The suspense garnered by Amy Bennett is beautiful, the feel of a movie when it doesn't involve triangulating someones position, but good old detective work. I almost want to see someone disappearing out the back door, with this painting already giving the viewer that privileged viewpoint.

I love this company, Finisterre often makes me reflect why I needed to move away from the South West in the first place, as they have embraced where they are from and created a success.... the products are great – at Christmas I went on the obligatory walk, and it was bitterly cold... I was wearing their Etobicoke, which is the lightest jacket I've ever worn, and even when it is blowing a gale, you get that weird sensation because your body just doesn't feel any of the elements - the wind just stops... but everyone kept asking me if I was okay, as my jacket was so lightweight, when I was probably warmer than them.

The other great thing about them is the thought they put into each product, and even have a video about each one... and when you order something and have a query, you know that you'll get a personal response from one of the team.

Just as importantly they think about the effects making their products in relation to their labour conditions... So if you want something super warm, that defies peoples expectations, and of course as it always should be, made by Portuguese nuns, then pre-order a Humboldt today

There is always a danger when you've got a Friday afternoon meeting at MadeThought, as there is a tendency to wind down afterwards and pop into the Design Museum on the way home. This Friday I found issue 50 of Arktip magazine, with the work – or rather the properties of André Balazs and illustrated covers by Andrew Holder which I've already framed in my hallway.

This is a live feed on The Standard in New York, looks kind of like the Debenhams in Exeter which is about to be pulled down, but his attention to details outside belies its exterior, I'm going to have to take my family there later next year.

Usually I post nice creations, but this is the best one yet, and is a work in progress. Cassie and I are due to be proud parents at the end of November, and today we went to a cool place where you get a 4D scan... cool!!!

There are plenty of image filters out there that create you set running and they create nice imagery. But what I like about this so much is that it is the perfect mix of interaction and maths, whereby each are helping to make each other that little bit better.

Illustrators make whole careers out of a style, and made me think that if you made these tools for yourself you could infact do the same in more styles, and in zero time.

Anyway... Have a look here. The video at the bottom is particularly cool.

There is no way I'm going to post what my desk currently looks like (though here it is from a while back), it is a mixture of Phaidon tombs of dead graphic designers, notebooks, receipts for my accountant, a crash helmet, empty coke cans and a leffe bottle (it is Saturday) and a whole lot of other stuff I surround myself with... So not sure this would really help me, but I love the intention.

Perhaps it is the unsightly wires I have even on a tidy desk that are the slippery slope to the carnage I have before me, so if I had a StudioDesk from Bluelounge perhaps I'd be more saintly? Sadly they don't ship to the UK for this product, but perhaps I can make a start with another of their innovative products.

Christmas, birthdays, anniversaries, new arrivals, fathers day, mothers day, hallowe'en... Every month there seems to be something you need to buy a card for. Much of the time you end up venturing into Clintons having to choose between a Simon Elvin card or bloody Forever Friends, for which you're sure you bought that card before for that person last year.

Thankfully, there is www.presentandcorrect.com who both put thought into what they create and stock in their great online store, but they are unlike anything else you'd normally give, and the people I've given them to are always thrilled.

The card pictured is genius in its conception, allowing you to actually reuse the card... brilliant! I was never one for taking my books back on time, but the idea is strong enough that I'd pass this on.

Someone I follow on Twitter said they made a drunken purchase on eBay and bought a replica of the hoverboard from Back To The Future II. I'm slightly worried that I'd buy that while sober!

Anyway... Get yours now here... www.hoverboard.org.uk

Will they or won't they? Will Apple allow this into their App store, it has been submitted, so shortly we'll find out. Many think they won't as it will reduce sales at the iTunes store, but the flip side is it will potentially increase hardware sales.

I hope it gets approved as I'll be able to stop having to have a 500gb drive to hold my music, and a second drive to back it all up on. 

I love this, wonder how good it was to be there in person. The simpler effects are more powerful I think whereby the effects are closer to reality and relate to the architecture of the building.