We made it
We Made It: Guitar Maker Brian CohenSunday, 10 April 2016
Tucked away in a warren of residential streets in the older part of Guildford, The Old Glassworks looks like a lock-up garage, and seems to have been designed to repel unwanted attention with a private force-field of anonymity. Once you've been... Read more... |
We Made It: Basket-maker Lois WalpoleSunday, 27 March 2016
Basket-making is one of the world’s oldest and most universal crafts. It predates pottery by thousands of years and features in tall tales from the very beginnings of recorded history. According to a creation myth from ancient Mesopotamia, the... Read more... |
We Made It: Horn Maker Tom FisherSunday, 06 March 2016
Ask anyone for the name of a violin or piano maker, and they’ll probably be able to summon up Stradivarius and Steinway. What about horns? Do concertgoers ever look closely at these instruments – noticing, perhaps, that some have four, others five... Read more... |
We Made It: Stufish Entertainment ArchitectsSunday, 21 February 2016
While most set designers come from an art or theatre background, Ric Lipson has parlayed his architectural training into an unusual skillset: designing not just what goes on inside entertainment venues, but the buildings themselves. At his studio... Read more... |
We Made It: 'Carol' Costume Designer Sandy PowellTuesday, 16 February 2016
If there is a successor to the great Hollywood costume designer Edith Head, it is Sandy Powell, the British designer of six films directed by Martin Scorsese, three each by Todd Haynes and Neil Jordan, and others by the likes of Derek Jarman, Sally... Read more... |
We Made It: Stuntwoman Tracy CaudleMonday, 08 February 2016
With a raft of high-quality digital effects available, real stunts might seem a little old-fashioned. In truth, the art of the stunt is alive and well: according to veteran performer Tracy Caudle, not only is it often cheaper to film the real thing... Read more... |
We Made It: 'The Revenant' Production Designer Jack FiskTuesday, 26 January 2016
The Revenant's production designer Jack Fisk wasn’t required to build multiple sets for Alejandro González Iñárritu’s 1823 wilderness epic. Indelible, however, are the few man-made settlements and structures with which Fisk marked the route of... Read more... |
We Made It: Double Bass Maker Laurence DixonSunday, 10 January 2016
Double bass maker Laurence Dixon has solid oak floors in his new shop-front in Herne Hill, south London. The solid oak door which leads to the workshop behind has three (not two) solid bronze hinges and settles into its solid oak frame as softly as... Read more... |
We Made It: The Electric Recording CompanySunday, 20 December 2015
Always desperately seeking the next profit-boosting lifeline, the record industry is getting all worked up about the "vinyl revival". While sales of CDs and downloads have been falling, those shiny black circles, once believed defunct, have been... Read more... |
We Made It: Watchmaker Roger W SmithSunday, 13 December 2015
Long before the Swiss came to dominate the watchmaking world, British horologists were leading the way, grappling with miniscule screws and the vagaries of time. In the eyes of many collectors and aficionados they still are, thanks to Roger Smith,... Read more... |
We Made It: Concert hall acousticsSunday, 29 November 2015
Glasgow has a brand new concert hall, and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra has a brand new home. A move for the Orchestra from Henry Wood Hall, a converted church in the city’s West End it has occupied since 1979, has been on the cards for... Read more... |
We Made It: The Headcaster AppSunday, 22 November 2015
Is it possible for a mobile phone app to combine functionality with the highest standards of design and craftsmanship? Chris Chapman, the creator of the Headcaster app, says it is. He brings a sculptor’s eye and puppeteer’s sense of movement to the... Read more... |
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