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Urban Design, Advertising and Hanging Planters in the Spanish Village of Mojacar

Urban Design, Advertising and Hanging Planters in the Spanish Village of Mojacar

It is exciting when traditional techniques (spanish ceramic glazed tiles) are incorparated into the needs of the present day (web advertising) as it creates unique, interesting solutions and can often morph into something else (of course this is how ideas evolve). Below is a shot of the traditional tile used in the village of Mojocar  in Spain used to advertise [...]

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Landscapes in the SE of England. Road plantings and Design. Terrible

Landscapes in the SE of England. Road plantings and Design. Terrible

I was living in Sussex a few moons ago and I was always slightly disorientated. Partly because the roads needed to meanander around waterways, topography etc but also because the road corridor in the area was planted with exactly the same plantings over and over again. The design rationale appeared to me to be ’screen the road from everyone [...]

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