Here at Blue Badge Style we absolutely adore intelligent, innovative and effective design. With that in mind, today we’re celebrating the 80th Birthday of the iconic British architect, Lord Richard Rogers who’s life and work are currently being shown at The Royal Academy. Rogers is a real titan of architecture, famous for his modernist and functionalist…
Well last week was a story of highs and lows. Went to the fantastic Hedone restaurant, my TV broke and I went to a Tech Meets Creative event which was an inaccessible step too far ! On a positive note we had a great response to our call out for people to sit on our…
In the next few weeks we’re setting up an interest panel to provide feedback to major retailers and transport companies about how to best serve the less able community. We need people, who are opinionated and passionate about making experiences better for less able people, to get involved and join the panel. Whether it be…
David Bonnett is a prominent access consultant who has been involved in advocating and implementing inclusive design in many major building projects. Amongst other high profile projects, David was a key consultant in the refurbishment of the Camden Roundhouse and he works with Richard Roger’s practice on most of their projects. Here he explains the…
Apparently a baby was born this week and even I had a smile on my face but we won’t dwell on it as the story has been done to death. Instead I want to talk about Quasi Khasis. In the past week I’ve been to two places where I’ve been told there’s a disabled toilet…
Figures showing a rise in disability hate crime are truly shocking: 9 out of 10 people with learning disabilities are victims of disability hate crime according to Mencap‘s research. There has been a rise in the number of hate crimes with 1,942 recorded in 2012 – that is a 14% rise since 2010 – according to…
This was the speech I gave at Digital Shoreditch. It covers the value to the economy of people with disabilities and accessibility issues in London, which I’m sure are true for other places in the UK. Unfortunately it doesn’t show the slides with all the figures on but you’ll get the gist! Let me know…
The American Lieutenant and Amanda the Commanda were delegated to visit Naidex – the “leading disability, homecare and rehabilitation event” – at the NEC Birmingham. There are a number of Naidex exhibitions in the year and the next is in Glasgow in September 2013. I’m always wary of events like these as I’ve grown allergic to…
Kate Warwick is a long time friend of Blue Badge Style. She’s been mentioned in the past on BBS as ‘PR Guru Kate’. As part of our series for Deaf Awareness Week we interviewed her about Ménière’s disease. When did you find out you have Ménière’s Disease ? About seven years ago, in early 2006, after I had my…