November 2010
5 posts
067 – One door closes and another opens...
This weekend saw the launch of Airside Play – our new online shop and social space. We celebrated by having a pop-up shop and party for which these delicious cupcakes were made. As Play incorporates all our various ‘voices’ – Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr etc, you will now be able to find everything in one place so bookmark it!
To that end, we bid you farewell here, and look forward to...
066 – ABSexy
Malika’s sexy ladies, originally created for Wallpaper magazine, feature in a new book about sex. Well, it’s a French book so what do you expect. L’abecedaire Amoureux is published by Albin Michel.
065 – A tweet towel
Received today at Airside Heights; a lovely request for one of our calendars in return for the tweet towel by @wearewhatwedo. Tweet a love message today for your favourite dish-washer.
064 – The height of nonsense
… is 30cm high and 100cm in depth. Time for Ms Favre to tidy her desk…
064 – Jack
Welcome to Jack Cunningham, our latest intern.
October 2010
1 post
063 - A fax
This fax came to light today. It was sent to Design Week several years ago, from a far away galaxy.
September 2010
9 posts
062 – Airside porn
061 – Legumes
Another reason to watch this space. Acrylic vegetables? Whatever next.
060 – I see you
Watch this space.
059 – Form and function
Really really concentrating today.
058 – Sayonara dude
Henki has landed. Our man is in the far east. We look forward to a Skypey relationship with Henki and the others from Airside Nippon.
1 tag
057 – 56 x 24 x 125
Coming soon, to an Airside Shop near you. A limited edition, hand-made, responsibly sourced wooden…
056 – Bitte nicht knicken
Could it really mean “please don’t knick this magazine”… sometimes life can be beautifully simple.
German design magazine featuring our Airplot identity and the Typadelic poster. Sehr gut.
055 – Le vide
Hmmm, there are many empty desks at Airside today. Makes one feel like one might have forgotten that it’s a bank holiday or an important meeting or some such like.
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054 – Doodle bug
Internal meeting, today at 10am. With lovely Autumn sunshine warming our cockles.
August 2010
6 posts
053 – Gumtree
Here’s the explanation for all those strange objects coming through the studio (see elk head and horn photos) – this is a still from a TV commercial released last week, by Airside, for Gumtree. We worked with the lovely Richard Hogg on this one.
052 – Sardine al limone
Not only lovely packaging, but delicious sardines inside. What more do you want at lunchtime?
051 – A proper Charlie
Charlie Hocking. Intern du jour. Welcome!
050 – Pop
049 – Look into my eyes
A rather lovely print sent to us today by friends at Telegramme Studio.
048 – God help us
Lunchtime. The dessert did require divine intestinal intervention so chocolatey was it.
July 2010
4 posts
047 – Airside has the horn
First an elk. Now a horn. What the…
Soon. Soon you will know.
046 – Moose
We do in fact have a moose, loose, aboot our hoose.
045 – When doves cry
Malika. The purple princess.
044 – Pencil + paper
The shape of Jamie’s sketch book today.
June 2010
8 posts
043 – Gros gateau
042 – Aye pad
Here’s Alex playing with Airside’s, just arrived, iPad. We *needed* to get it to see how our Granimator pack looks…
041 – Typadelic!
Poster designed by Jamie, to advertise Airside’s talk on Thursday evening at the Typographic Circle. It’s Typadelic man. Or woman.
040 – Giddy-up
Drawn by Alex Maclean, as part of a series of drawings he’s doing at the British Museum, this horse is going nowhere.
039 – Collabopants
Possibly the best named project we’ve ever been asked to participate in… Collabopants :)
038 – The drifter
George Thompson, aka George Demure, Airside’s new studio manager, caught being intellectual in a James Dean moment.
038 – Peek-a-boo
Henki won’t be playing peek-a-boo soon as he’s off to Japan in September. He’s going to work remotely and be the first official member of Airside Nippon (note that this site is not yet up and running). Or Director of Far East Operations as we like to call him.
037 – Beatles
Found this painting in a dusty corner of the studio. It’s a watercolour done by Richard Hogg when we were working on a music promo for the Beatles, when the remixed Love album came out a few years ago. The original track we were given was Strawberry Fields Forever and we were going down this lovely watercolour hand-made route. Then at the last minute the track changed and we had to do a...
