MATCHBOXES & DAVE

Dave is obsessed by all things small and has been since he himself was small. As a kid he would shrink crisp packets in the oven. He’d blow up balloons, drawing faces on them then watch their smiles shrink as they slowly deflated. He grew up in Rayleigh in Essex, his neighbours were a couple in their 60s, Henry and Jayne. Jayne shared his love of small things, for years she’d collected matchboxes and small packets of sugar from cafés and hotels. The boxes lived carefully stowed in two old plastic ice cream tubs until the day she gave them to Dave. He poured over them for hours, they were the beginning of his interest in typography, one of his many talents now is as a designer. He still loves them because they’re small, he suggests that this might be that, as a grown man, he himself is still small.

12 Aug 2012