Hex Furniture

A quick concept of a multifunctional piece of modular furniture. It would be made of polystyrene sandwiched between two pieces of steam bent ply.

Blackboard Van Tour in Cooler Magazine

I was just having look through the Howies blog for some inspiration and came across a post that Scania had posted regarding an article in the urban sports and fashion magazine Cooler.

Click here to see more about the article. There is also a small film of the tour attached to the link.

Summer stunts 2007 revsited

David from howies phoned me last week to see how I was and ask whether I wanted to work on another stunt for them this summer. I of course said yes, so I was having a look at what I proposed last year. Click here to see more.

Blackboard van press packs

Just spotted on the Howies website that David and Claire have produced 50 Blackboard Van tour books for the press. Hopefully I'll be able to get my hands on one.

Blackboard tour on the Howies website

Click here.

Howies catalogue.. and look whats featured

I was having a look at the Howies blog this evening and just downloaded their new catalogue. Some really nice stuff for winter and plenty of colourful layers to keep warm. The blackboard van was featured and David and Claire Hieatt have kindly credited me. Thanks guys.


Click here to download your own copy. If you want a hard copy fill & send the form.

Howies Blackboard Van photos by Jamie Stoker

I was sent some photos of the van in the post on the weekend from Alison at Howies.

Here's Alison on the skate tour with the van in the background. I came up with the idea and Alison made it happen. I looked through all the photos and thought I'd post a couple of my favourites by Jamie Stoker. Really nice shots.





I'm going to submit the van in for next years D&AD awards and I'm thinking I might have to use a couple of these shots. Jamie Stoker if your reading this can I have your permission to use these? Thanks. Loving your work.

Happy Halloween

A new edition to my bin bag range. Coming to the shops very soon.

How much!!!???

For those who are wondering how much the chair was sold for here is a video of it being sold. Click on the image to see more

The auction

We had the auction yesterday. It was amazing to watch our work being auctioned but also to watch Banksy's work being sold which in total went for a record sale of £545000. Anyways back to the chair. Here are some snap shots of what happened.

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going

GONE.

Guesses of how much the chair went for here. Please comment below.

BBC covers the Auction

The auction that the Chair is in, is mentioned on the BBC website at the moment.

Of course the fact that BANKSY is selling 10 of his pieces of work in the same auction is the focus of the article. Still it gets people to the auction. You never know BANKSY might put a bid on the chair. To seemore click here.

Auction Preview

Here are some of the photos of the preview auction at Bonhams. It was amazing to see the chair amongst some of the biggest names in art and design. From Ron Arad to Banksy and Damien Hirst, some amazing pieces of art and design were on display. Wednesdays the auction so fingers crossed it does well. Whilst we were there we met some really interesting people. We are debating whether the guy in glasses is a certain stencil artist. Do you know this man?

Knoll

Knoll who kindly donated the bertoia chair has featured the red nose chairhere.

The Chair That Grows at Paul Smith

So this is it. The count down to the auction is here and it starts at the Paul Smith shop in Covent Garden on Floral St. The Chair That Grows is in the window till the 19th October. If your around that way check it out.

Sale 14942 Lot 357 - Vision 21, 24 Oct 2007 Knightsbridge

The Chair that Grows is on the bonhams site. Click here to see more.

Scratch London

I did this installation 4 years ago, I've been meaning to post this footage of it for a while. Only now have I found time to upload this film of the installation onto You tube.

Scratch London was commissioned by the OXO Tower and Totally London. Frames were scratched out and left blank for the public to draw their view of London, resulting in a completely one off window display design.

Scratch London was shortlisted for the Bombay Sapphire 2004 international glass prize.

thechairthatgrows.co.uk

Here is the the chair that grows website
To see more click here.

Last couple of scribbles

I went to meet my girlfriend the other at Westbourne park and got a phone call from Alison from Howies letting me know that they were doen at the XBOX skate park with the van so I popped down to check it out. It was on the last leg of the tour and it looked great with everyone's comments. Apparently Green Peace phoned Alison up to say how great the idea was. I was really chuffed. So from what was a sketch in my little note book had now turned into a physical living thing that people can interact with.

More scribbles

Basement Jaxx graphics

I heard the new basement Jaxx album today which reminded me of the work I did for them a couple of years ago. Here's a sample of what I did. They have a sub label called STOP records which I did some artwork for.