May 2010
6 posts
036 – Woolly love
Here’s Michaella with her new children, Kiki & Momo, two of our lovely Stitches. Michaella felt ready to take care of someone and when she saw Kiki & Momo, she realised she could not separate them, so will be taking them both home with her. We look forward to more photos.
035 – The Birds
We have been to see the birds exhibition at London’s Barbican Centre this week and it’s absolutely lovely, we highly recommend it. If you want to feel little tiny feet on your head as the birds try to nest in your hair, hurry as the exhibition finishes this weekend.
034 – XoNipPeYsAhfukMmmmmmmm
The grown-up version of magnetic letters on your fridge. Kindly given to us as a gift from some Danish visitor friends, that we met in Arhus on our April trip to LYNfabrikken. We are enjoying them very much thanks very much.
033 – A flyer for non flying
Here’s a flyer we designed for Greenpeace, for an exhibition as part of their Airplot campaign (no third runway at Heathrow). They’re holding an exhibition of winning architectural designs for a structure to defeat the proposed runway expansion, and you can see the designs at the Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf on London’s Southbank. The exhibition opens on 2nd June.
032 – Colours. Nails. Mast.
031 – Stan The Man
Here’s Henki with Stanley, the character he designed for Nippon Television’s Friday Night Roadshow animated idents.
It turns out Stanley has become so popular that he is being made into toys that you can cuddle/sit on your computer/give as a gift etc. Henki met Stanley on his recent trip to Tokyo. And in case you’re wondering why the cheesy colour/B&W effect… Henki...
April 2010
3 posts
030 – Kawaiiii
Henki just came back from a trip to Tokyo. Mainly it was holiday; here he is with ex Airside intern, Yoshi (now working freelance including for our agent in Japan, hybrid), and Yoshi’s lovely ladyfriend. But there was also some work done and that photo shall follow shortly. Meantime, just feast on this.
029 – Adieu, farewell
Two of the Stitches and Mr Gravity wave goodbye to Widget, the dog of Giulio Miglietta, Airside’s recent and recently departed intern. Giulio’s not dead; his three months were up.
We wish him well and hope to be working with him soon if all goes to plan with A PARTICULAR PROJECT WE ARE HOPING WILL HAPPEN.
028 – Our hoose
Aarhus actually…
A small snippet of last week’s trip to Denmark. Podcasts to follow, keep an eye on Airside News for details. Thank you to our hosts at Lynfabrikken for a very lovely week.
March 2010
11 posts
027 – George's shirt
This is the shirt of George, our Studio Manager to be once Natalie’s bun is ready. We look forward to welcoming George full time in a couple of months and we look forward to his rather flamboyant shirt collection, some of which are created by his lovely wifey, Laura Lees – friend to Airside also (see “Soft” bootleg 7” sleeve and T-shirt Club in Airside archives).
026 – Desktops
We were asked today, for someone’s student project, to send bird’s eye view photos of the designers’ desks. So we thought we’d share them with you here too. Some we couldn’t share however, as the projects they’re working on are sssssshhhhhh top secret and showing them would result in elimination.
025 – Bun in the oven
There it is, Studio Manager Natalie’s growing bump. Or Megatron as we like to call him/her. Currently keeping a low profile, preparing for its entrance this coming July. Our summer work placement perhaps? How young is too young to hold a pencil?…
024 – City job
The best/most elaborate/unusual CV we’ve received in a while. Why the beansprouts? No idea. Can I eat them? Probably not.
023 – Joy of blackboards
This is tomorrow’s Photo of the Day today.
Jamie’s To Do list from a TfL job.
Always one step ahead of the game.
022 – Bleu
Today appears to be mostly a blue day at Airside. We’re especially enjoying the blue sky.
021 – On brand
Natalie Wisdom, Studio Manager, on message: sporting a customised version of the t-shirt designed for our 10th birthday party two years ago. Watch out for news of a big Airside Shop sale soon, here, at our N1 premises.
020 – Ticket to ride
Pictured above, train tickets from Copenhagen to Arhus for a series of talks we are doing in Denmark next month. We have been invited by the folks at Lynfabrikken to talk about Airside and how we work, what inspires us. Alex and Anne are very excited, not having been to Denmark before so if you’re in Denmark for that, come say hello.