At this time of year my thoughts always turn to our graduates. They face the challenges and triumphs of turning the skills they have honed, combined, with the skills and abilities they brought to the college, into a career. Like their fellows from across the country, they have worked hard and learnt much, but face [...]
The received notion is that wisdom comes with age, far away from the sharp smartness of youth. Yet combined together they give us the possibility of sustainable progress as the exuberant innovative creativity of the young combines with reflective experience, that hopefully comes with age, and cautions against swinging pendulums too far, reinventing wheels or [...]
“We launched the London Leaders programme in 2007 to catalyse change – the kind of change that we need to tackle London’s most ingrained problems. In December 2008 we announced our second group of inspiring London Leaders from organisations and communities across the capital.” Here is what I wrote for London Leaders Since its foundation [...]
The Oxford Dictionary definition of pure is that an artefact, substance or being is unadulterated by another material or that it is of unmixed origin or descent. What does this mean for fashion design today? For a designer it is impossible not to be inspired, influenced or affected by other designers, products or artefacts whether [...]