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Alice Fisher

Alice Fisher is lifestyle editor at The Observer

September 2024

  • legohouse 62A1825 web

    Design news: adult Lego, dissolving plastic and Brad Pitt’s jeans

    A new book about Hollywood favourite Palace Costume, a trailer for the frontline and a British artist’s obsession with the American highway
  • Model Lily Cole wants people to have a longer relationship with their clothes.

    UK public washing their clothes too often, says major laundry brand

    Ecover, backed by activist model Lily Cole, calls for fewer washes to reduce microplastics and other sources of water pollution
  • A hat, a bicycle wheel and a milk bottle were among objects nominated for the exhibition.

    From straw hats to milk bottles: why genius design doesn’t need to be expensive

    Experts were invited to pick their hero products for London Design Festival show that redefines ‘well made’ for today

August 2024

  • illustrations for website Heatwave Toolbox

    August design news: puppets, a moveable monument and how to combat a heatwave

  • Steak food replica on display (Credit - Masuda Yoshirо̄ for Japan House)

    ‘Strange and exciting’: Japanese food sculpture goes on show in London

July 2024

  • Mosaics by Gill Aitken (Lancaster) for the Artangel show Come as You Really Are

    July design news: 50 years of Casio, an iPod revival and mending as an art

  • British taste in cheese is changing, with more varieties on offer.

    Stronger, stinkier, softer: how Britain fell in love with cheese beyond cheddar

June 2024

  • Ken Isaacs, Beach Matrix, Westport, Connecticut, 1967

    June design news: forgotten modernist gems, wonky watches and inside Noma’s kitchen

  • Take a seat … Takt’s exhibition to launch Bow Chair, designed by Industrial Facility

    Sawdust toilets and chairs that crash cars: inside Copenhagen’s radical design festival

  • Lanrick Treehouses, Lanrick, Near Doune, Perthshire.

    Fresh air B&B: after yurts and huts, now treehouses are glampers’ favourites

  • Shifting to the Moon by Alison Aye.

    ‘I don’t know if I like it’: artist finally shown at Royal Academy after 31 attempts

May 2024

  • Tamago Bee Sushi from the recipe book La Table by Celine

    May design news: a car that runs on plastic, food art and the history of the Paralympic Games

  • LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2024

    ‘Otherworldly’: spiked clay sculpture by unknown Mexican ceramicist wins Loewe Foundation craft prize

  • Two men brewing sake from rice

    Sake takes UK by storm as Japan’s national drink goes mainstream

  • A neon sculpture of a hand by Nick Malyon.

    Neon, kilts, cricket bats: artisans gather to shine a light on Britain’s endangered crafts

April 2024

  • Porky Hefer, Paul, 2024

    Observer Design
    April design news: the Dr Dolittle of design, an algae air purifier and Habitat at 60

    New events at London Craft Week, a Marc Newson monograph and Porky Hefer’s animal sculptures
  • Fire Exit watch from William Wood costs £1,495.

    Trending on tick-tock: why British watches have hit the big time

    UK brands are piquing international interest and proving that a high-status timepiece need not be Swiss
  • Afternoon tea is served at the Kensington Hotel in London.

    Dinosaur macarons and pink prosecco: how afternoon tea in UK embraced the Instagram generation

    Bookings are booming as cafes and hotels update their traditional spreads to attract a new audience

March 2024

  • An advert for Koss headphones from Audio Erotica, hi-fi brochures 1950s-1980s, by Jonny Trunk.

    Observer Design
    March design news: the history of hi-fi, the future of energy and a pizza watch

  • Holly Collins and Megan Jones in the Lake District

    ‘They’re at the forefront’: the women leading the way through Britain’s farming crisis

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