Babies and Young Children

My wife and I are expecting a baby, wohoo! So I suddenly start to think of certain things I've never thought before. I must admit to having scorned the 'baby market' thinking that marketeers are picking on easy targets, "because Mums and Dads will buy anything". What I didn't realise, though this is partly true, it is much more about the decision of the parents than the pushy techniques of the marketeers.

So I suddenly start thinking things like this "it's good for my child to be stimulated by colours and shapes whilst laying in bed, so lets buy a mobile". But as a designer I'm not happy with a mobile I want MORE. So I say lets do a full ceiling graphic (to which my wife says NO, she has to reel me in a lot). My point is why be limited by what the books say, of course a mobile is fun, but a ceiling full of graphics is more fun. Is it not?

I remember when I was a young lad, when I was old enough to have my own room my Dad painted two things in that room. One was a huge St. Andrews (Scottish) flag over one wall and the other was clouds on my ceiling. I was always the kid with the big imagination so an open sky above me was perfect for games and make believe aeroplane dog flights. So now I'm going to be a Dad too I think I want to give my child that same space to 'imagine'.

Watch this space as I do the nursery project to end all nursery projects... sneeky peek of the nursery wall paper.