I SHOULD know: fashion can be a double-edged sword. Quite often, it is human nature not to appreciate something until it’s almost too late or it’s gone. My mum wishes she’d said more nice stuff to my Nan before she died and there are things you’d have loved to have done in life, but you [...]
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Wayne Mouths Off (again) about stupid decisions to re develop streets that can be up
Posted in 2011, Affordable Housing, Being Thrifty, Community, Design, Economy, Regeneration, Sustainability on March 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Wayne Mouths off about Liverpool Anfield Pathfinder
Posted in 2011, Affordable Housing, Being Thrifty, Community, Design, Economy, Placemaking, Regeneration, Sustainability on March 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I hadn’t been to the Anfield area of Liverpool for a while and this week had a look round and left in a state of shock, anger but also with a mid racing of what can be. Anfield is, or in some cases now, was an area of proud looking solid mid 19th century houses [...]
Wayne mouths off about the need for a Creative Insurgency
Posted in 2009, Being Thrifty, Community, Design, Hemingway Design Project, Independent Retailing, Placemaking on March 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Looking back to the turn of the 80s when Gerardine and I started out… We’d never considered being designers, it wasn’t on the radar of two teenagers from Lancashire. I was playing in a band and we used to hang out in Camden. When Gerardine and I ran out of money to pay the rent [...]
Dropping the ‘f’ from refuse
Posted in 2009, Being Thrifty, Eco - Friendly on March 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
At HemingwayDesign we have just been working on a graphic device for The London Community Recycling Network. It’s a pretty simple concept; drop the “f” from Refuse and what do you get? Re-use. For us trendy designer types, with, as my Nan would have said, “our fancy London ways”, it’s a clever play on words [...]
Wayne mouths off about consumerism in an economic crisis
Posted in 2008, Being Thrifty, Economy on March 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Were going through turbulent economic times. Financial sages are pontificating that the human race has never seen such global financial turmoil. Could this be a worse crisis than the 30’s depression that opened a door to a world war? When things get this bad the blame starts to fly. The tabloids are gunning for the [...]
Hemingways around the world | 2008
Posted in 2008, Being Thrifty, Family, Travel on March 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It wasn’t easy to sell Red or Dead the brand we created, Gerardine (wife and co founder) said it was like selling one of our kids but I was determined to “cash in” on 18 years of bloody hard graft, to have a crack at something new and very importantly to have more time with [...]
New Energy | 2007
Posted in 2007, Being Thrifty, Design, Sustainability on March 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t want to sound like a hippy but the best kind of new energy we can embrace is that which comes from a creative mind. It’s a pretty confusing world that we live in. There are die hard environmentalists who believe in reducing their carbon footprint and waste to as near zero as possible [...]
On the verge
Posted in 2007, Being Thrifty, Sustainability on March 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I get bees in my bonnet, get obsessions that I cant let go, but that I suppose is part of the raison d’etre of a designer to recognise problems and to attempt to solve them. At the moment I am becoming increasingly concerned with packaging. It’s very easy to be become a waste and recycling [...]
Thrifty Wayne mouths off about that there new fangled sustainability agenda
Posted in 2007, Being Thrifty, Sustainability on March 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
DESIGNED TO LAST I was born in the seaside town of Morecambe, Lancashire and until my mum met my stepdad and we moved inland to Blackburn, we lived with my Nan and Pop – Ida and Colin. The Hemingways were a working-class, Yorkshire family (Nan had moved to Morecambe for health reasons), thrifty and careful. [...]
