Archive for the ‘Talk’ Category

My new benchmark

April 7, 2008

It’s always fun to pick holes in things you don’t like, but usually more useful to learn from things you admire. My current favourite is Japanese clothes store Uniqlo. It does everything you expect it to do, but it does it consistently. It’s not designer clothing, it’s better than that. It’s a company that has embraced design and made it core to its business. Great for those of us that believe design is about much more than aesthetics.

If you want to know more about how they’ve done it there’s a great post on Creative Review.

Exhibition mania

January 30, 2008

Ben Brown

The opening of the Maps ‘We Can Create Exhibition’ has passed and the main thing is I had a good time. The work looked great, it was surprisingly busy and I met a fan all the way from New York, which was really nice. Incidentally there were more former Creation employees there than current ones, so thanks ‘friends’.

Thanks to everyone who did make it on the day, and if you didn’t, it’s on until 7th Feb at the Art Vinyl Gallery, 20 Broadway Market, London. You can see some photos from the day here.