by vicki4763 | Sep 28, 2025 | Issues, News
Play Pattern Design: Designing Toys for Longer Life - by Fabio Guaricci When we speak about sustainability in toys, the focus is often on materials: recycled plastics, bioplastics, FSC-certified wood. These are crucial steps forward—but as a designer, I’ve always felt...
by vicki4763 | Aug 20, 2025 | Issues, News
On the 12 February 2025, Tallulah Chapman gave a very comprehensive presentation of the role of the FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) which even for a business like mine that has worked exclusively in wood for nearly 50 years, highlighted a serious breadth of concerns...
by vicki4763 | Apr 7, 2020 | Issues, News
When I put up the jigsaw map up as the first image on our website in February, little did I know that it was to highlight how close we are to Excel and the new Nightingale Hospital. I keep hoping that it will remain mainly empty and just allow people to get over the...
by vicki4763 | Feb 16, 2020 | Exhibitions, News
Our stand at this year’s Spring Fair had a hallway theme. It showcased on one wall our work for the National Parks and Macclesfield Silk Museums and on the other the work of our design team. It looked like some one had come back from a walk in the country to...
by vicki4763 | Jan 7, 2019 | News
National Parks Partnerships (NPP) will be working with Vicki Thomas Associates. The design consultancy will be developing a style guide for a new UK National Parks licensing programme. Visited 104 million times every year, the UK’s 15 National Parks are Britain’s best...
by vicki4763 | Jan 7, 2019 | News
Patterns for Posterity: The Story of Macclesfield Silk Silk has always been a valuable commodity. The famous Silk Road ends at the British Town of Macclesfield. Here, the Museum houses an archive of pattern books recording the distinctive contribution of textile...
