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What once was yucky, smelly commercial carpet is now pretty, shiny painted concrete floors. Walls are painted neutral greys & greens and everything (almost) has it's own place. This side of the office has most of the retail merchandise displayed where I an keep it organized and make sure I have it full.
When I lived in Roswell my design studio underwent a few changes as I rearranged the desk, files, drawing tables and more from time to time. I do know that I began making paintings in 1991. This photo predates that time. Based on some of the art in the room, I know that it was no earlier than 1996. I now recall that this was a selfie, using my Pentax Super Program 35mm SLR camera on a tripod.
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These two models are 1:43 scale and crafted in white metal.
The Century Riviera Hardtop was released by Motor City USA-Design Studio Series. It is in Condor Yellow & Carlsbad Black.
The Century Convertible was released by Motor City USA-American Models Series. It is in Matador Red.
After long time new self. light erotic and violent. my other side?
Selfportrait,
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After the project "stevenbysteven" comes "just steven". Irregular self-portraits in which I experiment with lighting, location and my camera. from portrait to fashion to erotic. a mix of different styles.
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"By the age of twenty, a child born in Tottenham
today will have a quality of life and access to the
same level of opportunity that is at least equal to
the best in London."
This "Future Vision for Tottenham" was one of several "exhibition boards" prepared in 2014 by the Haringey Communications Team (the Council's so-called information unit ). It pretended to residents and outsiders that things were getting better - despite Government and Council cuts.
This particular board made a breathtaking promise for the future.
On 14 January 2015 I went to a talk at the John McAslan + Partners Display Space, 451-453 High Road, N17. I photographed this display panel which was on one of their walls.
I've tried very hard to think of any way this "Vision" statement has some practical and honest meaning. Given what we know about growing inequality in our society, it hardly stands up as a prediction.
Jam in January 2035?
Or is it just one more upbeat aspiration? A hope for twenty years time? Not "jam today or jam tomorrow", but in January 2035 - an arbitrary date far enough into the future that nobody will remember; and many of us will be dead.
But in 2015 I wondered if any Haringey staff who wrote and approved this drivel read the best selling book The Spirit Level?
Do they pay any attention whatsoever to the research of people like Danny Dorling? Or Michael Marmot?
Worse, have they spent any significant time in Tottenham - and not only the High Road - with open eyes, ears and open minds?
Discussing Visions of the Future
I don't object to elected local Councils encouraging debate about the issues underlying their vision for improving society and the towns or areas they represent. But they should at least follow minimum standards of balance, objectivity and truthfulness.
Otherwise it is at best, pointless, ignorant and
stupid. At worst, it is despicable propaganda
and outright lying.
In Haringey in 2015 such debates and discussions needed to include factors which produce gross and growing inequality between different groups. Including unequal profiles of health; of diseases; of disability; and mental ill health. And wide differences in life expectancy.
There are issues of employment, unemployment and unequal access to jobs. And of the growing inequality of pay and the growth in part-time and zero-hour jobs.
There are questions about child care, and policies for education and training. What needs to be done about housing shortages, overcrowding and homelessness?
Vitally, such debates must include tensions being stoked-up concerning race, ethnicity and migration.
Most of the factors I've mentioned are beyond the control of a single borough Council. For things to change so profoundly by 2035 barriers would have to come down and policies change drastically - if not reverse.
I've yet to see any substantial evidence that Haringey Council's leaders have engaged openly and constructively in such debates with the borough's residents.
In my view the display panel is an attempt to "sell" a false prospectus - the promise of a fine future. But not until a time when most if not all the posturing politicians making the promise are no longer around.
Colluding with Political Propaganda
I'm disappointed that John McAslan and his colleagues were willing to display this Haringey Council propaganda on their walls - apparently without embarrassment. Surely they don't believe it?
Clearly, John McAslan + Partners are successful and experienced professionals, who work in many countries. Perhaps they take it for granted that local politicians may be vain and self-deluding. People they have to put up with, while working in the area.
In Haringey, McAslan are enjoying a freebie shop from the Council. So maybe they think it's diplomatic to display their benefactor's empty political slogans and posters?
If so, I suggest they read (reread?) Václav Havel for example on The Power of the Powerless. I've copied this description from the Wikipeda entry on Havel's essay. (Accessed on 1 February 2015.)
"Havel uses the example of a greengrocer who displays
in his shop the sign 'Workers of the World, Unite!'. Since
failure to display the sign could be seen as disloyalty,
he displays it and the sign becomes not a symbol of his
enthusiasm for the regime, but a symbol of both his
submission to it and humiliation by it."
Havel called this behaviour "living a lie" - hiding what someone believes and desires in order to be left alone by the powers-that-be. He contrasted it with "a life lived in truth".
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§ "For forty years you heard from my predecessors on this day different variations on the same theme; how our country was flourishing, how many million tons of steel we produced, how happy we all were, how we trusted our government, and what bright perspectives were unfolding in front of us. I assume you did not propose me for this office so that I, too, would lie to you. Our country is not flourishing."
- Quotation from Václav Havel's first New Year's Address to the Nation as President of post-communist Czechoslovakia, 1st January 1990 (Source: ● Excerpt & links. ● Full Speech. English translation).
§ Other real Labour local councils have set better examples than the wretched nonentities running Haringey in 2015. Link to The Islington Fairness Commission which worked from June 2010 to June 2011.
§ Islington Fairness Commission's Final Report.
§ Trust for London website: London's Poverty Profile
§ The Marmot Review: 'Fair Society Healthy Lives' UCL Institute of Health Equity 2010.
§ The Health Gap : The Challenge of an Unequal World.
§ "It's very good jam", said the Queen.
"Well, I don't want any to-day, at any rate."
"You couldn't have it if you did want it", the Queen said. "The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today."
The White Queen offers jam to Alice in: "Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There".
§ Václav Havel: The Power of the Powerless.
§ Article by Natalie Nougayrède: A tip for Europe’s frustrated young radicals: reclaim the dissident spirit. The Guardian 12 June 2015.
§ Making the History of 1989. Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University,
(Links checked 14 April 2017. Islington Fairness Commission links repaired.)
We finished hanging all of our shelves. 84 linear feet of book shelves and we still have left over books.
Issued by Motor City USA in 1999. It is from their Design Studio Series. It is 1:43 scale and crafted in white metal.
A very Limited Edition.
The model is finished in Yukon Yellow & Black.
Selfportrait,
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After the project "stevenbysteven" comes "just steven". Irregular self-portraits in which I experiment with lighting, location and my camera. from portrait to fashion to erotic. a mix of different styles.
(C) 2011 Steven P. Carnarius. All rights reserved
today I took Danbo with me to work and everytime he's gone after a few minutes...Now I see why he's keep on asking...."can I come with you"? he just loves chocolate.....
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Issued by Motor City USA in their Design Studio Series. It is 1:43 scale and crafted in white metal.
The model is finished in Condor Yellow & Carlsbad Black.
This model was added to my Collection in January 2022.
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Colors: Green, White + Gray
I had an itch for a summer, emerald green color palette after I saw the Carolina Herrera's white gown called "Constance". The dramatic, wavy ruffles on the dress reminded me of the Peony's chunky white petals (on the second board, lower-right corner). Then I saw the dark green stem against the white Peony and came up with the perfect color combo – green, white and a soft grey. It's a nice combination for a spring wedding – fresh, crisp and clean.
I always love a nice, tailored grey suit with a nice tie, like the one above in green for the groom and his groomsmen. And for the reception table decor, only use fresh live plants like green grass, moss, herbs and even live plant terrariums.
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Small One chairs and table by Left Hand Make.
Children's chair and table made from plantation Scandinavian birch plywood. Have a look at www.lefthandmake.com
10 June 2014. This empty shop at 451/3 High Road - at the corner of Forster Road - was due to become a "Design Studio". Or perhaps a "design hub"? Or perhaps a "regeneration showcase"? Or maybe we'll enjoy a "community facility"? Each of these phrases was used.
According to Haringey Council's website the architects' practice John McAslan + Partners have:
". . . signed an agreement with Haringey Council on 21 October 2013 to transform an empty shop into a design hub offering work placements and training to local people".
"The N17 Design Studio will work with the College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London (CHENEL) in a pilot project to give local students the chance to learn key skills in apprenticeships."
"Haringey Council will take a five-year lease on the building and refurbish it to create a community facility in the centre of the High Road that will showcase regeneration plans and engage with local people on the future of Tottenham."
The Council's website prominently featured a quote from (then) Haringey Council Leader Claire Kober. It was her usual upbeat burble of empty clichés.
"It's fantastic to be welcoming McAslan to Tottenham. Their enthusiasm for the area is testament to its potential to be one of London’s centres for creativity, quality and opportunity.
Equipping our young people with the skills they need to fulfil their potential is at the centre of our regeneration plans for Tottenham, and this studio will help raise aspirations as much as transform an empty building.
Creating new business spaces will help us secure a revitalised High Road that supports our long-term ambition that everyone in Tottenham has the opportunity to succeed and thrive."
John McAslan + Partners' website described the "agreement" as a "Memorandum of Understanding" which may or may not be the same thing. It included the same anodyne quote from Cllr Kober. John McAslan is quoted saying that:
“The new design studio will help generate employment and regeneration, creating a forum in Tottenham for the education and future of young people through structured apprenticeships”.
CHENEL the third body signing-up to the deal, was represented by Jane O’Neill, Interim Principal and Chief Executive. She said:
“The College is very pleased to partner Haringey Council and JMP to develop the N17 Design Studio, playing such a key role in improving the career choices and achievement of local people. By offering essential training and excellent opportunities for work experience, together we will raise Tottenham’s profile throughout London as a highly desirable location in which to study, work and live.”
So nothing much to get your teeth into about what is actually going to happen and be achieved in the hub/studio/ community facility/regeneration showcase. But there were photos and lots of smiles on McAslan's website.
More Questions than Answers
In general I am very positive about new training opportunities for young people from Tottenham. But I'm also sceptical about the lack of openness in the process which led to this initiative being set up.
Behind the smiles in October 2013, what was announced seems vague, to say the least. And raises lots of questions. To some of which there may be entirely reasonable answers.
For example, why does the plan appear to require a subsidy of public money to McAslan? The firm is described by the Council's website as: "a global architect firm ... with "enthusiasm for the area". So I wonder why this enthusiasm didn't extend to finding a few quid of their own to buy a lease? Why is Haringey taking - or perhaps had already taken (?) - a five year lease on the premises when the "groundbreaking partnership" is "a 12-month pilot project"?
When will this "partnership" begin? We are already eight months from the signing. Has Haringey bought the lease? When? And costing how much?
In a tweet from Claire Kober on 21 October 2013 she gave the starting date as January 2014. Later, this became Spring 2014; and later still, June 2014. In yet another tweet on 11 June 2014, Claire Kober wrote: "in the Autumn. No date as yet". (Click to view Claire Kober's tweets and replies on the topic .)
Starchitect or Celebrity Chef?
What will McAslan Architects actually bring to Tottenham and do in their "Design Studio" that they couldn't do as well or better by offering training and "structured apprenticeships" in one of the existing London offices?
How "global" and famous does a starchitect have to be for Haringey to buy them a lease on High Road Tottenham? Is there a "level playing field" between McAslan and other firms of architects who might want to get involved? How many other firms from different professions are being invited to discuss signing a "Memorandum of Understanding" with Haringey? What are the listed criteria for our Council to buy leases for international commercial businesses to tempt them to come to Tottenham? Who assessed McAslan and other firms against these criteria and how and when? Or was this perhaps done with a personal introduction?
I even wonder if McAslan been invited simply to lend some glamour and wider confidence to Haringey's planned off-the-shelf, bog-standard towerblock plans. Is McAslan like some celebrity chef hired to lend their endorsement to the schemes cooked-up by others? Some important lunch somewhere with important people, perhaps?
The Muswell Hill Colonial Administration
The location of the "Design Studio" is in Bruce Grove ward, and some twenty metres across High Road Tottenham from what used to be High Cross ward and now - after the boundaries were redrawn - is Tottenham Hale ward. This is in the part of Tottenham I represented as a councillor for sixteen years. (Until the end of May 2014.) So perhaps you might assume that I would and other councillors would be involved in, consulted, or at least fully informed about regeneration projects like the Design Studio.
But that's not how things worked in Haringey behind- the-cutain.
Not consulting nor properly informing is typical of how Cllr Claire Kober and her Muswell Hill Colonial administration have treated most Tottenham councillors and local residents during the so-called regeneration after the Tottenham riot in August 2011. Some recent public consultation which did take place proved to be largely a farce. (This is despite the efforts of the agency "Soundings" who carried out the most recent phase of consultation on the Council's behalf. The Council's response to their report confirmed my cynicism.)
Most important, it now appears that what passes for "regeneration" plans in Tottenham will involve an attempt at social cleansing - demolishing publicly-owned housing and displacing many existing residents in order to create more privately owned blocks for middle class people. In my view this has the potential to do far more damage to the existing communities and businesses in Tottenham than the riot ever could.
I'm not suggesting that McAslan architects are in any way complicit in this. But I am concerned that there should be clarity and public transparency about what local young people will be getting; and about the deal between McAslan, Haringey Council and CHENEL.
In general I want to see far greater openness, not simply about this agreement, but the entire process of discussion and negotiation of "regeneration plans" in Tottenham, between Haringey Council, landowners, developers, large businesses and outside consultants,
Too many such discussions have been conducted mainly in secret. The Council leadership and outside bodies and interests have discussed, planned and decided on the future of Tottenham behind the backs and over the heads of people living here. By not properly including local people as full "partners" and listening to and respecting our views and our lives, they treat us and Tottenham as a colony.
