Wayne Hemingway – Sublime

The Joy of the Job

Wayne Hemingway — Sat, 05 May 2012 17:16:24 +0000

The Romans always aimed to leave a place better than they found it. Mahatma Gandhi said, ‘Be the change you want to see in the world’. When you hear of someone who’s up for an award in the Queens Honour’s List, or being noted for their bravery for saving someone from a house fire, the phrases ‘beyond duty’ and ‘going the extra mile’ are typically rolled out. But to my mind, it’s pretty hard to get through life and to find some form of peace of mind without going the extra mile.

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Catch Me If You Can

Wayne Hemingway — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:00:43 +0000

My day had been humming like a finely tuned machine. I had just got all my work up to date, the 2012 dates and venue for our festival – Vintage – had been announced, tickets were on sale and all the launch interviews were complete. Taking a bit of a breather with my family, an email popped...

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Spain’s Plain Gain

Wayne Hemingway — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:40:36 +0000

In 1977, I was one of a group of high-spirited 16-year-olds who had just finished their O levels (or GCSEs, as they are called today) and were off on their first holiday abroad without their parents. We had heard from older mates and siblings that it was the Costa Blanca, and in particular Benidorm, where...

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Better Together

Wayne Hemingway — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:13:19 +0000

One of the most stimulating projects that we are working on at Hemingway Design right now is with McDonald’s. Yes, McDonald’s – the company whose name, when I first mention we are working with them, makes people give me a look of sheer incredulity. But when I go on to say that our project with...

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Life In The Bike Lane

Wayne Hemingway — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:14:35 +0000

Phil Goodwin, Professor of Transport Policy at the University of the West of England, has written in Local Transport Today that that fewer young people are learning to drive. Between 1992 and 2007, the number of 17- to 20-year-olds who held licences fell from 48% to 38%, and for 21- to 29-year-olds, the number...

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Back To The Start And Heart Of It

Wayne Hemingway — Sun, 01 May 2011 13:00:00 +0000

Fashion can be a double-edged sword – I should know. Quite often, it is human nature not to appreciate something until it’s almost too late or it’s gone. My mum wishes she’d said more nice stuff to my nan before she died, and there are things you’d have loved to have done in life,...

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Meet The Family

Wayne Hemingway — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:00:00 +0000

Funny old thing, family. Politicians regularly return to the concept of a strong family unit being the panacea for all social ills. Throughout political history fiscal policies skewed towards the ‘traditional family unit’ of two parents have been used in attempts to reduce youth crime and social inequality and increase educational performance. A recent survey...

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Hoping Against Hope

Wayne Hemingway — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Every couple of months we Sublime regular contributors get an email from the lovely editor that contains a theme or statement that is intended to stimulate us to produce our column. This time it went: The theme of the November issue is People of Hope. People of Hope will talk about ‘changemakers’, the raising...

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The Original Copy

Wayne Hemingway — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:00:00 +0000

On a recent visit to the Tate Modern gallery a security guard came over to ask me politely but firmly to stop taking pictures. The irony is that I was photographing No Ghost Just A Shell initiated by Pierre Huyghe and Philippe Parreno, a work exploring the subject of replication and intellectual copyrights. They had...

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Don’t Be Stupid

Wayne Hemingway — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Wisdom remains an untainted badge of honour. Wisdom, a human trait that is respected and looked up to and often associated with Eastern gurus and mystics. But the dictionary descriptions of wisdom are rooted in something much more attainable and everyday: accumulated knowledge; the trait of utilising knowledge and experience with common sense and insight;...

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