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Embarking on a new venture - making notebooks (for others)....

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:01:00 +0000

Embarking on a new venture - making notebooks (for others). After playing around with the idea for the past 6 months, the need has arisen for me and Emily to do a bit more than just play around. I have a business need, my company, People Who Do likes to give people handmade things like notebooks - I would prefer us to be making them. I also have a personal need, to make nice things, to constantly be thinking about the design of things like paper and notebooks.

I just sent notebooks to Sam and Mark who have some plans to do something special with them which they will document online - I love this idea, made me think about starting some kind of assignment based around one of our notebooks that anyone can take part in.

If you’d like us to make you one (or more), let us know. We are in the process of setting up a place to buy online, in the meantime, just email us to find out more.

More images here.

The February 2010 photo montage thingy.

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:16:40 +0000

The February 2010 photo montage thingy.

this isn’t happiness.™ Peter Nidzgorski, tumblr

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:59:00 +0000

this isn’t happiness.™ Peter Nidzgorski, tumblr

Amazing Old School BMX Photos | Defgrip

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:53:05 +0000

Amazing Old School BMX Photos | Defgrip

Went to the Design Museum today to see the Dieter Rams...

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:55:39 +0000

Went to the Design Museum today to see the Dieter Rams exhibition.

January’s photo montage.

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:19:50 +0000

January’s photo montage.

crappytaxidermy: liquidnight: Thane L. Bierwert - Children...

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:31:47 +0000

crappytaxidermy:

liquidnight:

Thane L. Bierwert - Children learning about baby animals at Exhibition Hall Talk, November 24, 1937

[From the American Museum of Natural History photograph collection]

How are you?

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:17:20 +0000

How many times have you asked or been asked the question “how are you”?This morning on...

Liking the calendar stuff along the top and side. Very...

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:36:06 +0000

Liking the calendar stuff along the top and side. Very useful.

letterheady:

Kohnke Hanneken Advertising, Inc. | Source

Oh my god, this is beautiful. Desk, Home Office Desk. Designed...

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:19:07 +0000

Oh my god, this is beautiful.

Desk, Home Office Desk. Designed by George Nelson for Herman Miller

I like Via - REFERENCE LIBRARY: XXXXXXX SWEAT

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:00:10 +0000

I like

Via - REFERENCE LIBRARY: XXXXXXX SWEAT

Garden cakes

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:53:24 +0000

Garden cakes

Kraftwerk Medley on the mechanical music box for the January...

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:00:00 +0000

Kraftwerk Medley on the mechanical music box for the January Likemind

This weeks likemind is all about noise, or, it can just be about...

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:16:00 +0000

This weeks likemind is all about noise, or, it can just be about coffee and chat if you prefer, it’s up to you.

If you feel like bringing something that makes a good noise, that would be cool.

For those that don’t already know,

Likemind isn’t normally about anything much.
It’s a monthly creative industries coffee morning or something near to that, and happens in sixty or seventy cities on the same day, see http://likemind.us

But for the last few months, here in Brighton, we’ve been setting tiny assignments in the form of ‘Please bring with you …’ - where the ‘…’ has been replaced by ‘something made of paper’ (August), ‘an idea you like from some other city’ (September), ‘something for the winter’ (October), ‘a list of stuff you’d like to learn’ (November).

Image - “It’s a Nagra. Swiss and very precise. (via mab @ flickr)”

That’s me.

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:00:00 +0000

That’s me.

I will re-visit the village one day. In the mean time I will...

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:32:51 +0000

I will re-visit the village one day. In the mean time I will have to read this book.

Be seeing you…

This is one of my favorite Christmas presents. Emily made it...

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:36:11 +0000

This is one of my favorite Christmas presents. Emily made it using an old ledger book found in Lewes, and it included the silver mini pencil.

Everything I’m doing or going through right now is about learning. Seems obvious really, but I think it’s easy to get complacent, especially when you’ve been doing things for a while.

I’m so excited about my new business, People Who Do, which is pretty much about helping people learn and work out better ways of doing things/work/play and encompasses workshops to help people get organised and enables people to do some thinking around what they are doing day to day and in the next 1/5/50 years. It’s a developing business, and I’m thrilled to be involved in it. Here’s some pictures of something we did on Friday, it’s our new Winter Retreat, and the weather and setting couldn’t have been more perfect.

So this book is perfect right now. It’s a place to capture little and big things I’ve learnt each day. Nothing like writing stuff down with ink and paper to cement it in the mind a little more.

I love finding faces in things. Emily was given this along with...

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:04:47 +0000

I love finding faces in things. Emily was given this along with a load of Expo 67 stereo discs for Christmas.

Our northern fox has made the journey south. Not sure exactly...

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:00:15 +0000

Our northern fox has made the journey south. Not sure exactly where he came from, but he’s pretty cool.

Emily bought me an instant back for my DianaF+ camera....

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:34:27 +0000

Emily bought me an instant back for my DianaF+ camera. Here’s some of my first attempts at taking pictures with it. I have to admit, it’s not easy. Images are often under exposed or over exposed, and the films aren’t cheap. But, there is something very satisfying when an image does work, and the mini size is nice to hold and keep. Something else to collect.