WEEKLY DIGEST

Short film on British Design in 2012, promoting the recently opened exhibition at the V&A (OEN)

Interview with Bristol based bike frame builder Robin Mather (Rapha)

Buying British (Guardian)

Olympic torch wins Design of the Year award (Creative Review)

Airbus and Boeing boosted by passenger jet boom (Telegraph)

Inside a Glaswegian letterpress (Form Fifty Five via It's Nice That)

Creatives are manufacturers (Computer Arts)

BT to sell off iconic K6 phoneboxes (FT)

Interview with furniture designer Michael Marriott (Spitalfields Life)

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Photo of Michael Marriott from Spitalfields Life

WEEKLY DIGEST

Audio slideshows of British bike builders: Tom Donhou, Sam Humpheson, Rourke Cycles and Ricky Feather (Rapha)

A film on Lincolnshire furniture maker Sebastian Cox (OEN)

Equal Rights for Design campaign (Make it British)

The British Are Coming! Featuring E Tautz, Turnbull & Asser and Alfred Dunhill (WSJ)

Some pictures (by Koto Bolofo) of the factory where Margaret Howell gets her shirts made (Margaret Howell)

Speaking of Howell, an article from 2007 which talks about her home and its aesthetic (Independent)

Luggage company Globe-Trotter featured on the radio (at 38mins) (M24)

A sadly predictable story of the British beer situation at the Olympics (SIBA)

WEEKLY DIGEST

The umbrella maker, the dairyman and the bag seller (Spitalfields Life)

Tim Little of Grenson interview (Rapha)

Little also features in this piece on the 'resurgence' of British made shoes (Telegraph)

Succinct overview on the history of Leicester's Pantherella sock company (Tweed Pig)

The BBC spent budget day in a well known bicycle factory in the Midlands (Pashley)

Meanwhile, a Bath based brewer gives his reaction to Osborne's beer duty rise (SIBA)

Rapha to work with six British bike frame builders on the UK Continental (Rapha)

Trunki, the brand of wheeled suitcases for children, is to move its manufacturing to Britain (Bristol Business News)

An informative piece on Falmouth's furniture designers and makers (Telegraph)

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Photograph by Colin O'Brien for Spitalfields Life

RAPHA VISITS BURFIELDS AND CO.

A real treat courtesy of Mr. Joe Hall at Rapha here. He visited Burfields Glove Factory in Martock, Somerset and has produced an informative piece on his findings.

Photo courtesy of Kasper Daems/Joe Hall