Car door sculpture

I'm no fan of cars - nothing would please me more than to see the back of them and then witness their replacement by a comprehensive system of public transport that complemented proper provision for walkers and cyclists. We would gain so much and lose only a little - such as witnessing the work that automobile manufacturers and designers put into making the inside of a car door look like the output of a sculptor. This is a shot I took with my iPhone when I noticed the forms and textures of my car's door.

photos © T. Boughen     Camera: iPhone

Striking wall tiles

Fashions in wall tiles come and go, and the longer you live the more revivals you see. Square tiles often make a reappearance after a spell of vertical or horizontal rectangular tiles. Black and white in one form or another come around every few years, and bevel edged tiles seem to crop up as soon as people have forgotten about them. I recently went into a toilet where black and white square tiles were predominant. However, to give them an original touch and to banish any memory of the last time such a colour scheme was popular the designer had inserted an occasional crimson red tile. It worked insofar as it certainly caught my eye and prompted this photograph. Whether I could live with it for very long is quite another matter.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Phone

Ceiling lights

Too many of today's products are styled with an eye to appealing to a buyer, going out of fashion and prompting another purchase before the object itself has completed its potential life-span. Some of the best, however, are designed with function uppermost in the mind of the designer, without an overlay of styling or fashion. The ceiling lights in today's photograph are a case in point. They offer, through the recessed light and the reflectors, lighting that does not glare and functions well in an office (or gallery as in this instance). That they also offer interesting semi-abstract shapes to the passing photographer is a bonus.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Olympus OMD E-M10

Design classics

Among the first displays of the newly re-located Design Museum are some that show the evolution of everyday objects such as cameras and TVs. There is also the example shown in the photograph that groups household and other objects, that many would call design classics, from the past fifty or so years. It was interesting hearing visitors looking at the objects and identifying those that they possessed now or had owned in the past. We did the same and came up with a longer list than we had imagined.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Olympus OMD E-M10