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  1. Review: Clerkenwell Design Week 2012

    Katy Cowan /

    I was excited to be visiting Clerkenwell Design Week 2012 yesterday. It’s the second year in a row for me and so feeling somewhat ‘seasoned’, I headed immediately over to the House of Detention to begin my walking tour of the popular London event. In its third year, Clerkenwell Design Week aims to showcase the very best in design, from furniture an...

  2. Readers' Studios: Casual Films

    Katy Cowan /

    Readers' Studios is a lot like Readers' Wives, except we're talking about photos of some of the most stimulating creative workspaces instead of... well, you know. Today we're taking a peek at the studio of Casual Films, an online video production agency based in London and New York. This particular space is of the firm's new London home... In Casual Film's own words: "Casual Films moved ...

  3. Interview: Katy Leicester, Handpickedvintage.com

    Katy Cowan /

    Katy Leicester is the person behind Handpickedvintage.com, an affordable vintage clothing website, for men and women and based in the UK. It was dreamt up after Katy worked in all areas of fashion, costumes and textiles and spent a lifetime collecting and obsessing over vintage clothing, fabric and embroidery. She was brought up going to jumble sales, ch...

  4. Interview: Phil Corbett

    Katy Cowan /

    Phil Corbett is an illustrator based in Brighton, UK. Originally from Lancashire, he started his career working at London games company Pure Entertainment and was part of the team who created Rat Attack, a popular Playstation and N64 game. He then joined Cartoon Network in London where he worked on a number of promotional materials, before joining another games firm - this time, Gameplay - whe...

  5. Interview: Matt Barrie, Freelancer.com

    Katy Cowan /

    Matt Barrie is an award winning entrepreneur, technologist and lecturer. He is Chief Executive of Freelancer.com, the world's largest outsourcing marketplace connecting over 3.3 million professionals from around the globe, and in the top 250 websites globally. Matt is a prolific speaker and has spoken at or featured in the Summit Series, the New York Times, Bloomber...

  6. Interview: Abbie Walsh, Fjord

    Katy Cowan /

    Abbie Walsh is the Service Design Director at Fjord London, a leading global service design consultancy which also has offices in Helsinki, Berlin, Paris, Madrid, New York, Stockholm and San Francisco. The London agency, based on Margaret Street, offers a whole range of services such as User Research, Product and Service Strategy, Design Management, Concept Developme...

  7. Interview: Clayton Littlewood

    Katy Cowan /

    Clayton Littlewood was born in Skegness, England, in 1963 and grew up in Weston-super-Mare. When he was in his teens he moved to London to join a band called Spongefinger. After being rejected by every record company in town he turned to pirate radio, hosting a comedy show where he posed as a 70-year-old female West Country aromatherapist called Doctor Bunty. This led to an MA in Film and Televisi...

  8. Review: Alternative Fashion Week 2012

    Katy Cowan /

    We didn't quite know what to expect from Alternative Fashion Week 2012 at Spitalfields Traders Market in London last week but it certainly offered an interesting mix of incredible talent. Walking around the various stalls, set up by a whole range of rising fashion designers, it was fascinating to see the wealth of expertise. The whole event was h...

  9. Interview: James Norris of DeadSocial

    Katy Cowan /

    London-based entrepreneur James Norris is the brains behind DeadSocial - a platform that allows anyone to create a calendar of secret, timed messages. These messages are then only distributed on DeadSocial and across the social web (Facebook, Google+, Twitter) simultaneously after the user dies. With such an unusual and interesting idea, James was recently announced as a f...

  10. Readers' Studios: glue Isobar

    Katy Cowan /

    Readers' Studios is a lot like Readers' Wives, except we're talking about photos of some of the most stimulating creative workspaces instead of... well, you know. Today we're taking a peek at the studio of glue Isobar, a communications agency in London...

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