It’s no surprise that I’m a big fan of modern design and engineering – almost daily there are new and beautiful solutions that I am both technically and aesthetically amazed by.

Some of my most enduring Christmas Day memories are of being camped out on the living room floor building my latest LEGO set. Castles, spaceships, farms and more all fell under the same close step-by-step scrutiny…

When I picture my ideal place to live, it’s in natural surroundings, embedded in the local environment. In truth this could be a number of different environments, but the ‘natural’ connection is key…

Whenever I head off into the Great Outdoors I do like to be prepared, which is really just the Scouts way of saying ‘planning for the worst’.

I love typography - there, I said it. Although whilst I can’t confess to being a true type nerd (mentioning no names Rich Rutter), I am happy to spend plenty of time geeking out over x-heights, ligatures, weights and a whole host of other tiny details to find the ‘perfect’ typeface for whatever I’m working on.

I am currently still using an Apple iPhone 5.

There, I said it – but for some reason this feels like something of a confession, a nagging thought that I should be ashamed of the ‘old’ technology in my pocket.

So, with a final (and fittingly spectacular) flurry, the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang is at an end.