First work with CABE

I'm delighted to say that I've started working directly with CABE - the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment - on a couple of projects. The first is CABE's own corporate leaflet, which is being designed by my old friends at 300million. And the second is a very exciting event: the world's first Climate Change Festival.



Climate Change Festival identity by Violetta Boxill

I've been asked to write a variety of things for the Festival, not least 15 new benches that will be installed around Birmingham for the week of the festivities. These benches will be strategically placed to give views of specific parts of the city, each relevant in its own way to the climate change issue. And each will carry a little bit of explanatory Reed Words copy.

This is no finger-wagging process: the point is to be positive about how we can create cleaner, greener, more inclusive and happier cities for the future. It's about making a better world for everyone rather than the usual doom and gloom.

Anyway, watch this space for more on the Festival, and my part in it.