Tuesday night was the Design Week Awards. We were lucky enough to have three pieces nominated: Silver Cross: It’s a Boy/ It’s a Girl, University of the Arts Prospectuses and Silver Cross packaging. As usual all the talk was of who would be wearing what tie. David went for a simple cream tie, whilst I went for a more daring yellow and blue striped number, £9.99 at the Tie Rack in Piccadilly station. The tie below is not the actual tie, but a similar one I found on the internet.

Also there were Mr Smith, Mr Simpson and Mr Beardsell from Music, who had been nominated for two awards. Rather disappointingly none of them was wearing a tie. This is what people with no ties look like:

It was an excellent night, and we were lucky enough to receive a Gold award for the Silver Cross packaging, designed by Miss Emma Morton. Emma’s sat on a beach in Brazil at the moment, so couldn’t attend. Well done Emma – in case you were wondering, you missed out on monkfish mail course with tomato mash, and a little pumpkin tart starter thing. It was nice. Here’s your award – you can pick it up when you get back, but don’t take it out of the office.