Vivid visited the Design Museum for a little bit of inspiration last week. Entries for The Brit Insurance Design of the Year Awards were on show and some brilliant Sustainable Futures exhibits including amazing Puma packaging and the winning insurance design, the collapsable plug by Min-Kyu Choi. Its fantastic, I could go on naming delectable design delights but it would spoil it for you when you get down there, which you should!

London Gate, Commissioned to celebrate the London 2012 Olympics

This winning entry by studio Donis is a 100 metre-tall structure to celebrate the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games. Named 'London Gate' the structure is designed as a temporary landmark and has been commissioned to be placed in Aldgate, east London from January 2012. Donis is an architecture studio based in Rotterdam and managed to come first in 'A landmark for Aldgate' international design competition, which included around 100 entries. The structure includes a glass elevator, very scary if you ask me.

More info: http://www.dezeen.com/2010/07/26/london-gate-by-donis/

032c

Hello! Here is an interesting arty mag for you to check out. 032c is a biannual magazine that was on display at the Design museum on our recent trip. The graphics are amazing and beautiful and the content in their own words 'both timely and timeless—a celebration of and for the most cutting-edge in art, culture, and fashion.' The mag is available at most specialist art and book shops or go on the website,

http://www.032c.com.

Cake gets healthy...sort of.

This weeks offering in the bake-off was a rather good carrot cake created by Susie. In theory its one of the healthier cakes we've had so far - Carrots and sultanas, thats 2 of your 5 a day surely?

We haven't been able to find susies exact recipe on the web but i'm sure this one's still pretty good for anyone wanting to give it a go:

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/4425/carrot-cake

Trifle Time

The second offering in the studio bake- off came courtesy of our accounts director Lawrence! Alas no recipe for this one as we were told it was a secret passed down through generations (or maybe tescos, we cant quite decide). Either way it was very appropriate for a hot summers day.