Nicola/Nic/Nicnac/Nickers/Nic Nic/Nikki has left us for Russia and beyond. At least for now anyway. She decided that 2009 was the year to go offski (sorry) and travel the world whilst she still could and wasn’t too old. (She’s only 20-something but backpacking isn’t for the middle aged really, it hurts) Her first stop is Russia, and we suspect it has something to do with her love of fresh orange with a dash or 7 of Vodka. It must be, as she has trouble not wearing gloves in a southern studio in Blighty in the Summer let alone in -30 Russia!

As any self-respecting creative traveller would, she has a blog for her travels. Follow her mad adventure here:

Over the years, Nicola has been an important part of our studio. Not only for being female and helping to correct the male bias, but also for consistently imagining new ideas. Amongst the client-pleasing and award winning, she was famous for her wacky and fantastical. Her most famous being the Designbus™. So save the world, and free up traffic from all the BMB folk clogging up Luton, her proposal was a wireless-enabled bus, picking us all up from our doors so we could work on the way in and reduce our carbon footprint. She self-admits that the time taken could mean it never arrives at work before it’s time to go home, but you can’t knock a good idea…

We’ll also miss the daily “If you were a (add random object here) what would you be” question. So in homage, here is one final question for you to fill in on the comments page.

‘If you were abandoned in a random country, which one would it be….’

Answers in a comment please.

Good luck Nic! From all at BMB

X

P.S. Thanks for the gift Nic… He’s hanging out in the studio: