Exhibition latest

Maintaining its hard-earned reputation for bringing you the very latest Upstarts news, the Officeless blog today presents an exclusive lowdown on the Exhibition proposals discussed with (Design Factory Honchos) Conor Clarke and Sinead Doyle, and (ICAD Gaffer) Elaine McDevitt at the Factory Space Gallery on (ahem...) Monday night.


Some interesting and unusual concepts were presented. Themes within included explosions, popcorn, lion tamers, kites and strings.

After a two-hour-ideas-blitz-marathon, the Design Factory curators retired back to their creative caverns to mull over the fare, while everyone else retired to Nealons. We expect to meet again this week to finalise the concept for the exhibition and get cracking on its realisation.

Unlike your intrepid reporter, the Officeless photographer missed that morning's flight back from London. For photographs of the presentations, please contact Fiaz Farrelly and Elaine McDevitt.

One absentee on Monday night was Austin Maguire, who was stuck at home working hard on the new Design Week website. The site is now up and running, so now there can be no more confusion as to when the big week is.

Up Town

Spent an aimless afternoon in the British Library, hatching ideas for the Upstarts exhibition. From here I resurfaced in the general region of Shoreditch and wandered towards Brick Lane, the Old Truman Brewery and Spitalfields market.



I spied the above poster at the top of Sclater St, for a show at the Nelly Duff Gallery. I thought it somewhat a cross between Banksy's Che Guevara commodification posters...


and Adbusters' Corporate States of America flag.

Old Town

Have got a bit behind on the blog over the last week and a bit, due in part to a trip back to my old manor; Dartford, in Kent.


It is not a very photogenic place. Check out the exciting attractions of my hometown. 'Ave a word!