Posters that stop and make you think
I recently came across this book: Green Patriot Posters, and found it very clever and effective in portraying a simple message in an engaging manner. The book showcases contemporary graphic design posters promoting sustainability and and the fight against climate change. The book also address’s how it took inspiration from the past with posters and ideas that were used in the environmental movement of the 1960s and 1970′s- what a wonderful slow thing to do research! Below... Read More
What is Slow?
The first things we get asked when we talk about A Bit Slow is What is Slow Design? So to explain we thought we’d share a quote with you from the founder of the Slow movement Carlo Petrini which sums it up perfectly. The contrast should not be between slowness and speed – slow versus fast – but rather between attention and distraction; slowness, in fact, is not so much a question of duration as of an ability to distinguish and evaluate, with... Read More
From Stilettos to Skellerups
One little snail has found a new garden. Some of you may be wondering at the lack of posts from one miss M lately, well I have a really good excuse ….I’ve moved! and taken A Bit Slow International! On the 11th of March, with three very heavy suitcases and a guitar in hand I got on a plane and made a leap across the ditch. I left my family and friends behind to start a new adventure in a little town called Ruawai approximately two hours north of Auckland, NZ. This... Read More
Patch it up
We’ve all got far too used to used to trowing out as soon as something is broken or damaged. And whilst most of the time it is cheaper to buy new than to repair the old, I can’t tell you how guilty throwing things out makes me feel. Now i’m not suggesting the indecent act of hoarding, but I may just have the solution to your missing toaster knob, the broken glass on your blender or the hole in your aluminum drink bottle. I’ve got an example here of some... Read More
Slow Home with John Brown of Slow Home Studio- Part 2
Interview: John Brown, Slow Home Studio By Gilo Holtzman ‘I don’t think that sustainability is an option any more, it is a obligation … if not it’s like re arranging the veranda on the Titanic’. Q: What is your take on sustainability in the slow home context? We distil it to two things: slow home should be simple to live in and light on the environment. Simple to live in means that it should function properly and be beautiful.... Read More
the winner of the GoGet office fit out competition!
Gilo Holtzman in collaboration with a bit slow are the winners of the GoGet office fit out competition! GoGet car share in Sydney announced their office fit-out competition addressing all the designers among their members to take up the challenge to design their offices for the modest budget of $10,000. The brief was to design “an innovative, attractive working space where people would love to come to work”. Led by Gilo we took up the challenge which we saw as a great opportunity... Read More
