Go your own way
WHEN MY 74-YEAR-OLD FATHER asked me to walk a stretch of the famous Camino de Santiago with him to celebrate his 75th birthday, I said yes.
Natural beauty
Artists have long been driven to bridge the gap between humans and the natural world around us.
Capture the moment
Professional photography shouldn’t be reserved for special occasions, it’s the simple interactions and the day-to-day that makes up most of our time and it deserves to be captured more often.
Raise a toast
Can a pale ale change the world? Activist and beer maker Louisa Ziane thinks it can
What does home mean?
At London’s newly reopened Museum of the Home, the trends of British domestic life over four centuries are chronicled in evocative detail. But, learns Ellie Fazan, finding the essence of home lies in understanding the feelings and needs that remain very similar down the generations
Quality and craftsmanship
Ellie Fazan visits former mill town Long Eaton to meet the suppliers of sofas to the Cotswold Company and finds out how they are keeping proud local traditions of upholstery alive by producing quality handcrafted furniture
Taste the landscape
Rolling fields, native wildlife and much-loved livestock are the key ingredients for superb English fare. Add passionate producers, and you’re in for something extra special
A fair deal
We meet some of our Fairtrade suppliers and learn how a few simple choices can help to change lives. From chocolate to coffee and quinoa, buying Fairtrade can improve living and working conditions for farmers, support the fight against child slavery and help cope with the challenges of climate change
Culture bounces back
“To be an artist is to believe in life,” said Henry Moore. And to see art is to feel alive. It liberates our souls, feeds our imaginations and breaks down barriers; it brings joy and can prompt sudden sadness, but most of all it makes us free… In a time when the future of cultural institutions is more uncertain than ever, some brave newcomers have popped their heads above the parapet, daring to open for the first time during the pandemic. We round up the best of them.
Spirited away
When it comes to creating a classic gin, it turns out that less really is more. We go behind the scenes of a distillery whose ethos of simplicity produces a gin as deep, cool and clear as the waters of the Cumbrian lakes that inspired its creation
Optical illusions
A year-long Van Eyck celebration is underway in the Belgian city of Ghent. ELLIE FAZAN finds a weekend there helps put things into perspective...
Autumn HOMELIFE for Cotswold Company
A seasonal, rich editorial magazine for Cotswold Company that showcases their quality products as well as brand heritage and values.
The anti-pregnancy pandemic
Far from being at home with nothing to do but procreate, for the rising numbers choosing late motherhood 2020 is presenting challenge
Copywriting and tone of voice for Skylight
Skylight bars were launching a new venture in Peckham and wanted a tone of voice guide that help create a cohesive brand identity as the grew – and entice people into their special brand of extraordinary.
Brand consultant for Kiyumi
Kiyumi is wellness startup, offering a psychedelic retreats at its centre in Amsterdam. They approached me as they wanted a document that would tie separate pieces of their brand identity together, and underpin it with a tone of voice guide that they could eventually roll out over their website and social media.
Small town girl
From a tiny place surrounded by the forests, mountains and lakes of British Columbia, to becoming London’s new queen on the techno scene, the DJ we know as B.Traits has been on quite a journey
The cherry on top
From its foundations in the modernist movement, this 1930s property – set within a prestigious English estate – has been redesigned for the 21st century, creating a home of extraordinary symmetry and craftsmanship
Fancy that
There are those for whom the lure of the dressing-up box goes way beyond the odd outfit hire. For these pleasure-seekers, life really is a dress rehearsal…
Inspiring travel magazines for Flight Centre
Working through my agency Content Collective I relaunched Flight Centre’s magazine. It’s still packed with the same great content, but we now print 360,000 copies per issue. 300 000 of these are used as a tool of acquisition and are distributed through the Week, the Saturday Telegraph and The Sunday Times.
A novel approach
A thing of extraordinary symmetry and beauty, this modernist property takes inspiration from Simon Mawer’s The Glass Room, a fictional tale about art, architecture, and desire