more = less

A video with music and narration made for the NEWLY DRAWN exhibition. It’s a double track affair combining “the history of urban planning in 2 minutes and 33 seconds set to music” in the form of U =Utopia and the low carbon club anthem More = Less, based on our work for Low2No / Sitra on sustainable urbanism.

From: http://nowoffice.org/

NOW for Architecture and Urbanism

saving face

Fashion Street E1 - this creature brings to mind the animation in Spirited Away, a fantastic film directed by Hayao Miyazaki. The visually fascinating streets off Brick Lane are an endless source of wonder.

Symbols invented by a Year 4 class to help them decide where to draw non porous and porous rocks during our rocks and soils project.

Walton on the Naze... presented with the choice of a happy or sad doughnut which would you choose?

we walk

These are the sights that greet me on my way to the studio. I’m assuming the large text works were commissioned by the council: EVERYONE’S A WINNER and YOU CAN’T GO WRONG enliven the walls around the redevelopment of The Moor shopping area.

My route tells the story of a manufacturing past, buildings in varied states of dereliction line the streets just fives minutes walk from the city centre. Being drawn to places like this I'm happy to observe the present rubbing shoulders with the past.

Some interventions are quietly glued to the city. I especially like broad ribbed warrior maidens. Large text works and graphic's by Kid Acne.

My window, 'K' marks the spot.

The Avec Building, isn't she lovely?

signs of life

Text to marvel over, everyday settings and surfaces.

'Graffiti' using polystyrene cups and a fence - a fast and very effective way to get your message across... love it! 

This sweet little sign was found by a crossing on Forest Road, Walthamstow.

The platform at Lower Hutt as I waited for the train to Wellington. This commute has to be of the prettiest I’ve experienced, especially as you near the city - I've dreamt about those views across the sea. Glancing up a street in Wellington I saw 'a thousand times over I love you' writ large on a wall. Intrigued, I returned later to photograph and frustratingly couldn't find it! The words float in my memory and are written on a pink post-it note by my desk.

Lerwick in January, the day after Up Helly Aa 2010. Something compelling about seeing my own initial writ large, especially in such a well proportioned painting.