Heygate Estate

A brilliant article on the Heygate Estate and the demise of modernist social housing projects in today’s Guardian (view here).

It is interesting the very middle class fascination with failed social housing projects and the patronising rhetoric of many commentators as to the reasons for their decline in popularity. I hate hearing people bang on about them as if we can’t trust poor people to live together in a civilised manner. Or worse that it is a symptom of cursed design…

The Lament for Icarus

Herbert Draper
Oil on Canvas

I AM ELECTRIC

‎’I am electric. I’m a computer. Don’t attempt to keep no secrets from me. If you make me bored, I hit my keyboard. You’ll be erased from my memory. AC/DC it’s OK by me.”

Form Ever Follows Function

A short but beautifully articulated quote from Louis H. Sullivan. Sullivan who coined the term “form [ever] follows function” in his article ‘The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered’:

“Whether it be the sweeping eagle in his flight or the open apple blossom the toiling work horse, the blithe swan, the branching oak, the winding stream at its base, the drifting clouds, over all the coursing sun, form ever follows function, and this is the law. Where function does not change form does not change. The granite rocks, the ever brooding hills, remain for ages; the lightning lives, comes into shape, and dies in a twinkling.”

Keeling House (1954) by Denys Lasdun

‘Fish and Chips, Twice Please?!’ Exhibition

Had to post the amazing Austrian TV ad for the upcoming exhibition I’ve contributed to. The exhibition is showcasing British fashion designers and I am exhibiting a series of fashion images shot in Vienna.

Click here for what Dazed & Confused had to say

Keeling House

Some photos of one of my favourite buildings, Keeling House. I recently wrote a paper about Keeling House and more generally the post-war British Modernist movement. Keeling House provides a striking metaphor for the transition from Modernism into Post-modernism in gentrified east London. Renovated in the late 1990′s the building is now made up of a series of luxury flats.

23/5

The sun was out.

Public Relation

Two great loves. Public Relations & New Beat. P-P-P-P-Public-Relationnnn

Shalloween

Some of my favorite people on my favorite day of the year, Halloween:

Deathlicious

Wowow Love this guys work. Roberlan Borges Paresqui:

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