Design Musings

Here is the new website we have just completed for Rock Boat Charters. A long standing client of ours, we felt the original website we created needed a little refreshing, so while happy with the basic format some updating was applied. The Camel Estuary based firm have a motorboat available to charter and explore the coastline around North Cornwall, especially Rock and Padstow. The best way to explain this to potential clients was to create a website that would expand and communicate the views, feeling of space on the water and uniqueness of each charter. We chose large photographs to set the scene for the background and also inset shots to show more details of the boat. The site is very simple to use and informative, working with the original brand we created. The new look site commands the screen and allows the scenery to sell the experience. Emma Julian.

The Y Chair by Hans J. Wegner. Image found here . We find ourselves in February, and on the 2014 Pickle Design calendar we are showcasing the Y chair. Download a desktop version of the February calendar here . At Pickle we love looking at all areas of design for daily inspiration. We use Facebook , Pinterest , Twitter , Tumblr to drench ourselves in creativity, but there really is something quite special about chair design. Not only does a seat need to be comfortable (trust us, we sit in one all day!) but a well designed chair can make a statement about the designer themselves, the home owner, or society at large. Hans J. Wegner created this chair in 1950, basing the design on traditional Dutch paintings of merchants sitting in Ming chairs. Wegner was a perfectionist. Stylistically there wasn’t necessarily a common thread between his designs, it was more his ethos that shone through, he said "the good chair is a task one is never completely done with", it was "