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Everyday is Awesome — The Cardboard Bunker Discovery

Every now and then, something small and unexpected stops you in your tracks — an “everyday is awesome” moment.

A recent visit to an ex-secret space race rocket testing bunker on the Isle of Wight, perched above The Needles, delivered exactly that. Inside, all the original equipment had long been removed or destroyed… yet someone had painstakingly recreated every detail in cardboard — from the control units and chairs, right down to coats hanging on pegs — all from old photographs, and placed everything back in situ.

It was simple, beautiful, and strangely moving. A humble act of craft and creativity breathing life back into history — a perfect reminder of how imagination can reanimate the ordinary.

Given our own recent paper model work for Nabarro LLP, this anonymous artist’s effort struck an even deeper chord. We’re now on a mission to track down this wonderfully inventive individual — and if we find them, you’ll see them here first.

And, in a serendipitous twist, we also discovered that Nick Garrett, the brilliant lettering artist and traditional signwriter who regularly collaborates with us on Nabarro’s canteen walls, has a personal connection: his grandfather once worked in that very same bunker.

Sometimes, design really does bring everything full circle.

Everyday is awesome.