Vintage By Hemingway

Its now 13 years since I wrote that infamous article about mass housing in the Independent and coined the phrase The Wimpeyfication and Barratification of Britain. My tirade about how ill conceived some of Britains housing developments were taken...

When I am giving talks and lectures, in the questions at the end of the session, I am often asked what is the greatest attribute of a designer and a creative mind. I know that for me and my design partner Gerardine, it has been common sense.

When I...

Wayne was asked to film a piece for BBC Horizon about Invention in the 21st Century January. It was aired on 11th April 2013.

These were the questions he was asked and the answers he gave during the interview.

Q Whats different about innovation...

Planning and planning permissions are important. Free for alls have created problems in the past. But surely in the case of this story of a creative young couple Charlie Hague and Megan Williams being resourceful and in creating a cost effective...

Last week I chaired a panel session at a conference organised by The Mayors Office. This from the Urbanista.org website kind of sums it up.

The event builds on the highly successful annual Fit City conferences held in New York staged by the Centre...

At HemingwayDesign we have a philosophy that design is about improving things that matter in life. This is pretty obviously the case when it comes to designing a housing development but we try and take this philosophy through to less obviously...

Gerardine and I went to the V&A opening of the 'David Bowie Is' exhibition yesterday evening. Unlike so many of these events, whilst there were big names a plenty, everyone was looking at one thing...possibly the most stimulating and...

A two-day festival of cycling will be the first large-scale event to use the Olympic park when it reopens in 2013 after this years Games, the London mayor, Boris Johnson, announced on Thursday. The festival will culminate in a 100 mile race for...

Its not often that you can feel that your own personal campaigning and that of an industry can really persuade a government to change direction on a significant policy. But as of yesterday plans to do away with GCSEs in England and replace them...