunny Sunday afternoon I sauntered to the Lord Cricket ground from my newly moved into flat. Not to see men running up and down some grass in white but to the most recent Mid Century Modern s...
London Design Festival 2012, Part 3 of 3.
Part 3 of 3: Tent, Superbrands, Decorex, Creativeworks . Design week was nearly over, so on the closing Saturday I tried to squeeze in a few more events; which lead me east to the partnered Tent a...
London Design Festival 2012, Part 2 of 3.
Part 2 of 3: 100% Design and Designjunction. 100% design has always been one of the largest exhibitions that is part of LDF, but in past years the curation has waned and so has the visitor enthusi...
London Design Festival 2012, Part 1 of 3.
1 of 3 V&A, The Dock, Top Drawer and Made.com My time of living is China has come to an end with many exciting opportunities coaxing us back to the UK, but this is not the last of my Chinese b...
Sunday is usually a day for relaxing and lie-ins, but not for Shanghai go-getters who want to be inspired and informed. A TED event is the perfect way to hear from experts in varied fields. We h...
