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An Object Used To Create Art as an Object Of Art Itself  Fumiaki Goto, a Japanese designer, has taken the simple, ubiquitous graphite pencil and turned it into a piece of art – no, strike that – a fully functional piece of art that can be used to produce art itself. Working as part of the designers’ collective bril, Goto explains that the thought behnid this was just to extend the process of making ceramics, which is what regular graphite pencils are, anyway … →

Continued from here and here If you’ve ever visited Bruges by night, you know where the cliché ‘picture postcard perfect’ comes from. In fact, I think the words ‘stunning‘, ‘picturesque‘, ‘breathtaking‘ and ‘ridiculously pretty‘ come from Bruges too. What do you think? ~  

A bold new initiative in London erases boundaries between pedestrian and vehicular traffic London just grew up a little. Or so one hopes. A radical new initiative has just been implemented at the busy museum-lined Exhibition Road in South Kensington, where all visual as well as physical barriers between pedestrian and vehicular traffic have been removed. For the first time, people are being trusted to behave themselves and share their space on the road – cars, bicycles and pedestrians alike. … →

Bruges was picture postcard perfect, a tourist magnet and a bit too perfect. Perhaps it was still my travelling-at-Christmas feelings talking. But it was pretty. And prettiness makes for nice pictures (even if I say so myself). →