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www.splashltddesign.com/studios.html
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I was trying not to do the typical gender, specific baby shower invite with baby powder blues for a boy and light pinks for a girl. Plus, this shower was co-ed, and I wanted it to appeal to everyone.
In this first shower, I went with a colorful palette that leaned to be more feminine with the hot magenta hue since my friend was having a baby girl. And for her custom invite, I used this fun baby rhyme that we once heard as children – (insert a girl's name) and (insert a boy's name) sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G, First comes love , Then comes marriage, Then comes (insert a girl's name) with a baby carriage. Obviously, I modified the rhyme to be more fitting for the invite.
Custom invitation design, reverse side of cover - shower information, custom circular labels and envelopes from Paper Source.
Technique: 4-color ink on Epson Heavyweight Matte Paper, printed front and back on an Epson Stylus Photo 1280 printer.
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Design With Chon (DWC), a boutique design studio with defined niches in (1) visual communication, (2) event design and (3) interiors. Each of these industries are huge in themselves, but DWC has an understanding that bridges them together — color, balance, texture, order and a good eye for design. DWC’s goal is to achieve good design in all its various forms, whether it’s from the branding of your business to saying “I do” to transforming a dwelling in your home. Let me, “Chon," be your go-to person for good design, color, great photography and art. A balanced environment makes you feel good, and I am here to inspire your surroundings.
If you’re interested in sharing an idea or a project, drop me a line at designwithchon[at]gmail.com to start the conversation.
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Paperback: 116
Publisher: Staatsbedrijf der PTT / SDU uitgeverij
Language: Dutch
ISBN-10: 9012059038
Author: Paul Hefting
Book Design: Irma Boom
Colors: Green, Gold, Black + White
Here are some of her key descriptor words from my client before I created this moodboard: elegant, antique, history, cream and black as the main colors. Of course, I had to throw some color in there and suggested an emerald green. It just felt right for the mood she was going for, and it will add that modern feel to the overall look. Also, I want her wedding to have a little more edge and playful twist to the European, Victorian era that she seeks.
Final color palette: an off-white hue, antiqued gold, emerald green and black.
The bold black & white classic hues are accented with green and touches of vintage gold. The Victorian flair is brought in with the traditional cameos that I plan to customize to her profile silhouette and her fiance's, too. And I felt the need to add antiqued gold & black frames in various sizes to bring out that sense of history. Whether the table numbers are framed, or a cluster of portraits of the bride, groom and old family photos are displayed somewhere in the reception venue. There are soo many fun applications that they can be used for; especially for photography.
When I say I want to the give the bride "a little more edge" to her wedding day, I mean to modernize it from where she wants which may come off a bit dated based on her original key words. And I plan on doing it with a custom, green pattern with a tailored European feel, and I would like to contrast it with another graphic pattern – black & white stripes. However, these patterns won't exist everywhere in the decor; it will be used thoughtfully & selectively throughout her wedding and reception. It's those extra little accents that will give it that personal, tailored, classic appeal with a twist to the European Era.
Invitation design: custom black cameo portraits, incorporate traditional scroll flourish designs, custom green pattern on thick, uncoated paper, letterpress, and a black envelope with a personalized wax seal
Apparel/Accessories: bride in off-white, bridesmaids in black cocktail length dresses and accented in gold antiqued jewelry, the groom & groomsmen in black, or grey suits with black & white striped bow ties/or a tie
Floral selection: white anemones with their bold-dark center and white roses
Table decor/seating: a mix of black and antiqued vases with white florals, candlesticks and eclectic frames on black table linens, gold chiavari chairs, white plates with gold chargers
Guest favor boxes: black boxes accented with a green ribbon, and a sticker seal of the cameo portraits of the bride & groom
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Design With Chon (DWC), a boutique design studio with defined niches in (1) visual communication, (2) event design and (3) interiors. Each of these industries are huge in themselves, but DWC has an understanding that bridges them together — color, balance, texture, order and a good eye for design. DWC’s goal is to achieve good design in all its various forms, whether it’s from the branding of your business to saying “I do” to transforming a dwelling in your home. Let me, “Chon," be your go-to person for good design, color, great photography and art. A balanced environment makes you feel good, and I am here to inspire your surroundings.
If you’re interested in sharing an idea or a project, drop me a line at designwithchon[at]gmail.com to start the conversation.
©Design With Chon. All Rights Reserved.