It seems obvious that we’d all like the places we live to be beautiful as well as practical, but it often feels like it has to be one or the other. That’s especially true when it comes to installing mobility equipment in the home – if you want your independence, then you’ll have to forget … Continue reading
Category Archives: Design
Cardiff / Design / Victoriana / Wales
Exploring pictures from the past
Faversham! Bicycle! False teeth! No, it’s not a strange word game, but some of the searches I randomly carried out at a major arts-meets-tech launch in Cardiff this week (March 31, 2015). The Illustration Archive is the world’s largest searchable archive of book illustrations, making more than a million old images from books freely available … Continue reading
The art of the title sequence – the film before the film
There was a time when the opening titles of a film were just that – titles at the start of a film: What the film is called, maybe who is in it, maybe who made it, and some legal notice about copyright. They did a job, but they weren’t much fun. It wasn’t long, though, … Continue reading