Nick Garrett

Category: Nick Garrett: New Paintings

New artwork produced and probably still wet.

Videos and shots of recent work.

  • nickgarrett's avatarDesight for kudos

    I have followed Laura Ashley for many years working around the Chelsea scene as interior designer, finisher and project manager, and joined them in 2005, but what amazes me is the lack of will to create a true design statement – finding the icon has alluded LA.

    Why is that?  and let’s face it, the problem is not isolated to LA alone… John Lewis could also be accused of falling short on designing the iconic range across key categories, but at least they drive well planned NPD strategies.

     

     

    Looking at Laura Ashley Plc  it is an organisation based on two strengths:  customer loyalty and … blind customer loyalty.

    But faced with the inevitable client lifespan issue what new schema of pure design is pitched at the younger audience (or any audience for that matter)?

    LA suffer continual staffing turnover problems and this is driven by many deep rooted issues…

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    24 August 2012

    Have you finished sticking sequins to your feather headdress yet? It’s Carnival again, with a million people taking to the streets of Notting Hill over two days of the bank holiday to blow whistles, eat jerk chicken and shake some serious booty.

    We’re all familiar with the steel bands and outrageously colourful floats that will journey through Ladbroke Grove. One of the other Carnival institutions is the static sound system, 36 gigantic speaker set-ups that fire out anything from hard techno to roots reggae from their sites on the streets all day long. Some of them have been in their spots for decades, including Jim Angell and Matt Brown, aka Sancho Panza, two Holland Park-educated locals who have been entertaining festival-goers for 20 years.

    Who better to advise on the sound-system experience than two fortysomethings who’ve been coming to Carnival together, first as fans…

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