MET Forum

 

Welcome to the MET Forum, a place where MET Studio's guests - clients, journalists, associates, other designers, as well as MET Studio's own staff - can talk about design and design issues.

This page will be updated regularly with speeches, reviews, opinions, new creative work and postcards from cities around the world, bringing you personal perspectives, news and views of interest to the design community in the broadest sense.

Please find below the first MET Forum texts, along with profiles of our guest authors.
Just click on the title link to access the texts.

If you disagree with - or would like to make any comments about - any of the views expressed in the MET Forum, please e-mail us at forumfeedback@metstudio.com. We will publish the best responses online.


 
Photography
‘The Ultimate Fight’
by Francesca Yorke


  About the author:
Photographer Francesca Yorke has worked with MET Studio Design for many years, photographing projects such as the multi-award-winning ‘Centre of Excellence’ for Lucent Technologies and the ‘Wired Worlds’ exhibition at Bradford’s National Museum of Photography, Film & Television. Francesca works in the fields of design, architecture, travel, portraiture, gardens and food photography, with many book credits including Nigella Lawson’s ‘Nigella Bites’, ‘The Richard Corrigan Cookbook’, ‘The Urban Eden’ and the award-winning Green and Blacks’ chocolate book, ‘Unwrapped’. Francesca’s own projects include this study of the controversial sport of Ultimate Fighting.
Contact Francesca Yorke

   
Favourite Examples of Design and Architecture
My five favourite designs
By Grant Gibson
Journalist and former editor of Blueprint



  About the author:
Grant Gibson is a freelance writer specialising in design and the former editor of leading UK design and architecture magazine Blueprint. He has also written for various other titles including Interni and Hot Air.
www.blueprintmagazine.co.uk
   

Speeches and Opinion Pieces
The Mysterious Art of Presenting (or, Why are some designers so
poor at communicating their ideas?)
By Aidan Walker


  About the author:
Aidan Walker is Editorial Director of Media 10, publishers of ICON and Grand Designs magazine and the Design and Decoration Awards. He is also Editorial and Design Director of GraficEurope, the graphic design conference in Berlin October 2004, and previously was editor in chief of FX, Blueprint, RED and Light and the FX International Interior Design Awards.
Contact Aidan Walker
   
Is Originality a Design Cliche?
By James Norton
Associate, MET Studio Design


  About the author:
James Norton is an Associate at MET Studio Design, who has worked on many projects in our porfolio including the multi-award-winning Wired Worlds Exhibition in Bradford, Birmingham's Thinktank project and the DrugInfo Centre in Hong Kong. James also teaches Exhibition and Filmset design modules at the Surrey Institute of Art and Design and has recently exhibited his own fine art with an exhibition of his paintings at Edinburgh's Friction Gallery.
www.jamesnorton.co.uk
   

 

 

 
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