Despoke » Halloween Design http://www.despoke.com 100% Design London's new blog Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:41:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 ‘Halloween’ for Despoke By Phil Nutley http://www.despoke.com/2009/10/30/%e2%80%98halloween%e2%80%99-for-despoke-by-phil-nutley/ http://www.despoke.com/2009/10/30/%e2%80%98halloween%e2%80%99-for-despoke-by-phil-nutley/#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:32:18 +0000 Mark http://www.despoke.com/?p=1207 IMG_8983
Turning back the clocks denotes one old tradition, Halloween. It’s origins date back from the ancient festival known as Samhain (pronounced sow-in or sau-an), which is derived from Old Irish and means roughly “summer’s end”. For me, it’s the appeal of finding those extra pair of werewolf feet from a pound store, it’s rekindles my earliest memories of watching Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby, running stage right from a Blue Peter made ghoul.

The season always brings out the terrible horror flicks, and the Hammer House of Horrors still gets me diving behind the sofa.

I’ve always enjoyed the way we scare ourselves with what amounts to our chassis, the skeleton. Hang a few of them around the house, don’t dust for a few months, and do your best at dissecting a pumpkin, and hey voila!
A recent visit to PAD London, brought me to meet Italian artist Antonio Cagianelli, whose oversized skulls were a reminder of our fascination with death and the symbols we annually decorate our environment with at this time of year.

Antonio tells me, his current project involves, transferring his own three-dimensional creations by using the language of marginality and fragility of young metropolitan communities, Trick or treat anyone?

More info on Antonio:here

Phil runs Corridor with Christian Inkpen more info here:seecorridor.blogspot.com/

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