Last week I attended yet another trade show in London. For such a small place, England hosts a disproportionately large number of gift and design shows. This most recent one is called Top Drawer, which is a smaller show of higher end, cutting edge home accessories, jewelery [or jewellery as it's spelled here] and paper products. There are no seminars, no big events other than the exhibition; it was small and manageable and a really pleasant day.
Since I'm a sucker for brightly colored profanity, these cards stopped me in my tracks:
They are the handiwork of Laura Bowen and Jack Gardner of Room 7, a small design team from Somerset. Jack wrote a book called words are not things, which is a collection of aphorisms written with the express purpose of provoking thought. I'm not typically not a fan of the Tony Robbins and Dr. Phil-style of navel-gazing, but I have to say that this book did what it set out to do: it made me think. That's some accomplishment for a tiny little book, since thinking isn't something I do often or well.
I'm not entirely sure what it is about a collection of interesting thoughts that inspires a greeting card to scream 'fuck', but strangely enough it works.
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