Par Joe Hall • 1st May 2013 • Publié dans London
photo by George Marshall
Subject: Robert Loeber – art director for The Albion
What, if any, parallels could you draw between design and bike/ BMX riding?
They're both major creative outlets. Any sport not governed by a coach/mentor will evidently allow individuals to put their own touch on things. It's the freedom to experiment that often results in innovation and progression. There's the obvious areas of both design and riding that fall into the more commercial or athletic, but there's always people doing things differently. To break it down to it's most basic form: they're both ways of expressing yourself.
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Par Joe Hall • 22nd April 2013 • Publié dans London
photo by George Marshall
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Par Joe Hall • 2nd April 2013 • Publié dans London
Name:
Corinna Gardner
Role at V&A:
Curator of Contemporary Product Design
I'm standing in the John Madejski Garden in front of what was once the main entrance to the V&A Museum. Opened to the public in 1865, the doors, just seen in the background, show historic figures representative of the arts and sciences, including Astronomy (Newton), Mechanics (Watt), Sculpture (Michelangelo) and Painting (Titian). The doors represent the then ambition of the museum to unite the arts and sciences and they, alongside the extensive facade decoration, proclaim the museum's commitment to cultural education through the visual arts.
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Par Joe Hall • 28th March 2013 • Publié dans London
photo by George Marshall
London's Victoria and Albert Museum is hosting an event tomorrow (Friday 29th) called Eat, Ride, Sleep, Repeat. A celebration of the design culture inspired by the bicycle, it will feature portraits of museum staff and their bicycles taken by Rapha Survey photographer George Marshall.
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Par Joe Hall • 25th March 2013 • Publié dans London
photo by George Marshall
London's Victoria and Albert Museum is hosting an event this Friday called Eat, Ride, Sleep, Repeat. A celebration of the design culture inspired by the bicycle, it will feature portraits of museum staff and their bicycles taken by Rapha Survey photographer George Marshall.
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Par Joe Hall • 7th March 2013 • Publié dans London
photos by George Marshall
UK Continental rider and constructor Tom Donhou recently relocated his workshop to Hackney Wick (near the Olympic Park) in east London. We paid him a quick visit.
How did you become a bike builder?
I started off with downhill mountain bikes and BMX'ing. I began a career working in product design but found it fairly soul destroying. Then, a few years back I gave that up, travelled to Mongolia with my bike in the back of a truck and rode out across the Gobi desert, through China, Vietnam, Thailand. Eight months on the road gave me plenty of time to think. I actually thought I'd come back to the UK with a business plan for a nine-hole crazy golf course but ended up doing this.
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Par Joe Hall • 5th March 2013 • Publié dans London
Photo by Neil Bedford
Seventeen year-old Tao Geoghegan Hart, born and raised in east London, is part of the British Cycling Olympic Development Programme and races for CC Hackney. A precocious talent and fast talker, I met Tao at the Rapha Cycle Club in Soho to discuss crashing at Roubaix, texting Tom Boonen and modelling for Rapha.
Did you ride here?
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Par Joe Hall • 26th February 2013 • Publié dans London
photo by George Marshall
Name – Monique Kawecki
Occupation – Editor of Ala Champfest Magazine, a biannual print publication from London and Melbourne which focusses on investigations and insight into international creative culture. We provide a platform for emerging talent worldwide, whilst shouting about the established in their field. Co-editor is my twin sister Joanna - who is based in Melbourne - and our contributors are all based in various parts of the world such as Tokyo, Seattle, New York, Paris and Sydney. We proudly print in England on specialised paper, and are stocked internationally in places such as MOMA in New York, and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.
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Par Joe Hall • 19th February 2013 • Publié dans London
photo by George Marshall
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Par Joe Hall • 28th January 2013 • Publié dans London
photo by George Marshall
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