Steve Pardue

I am a designer working in Newcastle. I work mainly in the area of interpretation – that is broadly speaking looking at the world around and presenting it to others in an interesting and informative way. I work from a wee studio in Hexham.

I love words and the beginning of a new interpretation project often starts with a few words and then it kicks off.

See my website: www.differentia.co.uk and Blog.

My current project is designing a suite of interpretation features for a Nature Reserve in the West Midlands. Here is the first design for a cast iron Trilobite with an extract from a poem I wrote.

Heaven and Earth

Scouring the ground
Captured earth

Geological litter
Frozen out of time

The tiniest shell
Encapsulates life

Before time

The whole hill
A fossil tale

The spectacular
Out of reach

The marvellous
So small it might
be missed

Look at stones
Look at rock

See the story
In the small

Feet drenched in
Ancient seas