Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

The student blog will only be available for a few more weeks. I retire on 1 April and it seems daft to pay out another £250+ when the annual subscription is due renewal in March. There is so much stuff on the blog – – over 10k photos – and you might like to have…

I should have been in Paris for this, my ticket and hotel were booked last year. But travelling and being at a massive international indoor event didn’t seem wise just yet. So I attended a couple of the online events – which were delivered at breakneck speed and the dreadful photo quality reflects this!

Hope everyone managed to do Christmas in some form, even if it wasn’t the way you planned and hoped for. Just staying well seems the biggest festive goal at the moment!I was so organised and well prepped that there was very little to do on Christmas Day, which felt disconcerting! Disappointingly for us, our long-planned…

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This exciting set of samples didn’t actually make it to the final cut, an alternative inspiration, brief and design were used. This happened because I wanted the student to explore the design possibilities more widely – rather than sticking to one stitch pattern (as this had been the case in the cushion assignment). But it…

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I had a pass to attend the physical show in Paris but decided travel wasn’t a great plan and didn’t go. Instead I attended the online colour / trend presentations today. Tried to take as many pics as I could but it was happening very fast. They loaded on here in a bit of a…

Brown is tipped to replace black/grey/navy as the neutral of the season (I’ve been expecting brown to hit the trends for several years) and colour schemes that work with brown are much in evidence, such as warm colours and golds, also contrasts in brown and blue – close to the complementary pairing of blue and…