{"id":3426,"date":"2026-02-08T22:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T22:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/?p=3426"},"modified":"2026-02-08T22:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T22:10:15","slug":"sunday-scraps-113","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/sunday-scraps-113\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Scraps #113"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_qb_LbmBwBY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s really hard to understand what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/08\/lindsey-vonn-airlifted-hospital-crash-olympic-downhill-skiing-milan-cortina\">Lindsey Vonn<\/a> was thinking but I hope my nephew (now competing at a high level in acrobatic ski back in Qu\u00e9bec) isn&#8217;t watching the Olympics \/ there must be a german compound word for a <a href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/search\/title\/?locations=westin%20bonaventure%20hotel%20&amp;%20suites%20-%20404%20s.%20figueroa%20street,%20downtown,%20los%20angeles,%20california,%20usa\">location<\/a> that gets used over and over again in the visual arts \/ I went for a daytrip to Bristol and bought a couple of prints from students <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/demiinsall\/\">Demi Insall<\/a> &amp; Ruby Farmer \/ I enjoyed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spikeisland.org.uk\/programme\/\">Spike Island gallery<\/a> , the Breuer (Bauhaus) exhibition at the <a href=\"https:\/\/stradlingcollection.org\/\">Stradling Collection<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rwa.org.uk\/collections\/art-exhibitions\/products\/cosmos-the-art-of-observing-space\">Cosmos<\/a> at the RWA \/ if you&#8217;re in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leedsplayhouse.org.uk\/event\/a-midsummer-nights-dream\/\">Leeds<\/a>, my friend is the producer of this unique take on A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream \/ an event about colour blindness in design in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/the-hidden-cost-of-colour-in-design-tickets-1981332159826\">Newcastle<\/a> \/ the story behind the photoshoot of Sade&#8217;s seminal album is all you need to know about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2026\/feb\/04\/she-thought-it-was-too-sexy-portraits-of-kate-moss-grace-jones-and-a-tea-drinking-chimp-in-pictures\">how we treat women at work<\/a> \/ I am starting to think the <a href=\"https:\/\/forward.institute\/\">leadership training<\/a> industry should be regulated \/ these little <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theremake.org\/solarpunk-futures-playing-towards-a-sustainable-world\/\">solar robots<\/a> are adorable \/\u00a0 a feminist take on <a href=\"https:\/\/abiawomosu.substack.com\/p\/they-built-stepford-ai-and-called\">AI &#8216;agents&#8217;<\/a> is always a good thing \/ the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.404festival.com\/\">404 Festival<\/a> has a fun <a href=\"https:\/\/www.404festival.com\/opencall2026\/?lang=en\">open call<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2026\/feb\/04\/she-thought-it-was-too-sexy-portraits-of-kate-moss-grace-jones-and-a-tea-drinking-chimp-in-pictures\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3427 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/sade-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/sade-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/sade-798x1024.jpg 798w, https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/sade-768x986.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/sade-1197x1536.jpg 1197w, https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/sade-1596x2048.jpg 1596w, https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/sade-1568x2012.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/sade-scaled.avif 1995w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sade.com\/music\/love-deluxe\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-08-at-21.19.50-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-08-at-21.19.50-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-08-at-21.19.50-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-08-at-21.19.50-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-08-at-21.19.50-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-08-at-21.19.50.png 1112w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adding to my <strong>commonplace book<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><em>I had a bad habit, of missing lovers past, my brother used to call it, &#8220;Eating out of the trash&#8221;<\/em> (Taylor Swift&#8217;s new song <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1FVF-9KQiPo\">Opalite<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><em>It has rained every day for the last 37 days in the UK. [&#8230;] Unfortunately, there&#8217;s no end in sight.<\/em> (said the man from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2026\/feb\/07\/no-end-in-sight-to-britains-wet-weather-as-dozens-of-flood-warnings-issued\">Met Office<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><em>Are you a living thing that is dying or a dying thing that is living?<\/em> (asked Emma Talbot at the <a href=\"https:\/\/arnolfini.org.uk\/whatson\/emmatalbot\/\">Arnolfini<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In <strong>social news<\/strong>, seeing lots of friends for post-Christmas catchups which is lovely. Looking forward to the healing powers of the sea both figuratively at the <a href=\"https:\/\/courtauld.ac.uk\/whats-on\/exh-seurat-and-the-sea\/\">Seurat<\/a> show and actually next Saturday with a large group of friends and their dogs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In <strong>work news <\/strong>(am renaming this section to make it more jolly), catching up with a few people I haven&#8217;t spoken to in ages as a result of my weekend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7425836050410815488\/\">Linkedin post<\/a>. I applied for a role in Jan, got a screening call and haven&#8217;t heard back since. I am trying to be patient. Dreaming up some plans with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.playfulanywhere.fun\/\">Emma<\/a> and thinking about a <a href=\"https:\/\/lowcarbondesigninstitute.org\/events\/repairmaxxing\/\">LoCDI<\/a> summer school in autumn 2027. Finalising the programme for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/papercamp-5-tickets-1723742061909\">Papercamp 5<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; It&#8217;s really hard to understand what Lindsey Vonn was thinking but I hope my nephew (now competing at a high level in acrobatic ski back in Qu\u00e9bec) isn&#8217;t watching the Olympics \/ there must be a german compound word for a location that gets used over and over again in the visual arts \/&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/sunday-scraps-113\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday Scraps #113<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sundayscraps","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41XhY-Tg","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3426"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3431,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426\/revisions\/3431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}