Well, 2025 – you’ve been quite the year creatively… Here are four projects where I’ve been able to get involved from the very beginning: My work on Vianne’s Confession for independent perfumer Sarah McCartney of 4160 Tuesdays started before the perfume existed, smelling its ingredients at Sarah’s studio. Designing a … Read More
Studio Snack, a food podcast about design in collaboration with Narcis Sauleda, started with conversations in lockdown between two friends and former studio-mates, perched with coffees and snacks on one of the Here East campus benches. We kept saying that we wished we’d recorded our conversations. So we did, in … Read More
Pie. Appropriately for Autumn, it’s the topic of the latest episode of Studio Snack, a podcast in collaboration with Narcis Sauleda. Which brings me to pie charts, this month’s creative experiment. As a designer, I’ve done a lot of these. There are all sorts of ways to make them look … Read More
I think it started with an album of Paraguayan music my parents had when I was a small child. It had a photograph of a market on the sleeve. I loved its colours and patterns and I’ve had a thing about markets ever since. So when we made a Studio Snack … Read More
This wasn’t the plan. For the Summer episode of Studio Snack, a food podcast about design that I make with former studio-mate Narcis Sauleda, our experiment has been to create a half-time snack for an obscure sport. I started by redesigning the brief, to make an imaginary edible finish line … Read More
One of the reasons why we make Studio Snack, a food podcast about design, is the opportunity to do a creative experiment each month. For this month’s Pride special, I’ve indulged my love of drag and a good bagel in watercolour illustration, iPad illustration and typography. But there’s more than … Read More
Thinking it through This month’s Studio Snack podcast episode is about tea breaks – their history, changes in business thinking and how we might cure our creative industry habit of skipping them. In illustrating a tea break alarm for this month’s creative experiment, I was reminded of something different: the … Read More
We learn something from each episode of Studio Snack, a collaborative food podcast about design. And this month, exploring seeds and sowing has given us much to discuss about the how and when of a design project. I’ve used type to illustrate stories from my inexpert gardening that make good … Read More
A pinch of this and just enough of that… In the Mother’s Day episode of Studio Snack, a food podcast about design, collaborator Narcis and I have been chatting about the language of family recipes. So for this month’s experiment, we’ve been cooking with words. I’ve started with my Pyrex … Read More
“Should we have a Studio Snack jingle?”, we asked ourselves as we discussed the new season of our Studio Snack podcast. Thus started a year-long visual sound experiment. And because I have an unusual skillset and an unstoppably-curious mind, I’m on a voyage of discovery… here, me experimenting on Soundbow, … Read More