2020

Over Christmas, my daughter and I had a go at making some seaweed (more accurate to call it algae) plastic as part of her GCSE Graphics project work. She had been inspired by a news story referencing the 2019 London Marathon, where runners had been given edible seaweed pouches filled with Lucozade...

We’ve Got a Fuzzbox and We’re Gonna Use it! were an all-girl English alternative rock/pop punk band from Birmingham who formed in 1985 and after shortening their name to Fuzzbox, recorded 6 UK Top 75 hits during their career (to date). Fuzzbox AIBDC : 0_2235 The Top 75 Singles Chart now utilises a...

Charles Jencks (1939 – 2019) Architect, garden designer, critic and theorist Vacuum flask , designed for Bodum, designer unknown, AIBDC: 000746 Charles Jencks, who died in October, is remembered as the writer who announced the death of Modernism and was the catalyst for Postmodernism. His book, The...