As for why designers would want to do these small jobs, he added that this can provide "a consistent stream of work," giving designers "an income stream that they can bank on whilst they're in between jobs".
Last Saturday, a stream of artists, fashion designers, gallery owners, writers and their scene-y cohorts descended into the basement of Santos Party House, which had been transformed into a rotating art installation.
"This is raw talent — and it often gets taken away from London and refined," said Mr. Moore, referring to the stream of art college-trained young designers who feed the design studios across the world.
While the Hollywood movie studios provided a steady stream of commissions for film title designers like Saul Bass, who worked on the movies of Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick, as well as the costume designer Gilbert Adrian, whose credits included "The Wizard of Oz," and the art director Cedric Gibbons, designer of the Oscar statuette.
Call it stream-of-consciousness shopping.
The sprawling industrial town, which has been tirelessly regenerating itself over the past three decades, seems to produce an endless stream of forward-thinking musicians, artists and designers that spiral out of its live music venues, pubs and clubs - often via a stint in the effortlessly cool Glasgow School of Art.
Nike's dominance of the sock drawer and its steady stream of limited-edition sneakers mean that enterprising designers rarely bother with any socks but Elites.
The same can be said of designers.
The doorbell kept buzzing at Heather and Teddy Karatz's art-filled loft on Bond Street in Lower Manhattan on a recent Wednesday night, admitting a stream of stylishly dressed young Jewish professionals: financiers and investors, designers and artists.
The result was a stream of dramatic installations, from the fairground circle created by the Japanese designer Minju Kim to an underground forest of tree-like clothing from Jack Davey.
